Product Description: What do refugee and concentration camps, prisons, terrorist and guerrilla training camps and prisoner of war camps have in common? Arguably they have all followed an 'outsides inside' model, enforcing a dichotomy between perceived 'desirable' and 'undesirable' characteristics...read more

Product Description: Europe has undergone quite profound changes since the end of the Cold War. Having been a highly militarised, conflict-ridden and war-ridden region, the core of Europe today constitutes a security community where armed conflicts among the constituent states has become inconceivable...read more

Product Description: Oil and water are at the heart of the geopolitics of the Gulf. This study covers regional and international security in the post-Cold war era with a powerful theoretical basis.

Product Description: This text examines arms control and defence restructuring in East Asia. It explores Western misconceptions of Asia and provides a survey of security and defence political trends in "Asia". Asia has been the subject of heated debates in the west, and among the disputed issues are: whether the west is heading for a confrontation with "the rest", ie an alliance between the confucian and Islamic civilizations - a clash of civilizations; does the lack of international organizations in Asia imply that the region is a "raw" international anarchy, or are there "functional substitutes" at work; are Asian notions fundamentally bellicose, or at least more inclined to use force than the west; should the west be concerned with the apparent arms build-up in parts of Asia; and if so, is the appropriate western response a compensatory build-up of arms, accompanied by the adoption of "counter-proliferation" strategies? The author disputes these myths and offers an individual examination of the countries that make up East Asia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work suggests potential defence policies for Southern Africa, the majority of which were written for a conference on defensive restructuring in March 1996. It begins with an examination of non-offensive defence, and continues to examine demilitarization and post-modern military strategy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work contains the contributions to the workshop on conversion, held under the auspices of the second conference of the European Peace Research Association (EUPRA) on "Improving European Security: Threats and Responsibilities", held in Budapest, 11-14 November 1993...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Supporters of non-offensive defense (NOD) advocate restructuring armed forces to eliminate their offensivemutually threateningfeatures and to preserve or increase their more beneficial defensive capabilities. In this volume, some of the founders and leading proponents of NOD show how alternative defense regimes could be applied in conflict areas around the world with safer, more positive results for all concerned...read more

Product Description: For the first time since the beginning of the Cold War more than 40 years ago, the political determinants of military security in Europe are changing much more quickly than the technological ones. Non-offensive defence is now a more acceptable strategy than it was before, and this book points towards realistic solutions to the problems of excessive dependence on nuclear weapons and/or self-defeating offensive force structures...read more