Edited Volumes
In addition to the hundreds of articles he has written, Zellen has authored or edited a dozen books on Arctic, indigenous and strategic issues published by presses (and series) that include: the Routledge Complex Real Property Rights series; ABC-Clio's Praeger Security International imprint as well as Praeger's Security and the Environment series; Stanford University Press' Security Studies series; University of Calgary Press' Northern Lights series; Bloomsbury Academic; Continuum Books; Lexington Books; and Lynne Rienner Books:
- Zellen is editor of The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warming World (University of Calgary Press, Northern Lights Series, 2013); and co-editor of Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, Stanford Security Studies Series, 2014) and Land, Indigenous People and Conflict (Routledge, Complex Real Property Rights Series, 2015).
The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (2013)Zellen continues to explore the strategic consequences of the polar thaw, and to map the geopolitics of what he dubbed in 2006 the "post-Arctic world." On July 1st, 2013, his first edited Arctic volume came to press with the University of Calgary Press, as its 15th volume in UCP's prestigious Northern Lights Series: The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World. It includes contributions from a mix of renowned Arctic security experts and a new generation of Arctic scholars and military professionals from America, Canada, Europe and Asia.
In this timely new publication -- with a foreword by the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, Mead Treadwell, and an introduction and afterword by University of Alaska Fairbanks Distinguished Professor of Geography and Arctic Policy, Lawson W. Brigham -- several international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defense, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading. Rather than a single national perspective, The Fast-Changing Maritime Arctic brings together circumpolar viewpoints from North America, Europe and Asia for an integrated discussion of strategic military, diplomatic, and security challenges in the high North. Thoughtful analyses are included of different regions, climate issues, institutions, and foreign and security policies. This is an important book for students of international studies, political science, and northern studies. |
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Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (2014)
Zellen's 12th book and second edited (and first to be co-edited) volume -- a collaboration Naval Postgraduate School research professor and world renowned Afghanistan expert, Thomas H. Johnson released by Stanford University Press' prestigious Stanford Security Studies series in January 2014 -- is Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency.
The contributing authors -- a dynamic mix of active duty and retired uniformed officers as well as civilian scholars and analysts -- examine the nexus of culture, conflict, and strategic intervention, and argue that culture is vitally important in a national security and foreign policy context. They explore how cultural phenomena and information can best be used by the military. And they address just how intimate cultural knowledge needs to be to counter an insurgency effectively. Finally, they assess how we've done at building and utilizing cultural understanding in Afghanistan, what the operational impact of that understanding has been, and where we must improve to maximize our use of cultural knowledge in preparing for and engaging in future conflicts.
According to David Isby -- author of Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires -- the book’s "cogent and insightful essays by a multi-disciplinary group comprised of both scholars and combat soldiers shows how culture shapes insurgencies, especially in Afghanistan. Years of experience gained among Afghanistan's diverse peoples and unforgiving mountains, as well as through stateside analysis, infuse these essays, valuable reading for anyone concerned with Afghanistan's future."
Michael Semple, a visiting professor at the Centre for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University in Belfast, comments that Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency "illustrates how much wiser parts of the U.S. security establishment are in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Technological prowess and military fire-power cannot insulate the U.S. from the need for profound cultural knowledge of contexts where its military operates. This volume lays out how to acquire, structure, and apply that knowledge."
The contributing authors -- a dynamic mix of active duty and retired uniformed officers as well as civilian scholars and analysts -- examine the nexus of culture, conflict, and strategic intervention, and argue that culture is vitally important in a national security and foreign policy context. They explore how cultural phenomena and information can best be used by the military. And they address just how intimate cultural knowledge needs to be to counter an insurgency effectively. Finally, they assess how we've done at building and utilizing cultural understanding in Afghanistan, what the operational impact of that understanding has been, and where we must improve to maximize our use of cultural knowledge in preparing for and engaging in future conflicts.
According to David Isby -- author of Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires -- the book’s "cogent and insightful essays by a multi-disciplinary group comprised of both scholars and combat soldiers shows how culture shapes insurgencies, especially in Afghanistan. Years of experience gained among Afghanistan's diverse peoples and unforgiving mountains, as well as through stateside analysis, infuse these essays, valuable reading for anyone concerned with Afghanistan's future."
Michael Semple, a visiting professor at the Centre for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University in Belfast, comments that Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency "illustrates how much wiser parts of the U.S. security establishment are in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Technological prowess and military fire-power cannot insulate the U.S. from the need for profound cultural knowledge of contexts where its military operates. This volume lays out how to acquire, structure, and apply that knowledge."
Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict (2015)
Zellen's 13th published book and third edited (and second to be co-edited) volume, a collaboration with professor Alan Tidwell, director of Georgetown University's Center for Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies (CANZPS) where Zellen was a senior fellow from 2012-18, was accepted for publication in Routledge's Complex Real Property Rights Series in August 2014, and came to press on October 12, 2015 -- 523 years to the day that Columbus famously (and for America's first peoples, tragically) made landfall in the Americas.
The work is called Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict, a comparative look at the relationship between indigenous peoples and the state around the world, from the Arctic to the tropics -- and the diverse solutions to the many land conflicts between the first peoples for whom these lands are traditional homeland, and the modern states that assert sovereignty over those lands.
It presents chapters from experts on the Americas, the Asia-Pacific region, Africa and Europe, as well as reflections and observations by the editors on both the striking similarities that bind far-flung regions together through a unified colonial experience and parallel history of reconciliation between settler states and indigenous peoples, and the many fascinating, subtle differences that distinguish each region for its cultural, geographical, and economic distinctiveness.
The work is called Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict, a comparative look at the relationship between indigenous peoples and the state around the world, from the Arctic to the tropics -- and the diverse solutions to the many land conflicts between the first peoples for whom these lands are traditional homeland, and the modern states that assert sovereignty over those lands.
It presents chapters from experts on the Americas, the Asia-Pacific region, Africa and Europe, as well as reflections and observations by the editors on both the striking similarities that bind far-flung regions together through a unified colonial experience and parallel history of reconciliation between settler states and indigenous peoples, and the many fascinating, subtle differences that distinguish each region for its cultural, geographical, and economic distinctiveness.
