New Security Challenges – serie
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Special Operations from a Small State Perspective
Future Security Challenges
Av Gunilla Eriksson, Ulrica Pettersson
Häftad, 2018
1861 kr
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“Over the past dozen years special operations forces (SOF) have been one of the few areas of growth and expansion in a number of militaries. This growth and expansion, however, has not been mirrored by a comparable one in academic inquiries into the subject. Special Operations from a Small State …
European Participation in International Operations
The Role of Strategic Culture
Av Malena Britz
Inbunden, 2016
1207 kr
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Taking its departure in the concept of strategic culture, this book answers the question of why European countries decide either to participate or not in international military operations. This volume examines strategic culture and its relation to justifications of decisions made by France, …
Russia, China and the West in the Post-Cold War Era
The Limits of Liberal Universalism
Häftad, 2024
1316 kr
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This book analyzes international affairs in the post-Cold War era by taking a special look at identity, norms and interests and the limits of liberal normative universalism. The book assesses the causes of the deterioration of Russian – Western relations, the management of the liberal international …
Television and Terror
Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse
Inbunden, 2007
552 kr
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The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical …
Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits
An Inquiry into Research and Methods
Av B. Rappert
Inbunden, 2007
552 kr
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Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits examines the post 9/11 security implications for life science research as well as the methodological issues associated with conducting social research. In doing so the book considers the place of biological and social research in creating and …
NATO’s Post-Cold War Trajectory
Decline or Regeneration
Av M. Webber, J. Sperling m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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Two decades since the watershed of the Cold War, this book investigates NATO's staying power. This book investigates how the Alliance has adapted and managed to attend to new roles and purposes through the lens of International Relations theory. The Alliance will continue, but will remain subject …
Technology and Security
Governing Threats in the New Millennium
Av Brian Rappert, Brian Rappert
Inbunden, 2007
552 kr
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This book takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It assesses the challenges posed by emerging scientific and technological developments for security while understanding how perceptions of security threats are themselves formed in relation …
Global Change, Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Implementing the Political Settlement
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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Northern Ireland's Belfast Agreement has faced continual crises of implementation over a variety of security related issues. This book places the implementation of the Belfast Agreement in a wide context to provide an analysis of why implementation has been so difficult.
Re-Imagining the War on Terror
Seeing, Waiting, Travelling
Av A. Hill
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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This book presents an interdisciplinary reassessment of the War on Terror. It examines the development of the conflict since the September 11 attacks, combining a theoretically distinctive perspective with the examination of a diverse body of previously unexplored source material from media …
Biosecurity
Origins, Transformations and Practices
Av Brian Rappert, Chandré Gould
Inbunden, 2009
1130 kr
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This book explores the origins, interpretations and meanings of the term 'biosecurity'. It brings together contributors on issues relating to the perceptions of the threat of biological weapons and how states are responding, or not, to the challenges posed by the potential of the products of the …
Globalization of Security
State Power, Security Provision and Legitimacy
Av B. Mabee
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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The Globalization of Security is an important rethinking of the connections between globalization and security, focusing on a conceptual examination of the role of the state combined with key case studies. The book provides a novel historical sociological approach, advancing both the understanding …
Public Opinion, Transatlantic Relations and the Use of Force
Av P. Everts, P. Isernia
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This book explores the intersection of the study of transatlantic relationships and the study of public support for the use of force in foreign policy. It contributes to two important debates: one about the nature of transatlantic partnership, and another about the determinants of support for the …
Television and Terror
Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse
Häftad, 2007
552 kr
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The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical …
Reconstructing Security after Conflict
Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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A long-term evaluation and analysis of the UK's involvement in Sierra Leone before and after the conflict which ended in 2002. This book looks at how UK intervention moved from initial involvement through to war fighting and then post-conflict reconstruction, specifically of the security …
Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in Post-Cold War Europe
Av T. Dyson
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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Dyson explains the convergence and divergence between British, French and German defence reforms in the post-Cold War era. He engages with cultural and realist theories and develops a neoclassical realist approach to change and stasis in defence policy, bringing new material to bear on the factors …
Climate Terror
A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change
Inbunden, 2015
1097 kr
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Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised 'climate security'.
Climate Terror
A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change
Häftad, 2015
1097 kr
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Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised 'climate security'.
Geo-Politics of the Euro-Asia Energy Nexus
The European Union, Russia and Turkey
Av A. Tekin, P. Williams
Inbunden, 2010
506 kr
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A freshly provocative look at the nexus linking EU security, trans-Turkey energy supply routes to Europe and Turkey's EU membership negotiations, this book argues that Europe's collective energy security prospects have become increasingly tied to Turkey's progress towards joining the EU.
NATO: The Power of Partnerships
Av H. Edström, J. Matlary m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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NATO has many European and global partner countries. The political and military utility of all these partnerships is clear; they 'provide' more security than they 'consume'. But the utility for NATO of partners also changes over time. This book scrutinizes these partnerships, both from a NATO …
Anti-War Activism
New Media and Protest in the Information Age
Av K. Gillan, J. Pickerill m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
552 kr
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The first academic account of the 21st century anti-war and peace movement. Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, Anti-War Activism pays especially close attention to the changed information environment of protest, the complex alliances of activists, the diversity of participants, as well …
Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding
Häftad, 2008
1097 kr
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The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace formula. It investigates political economies characterized by the legacies of disruption to production and exchange, by population …
Pursuing Strategy
NATO Operations from the Gulf War to Gaddafi
Av H. Edström, D. Gyllensporre
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Formulating a strategy involves complex interactions between politicians, strategic commanders and generals in the field. The authors explore the strategic decisions made during NATO missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan, Somalia and Libya.
Extremists in Our Midst
Confronting Terror
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Baker provides a unique insider perspective on factors affecting British Muslim converts and their susceptibility to violent radicalisation, including firsthand accounts of convicted terrorists Richard Reid (the 'Shoe Bomber'), Zacarius Moussaoui (the 20th 9/11 bomber), and Abdullah el-Faisal who …
Image Warfare in the War on Terror
Av N. Roger
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Roger examines how developments in new media technologies, such as the internet, blogs, camera/video phones, have fundamentally altered the way in which governments, militaries, terrorists, NGOs, and citizens engage with images. He argues that there has been a paradigm shift from techno-war to …
Charting Transformation through Security
Contemporary EU-Africa Relations
Av T. Haastrup
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book analyses security cooperation in the domain of inter-regionalism, addressing the emergence of the African Union as a regional actor and its impact on EU-Africa relations. It explores the transformative potential of security cooperation for equality, partnership and local ownership in …
NATO Beyond 9/11
The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance
Av E. Hallams, L. Ratti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This collection reflects on the significance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks for the transatlantic alliance. Offering an analysis of NATO's evolution since 2001, it examines key topics such as the alliance's wars in Afghanistan, its military operation in Libya, global partnerships, burden-sharing and …
European Union Security Dynamics
In the New National Interest
Av J. Matlary
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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This book shows how France and Britain are leaders in EU security and defense policy, and explains why both states need each other in this policy area. The lack of relevant military capacity in Europe today implies that the US favors a strong EU in this field.
Everyday Resilience of the City
How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster
Av J. Coaffee, D. Murakami Wood m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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This book examines the practice of urban resilience past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources and detailed case-studies of contemporary Britain. It argues that resilience is neither new nor necessarily about protecting ordinary people, but part of a long struggle over the …
Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace formula. It investigates political economies characterized by the legacies of disruption to production and exchange, by population …
Anti-War Activism
New Media and Protest in the Information Age
Av K. Gillan, J. Pickerill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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The first academic account of the 21st century anti-war and peace movement. Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, Anti-War Activism pays especially close attention to the changed information environment of protest, the complex alliances of activists, the diversity of participants, as well …
