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Routledge Global Security Studies


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Global Security Studies is a series for cutting-edge monographs and books on international security. It emphasizes cutting-edge scholarship on the forces reshaping global security and the dilemmas facing decision-makers the world over. The series stresses security issues relevant in many countries and regions, accessible to broad professional and academic audiences as well as to students, and enduring through explicit theoretical foundations.

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Ballistic Missile Proliferation in Non-Nuclear States The Origins of Ballistic Missile Programmes in the Middle East

Ballistic Missile Proliferation in Non-Nuclear States: The Origins of Ballistic Missile Programmes in the Middle East

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Karim El-Baz, Ali Ghanbarpour-Dizboni
August 23, 2024

  This book offers an exploration of ballistic missile proliferation in the Middle East, and also delves into the geopolitical landscape to unveil a narrative of contemporary Middle Eastern history. The central focus of the book is to decipher the pivotal moments when three regional powers of the ...

The Foundations of Modern Arms Control An International History, 1815-1968

The Foundations of Modern Arms Control: An International History, 1815-1968

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Robert M. Blum
April 30, 2024

This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrument is varied, resilient, successful, and enduring.The narrative begins after the Napoleonic wars when newly arisen peace movements focused on arbitration as a path to “ending the ...

Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century Atomic Zeitenwende?

Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Atomic Zeitenwende?

1st Edition

Edited By Ulrich Kühn
March 12, 2024

This book is the first scholarly book to take a comprehensive look at Germany’s nuclear weapons policies in the 21st century. German foreign and security policy is facing a profound reorientation. Great power competition between the United States and both a revanchist Russia and a rising China, the...

Expanding US Military Command in Africa Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy

Expanding US Military Command in Africa: Elites, Networks and Grand Strategy

1st Edition

Edited By Tshepo Gwatiwa, Justin van der Merwe
January 29, 2024

This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa. This book posits that AFRICOM expansion in Africa is part of a broader system of accumulation based on a government-business-media (GBM) complex. Applying the concept at both ...

Cultures of Counterproliferation The Making of US and Israeli Policy on Iran's Nuclear Program

Cultures of Counterproliferation: The Making of US and Israeli Policy on Iran's Nuclear Program

1st Edition

By Raphael BenLevi
October 20, 2023

This book argues that the nature of counterproliferation strengthens the effect of cultural factors in policy choices, and illustrates this by focusing on US and Israeli policy toward the Iranian nuclear program. The United States and Israel have been the two states most active in opposing Iran’s ...

International Nuclear Export Controls and Non-Proliferation The Collective Action Problem

International Nuclear Export Controls and Non-Proliferation: The Collective Action Problem

1st Edition

By Ian J. Stewart
May 31, 2023

This book examines the evolution of international nuclear non-proliferation trade controls over time. The book argues that the international nuclear export controls have developed in a sub-optimal way as a result of a non-proliferation collective action problem. This has resulted in competition ...

Nuclear Weapons Free Zones A Comparative Perspective

Nuclear Weapons Free Zones: A Comparative Perspective

1st Edition

By Exequiel Lacovsky
May 31, 2023

This book explores the conditions under which Nuclear Weapons Free Zones (NWFZs) can be established. It analyzes four hypotheses that explain the factors contributing to the formation of NWFZs, building upon realist, constructivist and liberal theories from international relations. Through ...

Renegotiating the Nuclear Order A Sociological Approach

Renegotiating the Nuclear Order: A Sociological Approach

1st Edition

By Tarja Cronberg
May 31, 2023

Renegotiating the Nuclear Order offers a sociological approach to the nuclear order, and order defined by nuclear technology and nuclear weapons. The focus is on the need to renegotiate the nuclear order, given the conflict between deterrence and disarmament and the unbalanced ...

Russia and the World in the Putin Era From Theory to Reality in Russian Global Strategy

Russia and the World in the Putin Era: From Theory to Reality in Russian Global Strategy

1st Edition

Edited By Roger E. Kanet, Dina Moulioukova
May 31, 2023

This volume examines the role of Russia in the world under President Putin’s rule. When the Soviet Union disintegrated after the Cold War, Russia seemingly embarked on the establishment of a democratic political system and seemed intent on joining the liberal international order. However, under ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency Historical Reflections, Current Challenges and Future Prospects

The International Atomic Energy Agency: Historical Reflections, Current Challenges and Future Prospects

1st Edition

Edited By Joseph F. Pilat
May 31, 2023

This volume offers a wide-ranging examination and discussion of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) past, present and future as it enters its seventh decade. Including contributions from leading experts across the globe, the book assesses the historical record of the IAEA; the issues ...

The Nuclear Terrorism Threat An Organisational Approach

The Nuclear Terrorism Threat: An Organisational Approach

1st Edition

By Brecht Volders
January 09, 2023

This book examines the threat of a terrorist organisation constructing and detonating a nuclear bomb. It explores the role and impact of the organisational design of a terrorist organisation in implementing a nuclear terrorism plot. In order to do so, the work builds on the organisational analogy ...

The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons How it was Achieved and Why it Matters

The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: How it was Achieved and Why it Matters

1st Edition

By Alexander Kmentt
January 09, 2023

This book chronicles the genesis of the negotiations that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which challenged the established nuclear order. The work provides readers with an authoritative account of the complex evolution of the ‘Humanitarian Initiative’ (HI) and the ...

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