Military & Strategic Studies

The book asks and answers what might cause Japan, South Korea and/or Taiwan to again seek nuclear weapons, how long would it take them, and how can this be prevented?..

The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated naval balance in Asia-Pacific but it also raises a question: are the region‘s powers involved in a naval arms race?..

The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated naval balance in Asia-Pacific but it also raises a question: are the region’s powers involved in a naval arms race?..

This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of ballistic missile defence in national security policy since the end of the Cold War...

This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault's theories of biopolitics and governmentality. _x000D_ This book interprets the policies and practices associated with the new humanitarianism in general, as well as the dynamics of two specif..

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and understand the past and the character of modern technological warfare. At the forefront of these developments has been the re-appraisal of the human body ..

This new work explains how Britain’s defence establishment learned to engage Japan’s armed forces as the Pacific War progressed, and how intelligence affected Britain's conduct of its campaign against the Japanese in the Southeast Asia theatre...

This new work explains how Britain’s defence establishment learned to engage Japan’s armed forces as the Pacific War progressed, and how intelligence affected Britain's conduct of its campaign against the Japanese in the Southeast Asia theatre...

This is a truly unique and invaluable book. For the first time, we are offered first-hand testimony about Britain's involvement in recent campaigns by senior participants. In addition to touching on themes like civilian-military relations, the operational direction of war and relationships with alli..

Responding to security scholars’ puzzling dearth of attention to children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the ways in which they not only are already present in security discourses but are actually essential to them and to the projects they enable. Whether on the battlefields ..

This volume looks at contemporary Chinese civil-military relations, emphasizing that the PLA is shifting from political to military tasks...

This updated and expanded 3rd edition of Chinese Foreign Policy seeks to explain the processes, actors and current history behind China’s international relations, as well as offering an in-depth look at the key areas of China’s modern global relations...