Explores how transnational politics, modern communications, and access to weapons give political movements the ability to wage global war. This book explores what allows insurgency to be accessible and effective and deals with more than just terrorism. It argues that solutions r…
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"The First World War marked a key turning point in America's involvement on the global stage. Isolationism fell, and America joined the ranks of the Great Powers. Both the federal government and the military expanded rapidly during this time, in terms of size and power. The new …
The First World War marked a key turning point in America's involvement on the global stage. Isolationism fell, and America joined the ranks of the Great Powers. Civil-Military relations faced new challenges as a result. Ford examines the multitude of changes that stemmed from A…
"The First World War marked a key turning point in America's involvement on the global stage. Isolationism fell, and America joined the ranks of the Great Powers. Both the federal government and the military expanded rapidly during this time, in terms of size and power. The new …
This two-volume set addresses counterterrorism issues from the days of the Cold War to the current global campaign. Although historically terrorism has been a tactic in anticolonialist struggles, national resistance movements, and conventional wars, and has also been used by gov…
These chapters discuss where arms control has been, where it stands at present, and where, within the limits of our foresight, it appears to be headed. Collectively, they present a rich and stimulating survey of the history of arms control, its theoretical foundations, and its p…
These chapters discuss where arms control has been, where it stands at present, and where, within the limits of our foresight, it appears to be headed. Collectively, they present a rich and stimulating survey of the history of arms control, its theoretical foundations, and its p…
Though the terms national security or state security indicate concern with only one state, it is axiomatic that in today's world (and perhaps since the beginning of time), the security of any state can only be ensured in a broader, multilateral framework to ensure international …
Human rights has become such a core part of international relations and geopolitics, cited all the time in both the positive and negative, that it is often forgotten how new the entire concept is. Though human rights experts like to trace the origin of the concept of rights to t…
The ongoing lack of clarity surrounding some of the key concepts of human security mean that definitional issues remain contentious issues of debate within human security circles. It is clear that human security has had, and continues to have, a role to play in changing the para…
