This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in which a state views its and others' responsibilities and burdens for responding to international crises. It assesses the distribution of the costs of raising and supporting arms of service, the risks of deploying them overseas and using them in combat or peace operations, and the extent to which members have a responsibility for maintaining international order in the context of three instances of multinational military intervention: the...
This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in w...
It has become generally accepted wisdom that democracies do not go to war against each other. However, there are significant differences between democratic states in terms of their approach to war and security policy in general.
This edited book offers a broad examination of how democratic preferences and norms are relevant to security policy beyond the decision of whether to go to war. It therefore offers a fresh understanding of state behaviour in the security realm. The contributors discuss such issues as defence policy, air war, cluster bombs, non-lethal weapons, weapons...
It has become generally accepted wisdom that democracies do not go to war against each other. However, there are significant differences between de...
This edited volume examines the impact of globalisation on the economies, security policies and military-industrial complexes of the Asia-Pacific region.
The work is structured into three main parts. The first explores globalization and its general effects on the policy-making of the nation-state; the second section looks at how globalisation affects a country's threat perception and defence posture within the specific context of the Asia-Pacific region; while the third explores how it impacts on a state's allocation of resources to defence, and how economic globalization affects...
This edited volume examines the impact of globalisation on the economies, security policies and military-industrial complexes of the Asia-Pacific r...
This volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to cyberconflict and its implications for global security and politics.
Taking a multidimensional approach to current debates in internet politics, the book comprises essays by leading experts from across the world. The volume includes a comprehensive introduction to current debates in the field and their ramifications for global politics, and follows this with empirical case studies. These include cyberconflict, cyberwars, information warfare and hacktivism, in contexts such as Sri Lanka, Lebanon and Estonia, the...
This volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to cyberconflict and its implications for global security and politics.
This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order. Unipolarity is usually described either as a brief moment' or as something historically insignificant. However, we have already seen nearly twenty years of virtual unipolarity and this period has been of great significance for world politics. Two issues have been crucial since the end of the Cold War: How to theorize the distinctiveness and exceptional character of a unipolar international system? And what is it like to conduct state business in a unipolar world? Until now, a comprehensive model for unipolarity has been lacking....
This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order. Unipolarity is usually described either as a brief moment' or as something historical...
This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation of conflict affect the legitimacy, conduct and outcome of contemporary warfare?
The collapsing Twin Towers of September 11; the hooded figure at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; the images of beheadings on the internet; the emaciated figure in a Bosnian-Serb concentration camp; the dancing flashes across the skylines of Baghdad as US-led air bombardment deals blows to another 'rogue' regime: such images define contemporary conflict.
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This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation...
This edited work examines the nature and process of winning and losing in war, in particular between highly unequal opponents. Bringing together leading contributors, this volume shows how the meaning of victories and defeats changes over time, together with the methods and factors that produce them.
This edited work examines the nature and process of winning and losing in war, in particular between highly unequal opponents. Bringing together leadi...
This new volume explores the crisis in transatlantic relations and analyses the role of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The book offers a unified theory of cooperation in the new security paradigm to explain the current state of transatlantic relations and NATO's failure to adequately transform itself into a security institution for the 21st century. It argues that a new preoccupation with risk filled the vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet Union, and uses the literature of the Risk Society to analyse the strained politics of the North Atlantic...
This new volume explores the crisis in transatlantic relations and analyses the role of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
