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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 America's Imperial Inheritance -- 2 Britain's Grandeur and Guilt of Empire -- 3 The European Union's Post-Imperial Project -- 4 Russia's Embrace of its Imperial Legacy -- 5 China's Janus Faces of Empire -- 6 India's Overcoming of the 'Intimate Enemy' -- 7 The Middle East's Post-Imperial Instability -- 8 Africa's Scramble Beyond Colonialism -- Conclusion: The World's Intersecting Imperial Legacies -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction The strategic art of confronting armed groups -- Chapter One The difficulties of accommodating or eliminating armed groups -- Northern Ireland: the UK politicises its security response -- Sri Lanka: destroying the LTTE after years of war and talks -- Delivering a decisive outcome against armed groups -- Chapter Two Struggling to move from military stalemate to negotiations -- Colombia: five decades of tilting between fighting and talking -- Turkey: belatedly opening a political track with the PKK -- Chasing political settlements with armed groups -- Chapter Three The ruthless pragmatism of being selective and deceptive -- Russia: playing politics and waging war to quell Chechnya's rebellion -- Pakistan: fighting and talking to Islamist militants since 9/11 -- Do these policies arise from cunning or desperation? -- Chapter Four When partnerships of states confront armed groups -- Afghanistan: neither defeating nor reconciling with the Taliban -- Iraq: as the armed-group challenge ends, another begins -- Engaging armed groups through partnerships -- Chapter Five The lopsided strategies of very weak or very strong states -- The DRC: a weak state forged from armed groups -- Israel's perpetual security dilemma in the Palestinian territories -- Conclusion -- Developing an analytical framework -- No exit -- Policy insights -- Index

This book examines Pakistan's strategies in the war against Islamist armed groups that began late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks. The significance of the war inside Pakistan can hardly be understated. Starting in the tribal territories adjacent to Afghanistan, Pakistan's war has come to engulf the majority of the country through a brutal campaign of suicide bombings. Thousands of Pakistani lives have been lost and the geostrategic balance of the region has been thrown into deep uncertainty. Pakistan's War on Terrorism is an account of a decade-long war following the 9/11 attacks, that is yet to be chronicled in systematic fashion as a campaign of military manoeuvre and terrorist reprisal. It is also an analytic account of Pakistan's strategic calculus during this time, both in military and political terms, and how these factors have been filtered by Pakistan's unique strategic culture. This text will be of great interest to students of Asian Politics, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Security Studies in general.?

Although unfolding a continent away, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is detrimental to the strategic stability of East Asia, which is already riven by its own unresolved conflicts and territorial control disputes. The degradation of global security norms, the disruption to global energy supplies and the need to pick sides for or against Russia have each contributed to making East Asia's security a more complex Rubik's cube to manage. This article examines the implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Russia–China relations; Taiwan Strait's stability; Japan's defence policy; and the Korean peninsula. How and on what terms Russia's invasion ends will carry another set of impacts and lessons for East Asia. In closing, the lessons of freezing conflicts in East Asia are applied to the emerging situation in Eastern Europe: of an unresolveable and unwinnable war that may become a lasting feature of European security, in the way that unresolved wars over Korea and Taiwan have become enduring realities in East Asia.

This article examines the hedging strategies of Iran, Russia, and China. It demonstrates how these deeply dissatisfied states have used strategic hedging to pursue status and security: specifically, through local revisionism that does not jeopardize their ability to participate in the international system or trigger interstate war. The case studies show how these states have maintained this balance during three of the biggest interstate crises of the twenty-first century so far: confrontations over Iran's nuclear program, Russia's destabilization of Ukraine, and China's maritime operations. Each case juxtaposes these states΄ regional assertion of power with their efforts to bargain with the system hegemon. The evidence shows that despite ostensibly revisionist maneuvers, none of these states want to fight the US or to break with the global system. Rather, each has executed its revisionist gambits as part of a wider hedging strategy, calibrating their level of aggression to the tolerance of the US.