Contemporary Security Studies
About the Book Series
This series focuses on new research across the spectrum of international peace and security, in an era where each year throws up multiple examples of conflicts that present new security challenges in the world around them.
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence
1st Edition
By Iva Vukušić
May 27, 2024
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, nature, and function of Serbian paramilitary units during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. The book investigates the nature and functions of paramilitary units throughout the 1990s, and their ties to the state and ...
International Legitimacy and the Domestic Use of Force: A New Theoretical Framework
1st Edition
By Megan Price
January 29, 2024
This book examines how states justify the domestic use of military force to foreign audiences. By deploying a sociological approach to legitimacy and drawing on conceptual tools which deal directly with the dynamics of justification, it offers a novel framework for understanding the politics of ...
Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Lushenko, Srinjoy Bose, William Maley
September 25, 2023
This book explores the implications of drone warfare for the legitimacy of global order. The literature on drone warfare has evolved from studying the proliferation of drones, to measuring their effectiveness, to exploring their legal, moral, and ethical impacts. These "three waves" of scholarship ...
Prosecutorial Discretion in the International Criminal Court: Legitimacy and the Politics of Justice
1st Edition
By Farid Mohammed Rashid
September 25, 2023
This book provides the first scholarly investigation of prosecutorial discretion in the International Criminal Court (ICC) from an interdisciplinary perspective. This work analyses the discretionary power of the ICC prosecutor and its scope. It explains that there is a tendency to overlook the ...
Militia Order in Afghanistan: Guardians or Gangsters?
1st Edition
By Matthew P. Dearing
May 31, 2023
This book offers a new insight into when and why paramilitary groups in Afghanistan engage in protective or predatory behavior against the civilians they purportedly defend. In Afghanistan’s counterinsurgency environment, America leaned on militias to provide order and stabilize communities cut ...
Targeted Killings, Law and Counter-Terrorism Effectiveness: Does Fair Play Pay Off?
1st Edition
By Ophir Falk
May 31, 2023
This book examines the permissibility and effectiveness of targeted killing in campaigns against terror. Targeted killing has become a primary counterterrorism measure used by several countries in their confrontation with lethal threats. The practice has been extensively used by the US in ...
NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century: Foreign and Security Policy Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Testoni
January 09, 2023
This book explores the evolution and future relevance of NATO from the perspective of the member-states. Addressing the overarching question of the relevance of transatlantic relations in the 21st century, the volume has three core objectives. The first is to reinforce the view that international ...
Impact in International Affairs: The Quest for World-Leading Research
1st Edition
By James Gow, Henry Redwood
August 01, 2022
This book examines how and to what extent academic research in politics and international studies has had 'impact' — in doing so, it also considers what might characterise ‘world-leading’ research impact. International Relations was always meant to have impact – it was intended to make a difference...
Reconciliation after War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Kerr, Henry Redwood, James Gow
August 01, 2022
This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war. Reconciliation is a concept that resists easy definition. At the same time, it is almost invariably invoked as a goal of post-conflict reconstruction, ...
Transitional Justice in Peacebuilding: Actor-Contingent and Malleable Justice
1st Edition
By Djeyhoun Ostowar
May 30, 2022
This book explores the role of actors in determining transitional justice in peacebuilding contexts. In recent decades, transitional justice mechanisms and processes have been introduced to a variety of settings, becoming widely regarded as essential elements in the ‘peacebuilding toolbox’. While ...
Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Strategic Culture and Putin’s Operational Code
1st Edition
By Graeme P. Herd
January 28, 2022
This book examines the extent to which Russia’s strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin’s own operational code. The work argues that, by conflating personalistic regime survival with national security, Putin ensures that contemporary Russian national ...
Russian Imperialism Revisited: From Disengagement to Hegemony
1st Edition
By Domitilla Sagramoso
December 13, 2021
This book examines the nature of Russia’s relations with the former Soviet states (FSS), in particular with countries which formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, in order to assess whether there has been a resurgence of Russian imperialism since the collapse of the USSR.The book ...