Calculating Credibility examines and ultimately rejects a fundamental belief held by laypeople and the makers of American foreign policy: the notion that backing down during a crisis reduces a country's future credibility. Fear of diminished...

Two schools of thought now exist in security studies: traditionalists want to restrict the subject to politico-military issues; while wideners want to extend it to the economic, societal and environmental sectors. This text establishes a case for the broader agenda.

In The Military Lens, Christopher P. Twomey shows how differing military doctrines have led to misperceptions between the United States and China over foreign policy and the potential dangers these might pose in future relations.

The optimism that arrived at the end of the cold war and marked the turn of the Millennium was shattered by September 11. Terrorism is but one aspect of many other wider concerns for national and international security. This title provides an assessment of the prospects for peace and security in the 21st century.

Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers. The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and subduing them took a lengthy British Army commitment, only surpassed in the Victorian period by that on the North-West Frontier of India.

A gripping and vivid account of one of the British army's most famous battles

"This book was first published by Greenhill Books in hardback in 1992 under the title "Under the Orders of the Great White Queen"--Title page verso.