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Nato Expansion And Us Strategy In Asia
By Hall Gardner. 2013
Surmounting the Global Crisis critiques the impact of NATO enlargement and the US 'pivot to Asia' on both the Russia…
and China and examines how these dual US-backed policies may influence key countries in the Euro-Atlantic, wider Middle East, and Indo-Pacific regions in general.The Surveillance Imperative
By Simone Turchetti, Peder Roberts. 2014
Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected…
by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901: The Sea and Global History
By Miles Taylor. 2013
A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at…
peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.Cold War Christians and the Spectre of Nuclear Deterrence, 1945–1959
By Jonathan Gorry. 2013
This book offers a new and provocative interpretation of early Cold War history by demonstrating how Christian agency played a…
pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war fighting in the years 1945-59. Cold War chroniclers have traditionally placed great emphasis on threats of mutually assured destruction to explain the puzzle of nuclear non-use since 1945. Here nuclear deterrence is conceived as a realm of absolute necessity with no room for morality. More recently the idea of 'nuclear taboo' has generated immense interest by challenging conventional wisdom with a compelling argument regarding the conceptual (normative rather than material) bases of nuclear restraint. These accounts narrate the emergence of a distinctive ethical order with a particular premium placed on the role of (Anglo-American) Christian activists in giving rise to anti-nuclear sentiment at a formative stage 1945-59. Yet such a reading elides or obfuscates the fact that Christians were deeply divided in their imaginings. Gorry invites a reassessment of assumptions by offering a balanced examination of Christians as enablers but, more provocatively, as resisters of nuclear prohibitions in the early years of Cold War.The British Soldier in the Peninsular War
By Gavin Daly. 2013
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It…
is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.Policing Wars
By Caroline Holmqvist. 2014
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.Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System
By Katherine B. Aaslestad, Johan Joor. 2015
Napoleonic warfare spread to the high seas, harbors and marketplaces across Europe and the Atlantic through the Continental System. This…
volume addresses the illicit commerce, new merchant networks, 'daily life', and tensions with neutral states generated by Anglo-French economic warfare. It also reveals the contradictions inherent in the Napoleonic Empire - at once rational and progressive, but also coercive and exploitative. Regional and urban case studies offer a more complete understanding of the significance of economic warfare during the Napoleonic era, and explore the experiences and consequences of the conflict through several key themes: a re-evaluation of the historiography of the Continental System, the uneven power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers, and the strategies of merchants and smugglers to adapt to or circumvent the system. Transnational case studies underscore the vulnerability and ingenuity of Europeans as they faced transformative social and economic challenges.Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia
By Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, Philip Lorenz, Paul W. Chambers. 2013
The Sword and the Shield
By Kristan Stoddart. 2014
Kristan Stoddart reveals for the first time discussions that took place between the British, French and US governments for nuclear…
cooperation in the early to mid 1970s. In doing so it sets the scene for the upgrade to Britain's Polaris force codenamed Chevaline and how this could have brought down Harold Wilson's Labour government of 1974-1976.Experiences of War and Nationality in Denmark and Norway, 1807–1815
By Rasmus Glenthøj, Morten Nordhagen Ottosen. 2014
Chechnya’s Secret Wartime Diplomacy
By Nicholas Daniloff, Ilyas Akhmadov. 2013
This volume makes available transcripts and commentary from the secret correspondence between former Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmatov and Chechen…
President Aslan Maskhadov. This correspondence provides revelatory insights into both men's attempts to secure Western support for a peaceful transition to an independent Chechnya.Forces for Good?
By Claire Duncanson. 2013
This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore how British soldiers make…
sense of their role on these complex, multi-dimensional operations. It aims to intervene in the debates within critical feminist scholarship over whether soldiers can ever be agents of peace.Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
By Catriona Kennedy. 2013
The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland,…
drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly.Churchill, Borden and Anglo-Canadian Naval Relations, 1911–14
By Martin Thornton. 2013
In 1911, Winston S. Churchill and Robert L. Borden became companions in an attempt to provide naval security for the…
British Empire as a naval crisis loomed with Germany. Their scheme for Canada to provide battleships for the Royal Navy as part of an Imperial squadron was rejected by the Senate with great implications for the future.The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat
By James R. Mcdonough, John R. Galvin. 1988
The Great War And Veterans’ Internationalism
By John Paul Newman, Julia Eichenberg. 2013
After the Great War, Veterans were a new transnational mass phenomenon. This volume uses case studies to discuss the extent…
and impact of international veterans' organisations and draws out important comparative points between well-researched and documented movements and those that are less well-known.Vice in the Barracks
By Erica Wald. 2014
This book examines the colonial state's approach to venereal disease and 'vice'-driven health risks in the first half of the…
nineteenth century. Further, it shows that these decisions had wide-ranging and often surprising consequences not simply for the army itself, but for India and the empire more broadly. Shortlisted for the 2014 Templer Award.European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory
By Tom Dyson, Theodore Konstadinides. 2013
This book offers a novel contribution to the study of post-Cold War European defence. Interdisciplinary in approach, it uses European…
law to assess the utility of existing theoretical accounts. By exploring the balance of threat theory, it provides new insights into the forces driving and hindering European defence cooperation.Foreign Security Policy, Gender, and US Military Identity
By Elgin Medea Brunner. 2013
The concept of 'othering' which can be understood as the process of differentiation from the Self has been a basic…
tenet of the war story since war stories were first told. This practise of deliberate differentiation is indicative of the fact that war stories are essentially about the production of identity. The aim of this book, therefore, is to unravel some of the gendered ideologies that underpin the link between state identity and foreign security policy by looking at a certain case, state and foreign security policy. In particular this volume explores the identity of the United States through military documents on perception management in conflict from 1991-2007 shedding light on the 'othering' and the 'selfing' that occurs in these particular war stories. In doing so it lays bare the gendered ideologies that underpins US identity between these years as well as exploring potential spaces for alternatives. Thus, this book ventures a detailed and unique look at a particular aspect of the gendered reproduction of the state.Making ‘Postmodern’ Mothers
By Meredith Nash. 2012
Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates…
to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood.