This book provides an empirical study of women's violence in global politics. The book looks
at military women who engage in torture; the Chechen'Black Widows'; Middle Eastern …

Abstract Al-Qaida will end. The fear that a small terrorist organization with a loose network
has transformed itself into a protracted global ideological struggle without an end in sight is …

Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world
by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Moscow's armed forces during both operations …

Legacies of political violence are long-term changes in social behavior and attitudes, which
are attributable–at least in part–to historical episodes of political conflict and contention …

How does insurgency spread? Existing research on the diffusion of violence at the local
level of civil war tends to under-specify the theoretical mechanisms by which conflict can be …

A growing literature on the subnational diffusion of armed conflict rests on the proposition
that political violence triggers more violence, in the same locality and elsewhere. Yet state …

The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global
affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the …

The second Chechen war, starting in the North Caucasus in August 1999, shows few signs
of a ceasefire after eleven years, although the level of violence has declined from the peaks …

President Vladimir Putin's Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid
display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia's return to great power …

This book examines the evolution of Russia's security policy under Putin in the 21st century,
using a critical security studies approach. Drawing on critical approaches to security the …