Product Description: Securitizing Islam examines the impact of 9/11 on the lives and perceptions of individuals, focusing on the ways in which identities in Britain have been affected in relation to Islam. 'Securitization' describes the processes by which a particular group or issue comes to be seen as a threat, and thus subject to the perceptions and actions which go with national security...read more

Product Description: This book argues that we can understand and explain the EU as a security and peace actor through a framework of an updated and deepened concept of security governance. It elaborates and develops on the current literature on security governance in order to provide a more theoretically driven analysis of the EU in security...read more

Product Description: This book seeks to understand the role of regions in the provision of security (and insecurity) practices across the globe. Specialists with expertise in the regions they examine present eight case studies and analyses of the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Europe...read more

Product Description: This book shows how France and Britain are leaders in EU security and defence policy, and explains why both states need each other in this policy area. The lack of relevant military capacity in Europe today implies that the US favours a strong EU in this field.

Product Description: Northern Ireland's Belfast Agreement has faced continual crises of implementation over a variety of security related issues. Too frequently analyses have neglected to study the wider changes that have occurred inside and outside Northern Ireland...read more

Product Description: Since the infamous events of 9/11, the fear of terrorism and the determination to strike back against it has become a topic of enormous public debate. The 'war on terror' discourse has developed not only through American politics but via other channels including the media, the church, music, novels, films and television, and therefore permeates many aspects of American life...read more

Product Description: A changing world requires a re-evaluation of British defense policy. Examines Britain's global and European defense roles. Explores British nuclear weapons policy, politics of defense and arms procurement. Takes issue with traditional "declinists" assumptions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The contributors reflect critically on security studies since the 1980s. They conclude that analysts and policy-makers have not been able to respond well to the changes that have occurred and that they must revise their approach if they are to meet the challenges of the future. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines the debates surrounding the expansion of the five main European institutions since the end of the Cold War. These institutions, all founded during the Cold War--the European Union, NATO, the Western European Union, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe--have had to adjust to the dramatic changes that have accompanied the collapse of Communism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bringing the subject of arms control into the arena of complex, multi-polar international relations, this text traces the history of agreements over weapons back to ancient times. The author puts forward a typology of arms control: it occurs at the end of major conflicts, stabilizes balances between states, develops norms of behaviour, manages weapons proliferation, and acts as a tool of international organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work examines thinking within the British Foreign Office regarding the United Kingdom's position in the world in relation to the other major powers during the 1945-51 period. It suggests that the FO thought, at first, that it would be possible to create a four-power global concert...read more

Product Description: This work examines British Foreign Office thinking regarding the UK's postion in the world in relation to other major powers during the 1945-51 period. It sets out three phases - the idea of a four-power concert; the idea of a third force; and the attempt to create a western balance...read more

Product Description: The dramatic events that occurred in Europe since 1989 have altered the course of European security. The revolutions in eastern Europe, the disapearance of the Warsaw Pact, the collapse of the Soviet Union, German unification and civil war in Yugoslavia have presented NATO and the West European Union with new challenges...read more

Product Description: An examination of British foreign and defence policy during the 1980s, exploring the Anglo-American security relationship and analyzing challenges to the nuclear orthodoxy. Central government policies towards Northern Ireland and the various perceptions of the threat of the Soviet Union are discussed...read more