International Security category: 2908 books
by Sylvia Longmire
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in...
The American Warfare State
The Domestic Politics of Military Spending
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
How is it that the United States—a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power—came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high levels of military...
Tyranny of Consensus
Discourse and Dissent in American National Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Why does the most highly advanced industrial country, commanding unparalleled access to vast sources of global intelligence and information, seem to so often miscalculate the realities and risks of its foreign interventions? In Tyranny of Consensus, Janne E. Nolan examines three cases—the Islamic...
Irish Republican Terrorism and Politics
A Comparative Study of the Official and the Provisional IRA
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This book examines the post-ceasefire evolutions and histories of the main Irish republican terrorist factions, and the interconnected character of politics and militarism within them.
Offering the first comparative study of the two leading Irish republican terrorist movements the Official...
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the cybersecurity...
Is America Safe?
Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Emergency Preparedness
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
As potential targets, such as military facilities, symbols of democracy, government buildings, and infrastructure are 'hardened' against possible terrorist attack, terrorists will shift to softer targets: churches, schools, malls, mass entertainment centers, high-rise apartments, transportation centers,...
by Damon P. Coppola, George D. Haddow, Jane A. Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Introduction to Emergency Management, Fifth Edition, offers a fully up-to-date analysis of US emergency management principles. In addition to expanding coverage of risk management in a time of climate change and terrorism, Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola discuss the impact of new emergency management...
by Priya Dixit, Jacob L. Stump
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This book shows how to use a range of critical approaches to conduct research on terrorism.
Featuring the work of researchers who have already utilized these methods to study terrorism, it includes a diverse range of critical methodological approaches – including discourse analysis, feminist,...
The Edge of Disaster
Rebulding a Resilient Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Why do we remain unprepared for the next terrorist attack or natural disaster? Where are we most vulnerable? How have we allowed our government to be so negligent? Who will keep you and your family safe? Is America living on borrowed time? How can we become a more resilient nation?
Americans...
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Strategic Change
Adjusting Western regional policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af/Pak region) is undergoing a fundamental strategic change. This book analyses the nature of this strategic change, in ordre to seek possible future scenarios and to examine policy options. It also undertakes a critical review of the basic elements...
China’s One Belt One Road
Initiative, Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Chapters in this book written by Chinese and Indian academics and researchers from United Service Institution of India and Sichuan University, explaining the inter-disciplinary approaches and comparative perspectives, that may help to understand the essence and implication of China’s ‘One...
They Know Everything About You
How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
They Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking exposé of how government agencies and tech corporations monitor virtually every aspect of our lives, and a fierce defense of privacy and democracy.
The revelation that the government has access to a vast trove of personal online data demonstrates...
Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
Moving From Violence to Sustainable Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
This book seeks to examine the causes of escalation and de-escalation in intrastate conflicts.
Specifically, the volume seeks to map the processes and dynamics that lead groups challenging existing power structures to engage in violent struggle; the processes and dynamics that contribute to...
Privacy in the Modern Age
The Search for Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records...