Handbook of defence politics : international and comparative perspectives / edited by Isaiah Wilson lll and J. F. Forest.

Introduction to the politics of defence policy / Isaiah Wilson III and James J.F. Forest -- The changing conception of self-defence / Aidan Hehir -- The origins of 'new' security constructions : weapons proliferation and the preventive war option / Scott A. Silverstone -- Democracy by force / Alexandre Lambert -- A contested threat : the politics of security collaboration for combating terrorism / Erica Chenoweth -- The United Nations and peacekeeping / Donna Winslow -- NATO and collective security in Europe / Rebecca J. Cruise -- Ensuring effective use of private forces : domestic, international and transnational regulatory options in the face of changing warfare / Olivia Allison and Martha Clark Dunigan -- Nuclear defence policies in political retrospective / Julie Bentz -- The use of new media in the modern asymmetric warfare environment / Pierre Pahlavi -- The politics of defence in Africa / Benedikt Franke -- Defence policymaking in strategic Asia / Mercy Kuo and Michael Wills -- Post-Cold War security and defence in 'old' and 'new' Europe / Luca Ratti and Jeremy W. Lamoreaux -- Latin American defence politics and regional security co-operation / Fernando M. Lujan and Richard J. Kilroy, Jr. -- Politics, economics and the governance environments shaping Middle East defence expenditures and their impact on growth / Robert E. Looney -- Australia, Britain, Canada, the US and the ABCA relationship / Andrew Dorman, Joyce P. Kaufman and Craig Stone -- The foreign and defence policies of the Nordic countries and unique case of Denmark's military activism / Henning Sorensen -- Defence politics of the Korean peninsula / Jin H. Pak -- The People's Republic of China / Zhiqun Zhu -- Domestic politics and defence policy in Taiwan / Michael S. Chase -- The dynamics of Turkish security : domestic, regional and global factors / Catherine Harrison and Gokhan Yucel -- Democracy in an ongoing conflict : the politics of defence in Israel -- Alone together : Russia and the US in the post-Soviet era / Thomas Sherlock -- US defence policymaking : a 21st-century perspective / Frank L. Jones -- Recanting the ghosts of Vietnam : the evolution of modern US land warfare doctrine / Dave Dudas and Don Snider -- Defence consolidation in the US / O. Shawn Cupp -- The politics and strategy of US military intervention in the Middle East / Bradley L. Bowman -- Expanding our notions of defence / Veronica Mara Ziliotto -- Nuclear weapons and deterrence stability in Asia / Stephen J. Cimbala -- Duelling regimes : international legal constraints versus humanist intervention / Isaiah Wilson III.

"Issues of defence politics and policy have long been at the forefront of political agendas and have defined international affairs. With a focus on examining the fundamental causes of-- and defence policy responses to-- the new 'post-9/11' security environment, this volume offers an up-to-date, balanced and comprehensive overview of defence politics world-wide"--P. [4] of cover.