For sale in CIS only! "History's Spoiled Children" is the story of a small Ottoman province and its transformation into a modern European state. In some respects, the challenges to the formation of the Greek state could be likened to those encounter...

For sale in CIS only! Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped by geogr...

For sale in CIS only! State police forces in Africa are a curiously neglected subject of study, even within the framework of security issues and African states. This book brings together criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, pol...

For sale in CIS only! "Why Europe Intervenes in Africa" analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who h...

For sale in CIS only! "Cyber war is coming", announced a landmark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the "fifth domain" of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cybe...

For sale in CIS only! Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Rusi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberatio...

For sale in CIS only! The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years. In Turkey, where the Kurdish question is an issue of national significance, and...

For sale in CIS only! President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the "War on Terror". The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law and spreading democracy, yet...

For sale in CIS only! Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is both a riveting tale of hardship and courage and a deeply informative military history. The son of a Sovi...

For sale in CIS only! "The Art of Creating Power" explores the intellectual thought and wider impact – on military affairs, politics and the universities – of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, confl...