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.
Uncertain Future: The JCPOA and Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Programmes
1st Edition
By Mark Fitzpatrick, Michael Elleman, Paulina Izewicz
January 17, 2019
In July 2015, eight parties – France, Germany and the United Kingdom, together with the European Union and China, Russia and the United States on the one side, and Iran on the other – adopted the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal. Under the agreement,...
Fighting and Negotiating with Armed Groups: The Difficulty of Securing Strategic Outcomes
1st Edition
By Samir Puri
January 11, 2019
What constitutes an effective and realistic strategy for dealing with non-state armed groups? This question has bedevilled states the world over. From Colombia and FARC, Turkey and the PKK, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the persistent insurgency in Iraq – the governments concerned ...
Once and Future Partners: The US, Russia, and Nuclear Non-proliferation
1st Edition
Edited
By William C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood
July 27, 2018
Despite their Cold War rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union frequently engaged in joint efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Leaders in Washington and Moscow recognized that nuclear proliferation would serve neither country’s interests even when they did not see eye-to-eye ...
Africa's Lost Leader: South Africa's continental role since apartheid
1st Edition
By James Hamill
January 16, 2018
When Nelson Mandela was sworn in as president on 10 May 1994, South Africa enjoyed an unprecedented global standing. Much of the international community, particularly Western states, saw the new South Africa as well equipped to play a dynamic and dominant role on the continent; promoting conflict ...
Egypt after the Spring: Revolt and Reaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Emile Hoyakem, Hebatalla Taha
January 08, 2019
This edited Adelphi volume brings together senior scholars as well as rising analysts of Egypt to examine the turbulent period from the January 2011 uprising to the consolidation of power of President Abdelfattah el-Sisi in 2014-15. The nine authors provide a sober, in-depth look at the country’s...
Renewing America’s Nuclear Arsenal: Options for the 21st century
1st Edition
By James E. Doyle
October 23, 2017
In the next few years the US government will make decisions regarding the renewal of its triad of air-, land- and sea-based nuclear weapons that will have huge implications for the security of the country and its allies, its public finances, and the salience of nuclear weapons in global politics. ...
Harsh Lessons: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Changing Character of War
1st Edition
By Ben Barry
February 08, 2017
The recent Afghanistan and Iraq wars were very controversial. The conflicts’ casualties, intractability and the apparent failure of the US and its allies to achieve their objectives mean that many see the wars as failures. This resulted in a loss of confidence in the West of the utility of force as...
Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia
1st Edition
By Samuel Charap, Timothy J. Colton
December 21, 2016
Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country. This Adelphi book argues that the crisis has yielded a ruinous outcome, in which all ...
Business and Conflict in Fragile States: The Case for Pragmatic Solutions
1st Edition
By Brian Ganson, Achim Wennmann
May 31, 2016
Large-scale investments in fragile states – in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia – become magnets for conflict, which undermines business, development and security. International policy responds with regulation, state-building and institutional reform, with poor and often ...
China’s Cyber Power
1st Edition
By Nigel Inkster
May 06, 2016
China’s emergence as a major global power is reshaping the cyber domain. The country has the world’s largest internet-user community, a growing economic footprint and increasingly capable military and intelligence services. Harnessing these assets, it is pursuing a patient, assertive foreign policy...
Asia's Latent Nuclear Powers: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
1st Edition
By Mark Fitzpatrick
February 03, 2016
If the nuclear weapons club were to further expand, would America�s democratic allies in Northeast Asia be among the next entrants? Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all have robust civilian nuclear energy programmes that make them �virtual nuclear powers� according to many analysts. All three once ...
The Evolution of Strategic Thought: Classic Adelphi Papers
1st Edition
Edited
By The International Institute for Strategic Studies
January 21, 2016
The Adelphi Papers monograph series is the International Institute for Strategic Studies' principal contribution to policy-relevant, original academic research. Collected on the occasion of the Institute's 50th anniversary, the twelve Adelphi Papers in this volume represent some of the finest ...