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  • Making the Military Moral

    Contemporary Challenges and Responses in Military Ethics Education

    Edited by Don Carrick, James Connelly, David Whetham ...
    Series series Military and Defence Ethics
    This book offers a critical analysis, both theoretical and practical, of ethics education in the military.In the twenty-first century, it has become increasingly important to ensure that the armed forces of Western and other democracies fight justly and behave ethically. The ‘good soldier’ has to be not only professionally skilled but morally intelligent. At a time of relentless media scrutiny, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century

    Edited by Michael L. Gross, Don Carrick ...
    Series series Military and Defence Ethics
    As asymmetric ’wars among the people’ replace state-on-state wars in modern armed conflict, the growing role of military medicine and medical technology in contemporary war fighting has brought an urgent need to critically reassess the theory and practice of military medical ethics. Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century is the first full length, broad-based treatment of this important ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Ethics Education for Irregular Warfare

    Edited by Don Carrick, James Connelly, Paul Robinson ...
    Series series Military and Defence Ethics
    Following on from Ethics Education in the Military (eds. Paul Robinson, Nigel de Lee and Don Carrick: Ashgate 2008) which surveyed and critically analyzed the existing theory and practice of educating soldiers, sailors and airmen in the ethics of 'old fashioned' warfaring, this volume considers the extent to which such theory and practice is adequate to prepare members of the military to meet the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Key Concepts in Military Ethics

    Edited by Deane-Peter Baker ...
    Can war be morally justified? What is the philosophy behind armed conflict? How do you conduct an ethical war? And what guides military action as the nature of conflict changes over time? Based on a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) designed for both military personnel and non-specialists across the globe, Military Ethics: An introduction is structured as a series of 'mini-chapters' that cover a ... Read more

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  • NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020

    Deterrence in the 21st Century—Insights from Theory and Practice

    Edited by Frans Osinga, Tim Sweijs ...
    Series series NL ARMS
    This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies.The use and utility of deterrence in today’s strategic environment is a topic of ... Read more

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  • Solving the People Puzzle

    Cultural Intelligence and Special Operations Forces

    by Dr. Emily Spencer ...
    The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability. This contemporary operating environment (COE) is characterized by complexity, ambiguity, volatility, and constant danger. It is a human invention that requires a human solution.Special operations forces (SOF), a group comprised of highly trained personnel with the ability to deploy ... Read more

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  • Criminology and War

    Transgressing the Borders

    Edited by Sandra Walklate, Ross McGarry ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    It is widely observed that the study of war has been paid limited attention within criminology. This is intellectually curious given that acts of war have occurred persistently throughout history and perpetuate criminal acts, victimisation and human rights violations on a scale unprecedented with domestic levels of crime. However, there are authoritative voices within criminology who have been ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Why Humans Fight

    The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence

    by Siniša Malešević ...
    Malešević offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting possible. He argues that fighting is not an individual attribute, but a social phenomenon shaped by one's relationships with other people. Drawing on recent ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Conduct of War in the 21st Century

    Kinetic, Connected and Synthetic

    Edited by Rob Johnson, Martijn Kitzen, Tim Sweijs ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
    This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated.Accelerating societal, economic, political and technological change affects how we prepare, equip and organise for war, as well as how we conduct war – both in its low-tech and high-tech forms, and whether it is with high intensity ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Special Operations Forces in the 21st Century

    Perspectives from the Social Sciences

    Edited by Jessica Glicken Turnley, Kobi Michael, Eyal Ben-Ari ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book sets out the major social scientific approaches to the study of Special Operations Forces.Despite consistent downsizing, over the past two decades the armed forces of the industrial democracies have seen a huge growth in Special Operations Forces (SOF). Through increasing numbers of personnel and more frequent deployments, SOF units have wielded considerable influence in conflicts around ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Madness in International Relations

    Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health

    by Alison Howell ...
    Series series Interventions
    Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects.Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Complex Peace Operations and Civil-Military Relations

    Winning the Peace

    by Robert Egnell ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book explores the impact of different civil-military structures on operational effectiveness in complex peace operations. Recent operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are examples of grand failures to enforce peace and to promote democracy and development through international interventions. A missing variable in analyses of these conflicts hitherto has been the nature of the civil ... Read more

    $42.99 USD