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Strategy and Grand Strategy
Häftad, 2025
457 kr
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Wartime leaders should understand the link between violent means and political ends. They should also have a sense of how strategic decisions will affect the post-war peace. Yet they often fail to make these connections. Mistaking strategy for grand strategy, or misunderstanding the relationship …
Historical Sensibility
Sir Michael Howard and The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1958–2019
Av Michael Howard, Benjamin Rhode
Häftad, 2020
502 kr
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With the death of Professor Sir Michael Howard, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) lost not only its president emeritus but the last of its founders and intellectual parents. The foremost military historian of his generation, Sir Michael embodied and epitomised a historical …
India Redefines its Role
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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This work offers analytical examination of the facts that will shape the India of the future and determine whether India emerges as Asia's new economic tiger, a stabilizing factor in a turbulent region, or becomes inward-looking, militaristic and stagnant.
Multinational Military Forces
Problems and Prospects
Av Roger Palin
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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First Published in 2005. Since the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent end of the Cold War, there has been a marked increase in attention paid to multinational military forces. Adelphi Paper 294 looks at the problems facing multinational forces and operations and the prospects …
US Strategy for the Asia-Pacific
Av Douglas T. Stuart, William T. Tow
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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First Published in 2005. This is Adelphi Paper 299 and discusses a strategy for the Unites States of America for the continued stability of the Asia-Pacific region. Looking at ways in which the US-dominated system of Asia-Pacific security that evolved during the Cold War must be fundamentally …
ASEAN Regional Forum
Häftad, 1996
387 kr
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Leifer's assessment posts a warning sign for those who see no reason to worry about the stability of East Asia. He warns that "the ARF is embryonic, one-dimensional approach" to the major changes taking place in the security environment of the vital East Asian region.
Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order
Av Shahram Chubin, Charles Tripp
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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This study examines this e key relationship in the Persian Gulf over the last five years. The authors analyze the instability at the heart of the Gulf, identifying the serious implications for regional security and the management of future conflict.
Rethinking Confidence-Building Measures
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) - often seen as the fastest growing sector on the post-Cold War diplomatic agenda - are increasingly viewed by the international community as useful instruments for addressing a range of security and diplomatic issues. Rethinking Confidence-Building Measures …
Non-Proliferation Incentives for Russia and Ukraine
Av John C Baker
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Given their protracted economic difficulties, the nuclear and aerospace industries in Russia and Ukraine are tempted to export dual-use technologies that can contribute to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile systems. John C. Baker proposes using international incentives to …
Russia and North-East Asia
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Russia has recently strengthened its diplomatic relations with its North-East Asian neighbours - China, Japan, and North and South Korea. But without much more reform at home, Russia will be neither attractive as a partner nor live up to its full potential. Chikahito Harada assesses the reasons for …
Responding to Crises in the African Great Lakes
Av G. Evans
Häftad, 2005
458 kr
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Examines the international responses to the ethnic conflicts in Burundi and Rwanda from 1993-1997 and their overspill into Zaire. Concludes that the external reaction was impotent and incoherent, and urges a number of changes in response by the international community.
Maintaining Nuclear Stability in South Asia
Av Neil Joeck
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Argues that, while nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles cast a shadow over Indo-Pakistani relations, they do not create strategic stability. He asserts that the development of command and control mechanisms would enhance stability, but that diplomatic steps focused on missiles must also be …
Enhancing Indo-US Strategic Cooperation
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Argues that a carrot-and-stick policy is likely to be more effective than a stick-only approach in curbing India's nuclear ambitions. Increased strategic cooperation between India and the US is the ideal incentive, but the author argues that such cooperation is unlikely in the immediate future.
Islamist Impasse
Häftad, 1997
387 kr
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Since the mid-1970s, Islamist groups have been important opposition forces in the Arab world and have posed a considerable challenge to regimes. However, their increased influence has not led to political power. Ibrahim A. Karawan argues that Islamist movements have been unable to form an effective …
Limits of Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Russia and China claim to have established a "strategic partnership". Jennifer Anderson argues that this relationship merely overlays a diplomatic agenda established in the late 1980s, and that China's pragmatic, limited approach (coupled with Russia's domestic economic and political difficulties) …
Private Armies and Military Intervention
Häftad, 1998
358 kr
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This paper seeks to step back from the moral arguments surrounding private military intervention in civil conflicts, arguing that the view that `military companies' are merely `modern-day mercenaries' obscures the strategic implications of their activities for current conflict-resolution thinking.
Context and Circumstance
The Turkish Military and Politics
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Debates about military influence on civilian government tend to be partisan and rarely pay sufficient attention to specific contexts. This paper analyses, without condemnation or justification, why and how the military exercises such influence in Turkey and whether it is likely to continue to do …
Dealing with the Threat of Cruise Missiles
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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How can the core transatlantic Allies make coalitions more effective? One year on from Kosovo, disparities in the capabilities of the coalition partners, as well as uneven levels of prior coordination, persist. To address these problems will require much greater force planning in peacetime. This …
New Trusteeship?
The International Administration of War-torn Territories
Häftad, 2002
606 kr
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This paper analyses and assesses the effectiveness of international administrations of war-torn territories and discusses the key issues - strategic, political, and economic - that arise in the context of these experiences. It reflects on the policy implications of these experiences and recommends …
Wither Iran?
Reform, Domestic Politics and National Security
Häftad, 2002
416 kr
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Terrorism and the Middle East are often connected. The fear that these will be a future source of threat with weapons of mass destruction, notably nuclear or biological weapons, has grown in recent years. This book looks at the politics of one important state in the region - Iran - and concludes …
Disintegrating Indonesia?
Implications for Regional Security
Av Tim Huxley
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Since the collapse of President Suharto's New Order regime in 1998 and the international intervention in East Timor in 1999, there has been much speculation in South-east Asia and the West over whether Indonesia - weakened by economic difficulties, social distresses and political instability - has …
Investing in Peace
Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars
Häftad, 2005
458 kr
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This book analyzes the provision of aid to countries that have undergone negotiated settlements to civil wars, drawing on recent experiences in Bosnia, Cambodia, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It focuses on the potential for peace conditionality, linking aid to steps to implement accords and …
Somalia: State Collapse and the Threat of Terrorism
Av Ken Menkhaus
Häftad, 2005
562 kr
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This work explores Somalia's state collapse and the security threats posed by Somalia's prolonged crisis. Communities are reduced to lawlessness, and the interests of commercial elites have shifted towards rule of law, but not a revived central state. Terrorists have found Somalia inhospitable, …
Globalisation and Insecurity in the Twenty-First Century
NATO and the Management of Risk
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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This book discusses the impact of globalization on western security and in particular the way it has changed the nature of NATO as well as its security agenda.
From Congo to Kosovo
Civilian Police in Peace Operations
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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An examination of the role of civilian police in peace operations, which has expanded greatly since the early 1990s and has culminated in international policemen assuming responsibility for law and order in Kosovo and East Timor. It looks at the way civilian police play a critical role in reforming …
Security Sector Reform
Issues, Challenges and Prospects
Av Jane Chanaa
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Over the last decade, the failure of countries to emerge from conflict and the rise of 'failed states' has focused attention on state security sectors. External actors involved in 'protectorates' such as Kosovo and East Timor and peace agreements such as Cambodia, El Salvador or Bosnia have come …
Strategic Implications of China's Energy Needs
Av Philip Andrews-Speed, Xuan-Li Liao m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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China is frequently described as a threat to regional and global stability and its rapidly rising demand for imported energy is seens as one cause of this threat. This book shows that domestic politics and foreign policy have both played a part in China's recent major energy policy decisions. …
NATO's Balkan Interventions
Häftad, 2005
458 kr
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Examines NATO's Balkan interventions over the entire decade starting with the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992. Focusing on the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, it traces the record of early transatlantic failures and later successes as once bitterly divided allies were able, finally, to unite around some …
Saudi Arabia and the Illusion of Security
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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This paper examines Saudi Arabia's security from the Saudi point of view, concentrating on internal challenges to the country's security as well as external threats. It also surveys US-Saudi relations in the aftermath of the terrorist strikes of the 11th of September 2001.
Intervention in Contemporary World Politics
Häftad, 2005
458 kr
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Examines multilateral interventions in civil conflicts and the evolution of the role of such interventions in world politics. It focuses primarily on the Cold War and post-Cold War eras and the differences between them. It contests the notion that there is an emerging norm of humanitarian …
