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No region of the world has been more affected by the forces of instability and the factors of war and insecurity than has the Middle East. The area has seen more violence and conflict in the last three or four decades than all of the other world regions put together. Moreover, conflict in the area has an international significance far beyond its borders. These events and issues have also been of the greatest international and academic interest, with much study generated.

The editor's choice of materials in this new Routledge collection is based on an effort to cover a full range of...

Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, "European Security" is a new title from Routledge s Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies series. Edited by Michael E. Smith, it is a four-volume collection which brings together the foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship in a one-stop mini library .

Key debates covered in this indispensable collection include such hot topics as: theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of security in Europe;...

Although prominent--some would argue pre-eminent--within the modern political lexicon, the concept of 'security' is complex and contested. While the meaning and reference point of security was once largely taken for granted within International Relations, the past thirty years or so have witnessed the growth of a range of approaches that refuse to take this concept and its application as self-evident. Instead, serious scholarship, often grouped under the rubric of 'Critical Security Studies', has sought to question and critique dominant conceptions of security, to introduce new theoretical...