Bücher der Reihe Studies in International Security

The selected period of Polish literature is undoubtedly focal in the development of modern nationalism in Poland, as it contains the years of struggle for survival under foreign rule.

The book focuses on peacekeeping as a device for maintaining international stability, and for remedying situations in which states are in conflict with each other.

'...Lawrence Freedman has provided a masterly account of the evolution of nuclear strategic thought which is steeped in scholarship, elegantly written, and comprehensive in scope.' Edward M.Spiers, Times Higher Education Supplement

These essays illuminate different aspects of military power and European security. It deals with the practicalities of planning and command within an alliance structure or the problems connected and with distinguishing between offensive and defensive operations for purposes of arms control.