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  • Common or Divided Security?

    German and Norwegian Perspectives on Euro-Atlantic Security

    Edited by Robin Allers, Carlo Masala, Rolf Tamnes ...
    Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, Euro-Atlantic security is under pressure. Faced with major geopolitical shifts, instability at its frontiers and financial crisis at home, the European nations and their American Allies will have to rethink how to design common security. Failure to animate the European Union (EU) and to reinvigorate the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) as ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Geopolitics and Security in the Arctic

    Regional dynamics in a global world

    Edited by Rolf Tamnes, Kristine Offerdal ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    Written by a group of leading experts on Artic affairs, this book offers a historically informed and comprehensive study of the geopolitics and security challenges of the Arctic.The key aim of the work is to identify the conditions for cooperation, stability and peace in the Arctic and to reach beyond simple description and expectation in order to explore in depth some of the main factors that ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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    by John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, Julian Lindley-French ...
    Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a ... Read more

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  • Russia's Military Revival

    by Bettina Renz ...
    Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Moscow’s armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a significant military actor on the international stage.In this cutting-edge study, Bettina Renz provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of Russia’s ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Security in an Interconnected World

    A Strategic Vision for Defence Policy

    Edited by Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Huub Dijstelbloem, Peter de Goede ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determined on the grounds of said analysis. More than ever, internal and external security, and developments both in the Netherlands and abroad are interconnected. The world order is shifting, the cooperation within NATO and the EU is ... Read more

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  • How NATO Adapts

    Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950

    by Seth A. Johnston ...
    Series Book 132 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Despite momentous change, NATO remains a crucial safeguard of security and peace.Today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to “keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.” These differences are not simply the result of the Cold War’s end, 9/11, or recent twenty-first ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture

    Edited by Michael Geyer, Adam Tooze ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Second World War
    The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural event. Across twenty-eight chapters and four key parts, the volume addresses complex themes such as the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Power in modern Russia

    Strategy and mobilisation

    by Andrew Monaghan ...
    Series series Pocket Politics
    The book explores the Russian leadership’s strategic agenda and illuminates the range of problems it faces in implementing it. Given these difficulties and the Russian leadership’s concerns about an unstable and increasingly competitive world, the Russian official and expert community often use the term 'mobilisation' to describe the measures that Moscow is increasingly resorting to in order to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Reluctant Warriors

    Germany, Japan, and Their U.S. Alliance Dilemma

    by Alexandra Sakaki, Kerstin Lukner, Hanns W. Maull ...
    Can Germany and Japan do more militarily to uphold the international order?Since the end of World War II, Germany and Japan have been the most reluctant of all major U.S. allies to take on military responsibilities. Given their histories, this reluctance certainly is understandable. But because of their size and economic importance, Germany and Japan are the most important U.S. allies in Europe ... Read more

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  • Grand Strategy in 10 Words

    A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century

    by Sven Biscop ...
    In a world that has returned to great power rivalry, understanding the grand strategy of these powers is crucial. This book introduces ten key terms for analysing grand strategy and shows how the world’s great powers – the United States, China, Russia and the European Union (EU) – shape their strategic decisions today.Outlining the steps needed for a less confrontational grand strategy and a more ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Breaking Down the Walls

    Improving EU-NATO Relations

    by Henna Hopia ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Europe needs to use the strengths of both the EU and NATO to effectively respond to the ever more diverse threats that require collective efforts. This is the only way through which European security can be guaranteed in the face of struggles with limited resources and decreasing defence funding, as well as the further US disengagement from Europe. For this to happen, and as both organisations ... Read more

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  • Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century

    Europe, America and the Rise of the Rest

    by Erwan Lagadec ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century.The collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up an era in which the drivers and perceived benefits of the US alliance among European countries have become more variegated and shifting. The proposition that the US remains at once an 'indispensable' and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD