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11. Regional Organizations in African Security

    Edited by Fredrik Soderbaum, Rodrigo Tavares

    The African continent is plagued by some of the most brutal and violent conflicts in the world. At the same time that warfare is changing, so has the state’s capacity to provide security and political stability to its citizens. This book deals with the role of regional organizations in Africa’s...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
12. Genocide Matters

    Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives

    Edited by Joyce Apsel, Ernesto Verdeja

    This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies. The book examines four main areas: The current state of research on genocide New thinking on the categories and methods of mass violence Developments in teaching about genocide...

    Published April 21st 2013 by Routledge
13. Political Economy and Grand Strategy

    A Neoclassical Realist View

    By Mark R. Brawley

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach and how this affects grand strategy. The realist view of the balance of power theory includes implicit...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
14. Iran and Nuclear Weapons

    Protracted Conflict and Proliferation

    By Saira Khan

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation. Iran’s nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
15. Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law

    By Hakeem O. Yusuf

    Series: Transitional Justice

    Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Despite a general consensus that the judiciary plays an important role in contemporary governance, accountability for the judicial role in...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
16. Understanding Military Doctrine

    A multidisciplinary approach

    By Harald Hoiback

    Series: Cass Military Studies

    This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message of...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
17. Ethnic Cleansing

    A Legal Qualification

    By Clotilde Pegorier

    This book confronts the problem of the legal uncertainty surrounding the definition and classification of ethnic cleansing, exploring whether the use of the term ethnic cleansing constitutes a valuable contribution to legal understanding and praxis. The premise underlying this book is that acts of...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
18. Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq

    Transforming Military Logistics

    By Christopher Kinsey

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq examines the controversial role of military contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq. When 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was launched in March 2003, few, if any, of the Coalition's political leaders could have envisaged that within a few months the...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
19. Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World

    Social movements, networks and hierarchies

    By Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. Drawing on a number of theorists including Deleuze and...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
20. Nuclear Terrorism and Global Security

    The Challenge of Phasing out Highly Enriched Uranium

    Edited by Alan J. Kuperman

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book examines the prospects and challenges of a global phase-out of highly enriched uranium—and the risks of this material otherwise being used by terrorists to make atom bombs. Terrorist groups, such as Al Qaeda, have demonstrated repeatedly that they seek to acquire nuclear weapons....

    Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge