International Security category: 2908 books
Overblown
How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Why have there been no terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11? It is ridiculously easy for a single person with a bomb-filled backpack, or a single explosives-laden automobile, to launch an attack. So why hasn't it happened? The answer is surely not the Department of Homeland Security,...
Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists
Lessons from the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Guidance for maintaining national security without abandoning the rule of law and our democratic values.
In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its “global war on terrorism,” the Bush administration...
Terrorism and Homeland Security
An Introduction with Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction with Applications provides a comprehensive introduction to the problem of terrorism and to its solution, Homeland Security. In addition to its extensive treatment of terrorism, the book describes public and private sector counterterrorism as well as...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The seventh of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Transportation Protection and Homeland Security is a valuable reference source. The book was fashioned in response to the critical needs of transportation production managers, transportation...
Troubled Waters
Insecurity in the Persian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Troubled Waters looks at four dynamics in the Persian Gulf that have contributed to making the region one of the most volatile and tension-filled spots in the world. Mehran Kamrava identifies the four dynamics as: the neglect of human dimensions of security, the inherent instability involved in reliance...
Global Forecast 2014
U.S. Security Policy at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
After a dozen years of war, the 2008 financial crisis, budgetary contraction inside government, and growing political polarization, U.S. security policy stands at a crossroads as America finds itself lacking a durable political consensus on the nation’s role in the world. In Global Forecast 2014,...
Providing for National Security
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats. In this timely volume experts from both the academic and policy worlds present 13 different country case...
Homeland Security
The Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Homeland Security: The Essentials, Second Edition concisely outlines the risks facing the US today and the structures we have put in place to deal with them. The authors expertly delineate the bedrock principles of preparing for, mitigating, managing, and recovering from emergencies and disasters.
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by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
The ninth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Defense Industrial Base Protection and Homeland Security is an eye-opening account and an important reference describing a complex sector. This book was designed and written to serve and...
Private Security Contractors and New Wars
Risk, Law, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding ‘service’ industry will have to be adjusted.
In the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan many of those who carry weapons are...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This Handbook links the growing body of media and conflict research with the field of security studies.
The academic sub-field of media and conflict has developed and expanded greatly over the past two decades. Operating across a diverse range of academic disciplines, academics are studying...
Militarism and International Relations
Political Economy, Security, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies.
Militarism – understood as the social and international relations of the preparation for, and conduct of, organized political violence...
Radical Islam and International Security
Challenges and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Radical Islam poses a political challenge in the modern world which is like that of no other radical religious movement. Ideologically, it is perceived by Western policy makers as threatening the liberal-democratic ideology by which most states in the West abide and which most other states rhetorically...
by Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book delves into the diffuse relationship between states, citizens, and non-citizens. It explores the theoretical heritage of human security and identifies practical responses to the (re)negotiated relationships between states and citizens, responsibility and accountability. It argues that the...