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International Security - Books

International Security-related Chatham House books are listed below.

America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership
May 2010

At a time of economic crisis and involvement in two wars, President Barack Obama took office calling for a renewal of America's global leadership. In this book, senior resident and affiliated scholars offer perspectives...

Britain and the Middle East in the 9/11 Era
February 2010

Britain's participation in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 marked a dramatic shift in the direction and focus of British relations with the Middle East. This book provides the first extensive examination of the impact of 9...

US-UK Nuclear Cooperation: An Assessment and Future Prospects
August 2008

As the US and the UK commemorate five decades of their special nuclear relationship embodied in the Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA), Chatham House and CSIS came together to examine the history behind the agreement and...

Britain and Security
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While the classic menace of invasion no longer represents a key threat to the UK, an ever-widening range of dangers - international and domestic terrorism; energy insecurity; organised crime; infectious disease; and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...

Global Non-Proliferation and Counter-Terrorism
March 2007

Adopted in April 2004, UN Security Council Resolution 1540 obliges all states to take steps to prevent non-state actors from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction, related materials, and their means of...

Divided West
June 2006

'Quietly but effectively challenging the official myth that the crisis is now past, Forsberg and Herd reveal beyond all possible doubt that the trauma that arose as a result of Iraq and 9/11 still remains unresolved,...

Knowledge and Multilateral Interventions
December 2000

This paper explores the role of information in the evolution of UN peacekeeping in the 1990s. It examines the information order established during two peacekeeping operations in the 1990s in Cambodia and in Bosnia-...

Enough of the Definition of Terrorism
September 2000

In 1977 Walter Laqueur predicted accurately that "disputes about a detailed, comprehensive definition of terrorism will continue for a long time, they will not result in a consensus and they will make no notable...

Reinventing Realism
May 2000

“Timely, independent minded and very stimulating” - Carl Bridge, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London.In September 1999 Australia took the leading role in the United Nations Intervention Force in...

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