This book is the first comprehensive examination of North Africa's political, security, and economic developments since the 2011 Arab Uprisings shook the Middle East.
North Africa in Transition examines how the people and governments of North Africa have responded to the Arab uprisings that shook the region's politics in 2011. With individual chapters detailing key developments in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, the authors bring together a wide range of expertise to assess how a previously under-explored and politically static region underwent bursts or...
This book is the first comprehensive examination of North Africa's political, security, and economic developments since the 2011 Arab Uprisings sho...
If the nuclear weapons club were to further expand, would America's democratic allies in Northeast Asia be among the next entrants? Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all have robust civilian nuclear energy programmes that make them 'virtual nuclear powers' according to many analysts. All three once pursued nuclear weapons and all face growing security threats from nuclear-armed adversaries. But will they - or rather, under what circumstances might they?
This book analyses these past nuclear pursuits and current proliferation drivers. In explaining the nuclear technology that the...
If the nuclear weapons club were to further expand, would America's democratic allies in Northeast Asia be among the next entrants? Japan, ...
This book chronicles the political-military development of the Korean Peninsula since 1945, with particular attention to North Korea‘s pursuit of nuclear technology and nuclear weapons, and how it has shaped Northeast Asian security and non-proliferation policy and influenced the strategic choices of the United States and all regional powers. I focus on North Korea‘s leaders, institutions, political history, and the system‘s longer-term prospects. How has an isolated, highly idiosyncratic, small state repeatedly stymied or circumvented the policy preferences of much more powerful...
This book chronicles the political-military development of the Korean Peninsula since 1945, with particular attention to North Korea‘s pursuit of nu...
A major shift in the paradigm undergirding relations between Australia and China has become clear in the early 2020s, with geopolitical concerns trumping economic considerations. Canberra has implemented a range of new policies in response to the risks it perceives in Australia’s economic relations with China, the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to exert political influence in Australia, the expanding capabilities and presence of the People’s Liberation Army, and Beijing’s economic and diplomatic gains in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. China’s policies towards...
A major shift in the paradigm undergirding relations between Australia and China has become clear in the early 2020s, with geopolitical concerns tr...
Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information environment have been identified by various analysts as a significant factor in contemporary strategy and crisis management. But while social media is noisier and more chaotic than traditional media, and unprecedented in its immediacy and accessibility, has it thus far been...
Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an ar...
The spike in global food prices in 2007�08 not only led to riots on several continents; it also reawakened fears about the world�s future ability to feed itself, as growing populations place greater demands on agricultural systems operating in increasingly difficult environmental and climatic conditions.
With more than half the world�s people and high levels of inequality, Asia lies at the centre of the global food-security challenge of the twenty-first century. The region � especially China and India � is drawing on world stocks and importing more staples, as its own farms strain...
The spike in global food prices in 2007�08 not only led to riots on several continents; it also reawakened fears about the world�s future ability ...
As Sino-US relations have deteriorated, concerns have grown in Washington over its ability to defeat China in a major conflict. A conflict between such peer competitors would likely become a protracted war of attrition drawing on all dimensions of national power, but this reality has yet to receive a sufficient degree of analytical attention.
In this Adelphi book, Iskander Rehman provides a historically informed and empirically grounded study of protracted great-power war, its core drivers and characteristics, and an examination of the elements that have most often determined...
As Sino-US relations have deteriorated, concerns have grown in Washington over its ability to defeat China in a major conflict. A conflict between ...
Strategic links between Japan and Europe during the Cold War were limited. During this period the IISS helped bridge the gap between the two, exposing its membership base to the international affairs of Asia and Japan and providing Japanese scholars, strategists and diplomats with a platform from which to amplify their voices in the West. Analyses by these experts often appeared in IISS publications, but the Institute also gained key insights through its well-established conferences and lecture series. These initiatives illuminated Japanese strategic thinking and perspectives on...
Strategic links between Japan and Europe during the Cold War were limited. During this period the IISS helped bridge the gap between the two, expos...
