Book Series in Politics & International Relations

Adelphi series

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Sanctions as Grand Strategy

By Brendan Taylor

May 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-59529-2 (Routledge)

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Towards Nuclear Zero

By Raimo Väyrynen, David Cortright

Rarely in the atomic age have hopes been raised as high as they are now for genuine progress toward disarmament. The new receptivity reflected in…

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April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-59528-5 (Routledge)

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Climate Conflict

How global warming threatens security and what to do about it’

By Jeffrey Mazo

Climate change has been a key factor in the rise and fall of societies and states from prehistory to the recent fighting in the Sudanese…

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March 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-59118-8 (Routledge)

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Building Asia’s Security

By Nick Bisley

This book provides a systematic analysis of the current state and future trajectory of security cooperation in the world’s most economically dynamic and strategically uncertain…

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January 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58266-7 (Routledge)

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Building Peace After War

By Mats Berdal

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…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47436-8 (Routledge)

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Transforming Pakistan

Ways Out of Instability

By Hilary Synnott

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…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56260-7 (Routledge)

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China's African Challenges

By Sarah Raine

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…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55693-4 (Routledge)

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Japan's Remilitarisation

By Christopher W. Hughes

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…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55692-7 (Routledge)

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Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency

By Ahmed S. Hashim

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.…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46655-4 (Routledge)

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European Military Crisis Management

Connecting Ambition and Reality

By Bastian Giegerich

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,…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49419-9 (Routledge)

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Edited by: Tim Huxley


The Adelphi book series, which is the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) principal contribution to policy-relevant, original academic research published jointly with Routledge, has adopted a striking new style. Adelphis are now short books, rather than long monographs. The new style also involves a modernised appearance, including individually designed cover art for each new book. The first two new books in the series are now available through the link below.