War & Conflict Studies

The book contributes to a deeper understanding of social processes, dynamics and institutions that shape collective violence and often lead to the establishment of new and violent social orders at the margins of and beyond the state._x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue..

First published in 1985, this is a book written at the height of the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s by one of the world's leading authorities, Ed Girardet. ..

First published in 1985, this is a book written at the height of the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s by one of the world's leading authorities, Ed Girardet. ..

The time has come for innovative counter-air and counter-land concepts focused on medium- to large-scale conventional combat operations that will merge air and ground forces even more effectively into a single potent fighting force. Such is the focus of AirLandBattle21...

Australia’s Nuclear Policy develops a holistic conception of ’nuclear policy’ that extends across the three distinct but related spheres - strategic, economic and normative - that have arisen from the basic ’dual-use’ dilemma of nuclear technology. Existing scholarship on Australia’s nuclear policy ..

Andrew Dorman introduces Sierra Leone as Blair's second great military adventure after Kosovo and the first he undertook on his own. The book links Blair's move toward humanitarianism with the rise of cosmopolitan militaries and the increasing involvement of Western forces in humanitarian operations..

This book is an analysis of Britain’s war against Al Qaeda and the phenomenon of international terrorism which marked a paradigm shift in the nature and conduct of war in the twenty-first century. At the heart of the book is an attempt to understand why Britain, which possessed a wealth of experienc..

Authors contributing to this study examine a wide range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations; the role perceptions of military professionals across generations; the character of civil-military relations in authoritarian or other democratically-c..

This book examines how civil-military relations have been transformed in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in 1991...

Instead of asking whether international sanctions work, this book addresses a more basic question: how do coercive international sanctions work, and what are the social conditions within sanctions conflicts that are conducive to either cooperation or non-cooperation?..

This book argues that for peace support operations (such as those in Afghanistan) to be effective, the civil-military interface should ideally be integrated – within the interagency arena as well as within the defence ministry...

This book explores the history of war crimes and genocide and the evolution of a body of international law to deal with the growth of such crimes globally over the past two centuries._x005F_x000D_ This book was based on a special issue of  Nationalities Papers...