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This book examines the threat of a terrorist organisation constructing and detonating a nuclear bomb.

This volume examines the role of Russia in the world under President Putin¿s rule.

This volume offers a wide-ranging examination and discussion of the International Atomic Energy Agency¿s (IAEA) past, present and future as it enters its seventh decade.

Examines the debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the international non-proliferation regime and how to implement its disarmament provisions.

This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa.

Offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order.

Analyses four major long-standing and intractable conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region - the Korean Peninsula; the Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and, India-Pakistan. This book is of interest to students of international conflict management, Asian politics, security studies and IR in general.

Examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.

Examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach and how this affects grand strategy.

Iran's nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the forefront of international security concerns since 2000. This book argues that Iran's hostility with the United States remains the major causal factor for its proliferation activities.

Adopting an analytical approach that seeks to incorporate theories of risk, global governance and security, this book intends to explore the overlapping multi-level and multi-lateral dynamics of the global security architecture which have remained neglected and unmapped thus far in the war on terror.

Looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.

Considers the extent and nature of the global revival in the use of nuclear energy in the coming decades and its likely impact on global nuclear governance.

Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines 'the problem of order' arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction. It also explores how various solutions were fashioned in the face of many predicaments, and why these solutions were deemed as effective or ineffective.

Marked changes in the balance of power between states in the international system are generally seen by IR scholars as the common causes of war. This book explains why such power shifts lead to war breaking out in some cases, but not in others.