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.
Building Peace After War
1st Edition
By Mats Berdal
October 26, 2009
The widespread practice of intervention by outside actors aimed at building ‘sustainable peace’ within societies ravaged by war has been a striking feature of the post-Cold War era. But, at a time when more peacekeepers are deployed around the world than at any other point in history, is the ...
Transforming Pakistan: Ways Out of Instability
1st Edition
By Hilary Synnott
September 29, 2009
This book argues that any strategy for dealing with Pakistan requires an understanding of the country’s complex and turbulent history and of the weaknesses of its political and other institutions. It describes how, in the absence of an inherent national identity, successive military and civilian ...
Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
1st Edition
By Christian Enemark
July 30, 2009
From 2003 to 2008, the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq posed a key challenge to political stability in the country and to Coalition objectives there. This paper explains the onset, composition and evolution of this insurgency. It begins by addressing both its immediate and deeper sociopolitical ...
China's African Challenges
1st Edition
By Sarah Raine
July 15, 2009
China’s relations with African nations have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China’s oil imports, and China is Africa’s second-largest single-country trading partner, as well as a leading lender and infrastructure investor on the continent. ...
Japan's Remilitarisation
1st Edition
By Christopher W. Hughes
June 24, 2009
Is Japan on a path towards assuming a greater military role internationally, or has the recent military normalisation ground to a halt since the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi? In this book, Christopher W. Hughes assesses developments in defence expenditure, civil–military relations, domestic and...
The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Avoiding worst-case outcomes
1st Edition
By Mark Fitzpatrick
May 01, 2009
This paper explains how Iran developed its nuclear programme to the point where it threatens to achieve a weapons capability within a short time frame, and analyses Western policy responses aimed at forestalling that capability. Key questions are addressed: will the world have to accept an Iranian ...
Joining al-Qaeda: Jihadist Recruitment in Europe
1st Edition
By Peter R. Neumann
April 15, 2009
In Britain alone, several thousand young Muslims are thought to be part of violent extremist networks. How did they become involved? What are the mechanisms and dynamics through which European Muslims join al-Qaeda and groups inspired by al-Qaeda? This paper explains the processes whereby European...
European Military Crisis Management: Connecting Ambition and Reality
1st Edition
By Bastian Giegerich
February 06, 2009
International demand for military crisis-management missions continues to grow and demand for troops continues to outstrip supply. Like other Western democracies, European Union member states, because of their wealth, relative military competence and commitment to human rights, bear a particular ...
Perspectives on International Security: Speeches and Papers for the 50th Anniversary Year of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Nicoll, Tim Huxley
February 01, 2009
Like most years in the 50-year history of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), 2008 saw events that could have significant consequences for international relations and global balances of power. These included the election of Barack Obama as US president; the brief war in ...
Selective Security: War and the United Nations Security Council since 1945
1st Edition
By Adam Roberts, Dominik Zaum
January 02, 2009
In contrast to the common perception that the United Nations is, or should become, a system of collective security, this paper advances the proposition that the UN Security Council embodies a necessarily selective approach. Analysis of its record since 1945 suggests that the Council cannot address ...
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
1st Edition
By George Perkovich, James Acton
December 31, 2008
Nuclear disarmament is firmly back on the international agenda. But almost all current thinking on the subject is focused on the process of reducing the number of weapons from thousands to hundreds. This rigorous analysis examines the challenges that exist to abolishing nuclear weapons completely, ...
Ending Terrorism: Lessons for defeating al-Qaeda
1st Edition
By Audrey Kurth Cronin
June 06, 2008
Like all other terrorist movements, al-Qaeda will end. While it has traits that exploit and reflect the current international context, it is not utterly without precedent: some aspects of al-Qaeda are unusual, but many are not. Terrorist groups end according to recognisable patterns that have ...