Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party.  Meer

How did we reach this point and how has European integration impacted on ordinary people's lives - not just in the member states, but also beyond?  Meer

Governance Networks in the Public Sector presents a comprehensive study of governance networks and the management of complexities in network settings.  Meer

This book offers a new edition of Henry Maydman’s work Naval Speculations with a detailed commentary by two leading experts on its importance to the naval issues of the 21st century.  Meer

Personal Identity, Third Edition is a clear and comprehensive introduction to these questions and more  Meer

How can countries decide what kind of military forces they need, if threats are uncertain and history is full of strategic surprises? This is a question that is more pertinent than ever, as countries across the Asia-Pacific are faced with the military and economic rise of China.  Meer

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing. This book argues that national and international governing arrangements are being outflanked by various transnational threats, including the cross-border terrorism of the attacks on Paris in 2015 and Brussels in 2016; trafficking in people, narcotics and armaments; cybercrime; the deregulation of global financial services; and environmental crime.  Meer

Jacques Bertrand offers a comparative-historical analysis of five nationalist conflicts over several decades in Southeast Asia.  Meer

When World War II ended, Yukikaze was the only elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer still afloat.  Meer

Many of war's lethal failures are attributable to ignorance caused by a dearth of contemporary, accessible theory to inform warfighting, strategy, and policy.  Meer

Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements.  Meer

Israel's Moment is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged in the shadow of World War Two and the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War.  Meer

This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages.  Meer