The Gulf Region: the Changing Face of Global Financial Power?

Publication Date: September 2008

This book examines the Gulf region as a financial centre and an economic power hub, focusing on its role in the world economy and capital markets. In particular, the authors address the issue of whether wealth alone is enough to create an international financial centre.

Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law

Publication Date: October 2007

This book results from a year-long examination of the Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law by a group of military lawyers, academics and practitioners, all with experience in international humanitarian law.

Keeping The Lights On: Towards Sustainable Electricity

Publication Date: July 2007
Walt Patterson underlines the need for a new approach to energy and fuel. He uses the example of electricity to highlight how our perception of energy is obsolete and dangerous. A new approach to electricity offers us an opportunity to achieve real, measurable improvements to energy performance.

Britain and Security

Publication Date: June 2007

While the classic menace of invasion no longer represents a key threat to the UK, an ever-widening range of dangers - international and domestic terrorism; energy insecurity; organised crime; infectious disease; and the consequences of conflicts and instability elsewhere in the world - represent new and complex threats to the country.

No Island is an Island

Publication Date: April 2007
Forty years after the West Indies Federation collapsed, seven Caribbean experts-including academics and practitioners-take a fresh look at the economic challenges facing the small states of the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Global Non-Proliferation and Counter-Terrorism

Publication Date: March 2007
In this important book, noted scholars and policymakers examine a broad range of counter-proliferation measures, such as the Proliferation Security Initiative, within the scope of the resolution, and discuss its impact on the bioscientific community, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the International Atomic Energy Agency, trade and customs, and the role of the UN.

The New Atlanticist

Publication Date: January 2007
This book is an authoritative account of Poland's emerging foreign and security policies and will contribute to an understanding of the foreign policy preferences of an enlarged EU.

Putin's Russia and the Enlarged Europe

Publication Date: November 2006
This authoritative work examines recent changes in Russia's relations with the EU and NATO and explores the patterns of support for these various orientations among its own elites and public.

Iran, Islam and Democracy

Publication Date: September 2006
This new edition includes political developments in Iran since the summer of 2000. It looks at the increasing polarity of views and the changing nature of 'reformism' in light of successive setbacks and growing international tensions.

Divided West

Publication Date: June 2006
This book analyses the genesis and process through which transatlantic strategic dissonance now defines a divided West. It contends that constructive strategic dissonance has the potential to best manage a complex and pressing global security agenda.