Defence policy is of continuing interest and concern to all nations. There are armed conflicts
and new threats. Difficult choices cannot be avoided. This book has three aims. First, to …

This book introduces game theory and its applications from an applied mathematician's
perspective, systematically developing tools and concepts for game-theoretic modelling in …

This Element introduces students, policy-makers, politicians, governments and business-
people to this new discipline within economics. It presents the recent history of the subject …

This paper serves as the Editorial Introduction that heads the special issue on post-conflict
societies in the social sciences and it reviews the growing literature on this topic. The field …

Public value theory speaks to the co-creation of value between politicians, citizens, and
public managers, with a focus on the public manager in terms of her contributions, initiatives …

While the question of whether a relationship exists between socio-economic inequality and
incidence of terrorism has been previously explored, the answer remains inconclusive. With …

For decades, the concept of deterrence and the fear for nuclear confrontation withheld large
powers from waging aggression against each other. Recent technological developments …

This study aims to describe how group leaders operate with their social ties of jihadi
terrorists, using social network analysis. Data was collected through documents and …

After twenty years of global counterterrorist financing (CTF) policy and practice, there is little
consensus on what these have achieved, and little empirical evidence to determine if, or …

The intention of this special issue of Social Sciences is to study state fragility and its
relationship with conflict and grievances in the post-Cold War Middle East and North Africa …