International Security category: 2908 books
China and Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Era
A Bilateral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This manuscript examines Sino-Middle Eastern relations on a bilateral level. It highlights the depth of China’s involvement in Central Asia with each country on a five dimensional approach: security cooperation, energy security, trade relations, political relations, and cultural relations. Regarding...
by James Giermanski
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
In this timely work, James Giermanski describes the advent and development of security operations in the global supply chain, outlining the respective contributions of governmental and nongovernmental stakeholders to this worldwide concern. Global Supply Chain Security explores the potential impact...
The Politics of Space Security
Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
The past five decades have witnessed often fierce international rivalry in space, but also surprising military restraint. Now, with an increasing number of countries capable of harming U.S. space assets, experts and officials have renewed a long-standing debate over the best route to space security....
by Andreas Lorek
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, University of Poznan, course: International Judicial System, 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'The International Court of Justice...
Tower of Babble
How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
A United Nations insider exposes how anti-American and antidemocratic forces have hijacked the UN and put America and its allies at risk
Politicians and pundits are imploring the United States to give the UN a major role in American foreign policy. But as bestselling author Dore Gold reveals...
The New Power Politics
Networks and Transnational Security Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Traditional analyses of global security cannot explain the degree to which there is "governance" of important security issues -- from combatting piracy to curtailing nuclear proliferation to reducing the contributions of extractive industries to violence and conflict. They are even less able to explain...
Private Military and Security Companies and States
Force Divided
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book identifies and explains the functional and ideational boundaries regarding what states and Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) both do and possess regarding land power, sea power, and air power. Whereas the mercenaries, privateers, and chartered companies of years past held similar...
Gulf Security and the U.S. Military
Regime Survival and the Politics of Basing
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
The U.S. military maintains a significant presence across the Arabian Peninsula but it must now confront a new and emerging dynamic as most Gulf Cooperation Council countries have begun to diversify their political, economic, and security partnerships with countries other than the United States—with...
Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq
Transforming Military Logistics
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq examines the controversial role of military contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq. When *'*Operation Iraqi Freedom' was launched in March 2003, few, if any, of the Coalition's political leaders could have envisaged that within a few months the...
The ASEAN Regional Security Partnership
Strengths and Limits of a Cooperative System
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
ASEAN's role as a security provider remains largely a matter of scholarly debate. Through the lens of the concept of regional security partnership, this book uncovers a more nuanced understanding of ASEAN capacity, highlighting both its merits and fragilities in coping with traditional and emerging security problems.
Seaborne Perils
Piracy, Maritime Crime, and Naval Terrorism in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary issues related to maritime crime and piracy, with a special focus on Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, explains why piracy is a growing problem and how it affects security policy making in the United States.
Here, piracy is defined as...
Private Security Companies during the Iraq War
Military Performance and the Use of Deadly Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book explores the use of deadly force by private security companies during the Iraq War.
The work focuses on and compares the activities of the US companies Blackwater and Dyncorp. Despite sharing several important characteristics, such as working for the same client (the US State Department)...
Approaching the Nuclear Tipping Point
Cooperative Security in an Era of Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Globalization and technology have created new challenges to national governments. As a result, they now must share power with other entities, such as regional and global organizations or large private economic units. In addition, citizens in most parts of the world have been empowered by the ability...
Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa
Exploring Regime Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book examines peacekeeping in Africa, exploring how the various actors are forming an African security regime complex.
The changing dynamics of peacekeeping in today’s world have encouraged a more cooperative approach between international and regional actors. At the centre of this book...