Military & Strategic Studies Books

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31. Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror'

    Edited by Fiona Tolan, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Robert Spencer

    This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
32. 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
33. Changing Power Relations in Northeast Asia

    Implications for Relations between Japan and South Korea

    Edited by Marie Soderberg

    Series: European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series

    This book analyses the Japanese-South Korean relationship from various angles including politics, security, economics, culture and immigration. In a sense the two countries are natural partners. Both are democratic societies, they are economically strong and are the only two Asian countries that...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
34. Sedition and the Advocacy of Violence

    Free Speech and Counter-Terrorism

    By Sarah Sorial

    This book employs the theoretical framework of ‘speech act theory’ to analyse current legislative frameworks and cases pertaining to sedition or the advocacy of violence and the issue of freedom of speech. An analysis of the relation between speech and action offers a promising way of clarifying...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
35. 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
36. US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion

    From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama

    Edited by Michael Cox, Timothy J. Lynch, Nicolas Bouchet

    Series: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

    The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widely perceived as failed attempts at enforced democratization, sufficient that Barack Obama has felt compelled to downplay the rhetoric of...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
37. Russia and the World

    The Internal-External Nexus

    Edited by Natasha Kuhrt

    Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

    This volume brings together analyses of key domestic, foreign and security policy issues during the Putin and Medvedev administrations. Indeed, the chapters demonstrate the extent to which domestic and foreign policy issues are inextricably linked, in particular in the domain of security, whether '...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
38. Cluster Munitions and International Law

    Disarmament With a Human Face?

    By Alexander Breitegger

    Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflicts

    This book offers a comprehensive argument for why pre-existing international law on cluster munitions was inadequate to deal with the full scope of humanitarian consequences associated with their use. The book undertakes an interdisciplinary legal analysis of restraints and prohibitions on the use...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
39. Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict

    The Conflict in Pakistan

    By Niaz A Shah

    Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflicts

    Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Conflict in Pakistan demonstrates how international law can be applied in Muslim states in a way that is compatible with Islamic law. Within this broader framework of compatible application, Niaz A. Shah argues that the Islamic law of qital (i.e. armed...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
40. Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era

    By Elizabeth Chadwick

    Series: Routledge Research in International Law

    This book discusses the increasing tendency in certain government quarters to incorporate struggles by peoples for their self-determination into the wider anti-terrorist agenda of the post-9/11 era. This tendency distorts the laws of armed conflict and of peace alike. As inter-state anti-terrorist...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge