International Security category: 2908 books

Cover of Human Security and Sierra Leone's Post-Conflict Development
by Francis Wiafe-Amoako
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014

Achieving security and development in the post-conflict era is a challenge with which stakeholders have to grapple. While stakeholders are quick to claim success when physical hostilities cease between the belligerents, ensuring sustainable peace has been a daunting task. In some countries in Africa,...
Cover of Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
by Bruce M. Bagley, Jorge Chabat, Sebastían Antonio Cutrona
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015

This book illustrates the plethora of security concerns of the Americas in the 21st century. It presents the work of a number of prolific scholars and analysts in the continents of America. The book provides one of the only expansive applications of theory to a wide geographical area. It offers new...
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European Security in a Global Context

Internal and External Dynamics

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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

This new edited volume examines contemporary European security from three different standpoints. It explores security dynamics, first, within Europe; second, the interaction patterns between Europe and other parts of the world (the United States, Africa, the Middle East, China and India); and,...
Cover of The Global Challenge of Militias and Paramilitary Violence
by Paul Rexton Kan
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019

This book describes militias as significant and prevalent actors in today’s international security environment. To separate them from other types of violent non-state groups, such as terrorists, guerrillas and insurgents, the author describes militias as local guardians that use violence to fill...
Cover of EU Security Policy and Crisis Management
by Nicole Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

This book explores European Union crisis management and draws implications for its role as an international security actor. The success of EU crisis management has varied greatly and this book aims to identify the key factors that explain the differing degrees of coherence through a comparative...
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Human Security

Theory and Action

by David Andersen-Rodgers, Kerry F. Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

Human security refers in its broadest sense to the protection of individuals from harm. Human Security: Theory and Action explores the theory and application of concepts central to this notion of security. It examines the conceptual roots of human security, connecting its origins to its applications...
Cover of The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

This handbook provides a detailed analysis of threats and risk in the international system and of how governments and their intelligence services must adapt and function in order to manage the evolving security environment. This environment, now and for the foreseeable future, is characterised by...
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Mercenaries, Hybrid Armies and National Security

Private Soldiers and the State in the 21st Century

by Caroline Varin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

This book assesses the use of ‘mercenaries’ by states, and their integration into the national armed forces as part of a new hybridisation trend of contemporary armies. Governments, especially in the West, are undertaking an unprecedented wave of demilitarisation and military budget cuts....
Cover of Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016

Agriculture represents one of America’s critical infrastructures. The second edition of Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security addresses threats to humans including the introduction of anthrax, various poisons, small pox, or salmonella to our food supply. As in the first edition, the author...
Cover of Governing Uranium in the United States
by Sharon Squassoni, Stephanie Cooke, Robert Kim
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

As part of the global Governing Uranium Project headed by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzed U.S. experiences with the security of its “front-end” uranium industry. This report examines current U.S. regulation...
Cover of The Security Governance of Regional Organizations
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

The Security Governance of Regional Organizations assesses the effectiveness of regional organizations as regional or global security providers, and examines how policy preferences, resources, capabilities, institutional mechanisms and economic and political cohesion link with collective action behaviour...
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Security Integration in Europe

How Knowledge-based Networks Are Transforming the European Union

by Mai'a Cross
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011

At a time when many observers question the EU’s ability to achieve integration of any significance, and indeed Europeans themselves appear disillusioned, Mai’a K. Davis Cross argues that the EU has made remarkable advances in security integration, in both its external and internal dimensions....
Cover of Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018

This book takes up a wide variety of human security challenges beyond the dimension of human conflict, and looks at both natural and human disasters that the East Asian region faces or is attempting to resolve. While discussing various human security issues, the case studies offer practical lessons...
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Eurasia on the Edge

Managing Complexity

by Piotr Dutkiewicz, Andrei Kazantsev, Fyodor Lukyanov
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018

Eurasia, wherever one draws the boundaries, is very much at the centre of discussions about today’s world. Security across Eurasia is a global concern and has been subject to a range of discussions and debate. However, the current tensions over security and world order, with the growing challenges...
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