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SECURITY STUDIES / GENERAL

Security Issues in the Sexual Assault Hezbollah
Greater Middle East in the U.S. Military From Islamic Resistance

KARL YAMBERT, EDITOR The Battle within to Government
America’s Armed Forces JAMES WORRALL, SIMON MABON,
AND GORDON CLUBB
ROSEMARIE SKAINE

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“ and ISIS (the Islamic State of “ This book is extremely
Drones, the Benghazi attacks,

Iraq) are among the topics This book provides an in-depth analysis rich with facts, history, and
of sexual assault in the military
discussed. . . . This title offers a from historical and contemporary contemporary insight . . . . One
sobering, authoritative briefing perspectives, offering suggestions that is tempted to read it with a
on a ‘zone of turmoil.’ ” could change the existing culture and highlighter, not a bookmark. ”

—Library Journal, August 1, 2016 approaches that will reduce or eliminate —New York Journal of Books,
November 23, 2015
sexual assault in the armed forces.
This textbook anthology of selected This detailed analysis follows the rise
readings on pressing Middle East FEATURES and evolution of Hezbollah from an
security concerns serves as an • Provides fact-based analyses of Islamic resistance movement to its
invaluable single-volume assessment of one of the most pressing issues role as a governing force in Lebanon,
critical security issues in nations such facing today’s U.S. military that exploring the group’s impact on the
as Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, will aid informed policy guidance security and power dynamics in the
Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. for policymakers in the military as Middle East.
well as those in higher education—
FEATURES another institution grappling with
• Offers important insights and the challenges of eradicating sexual JAMES WORRALL, PhD, is a lecturer
analyses of authoritative observers assault in international relations and Middle
on the Greater Middle East and its • Written by a noted author on topics East studies at the School of Politics
most current and pressing security regarding issues surrounding women and International Studies at the
concerns who serve in today’s military University of Leeds.
• Supplies informed, up-to-date SIMON MABON, PhD, is a lecturer in
coverage of key flashpoints across the international relations at the University
Greater Middle East, such as Al Qaeda ROSEMARIE SKAINE is an author and of Lancaster, director of the Richardson
in Fallujah, ISIS, Syria’s civil war, the sociologist whose published works Institute, and a research associate at
include Praeger’s Suicide Warfare:
Iranian nuclear weapons issue, the Culture, the Military, and the Individual the Foreign Policy Centre in London.
Taliban in Afghanistan, and Chechen as a Weapon; ABC-CLIO’s Women GORDON CLUBB, PhD, is a lecturer in
insurgents in the Caucasus in Combat: A Reference Handbook; international security at the University
and Women at War: Gender Issues of of Leeds. His other books include
the coedited Terrorism and Political
KARL YAMBERT, PhD, is an Americans in Combat. Violence.
independent.
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