Bücher der Reihe Contemporary Security Studies

Presents a chronological account of terrorist attacks inside Turkey and against Turkish targets outside the country, places them in the global setting. This book is useful to the students and scholars of international relations, terrorism and security studies.

Investigates how the advent of precision-guided munitions affects the likelihood of US policy makers to use force in the post-Cold War world.

This book explores the implications of drone warfare for the legitimacy of global order.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, nature, and function of Serbian paramilitary units during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia.The book investigates the nature and functions of paramilitary units throughout the 1990s, and their ties to the state and President Slobodan Milöevi¿. The work relies on the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, which conducted dozens of trials relating to paramilitary violence, and records from judicial proceedings in the region. It discusses how and why certain important paramilitary units emerged, how they functioned and transformed through the decade, what their relationships and entanglements were with the state, the Milöevi¿ regime, and organized crime. The study thus investigates the interrelated ideological, political, and social factors and processes, fueling paramilitary engagement, and assesses the impact of this engagement on victims of paramilitary violence and on the state and society for which the units purportedly fought. It argues that coordinated action by a number of state institutions gave rise to paramilitaries tasked with altering borders while maintaining plausible deniability for the sponsoring regime. The outsourcing of violence by the state to paramilitaries led to a significant weakening of the very state these units and their sponsors swore to protect. The book also analyzes differences between the units and how they attacked civilians, arguing that the different forms of violence stemmed not only from the function they fulfilled for the state but also the ways in which they were set up and operated. The final chapter brings the different strands of the argument together into a coherent whole, suggesting avenues for further research, in the former Yugoslavia and beyond.This book will be of much interest to students of ethnic conflict and civil war, war crimes, Balkan politics, and International Relations in general.

This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war.

Containing essays by some of the leading scholars in the field, this volume looks at the scientific study of the causes of international conflict.

This new edited volume examines contemporary European security from three different standpoints. It explores security dynamics, first, within Europe; second, the interaction patterns between Europe and other parts of the world (the United States, Africa, the Middle East, China and India); and, finally, the external perceptions of European security.

This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa.

This book explores 'lessons learned' from the military intervention in Libya by exploring key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign.