Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns

With revolutionary changes in nanotechnology (NT) now on the horizon, this is the first systematic and comprehensive presentation of its potential military applications...

With revolutionary changes in nanotechnology (NT) now on the horizon, this is the first systematic and comprehensive presentation of its potential military applications...

The selected documents in this volume, translated and analysed by the editors, offer a revealing insight into the attitudes, prejudices and fears of the KGB during what were to prove its declining years...

This volume presents complementary analyses of the current features, issues and trends of multilateral security and the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) peace operations. Founded on the detailed examination of different peace operations and the analysis of relevant data, the book allows f..

This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do...

This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do...

This book addresses the question of how NATO and three of its member states configured their policies and military doctrines in order to handle the new strategic environment. This environment became increasingly dominated by 'new wars', more..

The perspectives of academics and practitioners are brought together in this insightful work, which examines the war on terrorism, the Iraq war and the roles of NATO and the EU. Casting light on the global and regional ramifications of the crisis, as well as the tensions in the transatlantic relat..

NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia highlights the choices and problems confronting the alliance as it approaches the new century. Is NATO suited to playing such a role, or is the alliance a Cold War anachronism?..

A short assessment of the entire decade of NATO's Balkan interventions from 1992 until 2002. This work illuminates the bitterness of transatlantic divisions and how these divisions were overcome as the allies converged around a clear set of principles by the time of the 1999 Kosovo war. It focusses ..

Conflict resolution, conflict management and conflict transformations are major themes in this unique book which examines, explores and analyses the mediation attempts of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Ohannes Geukjian shows the most strikin..

This book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order...