Warfare & defence (487)

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This book assesses the key factors underlying such Australian-Japanese cooperation and those policy challenges that could impede it. Experts offer critical insights into why their two countries – traditionally the two key 'spokes' in the US bilateral...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:This book explores the origins, interpretations and meanings of the term 'biosecurity'. It brings together contributors on issues relating to the perceptions of the threat of biological weapons and how states are responding, or not, to the challenges...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits examines the post 9/11 security implications for life science research as well as the methodological issues associated with conducting social research. In doing so the book considers the place of biol...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair's illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraqinvasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of their histo...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Shaping the debate on how to save the military from itself. The first part recognizes what the military has done well in attracting and developing leadership talent. The book then examines the causes and consequences of the modern military's stifling...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book explores how military memoirs come to be written and published. Looking at the journeys through which soldiers and other military personnel become writers, the authors draw on over 250 military memoirs published since 1980 about service wit...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:Britain, Australia and the Bomb tells the story of the unique partnership between the two countries to develop nuclear weapons in the 1940s and 1950s. This new edition includes fresh evidence about the weapons under development, the effects of the te...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Deploying extensive archival and rare evidence from surviving African veterans, it investigates African re...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Whose interests does British foreign policy serve? Is the national interest a useful explanatory tool for foreign policy analysts? This interdisciplinary collection responds to these questions exploring ideas of Britain's national interest and their ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Sánchez-Cacicedo provides a critique of liberal peacebuilding approaches and of international interventions in statebuilding processes, questioning how 'global' these initiatives are, using case studies from the Asian region including Sri Lanka and M...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:In der vorliegenden Analyse wird der Ist-Zustand der Bundeswehr unter der Fragestellung untersucht, ob die drei von der Verteidigungsministerin identifizierten „Leerstellen“ bei Personal, Material und Finanzen im Hinblick auf die aktuellen Bedrohu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Die bundesdeutsche Außen-, Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik ist angesichts historischer Erfahrungen durch eine Kultur der militärischen Zurückhaltung geprägt. Zugleich setzt sie auf Integration, Westbindung und einen Multilateralismus. Haben sic...