Bøger i Studies in Security and International Affairs serien

Addresses a range of issues surrounding the search for scientific truths in the study of international conflict and international political economy. Unlike empirical studies in other disciplines, says Seung-Whan Choi, many political studies seem more competent at presenting theoretical conjecture and hypotheses than they are at performing rigorous empirical analyses.

Investigates how states decide to employ cyber in military and intelligence operations against other states and how rational those decisions are. Aaron Franklin Brantly contextualizes cyber decision-making processes into a systematic expected utility-rational choice approach to provide a mathematical understanding of the use of cyber weapons.

Conflict Dynamics presents case studies of six nation-states: Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Peru. In the book, Alethia H. Cook and Marie Olson Lounsbery examine the evolving nature of violence in intrastate conflicts, as well as the governments and groups involved.

Vlad Kravtsov argues that recent debates about the nature of authority in Putin's Russia and Mbeki's South Africa have resulted in a set of unique ideas on the cardinal goals of the state. This is the first book to explore how these consensual ideas have shaped health governance and impinged on norm diffusion processes.

Vasquez writes that, while oil busts and civil wars are common, the tension over oil in the Amazon has played out differently, in a way inextricable from the region itself, and she argues that each case should be analyzed with attention to its specific sociopolitical and economic context.

Covering a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of the key established and rising state actors are considered.

Our focus on the relative handful of countries with nuclear weapons keeps us from asking the question: Why do so many more states not have such weapons? This book argues that in addition to understanding a state's security environment, we must appreciate the social forces that influence how states conceptualize the value of nuclear weapons.

Explores the emergence of international cooperation beyond the core global nonproliferation treaties. The contributors examine why these other cooperative nonproliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their effectiveness, and ask how well the different pieces of the global nonproliferation regime complex fit together.

Applies the insights of behavioural economics to the study of nuclear weapons policy. Contributors to this collection examine how a behavioral approach might inform our understanding of topics such as deterrence, economic sanctions, the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and US domestic debates about ballistic missile defense.

Makes a case for a reorientation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, posing an alternative conceptualization of nuclear order centred on the regional level. It draws on theoretical tools from the literatures on regionalism, security governance, and international institutions, developing a framework that analyses the conditions that would allow for more robust regional nuclear cooperation.

Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation. Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons.

A collection of essays that shows how borders affect the groups living along them and the nature of the land and people abutting on and divided by boundaries.

The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times - the specter of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons looms over relations among many countries. This volume examines challenges faced by the international community.

Using the Arab Spring uprising as a springboard, the essays analyze the challenges of uprisers and emerging governments in building a new state on the ruins of a liberated state; the negotiations that lead either to sustainable democracy or sectarian violence; and coalition building between former political and military adversaries.

Calls attention to the emergence of international cooperation beyond the core global nonproliferation treaties. The contributors examine why these other cooperative nonproliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their effectiveness, and ask how well the different pieces of the global nonproliferation regime complex fit together.

This timely collection of essays calls for a new scholarly and policy approach to Just War. One in which preventing the unjust use of force and limiting the harm inflicted on vulnerable populations such as civilian noncombatants are vital concerns.

A collection of essays that shows how borders affect the groups living along them and the nature of the land and people abutting on and divided by boundaries.

A collection of essays, which argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished American power, and undermined America's moral reputation as a defender of democratic values and human rights.

The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times. This volume examines challenges faced by the international community and proposes directions for national and international policy making and lawmaking.

In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women's participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women's relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.

Offers a book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. These essays show that attitudes on nonproliferation depend on a ""complex, contingent decision calculus"", as states gauge how their actions within the regime will affect trade, regional standing, and other interests.