Book Series
Adelphi Papers
New & Published Titles:
The Iranian Nuclear Crisis
Avoiding worst-case outcomes
This Adelphi Paper will explain how Iran’s nuclear programme developed to the point where it threatens to achieve a weapons capability within a short timeframe,…
read moreNovember 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46654-7 (Routledge)
Energy and Security in Asia
This Adelphi Paper will provide an assessment of the security implications for Asia of energy resource scarcity. One such implication is the prospect of competition… read moreJuly 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46655-4 (Routledge)
Selective Security
War and the United Nations Security Council since 1945
In contrast to the common perception that the United Nations is, or should become, a system of collective security, this paper advances the proposition that…
read moreJuly 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47472-6 (Routledge)
The US Role in the World
The United States continues to be the dominant military power on the international stage. But dominance is not what it used to be; the…
read moreJuly 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46581-6 (Routledge)
The Future of Conflict
July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46582-3 (Routledge)
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear disarmament is firmly back on the international agenda. But almost all current thinking on the subject is focused on the process of reducing the…
read moreJuly 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46583-0 (Routledge)
The Future of Asia-Pacific Sea Power
Navies are going through a period of radical change, in large part due to new technologies and the effects of globalization. In this changing strategic…
read moreJuly 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46584-7 (Routledge)
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and Central Asia's Security Dilemmas
July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46631-8 (Routledge)
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India as a Rising Great Power: Challenges and Opportunities
July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46632-5 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
The Adelphi Papers monograph series is The International Institute for Strategic Studies flagship contribution to policy-relevant, original academic research.
Eight Adelphi Papers are published each year. They are designed to provide rigorous analysis of strategic and defence topics that will prove useful to politicians and diplomats, as well as academic researchers, foreign-affairs analysts, defence commentators and journalists.