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.
Japan's Re-emergence as a 'Normal' Military Power
1st Edition
By Christopher Hughes
April 07, 2006
Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs? This Adelphi Paper assesses the overall trajectory of Japan’s security policy over the last decade, and the impact of a changing Japanese military posture on the stability of East Asia. The ...
Revitalising US-Russian Security Cooperation: Practical Measures
1st Edition
By Richard Weitz
March 17, 2006
Russia and the United States are the most important countries for many vital security issues. They possess the world’s largest nuclear weapons arsenals, are involved in the principal regional conflicts, and have lead roles in opposing international terrorism and weapons proliferation. Despite ...
Nuclear Terrorism after 9/11
1st Edition
By Robin M. Frost
March 16, 2006
The very mention of nuclear terrorism is enough to rouse strong reactions, and understandably so, because it combines the most terrifying weapons and the most threatening of people in a single phrase. The possibility that terrorists could obtain and use nuclear weapons deserves careful analysis, ...
The Proliferation Security Initiative: Making Waves in Asia
1st Edition
By Mark J. Valencia
March 16, 2006
The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), launched initiated by US President Bush in May 2003, was designed to prevent elements of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from reaching or leaving states or sub-state actors of proliferation concern. More than twenty countries now adhere to PSI ...
Fuelling War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts
1st Edition
By Philippe Le Billon
March 06, 2006
A generous endowment of natural resources should favour rapid economic and social development. The experience of countries like Angola and Iraq, however, suggests that resource wealth often proves a curse rather than a blessing. Billions of dollars from resource exploitation benefit repressive ...
South Africa's Post Apartheid Foreign Policy: From Reconciliation to Revival?
1st Edition
By Chris Alden
January 26, 2006
The book presents and analyses South African foreign policy, from the onset of the democratic transition of Nelson Mandela in 1994 to the contemporary period. The focus of the study is on the question of South African leadership in the context of this transition....
Multinational Military Forces: Problems and Prospects
1st Edition
By Roger Palin
November 08, 2005
First Published in 2005. Since the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent end of the Cold War, there has been a marked increase in attention paid to multinational military forces. Adelphi Paper 294 looks at the problems facing multinational forces and operations and the prospects ...
A US Strategy for the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
By Douglas T. Stuart, William T. Tow
September 26, 2005
First Published in 2005. This is Adelphi Paper 299 and discusses a strategy for the Unites States of America for the continued stability of the Asia-Pacific region. Looking at ways in which the US-dominated system of Asia-Pacific security that evolved during the Cold War must be fundamentally ...
India Redefines its Role
1st Edition
By Shekhar Gupta
September 26, 2005
This work offers analytical examination of the facts that will shape the India of the future and determine whether India emerges as Asia's new economic tiger, a stabilizing factor in a turbulent region, or becomes inward-looking, militaristic and stagnant....
Protracted Refugee Situations: Domestic and International Security Implications
1st Edition
By Gil Loescher, James Milner
September 22, 2005
Protracted refugee populations not only constitute over 70% of the world's refugees but are also a principal source of many of the irregular movements of people around the world today. The long-term presence of refugee populations in much of the developing world has come to be seen by many host ...
Dealing with the Threat of Cruise Missiles
1st Edition
By Dennis M Gormley
July 31, 2005
How can the core transatlantic Allies make coalitions more effective? One year on from Kosovo, disparities in the capabilities of the coalition partners, as well as uneven levels of prior coordination, persist. To address these problems will require much greater force planning in ...
Arming East Russia
1st Edition
By Tim Huxley, Susan Willett
July 27, 2005
During the 1990s, military spending, arms procurement and defence industrialisation have all increased rapidly in East Asia. Although these developments do not constitute an arms race, they nevertheless have important implications for suppliers of defence equipment, for arms control and for ...