Warfare & defence
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Warfare & defence
Hardcover. For more than a decade, international troops have been deployed to Afghanistan. Out of all NATO members, this mission was the most difficult for Germany that had thus far never engaged in combat and offensive military activities. This book analyses how Germany's experiences in Afghanistan have changed the country's strategic culture. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1FCA; JPS; JWK; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383785
- ISBN
- 9781137383785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. This book aims to provide for a path-breaking cross-regional comparison of the capabilities and readiness of Asia-Pacific countries to contribute to peace support missions, with an eye to identifying emerging trends and policy implications. Editor(s): Aoi, Chiyuki; Heng, Yee-Kuang. Series: Asia Today. Num Pages: 306 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JPA; JPSF; JPSN1; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366948
- ISBN
- 9781137366948
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender and heroism in war films are used to justify ideological positions, shape the understanding of the military conflicts, support political agendas and institutions, and influence collective memory. Editor(s): Kazecki, Jakub. Num Pages: 286 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFC; JFSJ; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364531
- ISBN
- 9781137364531
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Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. This original and detailed collection explores how regional actors deal with uncertainties that are inherent to the current geopolitical situation in East Asia. The contributors collectively demonstrate that strategic uncertainty has become a major factor in the shaping of the security order in East Asia. Editor(s): van der Putten, Frans-Paul. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1KBB; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364173
- ISBN
- 9781137364173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
Hardcover. In civil war the causal mechanism on recruitment of combatants is complicated because armed groups interact for context-based strategic. This book argues that a group will adopt varying mobilization strategies depending upon the difference in a group's influence between the stronghold and contested areas, using as examples two Cambodian civil wars. Series: Asia Today. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMC; JPWQ; JPWS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364081
- ISBN
- 9781137364081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Taking military charter schools as her subject, and drawing on years of research at one school in particular, Brooke Johnson explores the underpinings of a culture based on militarization and neoliberal educational reforms and probes its effects on individual identity and social interactions at the school. Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNL; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360922
- ISBN
- 9781137360922
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.71
€ 53.36
€ 46.71
Hardcover. This book analyzes the origins of conflicts and wars in the Persian Gulf, assesses the common factor(s) that have been their essential fuel, determines their fallout for the political, economic, and human development of the region, and provides insight into how they may be better contained. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JPS; JW; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358370
- ISBN
- 9781137358370
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Examining peacebuilding through the intersection of security, development and democracy, Castaneda explores how the European Union has employed civilian tools for supporting peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries by working at the same time with CSOs and government institutions. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JPSN2; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357304
- ISBN
- 9781137357304
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. This book argues that punishment's function is to communicate a message about an offenders' wrongdoing to society at large. It discusses both 'paradigmatic' cases of punishment, where a state punishes its own citizens, and non-paradigmatic cases such as the punishment of corporations and the punishment of war criminals by international tribunals. Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JKVP; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357113
- ISBN
- 9781137357113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Arguing that the suffering of combatants is better understood through philosophy than psychology, as not trauma, but exile, this book investigates the experiences of torturers, UAV operators, cyberwarriors, and veterans to reveal not only the exile at the core of becoming a combatant, but the evasion from exile at the core of being a noncombatant. Editor(s): Gertz, Nolen; Brooks, Dr. Thom. Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351210
- ISBN
- 9781137351210
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive. It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the responses in independent Ireland to the continuation of this British military connection. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBW; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350855
- ISBN
- 9781137350855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. This book argues that a major reason for America's propensity to 'lose the peace' is the way the nation defines war and how the US military is currently organized for warfare. The author offers new propositions and operational approaches to war-planning that give new hope and practical solutions to overcoming the paradox of American Way of War. Num Pages: 338 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JPSD; JPWL; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 172 x 20. Weight in Grams: 564.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344427
- ISBN
- 9781137344427
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. This anthology provides readers a portal to new and interesting research on one of the most important and disturbing aspects of repression by modern states: the use of torture. Editor(s): Lightcap, Tracy; Pfiffner, James P. Num Pages: 218 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPV; JWXR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137337085
- ISBN
- 9781137337085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that underpin COIN, providing a critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking. Editor(s): Ward Gventer, Celeste; Jones, David Martin; Smith, M. L. R.; Rainsborough, Michael. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 392 pages, 3 figures, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPS; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336934
- ISBN
- 9781137336934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.22
€ 151.22
Hardcover. Sebastian explores the experience of statebuilding and constitution making after violent conflict, using the failed reform of Dayton in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a case study to reflect upon the fundamental questions of post-war statebuilding, reform and the role of local and external actors. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; JPA; JPS; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336873
- ISBN
- 9781137336873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Offering a new interpretation of early Cold War history, this book demonstrates how Christian agency played a pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war, showing a balanced examination of Christians as enablers but, more provocatively, as resisters of nuclear prohibitions. Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBLW3; HBTW; HBWS; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334237
- ISBN
- 9781137334237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. By applying the nodality, authority, treasure and organisation public policy framework and neo-institutional theory to the dictatorship of Salazar and Franco respectively, this study explores the instruments that governments used to control the military and explains the divergent paths of civil-military relations in 20th Century Portugal and Spain. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 3JJ; JPHX; JPQB; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325372
- ISBN
- 9781137325372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Holmqvist presents an original account of the relationship between war and policing in the twenty first century. This interdisciplinary study of contemporary Western strategic thinking reveals how, why, and with what consequences, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq became seen as policing wars. Series: Rethinking Political Violence. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JKSW1; JPWS; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323606
- ISBN
- 9781137323606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. This book is a critical study of the concept of sovereignty and its relationship to responsibility. It establishes a clear distinction between empirical and normative definitions of sovereignty and examines the implications of these concepts in relation to intervention, international law, and the world state. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPSD; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306807
- ISBN
- 9781137306807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Laurence Pope describes the contemporary dysfunction of the State Department and its Foreign Service. He contends that in the information age diplomacy is more important than ever, and that, as President Obama has stressed, without a "change of thinking" the U.S. may be drawn into more wars it does not need to fight. Num Pages: 89 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHC; JPSD; JPSF; JPWS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298546
- ISBN
- 9781137298546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.89
€ 56.89