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Acquisitions List November 2013 New Books and Journal Articles

Liste d’acquisitions Novembre 2013 Nouveaux livres et articles de revues

 

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    How to borrow items from the list below : As a member of the NATO HQ staff you can borrow books (Type: M) for one month, journals (Type: ART) and reference works (Type: REF) for one week. Individuals not belonging to NATO staff can borrow books through their local library via the interlibrary loan system. How to obtain the Multimedia Library publications : All Library publications are available both on the NATO Intranet and Internet websites. Comment emprunter les documents cités ci-dessous : En tant que membre du personnel de l'OTAN vous pouvez emprunter les livres (Type: M) pour un mois, les revues (Type: ART) et les ouvrages de référence (Type: REF) pour une semaine. Les personnes n'appartenant pas au personnel de l'OTAN peuvent s'adresser à leur bibliothèque locale et emprunter les livres via le système de prêt interbibliothèques. Comment obtenir les publications de la Bibliothèque multimédia : Toutes les publications de la Bibliothèque sont disponibles sur les sites Intranet et Internet de l’OTAN.

 

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Index

AFGHAN WAR, 2001-, 6, 27 ALLIANCES, 27 ALMANACS, ENGLISH, 6 ARAB SPRING, 2010-, 7 ARCTIC REGIONS--GOVERNMENT POLICY--RUSSIA (FEDERATION), 28 ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT--USA, 8 AUTHORITARIANISM--SYRIA, 8 AUTONOMY AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS, 9 BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSES--NATO, 28 BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSES--USA, 28 BALLISTIC MISSILES, 28 BALTIC STATES--NATIONAL SECURITY, 9 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, 29 BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA--ARMED FORCES, 10 CANADA--ARMED FORCES--AFGHANISTAN, 29 CHEMICAL WEAPONS--SYRIA, 29 CHINA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--KOREA (NORTH), 29 CIVIL WAR, 29 COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS, 10 COMPUTER CRIMES, 30 COMPUTER SECURITY, 30 CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION, 10 COUNTERINSURGENCY, 11 COUNTERINSURGENCY--EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, 11 COUNTERINSURGENCY--USA, 30 DEMOCRACY--IRAN, 11 DEMOCRATIZATION--GEORGIA (REPUBLIC), 31 DEMOCRATIZATION--TURKEY, 12 DEMOCRATIZATION--USA, 31 DRONE AIRCRAFT, 31 DRONE AIRCRAFT--LAW AND LEGISLATION, 32 ECONOMIC SANCTIONS--IRAN, 33 EGYPT--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, 33 ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE--RUSSIA (FEDERATION), 33 EMBARGO--EU, 33 ENERGY POLICY--GERMANY, 34 EU--AFRICA, 12 EU--BLACK SEA REGION, 13 EU--CSDP, 13, 34 EU--DECISION MAKING, 34 EU--ENP, 34 EU--FOREIGN RELATIONS, 14, 34 EU--NATIONAL SECURITY, 35

 

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EU--STRATEGIC ASPECTS, 35 EU--USA, 36 GENDER MAINSTREAMING--NATO, 36 GEOPOLITICS--ASIA, 36 GREAT BRITAIN--FOREIGN RELATIONS, 37 GREAT BRITAIN--MILITARY POLICY, 37 GREAT BRITAIN--MILITARY RELATIONS--UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, 38 GREECE--FOREIGN RELATIONS--BLACK SEA REGION, 38 HAMAS, 38 HUMAN SECURITY, 14 HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, 15 INDIA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--PAKISTAN, 39 INFORMATION WARFARE, 39 INFORMATION WARFARE--USA, 15, 39 INSURGENCY, 40 INTELLIGENCE SERVICE--USA, 16 INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES--PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES, 16 INTERNET, 40 INTERVENTION (INTERNATIONAL LAW)--AFRICA, 40 ISLAMIST FUNDAMENTALISM-NIGERIA, 40 JAPAN--FOREIGN RELATIONS, 41 JUST WAR DOCTRINE, 16 KOREA (NORTH)--FOREIGN RELATIONS, 41 KOSOVO WAR, 1998-1999, 41 KURDS--GOVERNMENT POLICY--TURKEY, 41 MALI--HISTORY--COUP D'ETAT, 2012, 42 MALWARE (COMPUTER SOFTWARE), 43 MASS MEDIA--POLITICAL ASPECTS, 17 MILITARY ROBOTS, 43 MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, 43 NATIONALISM--ALBANIA, 44 NATIONALISM--GEORGIA (REPUBLIC), 44 NATURAL RESOURCES--POLITICAL ASPECTS, 17 NEW START, 45 NON-STATE ACTORS (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS), 18 NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT--USA, 45 NUCLEAR DETERRENCE--USA, 18 NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION, 18 NUCLEAR WEAPONS, 19 NUCLEAR WEAPONS--GOVERNMENT POLICY--IRAN, 45 NUCLEAR WEAPONS--GOVERNMENT POLICY--USA, 20, 46 ORGANIZED CRIME--PREVENTION--INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, 47 PAKISTAN--FOREIGN RELATIONS--AFGHANISTAN, 47 PEACEKEEPING FORCES, SLOVAKIAN, 47 PERSIAN GULF REGION--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, 20 PIRACY, 48 POLITICAL PARTIES--KYRGYZSTAN, 48 PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES, 48 PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES--AFRICA, 49 RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT (INTERNATIONAL LAW), 49 RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS--GREECE, 50 RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--ECONOMIC POLICY, 50 RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS, 21, 50 RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, 51

 

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RWANDA--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR, 1994--ATROCITIES, 21 SALAFIYAH--AZERBAIJAN, 51 SANCTIONS (INTERNATIONAL LAW), 51 SCANDINAVIA--MILITARY RELATIONS, 52 SCANDINAVIA--NATIONAL SECURITY, 21 SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL, 22 SHABAAB (ORGANIZATION), 22 SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANISATION, 52 SOMALIA--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, 23 SOUTH CHINA SEA, 52 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION, 23 STRATEGY--HISTORY, 23 SUICIDE BOMBINGS--AFGHANISTAN, 53 SYRIA--HISTORY--PROTESTS, 2011-, 53 TARGETED KILLING--USA, 24 TERRORISM, 53 TERRORISM--RELIGIOUS ASPECTS--ISLAM--ALGERIA, 54 TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE (1990), 54 TURKEY--ARMED FORCES--REORGANIZATION, 55 TURKEY--FOREIGN RELATIONS, 55 TURKEY--FOREIGN RELATIONS--FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS, 55 UKRAINE--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, 55 UNITED NATIONS--PEACEKEEPING FORCES, 25, 56 URBAN WARFARE, 56 USA--ARMED FORCES--DEFENSE SPENDING, 56 USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS, 25, 56 USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--ASIA, 57 USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--CHINA, 57 WAR, 58 WAR (INTERNATIONAL LAW), 26 WAR ON TERRORISM, 2001-2009, 58 WMD NONPROLIFERATION--EU, 58

 

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New Books Nouveaux livres

AFGHAN WAR, 2001- Narrating the Exit from Afghanistan. - Tempe, AZ : Center for Strategic Communication, 2013. i, 157 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. ID number: 80025144 Type: M Call Number: 355.4 /01838 ISBN: 9780615775876 Includes index. Military Adaptation in Afghanistan. - Stanford, CA : Stanford Security Studies, 2013. xv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025122 Type: M Call Number: 355.4 /01851 ISBN: 9780804785884 Includes index. 'All participating militaries in the Afghan campaign have had to adapt to emerging operational imperatives, including military support to the civilian development effort, closer partnering with Afghan security forces, and greater military restraints. This book analyzes these initiatives and their outcomes by focusing on the experiences of three groups of militaries - those that have faced the most intense operational and strategic pressures, those that have operated under the greatest political and cultural constraints, and the Afghan National Army and the Taliban, who have been forced to adapt to very different sets of circumstances.' ALMANACS, ENGLISH Whitaker's Almanack : 2014. - 146th ed. - London : Bloomsbury, 2013. 1183 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ID number: 80025145 Type: REF Call Number: 321 /00021 REF ISBN: 9781408193334 Includes index.

 

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ARAB SPRING, 2010- Revolution, Revolt, and Reform in North Africa : The Arab Spring and Beyond. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. x, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government ; 1) ID number: 80025126 Type: M Call Number: 323 /01353 ISBN: 9780415839464 Includes index. 'Providing an account of the recent revolutions or reform movements that constituted part of the Arab Spring, this book focuses on these transformative processes in a North African context. Whilst the longer term outcomes of the Arab Spring revolts are not entirely clear, the revolutionary or reform processes in North Africa are further along than the events taking place in Levant or the Arabian Peninsula, elections having now been held in the post-revolutionary/post-revolt states. Understanding and examining North African events has become critical as the countries in question are part of Mare Nostrum; events in North Africa inevitably have effects in Europe. Using examples from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Algeria, this book provides an insider scholar's account of these recent revolutions or reform movements.' The New Middle East : The World after the Arab Spring / by Paul Danahar. - New York : Bloomsbury, 2013. 467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. ID number: 80025112 Type: M Call Number: 323 /01352 ISBN: 9781620402535 Author(s): 1. Danahar, Paul Includes index. 'For the past forty years the images flashing across our television screens from the Middle East have provoked anger, outrage and, sometimes, military action from the international community. But the stories behind them were rarely understood. In 2011 the revolutions of the Arab Spring changed everything. Now, the handful of dictators who ruled brutally over hundreds of millions of people - Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad - have gone, or are fighting for their lives. They have left behind countries in turmoil, the people forced to re-examine their identities and regional loyalties, and to decide what role Islam will play in their lives and their politics. The collapse of the old order has left the West scrambling to make sense of a region it hardly recognises. If the people of the Arab world can now speak openly for the first time, then it is also the West's first chance to listen. And there are many questions to be answered. Drawing on compelling first-hand reporting from Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Israel, Syria and Tunisia, and deep knowledge of the region's history and access to many of its key players, the author lays bare the forces that are shaping the new Middle East.'

 

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ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT--USA Cooperative Arms Control and Nonproliferation : Treaties, Agreements and Control Regimes. - New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2013. ix, 161 pages ; 23 cm. (Non-Proliferation, Disarmament and Arms Control) ID number: 80025121 Type: M Call Number: 327.3 /00717 ISBN: 9781626186354 'Arms control and non-proliferation efforts are two of the tools that have occasionally been used to implement U.S. national security strategy. Although some believe these tools do little to restrain the behaviour of U.S. adversaries, while doing too much to restrain U.S. military forces and operations, many other analysts see them as an effective means to promote transparency, case military planning, limit forces, and protect against uncertainty and surprise. Arms control and non-proliferation efforts have produced formal treaties and agreements, informal arrangements, and co-operative threat reduction and monitoring mechanisms. The pace of implementation for many of these agreements slowed during the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration usually preferred unilateral or ad-hoc measures to formal treaties and agreements to address U.S. security concerns. But the Obama Administration resumed bilateral negotiations with Russia and pledged its support for a number of multilateral arms control and non-proliferation efforts. This book provides an overview of the treaties, agreements and control regimes currently in place and relating to co-operative arms control and non-proliferation.' AUTHORITARIANISM--SYRIA Middle East Authoritarianisms : Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran. - Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2013. xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm. (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) ID number: 80025118 Type: M Call Number: 321 /00890 ISBN: 9780804783019 Bibliography: p. 263-285. Includes index. 'Events of 2011 and 2012 have left the political landscape of the Middle East changed but recognizable. Even as urgent struggles continue, it seems that authoritarianism will survive in certain places. The study of authoritarian governance, therefore, remains essential for our understanding of the political dynamics and inner workings of regimes across the region. The contributors to this volume consider the Syrian and Iranian regions - what they share in common and what distinguishes them. Too frequently, authoritarianism has been assumed to be a generic descriptor of the region, and differences among regimes have been overlooked. But as the political trajectories of Middle Eastern states diverge in years ahead, understanding variations on modes of authoritarian governance and the attributes that promote regime resilience becomes an increasingly urgent priority.'

 

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AUTONOMY AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict : Debate-Framing and Rhetoric in Independence Campaigns / by Beata Huszka. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. xi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. (Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity) ID number: 80025154 Type: M Call Number: 323 /01355 ISBN: 9780415519243 Author(s): 1. Huszka, Beata Bibliography: p. 195-219. Includes index. 'This book analyses how national independence movements' rhetoric can inflame or dampen ethnic violence. It examines the extent to which the power of words matters when a region tries to break away to become a nation state. Using discourse analysis, this book examines how the process of secession affects internal ethnic relations and analyses how politicians interpret events and present arguments with the intention to mobilize their constituencies for independence. With in-depth case studies on the Slovenian, the Croatian and the Montenegrin independence movements, and by looking at cases from Indonesia and Spain, the author investigates how rhetoric affects internal ethnic relations during secession and how events and debate shape each other. The author demonstrates how in some cases of self-determination elites push for a higher level of sovereignty in the name of economic advancement, whereas in other cases, self-determination movements refer to ethnic identity and human rights issues.' BALTIC STATES--NATIONAL SECURITY The Security Concerns of the Baltic States as NATO Allies / by James S. Corum. - Carlisle, PA : US Army War College, 2013. xi, 50 pages ; 23 cm. (Letort Papers) ID number: 80025133 Type: M Call Number: 355.4 /01852 ISBN: 1584875895 Author(s): 1. Corum, James S. 'If the United States is likely to fight in a coalition with small allies in the future, then it is useful to understand the experience, capabilities, and perspectives of those allies. Since regaining independence in 1991, the countries of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania have been very active in supporting NATO and U.S. military operations abroad. It is notable that the three Baltic countries have also used the deployment of a significant part of their forces in the last decade as a major part of their program to carry out a major force transformation.'

 

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BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA--ARMED FORCES Destination NATO : Defence Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003-13 / by Rohan Maxwell, John Andreas Olsen. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2013. x, 106 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. (Whitehall Paper Series ; 80) ID number: 80025170 Type: M Call Number: 355 /00621 ISBN: 9780415718400 Author(s): 1. Maxwell, Rohan 2. Olsen, John Andreas 'Defence reform has been a major component of Bosnia and Herzegovina's stabilisation and state-building. Though true for many cases of post-conflict transition, it is especially so for Bosnia and Herzegovina's, which arguably has the most complex state structure in Europe. Ten years from the start of Bosnia and Herzegovina's defence-reform process, this monograph records and reviews the Bosnian experience of defence reform.' COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS IHS Jane's C4ISR & Mission Systems. Land : 2013-2014. - Coulsdon, UK : IHS Global Limited, 2013. 1097 p. : ill. 33 cm. ID number: 80025137 Type: REF Call Number: 623 /00580 REF ISBN: 9780710630445 Includes index. IHS Jane's C4ISR & Mission Systems. Joint & Common Equipment : 2013-2014. - Coulsdon, UK : IHS Global Limited, 2013. 593 p. : ill.; 33 cm. ID number: 80025139 Type: REF Call Number: 623 /00580 REF ISBN: 9780710630469 Includes index. IHS Jane's C4ISR & Mission Systems. Air : 2013-2014. - Coulsdon, UK : IHS Global Limited, 2013. 1070 p. : ill; 33 cm. ID number: 80025140 Type: REF Call Number: 623 /00580 REF ISBN: 9780710630421 Includes index. IHS Jane's C4ISR & Mission Systems. Maritime : 2013-2014. - Coulsdon, UK : IHS Global Limited, 2013. 742 p. : ill.; 33 cm. ID number: 80025141 Type: REF Call Number: 623 /00580 REF ISBN: 9780710630452 Includes index. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION Conscientious Objection to Military Service. - New York : United Nations, 2012. iv, 84 pages ; 21 cm. ID number: 80025116 Type: M Call Number: 355.2 /00402 ISBN: 9789211541960 'This publication brings together applicable international standards and jurisprudence relating to conscientious objection to military service.'

 

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COUNTERINSURGENCY The Theory and Practice of Irregular Warfare : Warrior-Scholarship in Counter-Insurgency. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. viii, 161 pages ; 24 cm. (Studies in Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and National Security) ID number: 80025166 Type: M Call Number: 355.4 /01854 ISBN: 9780415836906 Includes index 'This book offers an analysis of key individuals who have contributed to both the theory and the practice of counterinsurgency (COIN). Insurgencies have become the dominant form of armed conflict around the world today. The perceptible degeneration of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan into insurgent quagmires has sparked a renewal of academic and military interest in the theory and practice of counterinsurgency. In light of this, this book provides a rigorous analysis of those individuals who have contributed to both the theory and practice of counterinsurgency : 'warrior-scholars'. These are soldiers who have bridged the academic-military divide by influencing doctrinal and intellectual debates about irregular warfare. Irregular warfare is notoriously difficult for the military, and scholarly understanding about this type of warfare is also problematic; especially given the residual anti-intellectualism with Western militaries. Thus, this book is dedicated to analysing the best perceptible bridge between these two worlds. The authors explore the theoretical and practical contributions made by a selection of warrior-scholars of different nationalities, from periods ranging from the French colonial wars of the mid-twentieth century to the Israeli experience in the Middle East; from contributions to American counterinsurgency made during the Iraq War, to the thinkers who shaped the US war in Vietnam.' COUNTERINSURGENCY--EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES IHS Jane's Police & Homeland Security Equipment : 2013-2014. - Coulsdon, UK : IHS Global Limited, 2013. 757 p. : ill.; 33 cm. ID number: 80025138 Type: REF Call Number: 623 /00544 REF ISBN: 9780710630780 Includes index. DEMOCRACY--IRAN Democracy in Iran / by Ramin Jahanbegloo. - Houndmills, UK : Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. vii, 109 pages ; 23 cm. (Palgrave Pivot) ID number: 80025120 Type: M Call Number: 321 /00889 ISBN: 9781137330161 Author(s): 1. Jahanbegloo, Ramin Bibliography: p. 101-106. Includes index. 'Despite lacking any sort of military advantage over the regimes they have confronted, the Iranian people have never been dissuaded from rising against and challenging varying forms of injustice. Through the successful implementation of nonviolent action, Iranians have overcome the violence of successive governments by undermining their moral and political legitimacy. But more than a hundred years after the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, Iranians are still in search of a social covenant through which they can acquire and practice public freedom. The stakes are extremely high - if Iran fails to end its culture of violence as a state and society then it risks its future as a stable, democratic state. So then how can the Iranian people break

 

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the cycle of violent and oppressive regimes and start looking towards a nonviolent and democratic culture ? There is no magic formula that will immediately end violence in Iran but this book argues that by shunning violence and showing a readiness to face down persecution the Iranian people have a chance to secure their freedom.' DEMOCRATIZATION--TURKEY Turkey's Democratization Process. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. xvi, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics ; 57) ID number: 80025165 Type: M Call Number: 321 /00892 ISBN: 9780415836968 Includes index. 'Since the end of the 1980 coup d'etat Turkey has been in the midst of a complex process of democratization. Applying methodological pluralism in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of this process in a Turkish context, this book brings together contributions from prominent Turkish, English, French and Spanish scholars. It utilizes the theoretical framework of J. J. Linz and A. C. Stepan in order to assess the complex process of democratization in Turkey. This framework takes into account five interacting features of Turkey's polity when making this assessment, namely : whether the underlying legal and socio-economic conditions are conducive for the development of a free and participant society; if a relatively autonomous political society exists; whether there are legal guarantees for citizens' freedoms; if there exists a state bureaucracy which can be used by a democratic government; and whether the type and pace of Turkish economic development contributes to this process. Examining the Turkish case in light of this framework, this book seeks to combine analyses that will help assess the process of democratization in Turkey to date.' EU--AFRICA Charting Transformation through Security : Contemporary EU-Africa Relations / by Toni Haastrup. - Houndmills, UK : Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. (New Security Challenges Series) ID number: 80025114 Type: M Call Number: 441 /00250 ISBN: 9780230363908 Author(s): 1. Haastrup, Toni, 1983- Bibliography: p. 181-225. Includes index. 'This distinctive empirical account analyses security cooperation in the domain of inter-regionalism, identifying the emergence of the African Union (AU) as a regional actor and its implications for contemporary EU-Africa relations. The book considers the opportunities and constraints of trying to create something new from an existing EU-Africa institution, by focusing on two cases of building the capabilities of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Examining institutional interactions and decision-making processes between the European Union (EU) and the AU, it provides revealing new insights based on extensive fieldwork and original interviews with European and African officials. Addressing the prospects of true equality, partnership and local ownership, the author explores the potential for the transformation of EU-Africa relations.'

 

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EU--BLACK SEA REGION The Politics of the Black Sea Region : EU Neighbourhood, Conflict Zone or Future Security Community / by Carol Weaver. - Farnham, UK : Ashgate, 2013. x, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025161 Type: M Call Number: 327 /01670 ISBN: 9781409463665 Author(s): 1. Weaver, Carol Bibliography: p. 141-155. Includes index. 'The Black Sea region is a dynamic and complex area in which many national and international actors have key interests, including Russia and the US. The European Union stretches to the sea's western coast where it meets former Soviet territory as well as EU candidate Turkey. Regional tensions include those over NATO enlargement, a US anti-ballistic missile system, access to the Black Sea, democratisation, spheres of interest and the conflict zones of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. In addition, the region's close proximity to the Caspian basin offers the prospect of alternative energy sources and routes to western states. The book explores and examines the many diverse political, security and economic interests that affect the region and the possible outcomes for it. By reviewing the wider history and examining the political systems and policies of the Black Sea nations and organisations as well as analysing current tensions and future trends, it provides an invaluable, comprehensive and unique political guide to this fascinating area.' EU--CSDP European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and IR Theory / by Tom Dyson, Theodore Konstadinides. - Houndmills, UK : Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. xvii, 256 pages ; 23 cm. (New Security Challenges Series) ID number: 80025163 Type: M Call Number: 448 /00114 ISBN: 9781137281296 Author(s): 1. Dyson, Tom 2. Konstadinides, Theodore Bibliography: p. 236-248. Includes index. 'This book offers a novel contribution to the study of post-Cold War European defence. Interdisciplinary in approach, it uses the insights of EU law to assess the utility of existing theoretical accounts of European defence cooperation. The authors link legal and IR scholarship to undertake a detailed exploration of the structural factors which facilitate and hinder closer cooperation in the field of defence. Exploring the explanatory power of Neorealism, they focus on the balance of threat as a driver of the European Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). This book critiques the assumption inherent in governance accounts of CSDP that a transition from the 'sovereign' to the 'functional' will be possible in this policy area. This book sheds new light on the factors underpinning the development of the CSDP and the potential for more extensive cooperation in trans-Atlantic relations. The capacity of legal analysis to provide important empirical insight and of international relations theory to enrich legal scholarship by contextualizing it within its political context, makes this book of great relevance to scholars from both disciplines.'

 

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EU--FOREIGN RELATIONS Multilateralism in the 21st Century : Europe's Quest for Effectiveness. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. xiv, 307 pages ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025155 Type: M Call Number: 441 /00251 ISBN: 9780415520034 Includes index. 'This volume focuses on multilateralism in the 21st century and examines how, and how effectively, the EU delivers on its commitment to effective multilateralism. Presenting results generated by MERCURY, an EU research programme into multilateralism, this book addresses a central research question : does the EU deliver on its commitment to effective multilateralism ? Globalisation has created powerful new incentives for states to cooperate and has generated renewed interest in multilateralism. While a large body of work exists on multilateralism as a concept, it continues to be ill-defined and poorly understood. This book sheds new light on 21st century multilateralism by exploring conceptual approaches as well as generating innovative, empirical knowledge on its practice. Research on EU external relations has increasingly focused on the concept of 'effective multilateralism'. Yet, the application of this concept as a guiding principle of EU foreign policy in non-security policy areas has rarely been examined. This book explores whether the EU is pursuing effective multilateralism in specific policy areas, including trade, climate change and conflict resolution, and distinct geographical and institutional settings, both internal to the EU and in specified regions, international organisations (IOs) and bilateral partnerships. This book offers evidence-based, actionable policy lessons from Europe's experience in promoting multilateralism.' HUMAN SECURITY Routledge Handbook of Human Security. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. xix, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. ID number: 80025162 Type: M Call Number: 355.4 /01857 ISBN: 9780415581288 Includes index. 'This handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past twenty years. Human security has been part of academic and policy discourses since it was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1994 Human Development Report. Filling a clear gap in the current literature, this volume brings together some of the key scholars and policy-makers who have contributed to its emergence as a mainstream concept, including Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen and Sadako Ogata, who jointly chaired the 2001 Commission on Human Security. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical analyses, the handbook provides examples of the use of human security in policies as diverse as disaster management, arms control and counter-terrorism, and in different geographic and institutional settings from Asia to Africa, and the UN. It also raises important questions about how the concept might be adapted and operationalised in the future. Over the course of the book, the authors draw on three key aspects of human security thinking : 1) theoretical issues to do with defining human security as a specific discourse; 2) human security from a policy and institutional perspective, and how it is operationalised in different policy and geographic contexts; 3) case studies and empirical work.'

 

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HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE Les humanitaires dans la guerre : des ideaux a l'epreuve de la politique / by Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos. - Paris : Decouverte, 2012. 253 pages ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025135 Type: M Call Number: 341.2 /00535 Author(s): 1. Perouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine Bibliography: p. 229-247. 'Dans la tradition de la Croix-Rouge, l'aide humanitaire apportee aux victimes de conflits armes se presente comme neutre et apolitique. Mais la realite est plus complexe : trop souvent rackettees et attaquees par les combattants, les organisations de secours peuvent alimenter les guerres par leurs effets d'entrainement economiques ou du fait qu'elles dechargent les belligerants de leurs obligations sociales en leur permettant de concentrer toutes les ressources locales vers l'action militaire. Paradoxalement, il arrive donc que les interventions humanitaires contribuent a prolonger les conflits. Elles peuvent egalement etre instrumentalisees par les Etats et les bailleurs de fonds. A l'epreuve du terrain, la neutralite et l'independance revendiquees par les organisations non gouvernementales doivent notamment se plier a des imperatifs de coordination et d'efficacite qui les obligent a entretenir des relations ambigues avec les militaires deployes dans le cadre d'operations de paix. A partir de l'etude de plusieurs conflits survenus au XXe siecle, cet ouvrage donne des elements d'information tres riches sur la facon dont les institutions humanitaires tentent de gerer de pareils dilemmes.' INFORMATION WARFARE--USA An Assessment of the Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace / by Thomas M. Chen. - Carlisle, PA : US Army War College, 2013. ix, 46 pages ; 23 cm. ID number: 80025151 Type: M Call Number: 355.4 /01853 ISBN: 1584875887 Author(s): 1. Chen, Thomas M. 'In July 2011, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued the DoD Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, which outlines five strategic initiatives : 1) treat cyberspace as another operational domain; 2) employ new defense operating concepts to protect DoD networks; 3) partner with other U.S. Government agencies and the private sector; 4) build relationships with U.S. allies and international partners to strengthen cyber security; and, 5) leverage national intellect and capabilities through cyber workforce training and rapid technological innovation. First, the monograph explores the evolution of cyberspace strategy through a series of government publications leading up to the DoD Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace. It is seen that, although each strategy has different emphases on ideas, some major themes recur. Second, each strategic initiative is elaborated and critiqued in terms of significance, novelty, and practicality. Third, the monograph critiques the DoD Strategy as a whole. Is it comprehensive and adequate to maintain U.S. superiority in cyberspace against a rapidly changing threat landscape ? Shortcomings in the strategy are identified, and recommendations are made for improvement in future versions of the strategy.'

 

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INTELLIGENCE SERVICE--USA Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis / by Richards J. Heuer, Randolph H. Pherson. - Washington : CQ Press, 2011. xix, 343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. ID number: 80025153 Type: M Call Number: 327.8 /00195 ISBN: 9781608710188 Author(s): 1. Heuer, Richards J. 2. Pherson, Randolph H. 'The first three chapters in this book describe structured analysis in general, how it fits into the spectrum of methods used by intelligence analysts, and how to select which techniques are most suitable for your analytic project. The next eight chapters describe when, why, and how to use each of the techniques contained in this volume. The final chapters discuss the integration of these techniques in a collaborative team project, research needed to evaluate key techniques, and a vision of how these techniques are likely to be used in the year 2015.' INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES--PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES The Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations in Domestic Courts. - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2013. xviii, 376 pages ; 24 cm. (International Law in Domestic Legal Orders) ID number: 80025125 Type: M Call Number: 341.7 /00147 ISBN: 9780199679409 Proceedings of a conference on 'Transnational Judicial Dialogue of Domestic Courts on International Organisations' at the Law School of the University of Vienna on 23 April 2012. Bibliography: p. 339-354. Includes index. 'The topic of international law in domestic legal orders has risen in prominence since the end of the Cold War. Recent decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in international agreements on various subjects, impacting on domestic law and proving to be relevant to domestic litigation. These changes mean that domestic courts have the potential to make a greater contribution to the application and development of international law. This series analyses and examines these trends, looking at questions of international law in domestic legal orders from a variety of perspectives.' JUST WAR DOCTRINE Just War : Authority, Tradition, and Practice. - Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2013. viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm ID number: 80025156 Type: M Call Number: 341.2 /00536 ISBN: 9781589019966 Includes index. 'The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporary world, but surprisingly few scholars have questioned the authority of the tradition as a source of moral guidance for modern statecraft. This book brings together many of the most important contemporary writers on just war to consider questions of authority surrounding the just war tradition. The chapters in this collection offer a compelling reassessment of the authority issue's centrality in how we can, do, and ought to think about war in contemporary global politics.'

 

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MASS MEDIA--POLITICAL ASPECTS Politiques de communication, medias et defense : l'OTAN et la PSDC : visibilite en Belgique et chez ses voisins. - Bruxelles : Peter Lang, 2013. 427 pages ; 22 cm. (Non-proliferation et Securite ; 7) ID number: 80025111 Type: M Call Number: 659 /00154 ISBN: 9782875740595 Bibliography: p. 413-425. 'Le domaine de l'information et de la communication en matiere de securite et de defense reste un sujet complexe et delicat. La relation entre decideurs, medias et opinion publique nationale doit etre analysee en tenant compte des professionnels du message venant de l'UE et de l'OTAN. Les contributions empiriques rapportees dans cet ouvrage permettent d'eclairer quelque peu les differentes facettes de cette relation. Il s'agit ici d'interroger l'espace belge mais egalement les pays frontaliers - France, Royaume-Uni, Allemagne, Pays-Bas et Luxembourg - a travers l'examen de la visibilite des organisations de securite et de defense dans les medias et a travers les thematiques retenues par les parlements nationaux. Cette comparaison a pu etre mise en perspective avec l'examen des strategies de communication des acteurs officiels, l'information offerte au sein du College europeen de securite et de defense et du College de l'OTAN, le bilan de la presidence belge dans le domaine et les perceptions journalistiques specialisees sur les politiques officielles de communication et de diplomatie publique. L'objectif final dans cette 'recherche-action' est de mettre en evidence des propositions et recommandations pour tenter d'ameliorer autant que faire se peut la visibilite de la Politique europeenne de securite et de defense et de celle de l'Alliance atlantique.' NATURAL RESOURCES--POLITICAL ASPECTS Contentious Agency and Natural Resource Politics / by Markus Kroger. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. xiv, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. (Rethinking Globalizations ; 47) ID number: 80025128 Type: M Call Number: 502 /00011 ISBN: 9780415659673 Author(s): 1. Kroger, Markus Bibliography: p. 153-168. Includes index. 'The looming depletion of non-renewable resources has increased the global land grab in the past decade. So far, however, the question of how and when people can influence economic outcomes has received little attention in the study of social movements. Based on in-depth ethnographic field research since 2003 in the industrial forestry expansion frontiers in Brazil and elsewhere in the global South, this book presents a novel theory to explain how the interaction between resistance, companies and the state determines investment outcomes. The promotion of contentious agency by organizing and politicizing, campaigning, protesting, networking and engaging in state and corporate-remediated politics whilst maintaining autonomy is central to explaining how impacted people influence resource flows, and block or slow projects they deem harmful to their livelihoods and the environment. The conflicts between globalizing paper and pulp corporations and the landless peasants, indigenous communities and other parties with alternative projects for the planet's future are studied to illustrate how a great transformation can be built upon progressive counter-movements. This systematic comparison of several cases illustrates the broader principles and problems endemic to the global political economy.'

 

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NON-STATE ACTORS (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) Global Security Upheaval : Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions / by Robert Mandel. - Stanford, CA : Stanford Security Studies, 2013. x, 288 pages ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025117 Type: M Call Number: 323 /01350 ISBN: 9780804784979 Author(s): 1. Mandel, Robert, 1949- Bibliography: p. 263-283. Includes index. 'This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability. By assessing recent real-world trends, the author reveals that areas exist where it makes little sense to rely on state governments for stability, and that attempts to bolster such governments to promote stability often prove futile. He demonstrates how armed nonstate groups can sometimes provide local stability better than states, and how power-sharing arrangements between states and armed nonstate groups may sometimes be viable. He concludes that these trends in the international setting call for major shifts in our understanding of what constitutes stable governance - proposing that we adopt a fluid 'emergent actor' approach. And he calls for significant deviation from standard policy responses to the opportunities and dangers posed by nontraditional sources of national authority.' NUCLEAR DETERRENCE--USA Transcending Mutual Deterrence in the U.S.-Russian Relationship. - Cambridge, MA : Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2013. 19 pages ; 30 cm. ID number: 80025152 Type: M Call Number: 623 /01190 NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION The Nuclear Renaissance and International Security. - Stanford, CA : Stanford Security Studies, 2013. xi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025160 Type: M Call Number: 623 /01192 ISBN: 9780804784177 Includes index. 'Interest in nuclear energy has surged in recent years, yet there are risks that accompany the global diffusion of nuclear power - especially the possibility that the spread of nuclear energy will facilitate nuclear weapons proliferation. In this book, leading experts analyze the tradeoffs associated with nuclear energy and put the nuclear renaissance in historical context, evaluating both the causes and the strategic effects of nuclear energy development. They probe critical issues relating to the nuclear renaissance, including whether and how peaceful nuclear programs contribute to nuclear weapons proliferation, whether the diffusion of nuclear technologies lead to an increase in the trafficking of nuclear materials, and under what circumstances the diffusion of nuclear technologies and latent nuclear weapons capabilities can influence international stability and conflict.'

 

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The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation : A Pragmatist Framework for Analysis / by Ursula Jasper. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations) ID number: 80025167 Type: M Call Number: 623 /01191 ISBN: 9780415821391 Author(s): 1. Jasper, Ursula Bibliography: p. 202-221. Includes index. 'This book examines the puzzle of why some states acquire nuclear weapons, whereas others refrain from trying to do so - or even renounce them. Based on the predominant theoretical thinking in International Relations it is often assumed that nuclear proliferation is inevitable, given the anarchic nature of the international system. Proliferation is thus often explained by vague references to states' insecurity in an anarchic environment. Yet, elusive generalisations and grand, abstract theories inhibit a more profound and detailed knowledge of the very political processes that lead towards nuclearisation or its reversal. Drawing upon the philosophical and social-theoretical insights of American pragmatism, this book provides a theoretically innovative and practically useful framework for the analysis of states' nuclear proliferation policies. Rather than recounting a parsimonious, lean account of proliferation, the framework allows for the incorporation of multiple paradigms in order to depict the complex political contestation underlying states' proliferation decisions. This pragmatist framework of analysis offers ways of overcoming long-standing metatheoretical gridlocks in the IR discipline and encourages scholars to reorient their efforts towards imminent 'real-world' challenges.' NUCLEAR WEAPONS Viewing Nuclear Weapons through a Humanitarian Lens. - New York : United Nations, 2013. xii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. ID number: 80025134 Type: M Call Number: 623 /01188 ISBN: 9789290452027 'There is renewed and deep international concern about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from the detonation of nuclear weapons in populated areas. Yet 25 years after the end of the Cold War, nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence remain central to the security doctrines of a significant number of states. Drawing on a range of perspectives, this volume explores what viewing nuclear weapons through a humanitarian lens entails, and why it is of value. Recent developments in this respect are also examined, as well as what these could mean for nuclear arms control in the near future.' IHS Jane's EOD & CBRNE Defence Equipment : 2013-2014. - Coulsdon, UK : IHS Global Limited, 2013. 921 pages : illustrations; 33 cm. ID number: 80025146 Type: REF Call Number: 623 /00653 REF ISBN: 9780710630476 Includes index.

 

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NUCLEAR WEAPONS--GOVERNMENT POLICY--USA Arms for Uncertainty : Nuclear Weapons in US and Russian Security Policy / by Stephen J. Cimbala. - Farnham, UK : Ashgate, 2013. xiv, 230 pages ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025127 Type: M Call Number: 623 /01187 ISBN: 9781472409850 Author(s): 1. Cimbala, Stephen J. Bibliography: p. 213-222. Includes index. 'Nuclear weapons are here to stay. They have survived into the twenty-first century as instruments of influence for the US, Russia, and other major military powers. But, unlike the Cold War era, future nuclear forces will be developed and deployed within a digital-driven world of enhanced conventional weapons. As such, established nuclear powers will have smaller numbers of nuclear weapons for the purpose of deterrence working in parallel with smarter conventional weapons and elite military personnel. The challenge is to agree proportional reductions in nuclear inventories or abstinence requiring an effective nonproliferation regime to contain aspiring or threshold nuclear weapons states.' PERSIAN GULF REGION--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT Dynamics of Change in the Persian Gulf : Political Economy, War and Revolution / by Anoushiravan Ehteshami. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2013. x, 292 pages ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025115 Type: M Call Number: 321 /00891 ISBN: 9780415657587 Author(s): 1. Ehteshami, Anoushiravan Bibliography: p. 276-286. Includes index. 'The Persian Gulf has come to represent one of the most strategically significant waterways of the world. In terms of geography, geopolitics, resources, global political economy, and regional influence, the Gulf is perhaps home to the world's most significant group of countries. Focusing on the complexities of the interplay between domestic-level changes and region-wide interactions, this book presents the reader with the first comprehensive survey of the dynamics of change in this crucial area. Systemic-oriented in its approach, the impact of war and revolution on the countries of the subregion is discussed, and the ways in which these factors have shaped the security dilemmas and responses of the Gulf states is also explored. The role of oil is examined in terms of the impact of its income on these states and societies, and the manner in which oil has shaped the integration of these states into the global system. Oil has shrunk developmental time in these countries, and has accelerated generational shift. At the same time, it has created the dialectical relationship which now characterizes the difficult balance between prosperity and instability which is at the heart of the subregion.'

 

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RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS Hard Diplomacy and Soft Coercion : Russia's Influence Abroad / by James Sherr. - London : Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2013. xi, 137 pages ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025164 Type: M Call Number: 327 /01671 ISBN: 9781862032668 Author(s): 1. Sherr, James Bibliography: p. 130-137. 'During the Cold War, Soviet influence and Leninist ideology were inseparable. But the collapse of both systems threw Russian influence into limbo. In this book, the author draws on his in-depth study of the country over many years to explain and analyse the factors that have brought Russian influence back into play. Today, Tsarist, Soviet and contemporary approaches combine in creative and discordant ways. The result is a policy based on a mixture of strategy, improvisation and habit. The novelty of this policy and its apparent successes pose possible dangers for Russia's neighbours, the West and Russia itself.' RWANDA--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR, 1994--ATROCITIES Comment devient-on genocidaire ? Et si nous etions tous capables de massacrer nos voisins / by Damien Vandermeersch, Marc Schmitz. - Bruxelles : GRIP, 2013. 158 pages; 22 cm. ID number: 80025148 Type: M Call Number: 341.4 /00058 ISBN: 9782872910373 Author(s): 1. Vandermeersch, Damien 2. Schmitz, Marc 'Qu'est-ce qui amene un citoyen 'ordinaire' a vouloir exterminer son semblable ? Cette question tourmente l'auteur et l'a pousse a prendre la plume. Avec l'idee de mettre a nu les grandes strategies et logiques qui auront conduit au crime des crimes. Si la parole de centaines de Rwandais constitue le point de depart, l'auteur s'est aussi attele a explorer le contexte historique, politique, voire sociologique de cette epoque. Dans un langage vivant, image et accessible, il nous invite aussi a decouvrir les mille et une pieces d'un puzzle qui, une fois assemblees, expliquent pourquoi tant de Rwandais ont bascule ... Et nous, sommes-nous vraiment a l'abri de pareil cataclysme ?' SCANDINAVIA--NATIONAL SECURITY Northern Security and Global Politics : Nordic-Baltic Strategic Influence in a Post-Unipolar World. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. xvi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. (Routledge Global Security Studies) ID number: 80025157 Type: M Call Number: 355.4 /01858 ISBN: 9780415836579 Bibliography: p. 170-186. Includes index. 'This book takes a comprehensive approach to security in the Nordic-Baltic region, studying how this region is affected by developments in the international system. The advent of the new millennium coincided with the return of the High North to the world stage. A number of actors have contributed to the increased international interest in the northern part of Europe : climate change resulting in ice melting in Greenland and the Arctic, and new resources and shipping routes opening up across the polar basin foremost among them. The world is no longer 'unipolar' and not yet

 

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'multipolar', but perhaps 'post-unipolar', indicating a period of flux and of declining US unipolar hegemony. Drawing together contributions from key thinkers in the field, this book explores how this situation has affected the Nordic-Baltic area by addressing two broad sets of questions. First, it examines what impact declining unipolarity - with a geopolitical shift to Asia, a reduced role for Europe in United States policy, and a more assertive Russia - will have on regional Nordic-Baltic security. Second, it takes a closer look at how the regional actors respond to these changes in their strategic environment.' SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL Regional Organisations and Security : Conceptions and Practices. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. xvii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations) ID number: 80025168 Type: M Call Number: 355.4 /01856 ISBN: 9780415827980 Includes index. 'This book aims to examine the conceptions of, approaches to and practices of security adopted by Regional Organisations (ROs) around the globe. Since the end of the Cold War, there has been an increased focus on regions as a relevant realm for security, with actors within regional contexts identifying a significant degree of interdependency between one another. As a consequence, international security has taken on a distinct regionally-institutionalised character, as seen by the increase in calls for greater utilisation of 'Chapter VIII: Regional Agency' of the UN, in order to create a devolved UN-led system of global security management. However, there is little evidence of similar processes towards convergence between regions. Indeed, the idea of a system of global security management is a remote prospect, as divergence seems to be as important as commonality in terms of regional security. In light of the above, this book analyses the primary ROs and their approach to security, which are active in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Middle East and South America. The findings of individual case-studies are compiled to highlight disparities and similarities in how security is seen, prioritised, understood, practised, managed and implemented across regions. On this basis, the authors reach conclusions about whether we live in an increasingly globalised or regionally distinct world, and go on to assess the prospects for a globalised system of security management and consider how this might be developed and organised.' SHABAAB (ORGANIZATION) Al-Shabaab in Somalia : The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012 / by Stig Jarle Hansen. - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv, 195 p. ; 23 cm. ID number: 80025119 Type: M Call Number: 323 /01351 ISBN: 9780199327874 Author(s): 1. Hansen, Stig Jarle Bibliography: p. 169-184. Includes index. 'Since early 2007, a new breed of combatants has roamed the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia : the 'Shabaab', or 'Youth', the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ centre' in Afghanistan. An offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, which split in 2006, Shabaab has imposed Sharia law on the populace and is heavily influenced by local clan structures within Somalia itself. It remains an infamous and widely discussed yet little-researched and understood Islamist group.

 

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This book attempts to go beyond the media headlines and simplistic analyses based on alarmist or localist narratives. By employing intensive field research conducted within Somalia, including on-the-ground interviews with Shabaab leaders themselves, the author explores the history of a remarkable organization that has survived several predictions of collapse. The author portrays Shabaab as a hybrid Islamist organization that combines a strong streak of Somali nationalism with the rhetorical obligations of international jihadism, thereby attracting a significant number of foreign fighters to its ranks. Both these trends of Shabaab have been inadvertently boosted by Ethiopian, American, and African Union attempts to defeat it militarily, all of which have failed.' SOMALIA--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT The World's Most Dangerous Place / by James Fergusson. - Boston : Da Capo Press, 2013. 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025158 Type: M Call Number: 323 /01356 ISBN: 9780306821172 Author(s): 1. Fergusson, James, 1966- Bibliography: p. 391-393. Includes index. This is an authoritative account of the Somali region, its history, and the story of the Islamic extremists operating there today cites the high human cost of the region's clan-based civil war while explaining how current activities are directly threatening world security. STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION Strategic Communication : Persuasion at Work / by Lisa A. Sisco. - Waltham, MA : MindEdge Press, 2006. 149 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. ID number: 80025147 Type: M Call Number: 659 /00155 ISBN: 9780977062638 Author(s): 1. Sisco, Lisa A. Includes index. STRATEGY--HISTORY Strategy : A History / by Lawrence Freedman. - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2013. xvi, 751 pages ; 25 cm. ID number: 80025169 Type: M Call Number: 355.4 /01855 ISBN: 9780199325153 Author(s): 1. Freedman, Lawrence Includes index. 'In this book, the author captures the vast history of strategic thinking in this engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives.'

 

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TARGETED KILLING--USA Between a Drone and Al-Qaeda : The Civilian Cost of US Targeted Killings in Yemen. - [s.l.] : Human Rights Watch, 2013. i, 98 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. ID number: 80025149 Type: M Call Number: 341.3 /00238 ISBN: 9781623130701 'The United States has carried out approximately 80 targeted killings against alleged terrorists in Yemen since 2009 that have killed several hundred people. With few exceptions the US has neither acknowledged the attacks nor revealed casualty figures, including civilian deaths. Most of the strikes involved remotely piloted aerial vehicles, known as drones. This report investigates six US targeted airstrikes in Yemen, one from 2009 and the others from 2012-13. It finds that two of these attacks killed civilians in clear violation of the laws of war. In the remainder, factual questions about whether those attacked were valid military targets, and whether civilian casualties were disproportionate, raise concerns about the attacks' legality. The report also finds that the six strikes did not meet US policy guidelines for targeted killings that President Barack Obama disclosed in May 2013, and which the White House said had been partially implemented. The Yemeni government has compensated some families for civilian deaths, but payments have been haphazard and often inadequate. This report calls on the US to provide its full legal rationale for targeted killings and ensure these strikes comply with international humanitarian and human rights law. The US should impartially investigate potentially unlawful attacks and hold those responsible to account. It should appropriately compensate wrongful - if not all - civilian losses. Without such measures, the US will fuel anti-US sentiment among Yemenis, to the benefit of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.' Drones-tueurs et eliminations ciblees : les Etats-Unis contre Al-Qaida et ses affilies / by Stephane Taillat. - Paris : IFRI, 2013. 49 pages ; 30 cm. (Focus Strategique ; 47) ID number: 80025150 Type: M Call Number: 623 /01189 ISBN: 9782365672030 Author(s): 1. Taillat, Stephane Bibliography: p. 45-49. 'Les drones armes, parce qu'ils permettent de realiser des eliminations ciblees, jouent desormais un role central au service du contre-terrorisme americain. Cette pratique, d'abord initiee durant la presidence de George W. Bush, s'est particulierement developpee sous Barack Obama. L'utilisation, de plus en plus recurrente, de drones-tueurs dans la lutte contre les leaders d'Al-Qaida et ses affilies reflete en partie un processus d'adaptation aux differentes contraintes locales rencontrees au Yemen, au Pakistan et en Somalie. Cependant, comprendre l'emergence de cette tactique requiert surtout d'etudier les jeux bureautiques americains et de replacer l'essor des drones-tueurs et des eliminations ciblees dans son contexte politique, diplomatique et strategique.'

 

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UNITED NATIONS--PEACEKEEPING FORCES Evaluation of UNDP Support to Conflict-Affected Countries in the Context of UN Peace Operations : Peacebuilding. - New York : United Nations, 2013. xx, 106 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. ID number: 80025123 Type: M Call Number: 40 /00201 ISBN: 9789211263497 'This is an independent assessment of the evolving UNDP role in conflict-affected settings where UNDP is one among several operational partners during and immediately after a peace operation mandated by the United Nations Security Council. The evaluation provides findings, conclusions and recommendations relating to UNDP's mandate, operational efficiency, resource capacity and comparative advantage in a competitive aid environment. In particular it considers the UNDP role within integrated UN peacekeeping operations and the relationships and partnerships under such circumstances. It further considers the UNDP contribution to developing national capacities for conflict prevention, mitigation and recovery. USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS Obama's Foreign Policy : Ending the War on Terror. - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, 2014. viii, 208 pages ; 24 cm. (Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy) ID number: 80025113 Type: M Call Number: 327 /01669 ISBN: 9780415662604 Includes index. 'This edited volume is an innovative analysis of President Barack Obama's foreign security and counter-terrorism policy, specifically within the context of ending the new infamous War on Terror. The book adopts a comparative approach, analysing change and continuity in US foreign policy during Obama's first term in office vis-a-vis the foreign policy of the War on Terror, initiated by George W. Bush following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. Despite being heralded as an agent of change, since his election in 2008 Obama has faced criticism that his foreign policy is effectively the same as what went before and that the War on Terror is still alive and well. Far from delivering wholesale change, Obama has been accused of replicating and even reinforcing the approach, language and policies that many anticipated he would reject. With contributions from a range of US foreign policy experts, this volume analyses the extent to which these criticisms of continuity are correct, identifying how the failure to end the War on Terror is manifest and explaining the reasons that have made enacting change in foreign policy so difficult. In addressing these issues, contributions to this volume discuss continuity and change from a range of perspectives in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis.'

 

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WAR (INTERNATIONAL LAW) The Law of Targeting / by William H. Boothby. - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2012. xlvi, 603 pages ; 24 cm. ID number: 80025159 Type: M Call Number: 341.3 /00239 ISBN: 9780199696611 Author(s): 1. Boothby, William H. Bibliography: p. 567-582. Includes index. 'Targeting is the primary method for securing strategic objectives in an armed conflict. Failure to comply with the law of targeting jeopardizes the achievement of those aims. It is therefore essential that all those involved in or studying issues surrounding targeting have an accurate and complete understanding of this area of law. This book offers the definitive and comprehensive statement of all aspects of the law of targeting. It is a 'one-stop shop' that answers all relevant questions in depth. It has been written in an open, accessible yet comprehensive style, and addresses both matters of established law and issues of topical controversy. The text explains the meanings of such terms as 'civilian', 'combatant', and 'military objective'. Chapters are devoted to the core targeting principles of distinction, discrimination, and proportionality, as well as to the relationship between targeting and the protection of the environment and of objects and persons entitled to special protection. New technologies are also covered, with chapters looking at attacks using unmanned platforms and a discussion of the issues arising from cyber warfare. The book also examines recent controversies and perceived ambiguities in the rules governing targeting, including the use of human shields, the level of care required in a bombing campaign, and the difficulties involved in determining whether someone is directly participating in hostilities.'

 

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Journal Articles Articles de revues

AFGHAN WAR, 2001- Afghanistan : Withdrawal Lessons / by Jack Devine, Whitney Kassel., 2013. (WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, vol. 30, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 31-37.) ID Number: JA029781 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Devine, Jack 2. Kassel, Whitney The Armed Confrontation in Afghanistan and Political and Economic Development in Central Asia / by Agybay Smagulov., 2013. (CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS, vol. 14, no. 2, 2013, p. 125-137.) ID Number: JA029711 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Smagulov, Agybay The author looks at how the armed confrontation in Afghanistan affects the political and economic situation in Central Asia. ALLIANCES Military Alliances in the 21s Century : Still Relevant After All These Years ? / by James L. Cook., 2013. (ORBIS, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall 2013, p. 559-573.) ID Number: JA029724 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Cook, James L. While military alliances have always been important to the United States, some experts wonder about their future. In today's uncertain security environment, they question whether these alliances may have outlived their usefulness. The author argues that US national security leaders face some difficult choices as they formulate strategy and determine the number and types of collective security arrangements the nation will require to secure its national interests in the future.

 

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ARCTIC REGIONS--GOVERNMENT POLICY--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) Russia's Arctic Ambitions and Anxieties / by Pavel K. Baev., 2013. (CURRENT HISTORY, vol. 112, no. 756, October 2013, p. 265-270.) ID Number: JA029791 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Baev, Pavel K. Talk in Moscow of deploying gunboats and drilling rigs to the High North while maximizing claims of sovereignty under the melting polar ice cap has always reflected more posture than policy. BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSES--NATO NATO Missile Defense and the View from the Front Line / by Karen Kaya., 2013. (JOINT FORCE QUARTERLY, no. 71, 2013, p. 84-89.) ID Number: JA029814 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Kaya, Karen BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSES--USA China's Anxiety about US Missile Defence : A Solution / by Wu Riqiang., 2013. (SURVIVAL, vol. 55, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 29-51.) ID Number: JA029719 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Riqiang, Wu Limiting the effectiveness of BMD to levels needed to meet the North Korean threat, in exchange for Beijing not expanding its nuclear arsenal, could provide the basis for strategic stability. Missile Defense : Follow-On to European Phased Adaptive Approach / by Baker Schaffer., 2013. (JOINT FORCE QUARTERLY, no. 71, 2013, p. 90-94.) ID Number: JA029815 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Schaffer, Baker BALLISTIC MISSILES Ballistic Missiles and International Conflict / by Simon A. Mettler, Dan Reiter., 2013. (JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, vol. 57, no. 5, October 2013, p. 854-880.) ID Number: JA029765 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Mettler, Simon A. 2. Reiter, Dan Governments are concerned about the dangers posed by ballistic missiles. However, there is almost no theoretical or empirical scholarship on ballistic missiles. This article presents and tests the conventional wisdom that the spread of ballistic missiles makes conflict more likely. Original data on ballistic missiles and on crisis initiation is collected, and analysis using a variety of statistical models is conducted. It is found that among all directed dyads from 1946 to 2007, potential challengers possessing ballistic missiles are significantly more likely to initiate international crises. Further, potential targets armed with ballistic missiles are significantly less likely to be challenged. Crises are less likely to escalate when targets are armed with missiles. The results are

 

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obtained after accounting for several control variables. Analysis reveals that the findings are not affected by possible endogeneity bias. The analysis also reveals complex interactive effects between ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons on the onset of international crises. BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS Keeping Science in the Right Hands : Policing the New Biological Frontier / by Ronald K. Noble., 2013. (FOREIGN AFFAIRS, vol. 92, no. 6, November - December 2013, p. 47-53.) ID Number: JA029807 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Noble, Ronald K. CANADA--ARMED FORCES--AFGHANISTAN An Evaluation of Canada's Engagement in Afghanistan., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, vol. 68, no. 2, June 2013, p. 269-377 (several articles).) ID Number: JA029741 Type: ART CHEMICAL WEAPONS--SYRIA C-Waffen-Krise in Syrien : Chancen fur die Diplomatie / by Rolf Clement., 2013. (EUROPAISCHE SICHERHEIT & TECHNIK, Nr. 10, Oktober 2013, S. 20-21.) ID Number: JA029700 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Clement, Rolf CHINA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--KOREA (NORTH) Does China Still Back North Korea ? / by Brendan Taylor., 2013. (SURVIVAL, vol. 55, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 85-91.) ID Number: JA029717 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Taylor, Brendan Hopes that Beijing has turned a corner in its relationship with Pyongyang have been raised before, only to be disappointed. Despite recent strains, this pattern is unlikely to change. CIVIL WAR Bargaining and the Interdependent Stages of Civil War Resolution / by Michael G. Findley., 2013. (JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, vol. 57, no. 5, October 2013, p. 905-932.) ID Number: JA029766 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Findley, Michael G. This article examines civil war resolution as a process comprised of multiple interdependent stages. It engages directly the idea that peace emerges only as a process comprised of battle, negotiation, agreement, and implementation of an agreement. The author hypothesizes that events at earlier stages of the peace process have implications for later stages, but not always in the same ways. Drawing on bargaining models of war, he considers how two factors that might

 

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prevent successful bargaining - stalemates and the number of actors - can encourage cooperation early in a peace process but impede lasting cooperation at later stages. Using a nested dichotomies statistical approach to capture interdependence, the author finds support for the argument that stalemates and the number of actors have different effects depending on the stage of the peace process. The results substantiate the need in theoretical and policy work to consider peace as an interdependent, sequential process. COMPUTER CRIMES Organised Crime and the Internet : Implications for National Security / by Peter Grabosky., 2013. (RUSI JOURNAL, vol. 158, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 18-25.) ID Number: JA029801 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Grabosky, Peter Before being able to establish whether certain kinds of organised cyber-crime constitute a security threat, it is important to consider the wide variation in structure and targets of cyber-criminal organisations, some of which are state agencies or state-sponsored organisations, or involve collaboration between states and private entities. The author argues that some forms of organised cyber-crime may be a nuisance but they cannot be regarded as threats to national or international security, while cyber-crimes do impact on national security and can lead to international conflict. In either case, traditional definitions of organised crime do not accurately reflect the nature or organised cyber-crime. COMPUTER SECURITY The UN Takes a Big Step Forward on Cybersecurity / by Detlev Wolter., 2013. (ARMS CONTROL TODAY, vol. 43, no. 7, September 2013, p. 25-29.) ID Number: JA029797 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Wolter, Detlev By agreeing on recommendations for confidence-building measures and by recognizing the applicability of international law to state behavior in cyberspace, a UN group of governmental experts has laid a solid foundation for addressing cyberthreats. COUNTERINSURGENCY--USA A Requiem for American Counterinsurgency / by Gian P. Gentile., 2013. (ORBIS, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall 2013, p. 549-558.) ID Number: JA029723 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Gentile, Gian P. Counterinsurgency as an operational method employed by the American military to achieve policy aims at a reasonable cost in blood and treasure has failed miserably. The idea that it has worked should be buried in the ground with a requiem stating that counterinsurgency is dead. Unfortunately, a large group of writers over many years have constructed a deeply flawed narrative that suggests that it is alive and well and continues to shape and influence American foreign policy toward and activist use of American military force in the world's troubled spots.

 

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DEMOCRATIZATION--GEORGIA (REPUBLIC) Georgia's Rocky Path to Democracy / by Julie A. George., 2013. (CURRENT HISTORY, vol. 112, no. 756, October 2013, p. 277-282.) ID Number: JA029793 Type: ART Author(s): 1. George, Julie A. A billionaire-led opposition party defeated the incumbent government in last year's parliamentary elections. It is still too soon to declare Georgia a consolidated democracy. DEMOCRATIZATION--USA US and EU Human Rights and Democracy Promotion since the Arab Spring : Rethinking Its Content, Targets and Instruments / by Daniela Huber., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL SPECTATOR, vol. 48, no. 3, September 2013, p. 98-112.) ID Number: JA029763 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Huber, Daniela The momentous changes in the Middle East and North Africa have brought the issue of human rights and democracy promotion back to the forefront of international politics. The new engagement in the region of both the US and the EU can be scrutinised along three dimensions : targets, instruments and content. In terms of target sectors, the US and EU are seeking to work more with civil society. As for instruments, they have mainly boosted democracy assistance and political conditionality, that is utilitarian, bilateral instruments of human rights and democracy promotion, rather than identitive, multilateral instruments. The content of human rights and democracy promotion has not been revised. DRONE AIRCRAFT Drones : Disembodied Aerial Warfare and the Unarticulated Threat / by David Hastings Dunn., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1237-1246.) ID Number: JA029743 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Dunn, David Hastings The Obama administration's controversial use of drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen has made the subject a hot topic of political and academic discourse. While most of this debate has focused so far on the legal, ethical and prudential use of large armed aerial vehicles, this article seeks to address the potential wider impact of this new technological innovation. The article argues that drones constitute a new and disruptive technology not just in the way that they have been used to enable a new form of counterterrorism. Instead, it argues that drones pose a new form of terrorist threat against the West which is at present under-analysed, unarticulated and underestimated. Part of the reason for this underestimation is the failure to appreciate the scale and scope of drone use for commercial purposes which is about to unfold. Technological innovation now means that drones will be capable of many jobs currently performed by small planes and helicopters, but more cheaply and easily - in addition to many other new applications. The proliferation of this cheap and easily available technology will make its application for terrorist use easy to achieve and difficult to counter. The ability of drones to penetrate traditional defences and established conceptions of what constitutes a plausible threat is a challenge which so far has gone unheeded. This article seeks to challenge that complacency.

 

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Drohnen : soziale und psychologische Fragen in einer neuen Art der Kriegfuhrung / by Christian Hutterer., 2013. (OSTERREICHISCHE MILITARISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 51. Jg, Heft 5, September - Oktober 2013, S. 559-564.) ID Number: JA029699 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Hutterer, Christian Drones : A 360 Degree View / by Neil Jacobstein., 2013. (WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, vol. 30, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 14-19.) ID Number: JA029779 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Jacobstein, Neil Emerging Drone Nations / by Shashank Joshi, Aaron Stein., 2013. (SURVIVAL, vol. 55, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 53-77.) ID Number: JA029713 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Joshi, Shashank 2. Stein, Aaron Many countries developing drones for military and intelligence use seek to emulate Us practice, but they lack some of America's advantages and may face different challenges. Occuper sans envahir : drones aeriens et strategie / by Jean-Christophe Noel., 2013. (POLITIQUE ETRANGERE, vol. 78, no. 3, automne 2013, p. 105-117.) ID Number: JA029768 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Noel, Jean-Christophe Les drones sont utilises depuis une cinquantaine d'annees mais se developpent surtout depuis 2001, date de la premiere mise en oeuvre operationnelle d'un drone arme. Leurs progres rapides ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives strategiques. Les drones permettent en particulier d''occuper la terre par les cieux' en minimisant les risques de pertes pour l'assaillant. Leur utilisation ne presente toutefois pas que des avantages et les decideurs politiques auraient tort d'en user a la legere. DRONE AIRCRAFT--LAW AND LEGISLATION Legalite et legitimite des drones armes / by Jean-Baptiste Jeangene Vilmer., 2013. (POLITIQUE ETRANGERE, vol. 78, no. 3, automne 2013, p. 119-132.) ID Number: JA029769 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Vilmer, Jean-Baptiste Jeangene Les drones armes passent pour illegaux au regard du droit international humanitaire. Ils ne sont, en realite, que les instruments nouveaux de guerres qui s'operent de plus en plus a distance de l'adversaire; et ils permettent meme sans doute des frappes plus discriminees que des armes plus classiques. Leur automatisation croissante pose, par contre, nombre de questions que de nouvelles reglementations internationales se doivent de prendre en compte.

 

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ECONOMIC SANCTIONS--IRAN The 'Oil Weapon' Reversed ? Sanctions against Iran and U.S.-EU Structural Power / by Thij van de Graaf., 2013. (MIDDLE EAST POLICY, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 145-163.) ID Number: JA029788 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Graaf, Thij van de EGYPT--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT Egypt : Coup d'Etat or a Revolution Protected ? / by Oliver Housden., 2013. (RUSI JOURNAL, vol. 158, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 72-77.) ID Number: JA029804 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Housden, Oliver Morsi's ousting by the army and the conspicuous presence of former regime sympathisers in the new interim government has left Egypt facing yet another crisis. As political parties prepare for parliamentary elections scheduled for early 2014, an analysis of Egypt's elite powers, which have shaped the turbulent political course since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, is therefore especially pertinent to understanding Egypt today. Egypt's Sorrow and America's Limits / by Steven Simon., 2013. (SURVIVAL, vol. 55, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 79-83.) ID Number: JA029718 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Simon, Steven The interim government in Cairo is spurring a rebellion despite its countervailing intention. Neither the US, nor anyone else, is really in a position to affect the process. ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) Russia's Surveillance State / by Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan., 2013. (WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, vol. 30, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 23-30.) ID Number: JA029780 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Soldatov, Andrei 2. Borogan, Irina EMBARGO--EU EU Weapons Embargo and Current Chinese Foreign Policy / by Sonika Gupta., 2013. (STRATEGIC ANALYSIS, vol. 37, no. 5, September - October 2013, p. 581-595.) ID Number: JA029712 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Gupta, Sonika This article examines the EU weapons embargo on China as a major foreign policy challenge that China's new leadership has inherited. The article argues that the continuation of the embargo constitutes a failure of Chinese foreign policy to project China as a responsible global player. The article examines the legal framework and the political debate within the EU to emphasise that the embargo has been largely ineffective in its objective of denying advanced military

 

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technology to China. The continuation of the ban, however, suggests that China, while becoming an economic and military power, is finding it difficult to overcome the significant political resistance to it being accepted as a responsible global actor. ENERGY POLICY--GERMANY Germany's Energy Dilemma / by Boris Zaritsky., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Minneapolis), vol. 59, no. 4, 2013, p. 100-112.) ID Number: JA029705 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Zaritsky, Boris EU--CSDP Zehn Gebote zur Gemeinsamen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik : Anregungen im Vorfeld des Europaischen Rates Verteidigung / by Johann Lattacher., 2013. (OSTERREICHISCHE MILITARISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 51. Jg. Heft 5, September - Oktober 2013, S. 518-529.) ID Number: JA029698 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Lattacher, Johann EU--DECISION MAKING Decision-Making in the EU before and after the Lisbon Treaty., 2013. (WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS, vol. 36, no. 6, November 2013, Special Issue.) ID Number: JA029800 Type: ART EU--ENP The European Neighbourhood Policy in the Eastern Region : The Practices Perspective., 2013. (EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS, vol. 29, no. 3, September 2013, Special Issue.) ID Number: JA029753 Type: ART EU--FOREIGN RELATIONS Transatlantic Triage ? European and UK 'Grand Strategy' after the US Rebalance to Asia / by Doug Stokes, Richard G. Whitman., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1087-1107.) ID Number: JA029752 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Stokes, Doug 2. Whitman, Richard G. Transition in the Middle East, the ongoing effects of the global financial crisis and the United States' rebalance to Asia are key trends that will have an impact on transatlantic relations and European defence. As US priorities shift, a common European 'grand strategy' could encourage the development of a shared vision to help Europe order its priorities and begin to respond to the new, post-austerity context of world politics and shrinking defence budgets. Will these changes be enough to quicken Europe's currently shrivelled strategic thinking ? In any scenario, given its relative weight and role as an interlocutor with the US, the United Kingdom

 

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will remain vital to any developing European security and strategy agenda, although its broader relations with the European Union will complicate this relationship. How it proceeds will also help to define the boundaries of this nascent European security order. This article charts these key global tends, relates them to current debates in European security and strategy and maps opportunities and constraints faced by Europe and the UK in developing a grand strategy in an increasingly 'American-lite' European neighbourhood. EU--NATIONAL SECURITY The Military Dimension of European Security : An Epistemic Community Approach / by Mai'a K. Davis Cross., 2013. (MILLENNIUM, vol. 42, no. 1, September 2013, p. 45-64.) ID Number: JA029758 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Cross, Mai'a K. Davis This article advances the argument that security integration is occurring in the European Union (EU) as a result of the influence of certain knowledge-based networks or epistemic communities. Given that EU member-states consistently resist integration in areas that are central to traditional state sovereignty, security integration presents a puzzle. The case of the EU Military Committee (EUMC) serves as an example of how and why epistemic communities matter in security decision-making. Although the EUMC and the Common Security and Defence Policy are relatively new, the power of shared expertise among high-level military officers has already begun to dismantle sovereign barriers to security integration. In considering the puzzle of security integration, this article suggests that the epistemic community framework provides a better explanation for the emergence of a European security space than alternative arguments, such as principal-agent theory, intergovernmental bargaining, and regime theory. The case of a military epistemic community also serves to broaden the epistemic community literature, which tends to focus somewhat narrowly on cases of environmental and economic experts. EU--STRATEGIC ASPECTS Peace without Money, War without Americans : Challenges for European Strategy / by Sven Biscop., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1125-1142.) ID Number: JA029750 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Biscop, Sven Just as the shift of the American strategic focus to Asia and the Pacific forces strategic autonomy upon Europeans, the financial crisis limits their means. In the age of austerity, dispersed efforts and spending on secondary issues have become unaffordable. Prioritizing and making strategic choices have become more important than ever. As no single European state can face all these challenges alone, a joint European strategy must assess where collective foreign and security policies can bring the most added value to the national effort. Through the European Union, Europeans have attempted as much in the 2003 European Security Strategy, but for lack of prioritization, the EU has so far underperformed. Yet the EU does have access to substantial means and possesses all the necessary instruments to pursue a comprehensive strategy. The key to their effective use is a collective European strategic review, starting from the vital interests that all European states have in common. Two priorities stand out : making a new start in Europe's relations with its southern neighbours after the Arab Awakening, and deciding which responsibilities Europeans will assume as security providers outside

 

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their borders after the American 'pivot' to Asia. EU--USA Time for Tough Love in Transatlantic Relations / by Anand Menon., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL SPECTATOR, vol. 48, no. 3, September 2013, p. 7-14.) ID Number: JA029759 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Menon, Anand The furore that greeted news that negotiations were to start on a transatlantic free trade agreement revealed not only the potential importance of any putative deal, but also the tendency of Europeans to view international politics almost uniquely in economic terms. This neglect of security and broader geostrategic issues is short-sighted and dangerous. It is precisely the liberal world order in place since the Second World War that has allowed Europeans to develop their economic potential. Leaving it to the United States to preserve that order is an increasingly problematic strategy, with the US ever more reluctant to police the world in the way it once did. The US has, for many years, asked its partners to contribute more to the preservation of common security interests. Given the failure of these attempts to date, it might be time for Washington to resort to tougher tactics in an attempt to entice Europeans out of their geostrategic retirement. GENDER MAINSTREAMING--NATO NATO Gender Mainstreaming : A New Approach to War Amongst the People ? / by Jody M. Prescott., 2013. (RUSI JOURNAL, vol. 158, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 56-61.) ID Number: JA029803 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Prescott, Jody M. In wars fought within and ultimately for the support of civilian populations, the gender dimension becomes a vital one. Simply put, the success or failure of a campaign could, in part, hinge on the roughly 50 per cent of the population that is female. The author tackles the issue of gender mainstreaming in NATO, and suggests a comprehensive evolution of doctrine, tactics and personnel policy is needed. GEOPOLITICS--ASIA Reaching Beyond the Indo-Pacific / by Luis Simon., 2013. (COMPARATIVE STRATEGY, vol. 32, no. 4, September - October 2013, p. 331-355.) ID Number: JA029735 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Simon, Luis This article calls for an expansion in the study of Asian geopolitics beyond the Indo-Pacific axis. China's geostrategic rise and that of Asia's other main powers are phenomena that bear multiple maritime and continental manifestations. Insofar as Asia's powers meet in different regions, the 'primary' Indo-Pacific theater cannot be isolated from developments in Central, South, Southeast, Northeast Asia, the northwestern Pacific, or the Arctic. By conceptualizing seapower and landpower as an interactive dyad in geostrategy and zooming in on the maritime and continental directions of China, India, and Russia, this article depicts Asia as an increasingly interdependent geopolitical whole.

 

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GREAT BRITAIN--FOREIGN RELATIONS Brown Britain : Post-Colonial Politics and Grand Strategy / by Tarak Barkawi, Shane Brighton., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1109-1183.) ID Number: JA029751 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Barkawi, Tarak 2. Brighton, Shane How do we approach the subject of British grand strategy today ? This article seeks a new approach to this question. It argues that there is a gap of grand strategic significance between actually-existing Britain and the Britain its political elites tend to imagine. The colonial and imperial histories that helped constitute and still shape the contemporary United Kingdom have fallen through this gap. One consequence is a grand strategic vision limited to a choice of partner in decline - Europe or the US. Overlooked are the power political potentialities of post-colonial generations situated in multiple sites at home and abroad. In search of this potential, we lay the conceptual basis for a strategic project in which the British 'island subject' is replaced by a globally networked community of fate : 'Brown Britain'. This entails reimagining the referent object of British strategy through diaspora economies, diverse histories and pluralized systems of agency. What might such a post-colonial strategy entail for British policy ? The authors offer initial thoughts and reflect on the often occluded social and political theoretic content of strategic thought. GREAT BRITAIN--MILITARY POLICY Fifty Shades of Purple ? A Risk-Sharing Approach to the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review / by Paul Cornish, Andrew M. Dorman., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1183-1202.) ID Number: JA029747 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Cornish, Paul 2. Dorman, Andrew M. The next Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) will be held in 2015. With unfinished business from its 2010 predecessor, and with no sign that UK national strategy is about to escape the grip of austerity, the 2015 SDSR is set to be more complex and contentious than the government might have hoped. There is a possibility that the review will, yet again, see the three armed services struggle against each other to secure the largest slice of a diminishing cake. The review might also be captured by a fruitless discussion of 'grand strategy'. SDSR 2015 must avoid both of these distractions. There are four principal concerns arising from SDSR 2010 : the feasibility of the Future Force 2020 plan; various capability gaps that must be managed; inconsistencies in the national strategic planning framework; and unresolved concerns about the relationship between society, armed forces and government in the UK. In response to these concerns, the authors argue for a risk-sharing approach to the SDSR, embracing the widest conceivable range of stakeholders in national strategy : the armed services; government departments and agencies; industry; civil society; and allies and partners. In UK military circles, inter-service cooperation is known as 'jointery' and is denoted by a certain shade of purple. The effect of austerity is to constrain national strategy, just as the international security environment makes ever more demands upon it. In these circumstances, strategic options must be generated by joint collaboration, denoted by as many shades of purple as appropriate.

 

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GREAT BRITAIN--MILITARY RELATIONS--UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Britain, the United Arab Emirates and the Defence of the Gulf Revisited / by Saul Kelly, Gareth Stansfield., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1203-1219.) ID Number: JA029746 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Kelly, Saul 2. Stansfield, Gareth This article investigates the deepening of the UK's security and defence arrangements with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In recent years there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity indicating far closer engagement between London and Abu Dhabi. Rather than being an innovative initiative of the Cameron government, the interaction has deeper roots, with this article uncovering the importance of the relatively unknown Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) of 1996, signed by the Blair government. Furthermore, the UK-UAE defence relationship is shown to have endured beyond the infamous UK withdrawal from 'east of Suez' in 1971. The current engagement is, however, more intense and potentially far-reaching than it had been in recent decades, with the defence sector being placed at the forefront of UK efforts to bolster the relationship with the oil-rich Gulf emirate. Using official statements from London and Abu Dhabi, this article suggests that the UK-UAE relationship has always remained intact, although it lost focus following the end of the Major government until the refocusing on the Gulf by the Cameron government. The article concludes with an assessment of the expectations of the UAE, and the strategic drivers underpinning UK policy. GREECE--FOREIGN RELATIONS--BLACK SEA REGION Greek Foreign Policy toward the Black Sea Region : Combining Hard and Soft Power / by Emmanuel Karagiannis., 2013. (MEDITERRANEAN QUARTERLY, vol. 24, no. 3, Summer 2013, p. 74-101.) ID Number: JA029756 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Karagiannis, Emmanuel HAMAS Hamas and the Arab Spring : Strategic Shifts ? / by Beverley Milton-Edwards., 2013. (MIDDLE EAST POLICY, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 60-72.) ID Number: JA029784 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Milton-Edwards, Beverley Hamas and the Syrian Uprising : A Difficult Choice / by Valentina Napolitano., 2013. (MIDDLE EAST POLICY, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 73-85.) ID Number: JA029785 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Napolitano, Valentina

 

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INDIA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--PAKISTAN The Tilting Triangle : Geopolitics of the China-India-Pakistan Relationship / by Paul J. Smith., 2013. (COMPARATIVE STRATEGY, vol. 32, no. 4, September - October 2013, p. 313-330.) ID Number: JA029734 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Smith, Paul J. For more than six decades, the geopolitics of South Asia have been shaped by a symbiotic and triangular relationship involving India, Pakistan, and China. A succession of interstate conflicts has created two fundamental and enduring security structures, one rooted in India's partition and subsequent Indo-Pakistan wars (the '1947 structure') and the other in a persistent and often antagonistic Sino-Indian rivalry, including a border conflict in 1962 (the '1962 structure'). During the Cold War, exogenous powers, including the United States and Soviet Union, sought to use or manipulate these structures to advance their political objectives. In the long term, however, the 1962 structure is likely to become the dominant security architecture in the region, a trend that can be attributed to China's growing military and economic power, Beijing's increasingly intimate relationship with Islamabad, and the Chinese navy's expanding reach into the Indian Ocean. INFORMATION WARFARE Core Questions for Cyber Attack Guidance / by Jonathan C. Rice., 2013. (JOINT FORCE QUARTERLY, no. 71, 2013, p. 32-40.) ID Number: JA029813 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Rice, Jonathan C. Cyberwar and Peace : Hacking Can Reduce Real-World Violence / by Thomas Rid., 2013. (FOREIGN AFFAIRS, vol. 92, no. 6, November - December 2013, p. 77-87.) ID Number: JA029810 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Rid, Thomas INFORMATION WARFARE--USA Fixing U.S. National Cybersecurity : A Modest Proposal for Swallowing Pride and Reducing Egos / by Emilio Iasiello., 2013. (COMPARATIVE STRATEGY, vol. 32, no. 4, September - October 2013, p. 301-307.) ID Number: JA029732 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Iasiello, Emilio In 2001, the White House and the Department of Defense released strategies for how the United States will approach cyberspace both from an offensive and defensive perspective. Cybersecurity has long been America's Achilles' heel where public and private networks are consistently exploited by criminals, hacktivists, and espionage actors stealing financial data, intellectual property, and sensitive information. The US government has failed to instill an effective national-level cybersecurity apparatus. In order to better position itself defensively, the US government needs to reposition its federal agencies to better capitalize on their capabilities and authorities to address this twenty-first century threat.

 

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INSURGENCY Suicidal Armies : Who Do Rebels Fight Like an Army and Keep Losing ? / by Nori Katagiri., 2013. (COMPARATIVE STRATEGY, vol. 32, no. 4, September - October 2013, p. 354-377.) ID Number: JA029736 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Katagiri, Nori Why do rebel groups often fight like an army despite the fact that they keep losing most of the time ? The author examines seven possible answers and find that insurgent forces are likely to use conventional war strategy and be 'suicidal' when they receive material aid from outsiders to build up armed forces and fight on terrain that supports large movements, without knowing that such a strategy does not always work, while strong states make interventions to impose their own method of fighting. This finding has important implications for the analysis of asymmetric war, counterinsurgency, and international security. INTERNET Pathways to Violent Extremism in the Digital Era / by Charlie Edwards, Luke Gribbon., 2013. (RUSI JOURNAL, vol. 158, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 40-47.) ID Number: JA029802 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Edwards, Charlie 2. Gribbon, Luke The Internet is often singled out as the key means through which extremists and terrorists are radicalised. Yet the authors argue that research thus far has fallen short of unearthing the actual mechanisms through which this radicalisation takes place. Using examples from a wider study, they explore different ways in which individuals have used the Internet in their processes of radicalisation and point out that policy-makers and researchers need to focus their efforts on understanding not merely the content that is available online, but the ways in which this content is used in the process of radicalisation. INTERVENTION (INTERNATIONAL LAW)--AFRICA Lecons africaines., 2013. (REVUE DEFENSE NATIONALE, no. 763, octobre 2013, p. 21-74 (plusieurs articles).) ID Number: JA029774 Type: ART ISLAMIST FUNDAMENTALISM-NIGERIA Le Nigeria a l'epreuve de l'islamisme / by Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos., 2013. (POLITIQUE ETRANGERE, vol. 78, no. 3, automne 2013, p. 135-145.) ID Number: JA029770 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Perouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine Le Nigeria est le sixieme pays au monde a l'aune du nombre de musulmans. La croissance demographique des populations musulmanes pourrait leur permettre de devenir majoritaires a l'horizon 2030. Contrairement a ce que disent certains medias, l'application de la charia dans une partie du Nord n'est pas une nouveaute. En outre, la probabilite que le terrorisme de groupes comme Boko Haram evolue en veritable guerre civile est faible.

 

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JAPAN--FOREIGN RELATIONS Japan's Strategic Pivot South : Diversifying the Dual Hedge / by Corey J. Wallace., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC, vol. 13, no. 3, 2013, p. 479-517.) ID Number: JA029740 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Wallace, Corey J. Tensions between Japan and its neighbors pose a significant problem for the viability of Japan's strategic 'dual hedge' between China and the United States. Japan's response has been to embrace renewed US commitment to the region while initiating comprehensive strategic partnerships in military, economic, and political spheres with nations 'south' of its traditional domain of strategic interest. Strengthened relationships with Southeast Asian nations, India, and Australia may turn out to be crucial for Japan as it will enable Japan to manage its security affairs without having to depart from its long-cultivated maritime security policy, and will enable Japan to continue to pursue a neo-mercantilist economic policy while also supporting the socioeconomic development of other regional players essential for future multipolar balance. Japan's diplomatic activities provide a useful 'strategic contrast' with China that will likely ensure Japan is accepted in the region. Japan's strategic pivot is also domestically sustainable and, therefore, deserves scholarly attention. KOREA (NORTH)--FOREIGN RELATIONS Apories nord-coreennes : au-dela de la guerre des mots / by Marianne Peron-Doise., 2013. (REVUE DEFENSE NATIONALE, no. 763, octobre 2013, p. 104-110.) ID Number: JA029778 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Peron-Doise, Marianne L'auteur delivre ici une analyse fine de la nouvelle posture nucleaire et plus generalement militaire de la Coree du Nord dont le jeune dirigeant a tenu a reaffirmer la capacite de nuisance regionale. Les defis qu'il adresse aux Etats-Unis, a la Coree du Sud mais aussi a la Chine, sont autant d'indications archaiques d'une politique qui vise a defendre un regime et une dynastie. KOSOVO WAR, 1998-1999 Revisiting NATO's Kosovo Air War : Strategic Lessons for an Era of Austerity / by Gregory L. Schulte., 2013. (JOINT FORCE QUARTERLY, no. 71, 2013, p. 14-19.) ID Number: JA029811 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Schulte, Gregory L. KURDS--GOVERNMENT POLICY--TURKEY Turkey's New Kurdish Opening / by F. Stephen Larrabee., 2013. (SURVIVAL, vol. 55, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 133-146.) ID Number: JA029715 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Larrabee, F. Stephen The prospect that the PKK insurgency may be winding down has unleashed a new dynamic that poses challenges for Turkish foreign policy and domestic politics.

 

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Turkey's Kurdish Gamble / by Nathalie Tocci., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL SPECTATOR, vol. 48, no. 3, September 2013, p. 67-77.) ID Number: JA029761 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Tocci, Nathalie Relations between Turkey and Northern Iraq have evolved at a breathtaking pace, with Turkish policies currently bolstering the KRG's drift towards independence, a prospect considered unthinkable in Ankara only a few years ago. Energy politics is an important component of this puzzle, but Ankara's strategic choice can only be understood against the backdrop of Iraq's deepening sectarianisation, the unfolding civil war in Syria and the dynamics in Turkey's own Kurdish question. The Turkish government is pursuing a high risk/high gain strategy. A more democratic Turkey, in partnership with the KRG, would be best placed to hedge against the centrifugal sectarian trends afflicting its southern neighbours. It is far more likely that Turkey will win its gamble with the support of the European Union. MALI--HISTORY--COUP D'ETAT, 2012 The Malian Crisis and Its Actors / by Dario Cristiani, Riccardo Fabiani., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL SPECTATOR, vol. 48, no. 3, September 2013, p. 78-97.) ID Number: JA029762 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Cristiani, Dario 2. Fabiani, Riccardo The structural problems characterising Mali interlocked with the dynamics of crisis triggered by the war in Libya in 2011, causing the collapse of one of the new African democracies. The Tuareg rebellion of 2012, the coup d'etat and the Islamic takeover of Northern Mali were the three key phases of this crisis, which pushed France - the former colonial patron - to intervene military. After analysing the major local actors involved in the crisis, the article critically analyses the engagement of the EU in the crisis. Mali and the Middle East : Viable Solutions / by Eamonn Gearon., 2013. (MIDDLE EAST POLICY, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 134-144.) ID Number: JA029787 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Gearon, Eamonn Premieres lecons operatives de l'operation Serval / by Gregoire de Saint Quentin., 2013. (REVUE DEFENSE NATIONALE, no. 763, octobre 2013, p. 31-36.) ID Number: JA029775 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Saint Quentin, Gregoire de Le commandant de la force Serval tire a son niveau operatif les premiers enseignements de la campagne conduite dans le Nord Mali debut 2013. Il identifie trois principaux facteurs de succes, la surprise strategique, la souplesse d'une coalition militaire informelle et la coherence d'une maitrise permanente de la force.

 

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MALWARE (COMPUTER SOFTWARE) Stuxnet and the Limits of Cyber Warfare / by Jon R. Lindsay., 2013. (SECURITY STUDIES, vol. 22, no. 3, July - September 2013, p. 365-404.) ID Number: JA029737 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Lindsay, Jon R. Stuxnet, the computer worm which disrupted Iranian nuclear enrichment in 2010, is the first instance of a computer network attack known to cause physical damage across international boundaries. Some have described Stuxnet as the harbinger of a new form of warfare that threatens even the strongest military powers. The influential but largely untested Cyber Revolution thesis holds that the internet gives militarily weaker actors asymmetric advantages, that offense is becoming easier while defense is growing harder, and that the attacker's anonymity undermines deterrence. However, the empirical facts of Stuxnet support an opposite interpretation; cyber capabilities can marginally enhance the power of stronger over weaker actors, the complexity of weaponization makes cyber offense less easy and defense more feasible than generally appreciated, and cyber options are most attractive when deterrence is intact. Stuxnet suggests that considerable social and technical uncertainties associated with cyber operations may significantly blunt their revolutionary potential. MILITARY ROBOTS La guerre connectee : les implications de la revolution robotique / by Peter W. Singer., 2013. (POLITIQUE ETRANGERE, vol. 78, no. 3, automne 2013, p. 91-104.) ID Number: JA029767 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Singer, Peter W. Nous n'en sommes qu'au debut des revolutions introduites dans la guerre par la robotique. Les instruments automatises sont plus faciles d'usage, plus autonomes, la palette de leurs utilisations s'elargit. Mais ces instruments posent de multiples questions : ils peuvent etre 'retournes' et soulevent des problemes de doctrine et de strategie. Ils generent aussi des problemes juridiques et interrogent le rapport du systeme de gouvernement et de la population a l'acte de guerre. MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Arms Production in the Global Village : Options for Adapting to Defense-Industrial Globalization / by Marc R. DeVore., 2013. (SECURITY STUDIES, vol. 22, no. 3, July - September 2013, p. 532-572.) ID Number: JA029739 Type: ART Author(s): 1. DeVore, Marc R. Few issues are more important to international relations scholars than understanding how globalization is shaping the production of armaments. Within this context, this article examines both whether and how small and medium states can maintain defense-industrial bases capable of contributing to their national security. To preview the conclusion, although defense-industrial self-sufficiency has become an illusion for most states, even small and medium states can develop defense-industrial capabilities that enhance both their ability to autonomously employ their armed forces and security access to foreign armaments. Moreover, governments possess a range of options for achieving these objectives, including a fundamental choice between accepting foreign direct investment and pursuing unrestrained arms

 

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exports. Governments unwilling to sanction foreign ownership of their defense industries can have recourse to unrestricted exports; alternatively, states uncomfortable with liberal exports can encourage foreign direct investment. With this in mind, a lasting diversity is likely to persist in even similarly endowed states' defense industries and defense-industrial policies. NATIONALISM--ALBANIA The Albanian National Question and the Myth of Greater Albania / by Arjan Hilaj., 2013. (JOURNAL OF SLAVIC MILITARY STUDIES, vol. 26, no. 3, July - September 2013, p. 393-413.) ID Number: JA029731 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Hilaj, Arjan To know what the Albanian National Question (ANQ) is, one should learn it not from what its neighbors, namely Serbia and Greece, have to say, but from a more direct and reliable source, the voice of the Albanians themselves. No nation is in a position in which it can express in a realistic way the needs, rights and aspirations of a different nation in the same way as an individual cannot be an exact representative for anyone but himself. For many years the Western countries used to rely on either Serbian or Greek lenses for the ANQ. In the late 1990s the US-led intervention against Serbia over Kosovo on humanitarian grounds and the Albanian insurgency in Macedonia has contributed to an altered power balance in the region. The neighbors frightened by the power shift in the Southern Balkans use their propaganda machinery to express the danger posed by the alleged Greater Albania scheme in order to demonize and morally downgrade the ANQ. However, one can easily see that Albanians since the creation of their state have not, are not, and will not pursue an irredentist agenda toward their neighbors. NATIONALISM--GEORGIA (REPUBLIC) The Media about Georgian Nationalism Today : Between the Political Nation and Traditionalism / by Maxim Kirchanov., 2013. (CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS, vol. 14, no. 2, 2013, p. 56-63.) ID Number: JA029709 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Kirchanov, Maxim The author analyzes the political and traditional trends in the ideology of contemporary Georgian nationalism. He concludes that it relies on a developed political tradition and is functioning as a primarily civil movement. The Georgian Orthodox Church is developing traditional forms of Georgian identity; the traditional trends in Georgian nationalism became even more obvious in May 2013 when sexual minorities stepped up their activities. Political debates about Georgia's role in the region and its relations with Russia have divided Georgian nationalists.

 

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NEW START U.S.-Russian Strategic Arms Reductions : Nonlinear Challenges, Practical Opportunities / by Stephen J. Cimbala., 2013. (ORBIS, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall 2013, p. 574-594.) ID Number: JA029725 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Cimbala, Stephen J. The Obama Administration's desire to push forward with strategic nuclear arms reductions during the President's second term requires the navigation of numerous shoals and reefs. US and Russian negotiators will have to overcome both political and military obstacles to accomplish post-New START reductions in long-range nuclear weapons. For example, efforts to reduce offensive nuclear weapons are complicated by US and NATO plans for missile defenses deployed in Europe and by exigencies in US and Russian domestic politics. In addition, the military-technical aspects of cyber war and nuclear deterrence can no longer be treated, analytically or practically, as isolated compartments. This article considers several aspects of the relationships among possible post-START offensive force reductions, advanced conventional weapons including missile defenses, and emerging cyber capabilities. NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT--USA Obama's Second Term : Prospects for Nuclear Arms Reductions / by Stephen J. Cimbala., 2013. (JOURNAL OF SLAVIC MILITARY STUDIES, vol. 26, no. 3, July - September 2013, p. 357-370.) ID Number: JA029729 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Cimbala, Stephen J. The second term of the Obama administration will doubtless see efforts by the United States to move forward its nuclear arms control and disarmament agenda, especially with Russia. However, there is no certainty of accomplishment in this regard, and much depends upon the political chemistry between a reelected US president Barack Obama and a re-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin after 2012. This discussion considers the political setting and military options for post-New START strategic nuclear arms reductions, as well as other military-strategic and political issues within which US, Russian, and NATO nuclear arms control options are embedded. NUCLEAR WEAPONS--GOVERNMENT POLICY--IRAN Pre-Empting Iran : A Military Assesment / by Kenneth S. Brower., 2013. (RUSI JOURNAL, vol. 158, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 80-89.) ID Number: JA029805 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Brower, Kenneth S. Despite the various efforts of the international community to stall Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons programme - whether through economic sanctions, assassination or cyber-attack - the country has reportedly continued its progression towards a nuclear-weapon capability. In this article, the author evaluates the capacity of Israel, acting unilaterally, and of the US, either acting alone or at the head of a coalition, to reverse this progress through military strikes. The result of this assessment is to turn on its head the conventional wisdom that the US - but not Israel - would be successful in acting unilaterally against Iran.

 

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Revisiting Nuclear Opacity in the Middle East : A Scenario / by Jean-Loup Samaan., 2013. (ORBIS, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall 2013, p. 627-642.) ID Number: JA029728 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Samaan, Jean-Loup This article explores a scenario of extended nuclear opacity in the Middle East that would comprise two undeclared nuclear powers : Iran and Israel. The author argues that this regional spread of nuclear opacity would act as a major driver of instability in terms of conflict prevention and non-proliferation efforts. In both cases, it would demand a profound reevaluation of security policies conducted by Western countries and their allies in the region. Extended nuclear opacity in the Middle East would mean no communication channels, and no declaratory policies. It would entail no information on security perceptions, doctrines, capabilities, or targeting policies. This scenario of nuclear opacity is worth exploring as it brings new light to several critical issues in security studies. In particular it re-emphasizes a feature sometimes considered too casually which is that deterrence, if it ever is working, is not a natural state. It is socially situated and needs solid prerequisites, among them a certain level of transparency and communication. It also offers a new perspective on the logic of 'nuclear hedging' and it revives the question of security guarantees from external powers as relevant means to balance threats. Has Iran Covertly Acquired Nuclear Weapons ? / by Mark B. Schneider., 2013. (COMPARATIVE STRATEGY, vol. 32, no. 4, September - October 2013, p. 308-312.) ID Number: JA029733 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Schneider, Mark B. It is possible that Iran has covertly acquired a very small number of nuclear weapons and that these have been tested by North Korea. There are an increasing number of reports to this effect going back to 2007 when the London Daily Telegraph reported that with North Korean help Iran could obtain a 'low-grade device - less than half a kiloton - within 12 months'. According to The New York Times concerning the 2013 North Korean nuclear test, a senior Obama administration official concluded that 'it's very possible that the North Koreans are testing for two countries.' A.Q. Khan proliferated detailed technical information not only on the original Chinese CHIC-4 nuclear weapons design but also on a smaller version of the design tested by Pakistan in 1998. If Iran has covertly acquired nuclear weapons, they are likely to be very few in number and low yield. There may still be time to prevent the development by Iran of an extensive nuclear weapons capability but the continuation of the current ineffective diplomacy will not do it. NUCLEAR WEAPONS--GOVERNMENT POLICY--USA Rightsizing the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal / by Jon B. Wolfsthal., 2013. (ARMS CONTROL TODAY, vol. 43, no. 7, September 2013, p. 18-21.) ID Number: JA029796 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Wolfsthal, Jon B. Completion of long-overdue new nuclear weapons employment guidance, announced by President Barack Obama on June 19 in Berlin, sets the stage for potentially significant reductions in deployed and reserve US nuclear forces.

 

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Falling Short of Prague : Obama's Nuclear Weapons Employment Policy / by Hans M. Kristensen., 2013. (ARMS CONTROL TODAY, vol. 43, no. 7, September 2013, p. 8-13.) ID Number: JA029794 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Kristensen, Hans M. President Barack Obama promised to end Cold War thinking on nuclear weapons. But despite some modest adjustments, his new guidance appears to continue it. Little Content, Even Less Satisfaction in Obama's Nuclear Weapons Policy / by Clark Murdock., 2013. (ARMS CONTROL TODAY, vol. 43, no. 7, September 2013, p. 14-17.) ID Number: JA029795 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Murdock, Clark The information that the administration has released on the new policy does not indicate a serious attempt to think rigorously about the circumstances under which the United States would employ its nuclear weapons. ORGANIZED CRIME--PREVENTION--INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION On International Cooperation in Countering Criminal Challenges and Threats / by Alexander Zmeevskiy., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Minneapolis), vol. 59, no. 4, 2013, p. 39-46.) ID Number: JA029703 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Zmeevskiy, Alexander PAKISTAN--FOREIGN RELATIONS--AFGHANISTAN Pakistan and the Afghan Mission of the West / by Omar Nessar., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Minneapolis), vol. 59, no. 4, 2013, p. 113-122.) ID Number: JA029706 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Nessar, Omar PEACEKEEPING FORCES, SLOVAKIAN Slovakia in UN Peacekeeping Operations : Trapped between the Logic of Consequences and Appropriateness / by Zdenek Kriz, Jana Urbanovska., 2013. (JOURNAL OF SLAVIC MILITARY STUDIES, vol. 26, no. 3, July - September 2013, p. 371-392.) ID Number: JA029730 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Kriz, Zdenek 2. Urbanovska, Jana This article analyses the motivation of Slovakia to conduct UN peacekeeping operations. This means whether Slovakia participates in these operations on the basis of the logic of consequences or the logic of appropriateness. The official rhetoric has operated with the logic of consequences (instrumental approach), which is used to justify the very broad participation of Slovakia in peacekeeping. However, the relatively non-selective territorial participation in peacekeeping operations would give evidence to actions held by the logic of appropriateness. Nevertheless, the analysis of the individual

 

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aspects of Slovak participation has shown relatively convincingly that in the actions of Slovakia in this field - after a short initial phase indicating more likely the logic of appropriateness - an instrumental approach prevailed. PIRACY The Price of Modern Maritime Piracy / by Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso, Sami Bensassi., 2013. (DEFENCE AND PEACE ECONOMICS, vol. 24, no. 5, October 2013, p. 397-418.) ID Number: JA029697 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada 2. Bensassi, Sami A growing body of literature has recently focused on the economic origins and consequences of modern maritime piracy and on the perception that the international community has failed to control it. This paper aims to investigate maritime transport costs as one of the channels through which modern maritime piracy could have a major impact on the global economy. A transport-cost equation is estimated using a newly released data-set on maritime transport costs from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development together with data on maritime piracy from the International Maritime Bureau. The results show that maritime piracy significantly increases trade costs between Europe and Asia. POLITICAL PARTIES--KYRGYZSTAN Fragmentation of the Political Party System in Kyrgyzstan / by Seyit Ali Avcu., 2013. (CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS, vol. 14, no. 2, 2013, p. 78-91.) ID Number: JA029710 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Avcu, Seyit Ali PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES The Effectiveness of Contracted Coalitions : Private Security Contractors in Iraq / by Ulrich Petersohn., 2013. (ARMED FORCES AND SOCIETY, vol. 39, no. 3, July 2013, p. 467-488.) ID Number: JA029806 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Petersohn, Ulrich The debate on the effectiveness of Private Security Contractors (PSCs) in Iraq has been waged ever since their first appearance. Statists have argued that they are much less effective than regular troops, while neoliberals consider them an effective supplement to regular troops. However, so far, both schools alike have drawn on anecdotal evidence only; yet, such evidence is prone to a high margin of error and does not allow a comparison of different actors. This article addresses these shortfalls by providing hard data, drawn from the Wikileaks 'Iraq War logs' data set, on the conduct of PSCs in Iraq and comparing their performance to that of regular troops, that is, the US and Iraqi armed forces. In general, if PSCs are co-deployed alongside regular troops and oversight is institutionalized, their performance supersedes that of poorly trained military personnel, as the Iraqi military, and in many cases event that of the highly capable US military.

 

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PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES--AFRICA Private Military Companies, Opportunities, and Termination of Civil Wars in Africa / by Seden Akcinaroglu, Elizabeth Radziszewski., 2013. (JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, vol. 57, no. 5, October 2013, p, 795-821.) ID Number: JA029764 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Akcinaroglu, Seden 2. Radziszewski, Elizabeth The article analyzes the impact of private military companies (PMCs) on the duration of civil wars in Africa from 1990 to 2008. The authors develop an 'opportunity structure' theory to argue that while PMCs are profit-oriented entities, the prevalent opportunities in conflicts will determine how they behave in war zones. Empirical findings for civil wars with at least 1,000 battle deaths show that as level of competition among government-hired PMCs increases, they are more likely to deliver optimal services and help bring an end to violence. In the absence of competition, the prevalent structure creates opportunities for PMCs to underperform in order to maximize profits by staying in conflict longer. The authors also show that swift cessation of hostilities could benefit those profit-seeking PMCs that are compensated with contracts to extract natural resources because resource extraction generates more wealth in peace time. In such cases, the prevalent opportunities in conflict create an incentive for companies to deliver optimal service and terminate hostilities. RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT (INTERNATIONAL LAW) Libya and Syria : R2P and the Spectre of the Swinging Pendulum / by Justin Morris., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1265-1283.) ID Number: JA029742 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Morris, Justin This article examines recent UN Security Council deliberations over events in Libya and Syria and in particular assesses the extent to which Council members sought to justify their positions and voting behaviour by reference to the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P). It shows how limited invocations of R2P were with regard to Libya, before proceeding to demonstrate how, somewhat paradoxically, R2P-sceptics such as Russia and China subsequently drew upon concerns over the manner in which NATO implemented its UN-mandate in Libya to cast doubts over R2P during debates over Syria. Contemplating the implications of the Libyan and Syrian cases for the future of R2P, the article concludes by arguing that the concept's international standing can best be preserved through the excision of its most coercive elements; R2P should be reconstituted as a standard of acceptable sovereign behaviour and a mechanism geared towards the provision of international guidance and support, while decisions over coercive military intervention, inevitably infused with considerations of strategic interest, should be made outside the R2P framework.

 

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The Responsibility to Protect : The Libya Test Case / by Margaret H. Woodward, Philip G. Morrison., 2013. (JOINT FORCE QUARTERLY, no. 71, 2013, p. 20-24.) ID Number: JA029812 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Woodward, Margaret H. 2. Morrison, Philip G. RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS--GREECE Golden Dawn or Democratic Sunset : The Rise of the Far Right in Greece / by George Bistis., 2013. (MEDITERRANEAN QUARTERLY, vol. 24, no. 3, Summer 2013, p. 35-55.) ID Number: JA029755 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Bistis, George RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--ECONOMIC POLICY Fear of the Future : Russia in the Global Economy in the Next Few Years / by Philip Hanson., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL SPECTATOR, vol. 48, no. 3, September 2013, p. 34-49.) ID Number: JA029760 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Hanson, Philip The Russian economy, though so far in better shape than Europe, is facing the possibility of very slow growth in the near future. Its tendency to volatility was demonstrated in 2008-09, when Russian GDP fell more than that of any other large country. Looking at that experience and at current concerns, it seems that Russia has both demand-side (slow world growth, uncertain future oil prices) and supply-side (falling labour force) problems. The continuing failure to provide secure property rights for business probably compounds these difficulties. RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS Putin's Russia : Shaping a 'Grand Strategy' ? / by Andrew Monaghan., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1221-1236.) ID Number: JA029744 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Monaghan, Andrew Since the middle of the last decade the Russian leadership has conducted a strategic overhaul, publishing a cascade of new concepts, strategies and doctrines that attempt to frame plans in a long-term horizon to 2020 and beyond. Following Vladimir Putin's re-election in 2012, a series of presidential instructions and new plans have been published to update this overhaul. This article examines this commitment to strategic planning and whether it is tantamount to a grand strategy. The article explores the various understandings of Russian strategy in the existing literature, before sketching a definition of grand strategy. It suggests that Moscow has shaped a broad horizon and made some progress towards achieving the goals it has set out. But a grand strategy is more than formulating plans, it is also the coordination of relevant organizations and resources - 'conducting the orchestra' - to execute effectively the plans. The article thus concludes by exploring the difficulties Moscow faces : on the one hand, an evolving and competitive international context and,

 

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on the other, a domestic context burdened by a heavy inheritance from the USSR and contemporary Russian problems. Taken all together, these suggest that although Moscow is committed to strategic planning, a grand strategy remains a work in progress. Moscow's Soft Power Strategy / by Andrei P. Tsygankov., 2013. (CURRENT HISTORY, vol. 112, no. 756, October 2013, p. 259-264.) ID Number: JA029790 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Tsygankov, Andrei P. As a semi-peripheral, authoritarian nation with ambitions to preserve great power status and distinct cultural values, Russia is bound to face difficulties convincing the West of its attractiveness. Influencing Eurasia is another matter. RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT Can Putin Keep His Grip on Power ? / by Daniel Treisman., 2013. (CURRENT HISTORY, vol. 112, no. 756, October 2013, p. 251-258.) ID Number: JA029789 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Treisman, Daniel President Vladimir Putin has neutered technocrats, harassed and intimidated opponents, and declared war on 'deviants' and foreigners. Nonetheless, the success of his efforts to retain control over Russia remains far from assured. SALAFIYAH--AZERBAIJAN The Rise of Militant Salafism in Azerbaijan and Its Regional Implications / by Maya Ehrmann., 2013. (MIDDLE EAST POLICY, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 111-120.) ID Number: JA029786 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Ehrmann, Maya This study seeks to prove that while the introduction of salafism to Azerbaijan may be attributed to external factors, the militarization of salafism in the country can primarily be attributed to internal catalysts. This purpose is achieved by exploring the internal and external factors contributing to the rise of militant salafism (also known as jihadism) in predominantly shiite Azerbaijan. SANCTIONS (INTERNATIONAL LAW) 'Pariah States' and Sanctions : The Case of Syria / by Andrew Thomas., 2013. (MIDDLE EAST POLICY, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 27-40.) ID Number: JA029782 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Thomas, Andrew The purpose of this article is to provide an analysis of the efficacy of unilateral and multilateral sanctions on Syria since 9/11 and the policies that underpin them. It also attempts to provide potential remedies to what is perceived to be a limited and unpredictable foreign-policy tool in international relations.

 

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SCANDINAVIA--MILITARY RELATIONS The Rise of Nordic Defence Cooperation : A Return to Regionalism ? / by Tuomas Forsberg., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1161-1181.) ID Number: JA029748 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Forsberg, Tuomas During the Cold War, Nordic cooperation blossomed and the region's identity was strong, yet defence was left outside the Nordic framework. After the end of the Cold War, Nordic cooperation waned and it was largely replaced by cooperation within the framework of the European Union. During the past couple of years, however, Nordic defence cooperation has been boosted by a number of initiatives and common projects. This article analyses this recent rise of Nordic defence cooperation. In terms of theory, it revolves around the question of how material and identity factors explain security cooperation in today's Europe. During the Cold War, identity was an easy explanation for societal cooperation between the Nordic countries, but geostrategic factors and national interests based on them determined (the lack of) defence cooperation. Even today, Nordic defence cooperation is justified more by cost-efficiency and geographical proximity than by common identity. This article argues that Nordic identity nevertheless plays an important role in motivating defence cooperation. It is not driven by pure cost-efficiency or strategic calculation. The role of identity needs to be understood, however, not as a kind of independent force but as part of the political process. Nordic identity explains the rise of the region's defence cooperation in two ways : it facilitates informal cooperation between defence officials at various levels; and it is easy to sell international defence cooperation politically to domestic audiences it if is done in the Nordic context. Yet Nordic cooperation is not seen as contradicting European or NATO cooperation. SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANISATION The Shanghai Cooperation Organization on the Eve of the Bishkek Summit / by Kirill Barsky., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Minneapolis), vol. 59, no. 4, 2013, p. 24-38.) ID Number: JA029702 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Barsky, Kirill Internal Contradictions of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization / by Adil Kaukenov., 2013. (CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS, vol. 14, no. 2, 2013, p. 7-17.) ID Number: JA029707 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Kaukenov, Adil SOUTH CHINA SEA South China Sea : A Zone of Cooperation or Waters of Conflict / by Yuri Raikov., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Minneapolis), vol. 59, no. 4, 2013, p. 55-66.) ID Number: JA029704 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Raikov, Yuri

 

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SUICIDE BOMBINGS--AFGHANISTAN Revisiting the 'Problem From Hell' : Suicide Terror in Afghanistan / by Henry Rome., 2013. (STUDIES IN CONFLICT AND TERRORISM, vol. 36, no. 10, October 2013, p. 819-838.) ID Number: JA029757 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Rome, Henry A hallmark of the resurgence of antigovernment forces in Afghanistan was the mass introduction of suicide terrorist attacks. Between 2005 and 2006, the incidence of suicide bombings increased more than fivefold, marking a sea change in the Afghan conflict. Despite the initial jump in the volume of suicide attacks and the fear of more violence, the number of attacks actually flat-lined while the level of other attacks increased. This study argues that it is the competency of the attackers employed in Afghanistan, not the politics, technology, or targeting, that best explains the static level of suicide attacks. SYRIA--HISTORY--PROTESTS, 2011- Power Sharing in Syria : Lessons from Lebanon's Taif Experience / by Stephan Rosiny., 2013. (MIDDLE EAST POLICY, vol. 20, no. 3, Fall 2013, p. 41-55.) ID Number: JA029783 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Rosiny, Stephan In view of the similarities between the two countries, it is worth investigating the potential lessons that Syria could learn from the Lebanese experience of power sharing. A consociational division of power between the different communities may help as an instrument of immediate crisis intervention to overcome the fear of extermination and the deep mistrust that has been aggravated by the civil war. However, as the Lebanese example shows, it has to be complemented by institutions that boost centripetal mechanisms of interethnic cooperation. Otherwise, consociationalism perpetuates and deepens the trenches in a deeply divided society and weakens the capacity of the central state to create neutral institutions that serve citizens without regard for their sectarian and ethnic affiliations. TERRORISM The Intellectuals and Terror : A Fatal Attraction., 2013. (TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, vol. 25, no. 4, September - October 2013, Special Issue.) ID Number: JA029721 Type: ART How Al Qaeda Innovates / by Assaf Moghadam., 2013. (SECURITY STUDIES, vol. 22, no. 3, July - September 2013, p. 466-497.) ID Number: JA029738 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Moghadam, Assaf Innovative terrorist organizations pose exceptionally dangerous threats because of their potential to surprise declared enemies, inflict heavy costs upon them, and set new trends that other militant groups seek to emulate. Despite this importance, researcher have shed little light on where terrorist innovation originates. Although military innovation scholars have emphasized the importance of both top-down and bottom-up innovation, the few existing studies on terrorist innovation have acknowledged the importance of the terrorist

 

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leadership but largely ignored the role played by middle- or lower-ranking operatives in the innovation process. This study examines the planning of the September 11, 2011 attacks and finds that, contrary to the predominant claims on terrorist innovation, the 9/11 attacks featured both top-down and bottom-up processes of innovation, with the latter including a critical role played by an independent terrorist entrepreneur. Theoretically, the findings suggest that the conventional wisdom of the predominance of top-down innovation in terrorism is dependent on a problematic assumption, namely that terrorist groups are centralized, hierarchical, and localized entities. As more terrorist groups adopt decentralized structures, they are increasingly likely to display multi-directional processes of innovation. The study has important implications for counterterrorism policy. It suggests that thwarting the most innovative terrorist groups requires targeting senior- and middle-management operatives of the group itself and expending greater effort at apprehending independent terrorist innovators with fluid organizational affiliations. A mix of offensive and defensive counterterrorism strategies, coupled with greater international cooperation, is critical to achieving this goal. TERRORISM--RELIGIOUS ASPECTS--ISLAM--ALGERIA La strategie algerienne face a AQMI / by Djallil Lounnas., 2013. (POLITIQUE ETRANGERE, vol. 78, no. 3, automne 2013, p. 147-157.) ID Number: JA029771 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Lounnas, Djallil La strategie algerienne face a Al-Qaida au Maghreb islamique (AQMI) est construite sur l'heritage de la guerre civile des annees 1990. Elle consiste a combattre par les armes les elements terroristes les plus radicaux et a tendre la main aux moderes, susceptibles de renoncer a la violence. Alger a cherche a appliquer ce melange de repression et de dialogue a la crise malienne. Le double jeu d'Ansar Dine a conduit les autorites algeriennes a apporter leur aide a l'intervention militaire de la France. TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE (1990) Le Traite sur les forces armees conventionnelles en Europe : etat des lieu / by Guy Vinet., 2013. (REVUE DEFENSE NATIONALE, no. 763, octobre 2013, p. 98-103.) ID Number: JA029776 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Vinet, Guy Avec cette chronique detaillee d'un traite non ratifie charge d'entretenir la transparence sur le rapport des forces militaires en Europe, on mesure a la fois le chemin parcouru depuis les derniers temps de la guerre froide et l'interet de disposer d'un instrument d'echanges entre Europeens pour promouvoir une veritable securite cooperative.

 

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TURKEY--ARMED FORCES--REORGANIZATION The Turkish Armed Forces during Transformation and Modernization : Strategies and Trends / by Levon Ovsepian., 2013. (CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS, vol. 14, no. 2, 2013, p. 38-46.) ID Number: JA029708 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Ovsepian, Levon This article examines the general trends in the modernization strategy of Turkey's defense sector after the end of the Cold War, which, in addition to everything else, envisages the need for extensive renewal of the army. It pays particular attention to the role of Turkey's military and industrial complex in modernizing the country's armed forces, the main trends of which are identified on the basis of an analysis of official figures and indices. Modernization of the army and development of the military-industrial complex are largely aimed at meeting Turkey's geopolitical ambitions to become a more influential force in the region. TURKEY--FOREIGN RELATIONS La Turquie : rapprochements, mutations, equilibres geopolitiques / by Fotini Katy Mirante-Psaltakis., 2013. (REVUE DEFENSE NATIONALE, no. 763, octobre 2013, p. 92-97.) ID Number: JA029777 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Mirante-Psaltakis, Fotini Katy Alors que la question syrienne pourrait rebattre les cartes strategiques dans une region pivot et tampon entre Europe et Asie, l'auteur fait un inventaire soigne des relations qu'entretient la Turquie avec un environnement geopolitique qui porte la marque de l'espace ottoman et conserve les traces de la guerre froide. TURKEY--FOREIGN RELATIONS--FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS Turkey and Its Post-Soviet Neighborhood / by Kemal Kirisci., 2013. (CURRENT HISTORY, vol. 112, no. 756, October 2013, p. 271-276.) ID Number: JA029792 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Kirisci, Kemal Attention focused on Turkey's emerging role in the Middle East has tended to obscure the regional powers' more extensive engagement with former Soviet republics. UKRAINE--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 'Ukraine Fatigue' and a New US Agenda for Europe and Eurasia / by Stephen Blank, Younkyoo Kim., 2013. (ORBIS, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall 2013, p. 595-614.) ID Number: JA029726 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Blank, Stephen 2. Kim, Younkyoo Ukraine's current policy line is counterproductive, according to the authors. Not only may potential supporters be unable to help Ukraine, they will probably not want to help it and will ignore the consequences of its distress given their preoccupation with other problems. Then many wolves will flock not only to Ukraine's but to Europe's door obliging us then to confront a much greater crisis with fewer resources at hand to meet it.

 

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UNITED NATIONS--PEACEKEEPING FORCES Quel avenir pour les Casques bleus et le maintien de la paix ? / by Michel Liegeois., 2013. (POLITIQUE ETRANGERE, vol. 78, no. 3, automne 2013, p. 65-78.) ID Number: JA029772 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Liegeois, Michel L'ONU sera en 2014 le premier acteur militaire en termes d'operations. Pourtant, les critiques abondent : operations interminables fossilisees dans le paysage international; gouffres financiers sans perspective des deploiements de l'ONU en RDC et au Darfour; et pourquoi les puissances militaires se tiennent-elles a l'ecart, un Casque bleu sur trois provenant d'Asie du Sud ? Le maintien de la paix facon ONU est-il depasse ? Mais alors qui serait a meme de prendre le relais des Nations unies ? URBAN WARFARE Kampfkraft in urbanen Operationen / by Jan-Phillipp Weisswange., 2013. (EUROPAISCHE SICHERHEIT & TECHNIK, Nr. 9, September 2013, S. 44-48.) ID Number: JA029701 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Weisswange, Jan-Phillipp USA--ARMED FORCES--DEFENSE SPENDING Defense on a Diet : How Budget Crises Have Improved U.S. Strategy / by Melvyn P. Leffler., 2013. (FOREIGN AFFAIRS, vol. 92, no. 6, November - December 2013, p. 65-76.) ID Number: JA029809 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Leffler, Melvyn P. Accepting Austerity : The Right Way to Cut Defense / by Cindy Williams., 2013. (FOREIGN AFFAIRS, vol. 92, no. 6, November - December 2013, p. 54-64.) ID Number: JA029808 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Williams, Cindy USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS The Age of Liberal Imperialism : Twenty-Five Years of a Flawed U.S. Foreign Policy / by Dan G. Cox., 2013. (ORBIS, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall 2013, p. 643-652.) ID Number: JA029727 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Cox, Dan G. The most common assertion about US foreign policy appearing in scholarly journals and opinion articles is that it is incoherent. This article shows that nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, it is a growing cohesiveness from political science centered around the democratic peace thesis and a growing interdisciplinary consensus that western human rights need to be granted and enforced around that world that has fed into a highly cohesive, highly militarized, foreign policy of what will be defined as Liberal Imperialism.

 

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US Strategy in a Post-Western World / by Robert A. Manning., 2013. (SURVIVAL, vol. 55, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 115-132.) ID Number: JA029714 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Manning, Robert A. Rather than considering itself a hegemon, the US should think more like a chairman of the board, convener-in-chief, a catalyser and - decreasingly - the world's first responder. Competitive Engagement : Upgrading America's Influence / by Nadia Schadlow., 2013. (ORBIS, vol. 57, no. 4, Fall 2013, p. 501-515.) ID Number: JA029722 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Schadlow, Nadia America's instruments of foreign policy are weak. As a result, Washington depends much more on its military power than it should. The militarization of foreign policy is neither good for American interests nor sustainable, since many political, economic, and ideological outcomes are not attainable through the use of military force. Yet ongoing discussions about America's non-military power miss one important factor : in virtually every theater of the world, local, regional, and strategic competitions affect America's ability to exert influence through its aid and diplomacy. From Pakistan to the Middle East to Africa, ideas about how to develop economies, shape educational systems, administer health care programs, and build political institutions, are contested. Until the competitive nature of aid and diplomacy is deliberately and explicitly considered, Washington's ability to achieve outcomes using its non-military power - often called 'soft' or 'smart power' - will remain fundamentally limited. USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--ASIA A Rebalance to Where ? US Strategic Geography in Asia / by Nick Bisley, Andrew Phillips., 2013. (SURVIVAL, vol. 55, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 95-114.) ID Number: JA029716 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Bisley, Nick 2. Phillips, Andrew The language US officials use about the pivot implies a shift from the Asia-Pacific to the Indo-Pacific. It would be better for Washington to continue to view East Asia and the Indian Ocean as linked but distinct. USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--CHINA Conflict Foretold : America and China / by Nigel Inkster., 2013. (SURVIVAL, vol. 55, no. 5, October - November 2013, p. 7-27.) ID Number: JA029720 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Inkster, Nigel Competition in key areas such as space and cyber is inevitable and not necessarily malign. But to avoid the relationship becoming self-defeating and tragic, both sides will need to show greater self-awareness.

 

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WAR La guerre a-t-elle un avenir ?., 2013. (POLITIQUE ETRANGERE, vol. 78, no. 3, automne 2013, p. 23-78 (plusieurs articles).) ID Number: JA029773 Type: ART WAR ON TERRORISM, 2001-2009 The End of the War on Terror and the Future of US Counterterrorism / by Magnus Nordenman., 2013. (MEDITERRANEAN QUARTERLY, vol. 24, no. 3, Summer 2013, p. 6-19.) ID Number: JA029754 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Nordenman, Magnus WMD NONPROLIFERATION--EU A European Contribution to Non-Proliferation ? The EU WMD Strategy at Ten / by Benjamin Kienzle., 2013. (INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, vol. 89, no. 5, September 2013, p. 1143-1159.) ID Number: JA029749 Type: ART Author(s): 1. Kienzle, Benjamin In the aftermath of the ruptures caused by the Iraq crisis, European states agreed in December 2003 on both a European Security Strategy and an EU Strategy against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Ten years have passed since this attempt to kick-start common European policies on WMD proliferation. How well have EU policies performed in the area ? Has a specifically European way of dealing with proliferation challenges emerged ? This article traces the development of EU policies on WMD proliferation since 2003 by examining, in particular, European reactions to the nuclear crisis in Iran, as well as European interactions with the international non-proliferation regime and the cooperation with partner countries. The article concludes that the EU has performed much better than might have been expected in an area that has traditionally been one of the fiercely guarded prerogatives of national security policies. The EU's good performance is very much related to institutional flexibility, as exemplified by the EU/E3 approach to Iran; and, to a high degree of political pragmatism. However, important shortcomings remain, most notably the lack of coordination between national and European non-proliferation efforts. In other words, the EU has not in the last ten years turned into a fully fledged non-proliferation actor that can deliver tangible results in any area of proliferation concern.