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.
Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant
1st Edition
By Emile Hokayem
June 06, 2013
As an upbeat and peaceful uprising quickly and brutally descended into a zero-sum civil war, Syria has crumbled from a regional player into an arena in which a multitude of local and foreign actors compete. The volatile regional fault lines that run through Syria have ruptured during this conflict,...
The United Kingdom and Nuclear Deterrence
1st Edition
By Jeremy Stocker
May 13, 2013
In December 2003 the British government announced that within a few years it would need to take decisions about the future of Britain's strategic nuclear deterrent. Exactly three years later, its plans were revealed in a White Paper. The existing Trident system is to be given a life-extension, ...
Regional Disorder: The South China Sea Disputes
1st Edition
By Sarah Raine
May 07, 2013
China‘s rise casts a vast and uncertain shadow over the regional balance of power in the Asia Pacific, and nowhere is this clearer than in the South China Sea. The significance of the fraught territorial disputes in this potentially resource-rich sea extends far beyond the small groupings of ...
Iraq – From War to a New Authoritarianism
1st Edition
By Christian LeMiere
January 31, 2013
Iraq recovered its full sovereignty at the end of 2011, with the departure of all US military forces. The 2003 invasion was undertaken to dismantle a regime that had long threatened its own population and regional peace, as well as to establish a stable, democratic state in the heart of the Middle ...
Asia’s Naval Expansion: An Arms Race in the Making?
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Till
December 27, 2012
The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated naval balance in Asia-Pacific but it also raises a question: are the region’s powers involved in a naval arms race? Naval development is and always has been a ...
Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity
1st Edition
By The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
October 11, 2012
As another presidential election looms, the America’s role in global affairs and security has emerged as one of the campaign’s great battle lines. The struggle not just to define but also to preserve American power is no modern phenomenon: questions of intervention and projection have dominated the...
Latin America and the Illusion of Peace
1st Edition
By David R. Mares
August 16, 2012
This book explores interstate conflict and its dynamics in the context of Latin America’s contemporary conflict management experience. The myth of Latin America as a region of peace means that each time the use of force rises to the level of global attention (e.g., Ecuador-Peru 1995 or ...
Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States: The Problems of Prohibition
1st Edition
By Nigel Inkster, Virginia Comolli
June 21, 2012
The world’s wealthiest nations have expended vast blood and treasure in tracking and capturing traffickers, dealers and consumers of narcotics, as well as destroying crops and confiscating shipments. Yet the global trade in illicit drugs is thriving, with no apparent change in the level of ...
Nuclear Politics and the Non-Aligned Movement: Principles vs Pragmatism
1st Edition
By William Potter, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova
April 03, 2012
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is the largest and most diverse political grouping of states engaged on issues related to nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Drawing on the authors’ first-hand experiences as members of NAM observer-state delegations in NPT and IAEA negotiations, as well as ...
Afghanistan: to 2015 and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Toby Dodge, Nicholas Redman
February 13, 2012
As the international security forces prepare to depart from Afghanistan, this Adelphi turns attention to the ability of a ravaged country to tackle its myriad security problems, overcome crippling poverty and corruption and somehow revive its devastated economy. The government faces daunting ...
Cyberspace and the State: Towards a Strategy for Cyber-Power
1st Edition
By David J. Betz, Tim Stevens
January 26, 2012
The major aim of Cyberspace and the State is to provide conceptual orientation on the new strategic environment of the Information Age. It seeks to restore the equilibrium of policy-makers which has been disturbed by recent cyber scares, as well as to bring clarity to academic debate on the subject...
On Nuclear Deterrence: The Correspondence of Sir Michael Quinlan
1st Edition
By Tanya Ogilvie-White
October 20, 2011
This timely book, published in the lead up to the 2012-14 decision on Trident renewal, makes available for the first time the late Sir Michael Quinlan’s private correspondence on nuclear deterrence. It shows why Sir Michael, as Policy Director and then Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence...