Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine came from nowhere…? Felshtinsky and Stanchev’s gripping history of Putin’s attempts to Ukraine reveals his earliest attack came as early as 1999. A bestseller published after Russia annexed the Crimea in 2014, it predicted that the Russian invasion was a matter the Russian army’s 6-year planning cycle and ......
The message from the free world to Russian President Putin has always been clear: Leave Ukraine alone... get out! What Russia thought would be a three-day hit-and-run mission to oust the Ukraine government of Volodymyr Zelensky was an abject failure.
Scholars and policy-makers alike increasingly see the Asia-Pacific region as the center of twenty-first-century international affairs. Merging a strong theoretical component with scholarship, this book examines the region's key players and security challenges, as well as a spectrum of proposed solutions for improving regional stability.
The Third Edition of Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis showcases sixty-six structured analytic techniques-nine new to this edition-that represent the most current best practices in intelligence, law enforcement, homeland security, and business analysis.
Updated to reflect changes in both research and methods, this Third Edition of Remler and Van Ryzin's innovative, standard-setting text is imbued with a deep commitment to making social and policy research methods accessible and meaningful.
Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics. The ......
Security Studies: An Applied Introduction offers a transformative tool to understand, analyse, and engage with the complexities of security in the modern world. This groundbreaking new text redefines the landscape of security studies with the following features: Policy-Relevant: each chapter provides analysis of policy responses to empirical security issues. This practical approach offers a toolkit to assess and contribute to real-world policy discussions. Empirical Application: vividly demonstrating the real-world relevance of Security Studies with online videos from leading security practitioners to show how theory informs practice. Pedagogically Rich: comprehensive online resources and chapters features such as 'security beyond the real' and hands-on exercises that critically assess real-world security responses and their policy implications that offer ways to apply theoretical concepts in a highly innovative way. Innovative Structure: seamlessly integrating theoretical perspectives with empirical security concerns, this textbook offers a non-compartmentalised approach to theory and practice. Hot Topics: placing contemporary, creative, emerging, and underexplored approaches and empirical topics at the forefront including cyber security, racism, and space security. This is the perfect introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Security Studies and International or Global Security. Malte Riemann is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Armed Conflict, Leiden University, the Netherlands Norma Rossi is Associate Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK
