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NATO Intervention in Libya
Lessons learned from the campaign
Av Kjell Engelbrekt, Marcus Mohlin m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
772 kr
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This book explores ‘lessons learned’ from the military intervention in Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign.NATO’s intervention in Libya had unique features, rendering it unlikely to serve as a model for action in other situations. There was an explicit UN Security Council …
Defending NATO’s Northern Flank
Power Projection and Military Operations
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions.NATO’s northern flank is a large maritime and littoral theatre, where NATO directly borders Russia’s Northern Fleet Military Administrative Territory, which is the location of some of …
Media Strategy and Military Operations in the 21st Century
Mediatizing the Israel Defence Forces
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Since the beginning of the 21st century the IDF has undergone an intensive process of mediatization that has transformed the media into an …
NATO's Secret Armies
Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe
Inbunden, 2004
2828 kr
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This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War II. These secret soldiers were trained on …
Security Cooperation between Western States
Openness, Security and Autonomy
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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This book examines security cooperation between Western states.Security cooperation occurs between Western (i.e. European and North American) states as a coping mechanism, as an imperfect substitute for integration. The book investigates the reasons for cooperation, what Aristotle called the ‘final …
George W. Bush's Foreign Policies
Principles and Pragmatism
Av Donette Murray, David Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
648 kr
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This book offers a fresh assessment of George W. Bush’s foreign policies.It is not designed to offer an evaluation of the totality of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. Instead, the analysis will focus on the key aspects of his foreign and security policy record, in each case considering the …
Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior
Imperial Strategic Culture and Putin’s Operational Code
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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This book examines the extent to which Russia’s strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin’s own operational code.The work argues that, by conflating personalistic regime survival with national security, Putin ensures that contemporary Russian national interest, …
Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior
Imperial Strategic Culture and Putin’s Operational Code
Häftad, 2022
633 kr
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This book examines the extent to which Russia’s strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin’s own operational code.The work argues that, by conflating personalistic regime survival with national security, Putin ensures that contemporary Russian national interest, …
Targeted Killings, Law and Counter-Terrorism Effectiveness
Does Fair Play Pay Off?
Av Ophir Falk
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This book examines the permissibility and effectiveness of targeted killing in campaigns against terror.Targeted killing has become a primary counterterrorism measure used by several countries in their confrontation with lethal threats. The practice has been extensively used by the US in …
Reconciliation after War
Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice
Av Rachel Kerr, Henry Redwood m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war.Reconciliation is a concept that resists easy definition. At the same time, it is almost invariably invoked as a goal of post-conflict reconstruction, …
Contesting Torture
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Rory Cox, Faye Donnelly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1963 kr
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This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality, torture continues to be widely employed and misrepresented.The resurgence of torture and public justifications of it led to the central questions that this inter-disciplinary volume …
Transitional Justice in Peacebuilding
Actor-Contingent and Malleable Justice
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This book explores the role of actors in determining transitional justice in peacebuilding contexts.In recent decades, transitional justice mechanisms and processes have been introduced to a variety of settings, becoming widely regarded as essential elements in the ‘peacebuilding toolbox’. While it …
NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century
Foreign and Security Policy Perspectives
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This book explores the evolution and future relevance of NATO from the perspective of the member-states.Addressing the overarching question of the relevance of transatlantic relations in the 21st century, the volume has three core objectives. The first is to reinforce the view that international …
NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century
Foreign and Security Policy Perspectives
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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This book explores the evolution and future relevance of NATO from the perspective of the member-states.Addressing the overarching question of the relevance of transatlantic relations in the 21st century, the volume has three core objectives. The first is to reinforce the view that international …
Targeted Killings, Law and Counter-Terrorism Effectiveness
Does Fair Play Pay Off?
Av Ophir Falk
Häftad, 2023
712 kr
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This book examines the permissibility and effectiveness of targeted killing in campaigns against terror.Targeted killing has become a primary counterterrorism measure used by several countries in their confrontation with lethal threats. The practice has been extensively used by the US in …
Impact in International Affairs
The Quest for World-Leading Research
Häftad, 2022
361 kr
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This book examines how and to what extent academic research in politics and international studies has had 'impact' — in doing so, it also considers what might characterise ‘world-leading’ research impact.International Relations was always meant to have impact – it was intended to make a difference …
Deterring Russia in Europe
Defence Strategies for Neighbouring States
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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This edited volume examines deterrence and the defense efforts of European states neighboring Russia, following the Crimean intervention.Deterrence, after being largely absent from debates among academics and policy-makers for almost a quarter of a century, has made a comeback in Europe. Since …
Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Mapping a Multipolar World?
Av Donette Murray, David Brown
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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This volume critiques contemporary power trends by examining key bilateral dynamics between five putative ‘poles’ of the multipolar order in the twenty-first century.Written by emerging scholars and established academics, this work provides a timely and authoritative analysis of one of the most …
Transitional Justice in Peacebuilding
Actor-Contingent and Malleable Justice
Häftad, 2022
692 kr
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This book explores the role of actors in determining transitional justice in peacebuilding contexts.In recent decades, transitional justice mechanisms and processes have been introduced to a variety of settings, becoming widely regarded as essential elements in the ‘peacebuilding toolbox’. While it …
Reconciliation after War
Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice
Av Rachel Kerr, Henry Redwood m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
692 kr
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This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war.Reconciliation is a concept that resists easy definition. At the same time, it is almost invariably invoked as a goal of post-conflict reconstruction, …
Drones and Global Order
Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society
Av Paul Lushenko, Srinjoy Bose m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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This book explores the implications of drone warfare for the legitimacy of global order.The literature on drone warfare has evolved from studying the proliferation of drones, to measuring their effectiveness, to exploring their legal, moral, and ethical impacts. These "three waves" of scholarship …
Drones and Global Order
Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society
Av Paul Lushenko, Srinjoy Bose m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
692 kr
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This book explores the implications of drone warfare for the legitimacy of global order.The literature on drone warfare has evolved from studying the proliferation of drones, to measuring their effectiveness, to exploring their legal, moral, and ethical impacts. These "three waves" of scholarship …
Militia Order in Afghanistan
Guardians or Gangsters?
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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This book offers a new insight into when and why paramilitary groups in Afghanistan engage in protective or predatory behavior against the civilians they purportedly defend. In Afghanistan’s counterinsurgency environment, America leaned on militias to provide order and stabilize communities cut off …
Militia Order in Afghanistan
Guardians or Gangsters?
Häftad, 2023
692 kr
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This book offers a new insight into when and why paramilitary groups in Afghanistan engage in protective or predatory behavior against the civilians they purportedly defend. In Afghanistan’s counterinsurgency environment, America leaned on militias to provide order and stabilize communities cut off …
Cultures of Counterterrorism
French and Italian Responses to Terrorism after 9/11
Häftad, 2020
721 kr
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This book investigates counterterrorism responses from a strategic-culturalist perspective, focusing on France and Italy in the post-9/11 era. Terrorism occupies a predominant space within contemporary political debate across all European countries. Recent attacks in Europe have raised many …
International Legitimacy and the Domestic Use of Force
A New Theoretical Framework
Av Megan Price
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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This book examines how states justify the domestic use of military force to foreign audiences.By deploying a sociological approach to legitimacy and drawing on conceptual tools which deal directly with the dynamics of justification, it offers a novel framework for understanding the politics of …
International Legitimacy and the Domestic Use of Force
A New Theoretical Framework
Av Megan Price
Häftad, 2024
692 kr
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This book examines how states justify the domestic use of military force to foreign audiences.By deploying a sociological approach to legitimacy and drawing on conceptual tools which deal directly with the dynamics of justification, it offers a novel framework for understanding the politics of …
Prosecutorial Discretion in the International Criminal Court
Legitimacy and the Politics of Justice
Inbunden, 2021
2312 kr
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This book provides the first scholarly investigation of prosecutorial discretion in the International Criminal Court (ICC) from an interdisciplinary perspective.This work analyses the discretionary power of the ICC prosecutor and its scope. It explains that there is a tendency to overlook the …
Prosecutorial Discretion in the International Criminal Court
Legitimacy and the Politics of Justice
Häftad, 2023
712 kr
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This book provides the first scholarly investigation of prosecutorial discretion in the International Criminal Court (ICC) from an interdisciplinary perspective.This work analyses the discretionary power of the ICC prosecutor and its scope. It explains that there is a tendency to overlook the …
British Defence in the 21st Century
Häftad, 2021
742 kr
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This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society, and technology, as well as the military.Building upon wide-ranging applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy makers, senior military commanders, and …
