Oil, diamonds, timber, food aid - just some of the suggestions put forward as explanations for African wars in the past decade. Another set of suggestions focu...
Violence during war often involves upswings and downturns that have, to date, been insufficiently explained. Why does violence at a particular point in time inc...
Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade?
Interpretations...
This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war.
After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to inte...
Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained.
It does so ...
This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as an-up-to...
This volume discusses the challenges the future holds for different aspects of the intelligence process and for organisations working in the field.
The main fo...
Reliable information on potential security threats is not just the result of diligent intelligence work but also a product of context and culture. The volume ex...