Adelphi series
About the Book Series
The Adelphi series is The International Institute for Strategic Studies' flagship contribution to policy-relevant, original academic research.
Six books are published each year. They provide rigorous analysis of contemporary strategic and defence topics that is useful to politicians and diplomats, as well as academic researchers, foreign-affairs analysts, defence commentators and journalists.
Iraq's Future: The Aftermath of Regime Change
1st Edition
By Toby Dodge
July 07, 2005
It is hard to over estimate what is at stake in Iraq today. The removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime in April 2003 has proved to be the beginning, not the culmination, of a long and very uncertain process of state-building. This Adelphi Paper examines this process from a military, political and ...
Iran-Saudi Arabia Relations and Regional Order
1st Edition
By Shahram Chubin, Charles Tripp
June 08, 2005
Both countries will have strong incentives to test the artificial balance established by the US and from which they are excluded. Each state, in the face of continued embargoes, may find the lure of weapons of mass destruction correspondingly increased....
The Future of Africa: A New Order in Sight
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Herbst
May 31, 2005
This book provides a review of recent development in Africa. It reviews NEPAD and the AU and suggests what must be done for African countries to reverse their growth and security trajectories by asking if any African country will establish the prerequisites for sustained high-level growth....
Globalisation and Insurgency
1st Edition
By John Mackinlay
May 24, 2005
The central proposition of this book is that global changes have altered the nature of insurgency by weakening some governments and empowering the forces that seek to overthrow them. The book identifies four distinct categories of insurgent force, and concludes that globalisation of insurgency ...
Context and Circumstance: The Turkish Military and Politics
1st Edition
By Gareth Jenkins
May 17, 2005
Debates about military influence on civilian government tend to be partisan and rarely pay sufficient attention to specific contexts. This paper analyses, without condemnation or justification, why and how the military exercises such influence in Turkey and whether it is likely to continue to do so...
European Security after the Cold War: Part II
1st Edition
Edited
By Various
April 15, 2005
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Border Security in the Balkans: Europe Gatekeepers
1st Edition
By Alice Hills
March 09, 2005
Borders dominate the security agenda in South-east Europe. Political and ethnic discontents focus on disputed borders, while traffickers in migrants and drugs ignore them.The EU argues that the Balkan countries should develop models of border management using its policing standards, but the region ...
Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Order
1st Edition
By William Walker
March 08, 2005
First Published in 2005. How should the 'problem of order' associated with weapons of mass destrcution be understood and addressed today? Have the problem and its solution been misconceived and misrepresented, as manifested by the problematic aftermath of Iraq War? Has 9/11 rendered ...
The Strategic Implications of European Integration
1st Edition
By Jopp Matthias
February 15, 2005
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Understanding Contemporary International Arms Transfers
1st Edition
By David Mussington
February 15, 2005
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
The United States and European Security
1st Edition
By Paul Gebhard
February 14, 2005
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Counter-terrorism: Containment and Beyond
1st Edition
By Jonathan Stevenson
January 01, 2005
The 9/11 attacks revealed that the transnational terrorist threat facing the US and its partners was far more dangerous than most had previously discerned. It was now clear that al-Qaeda intended to, and could threaten the West’s – particularly the US’ – political and military leverage, with the ...