International Security category: 2908 books
by James Igoe Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The cross-border sharing of intelligence is fundamental to the establishment and preservation of security and stability. The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based in part on flawed intelligence, and current efforts to defeat al Qaeda would not be possible without an exchange of information among...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The focus is on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, situations that occupy a central role in international affairs and that have become highly...
by Don Philpott
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Understanding the Department of Homeland Security — the largest and the newest department of government —discusses why the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established and then takes a detailed look at the role of the 22 different federal departments and agencies that were incorporated...
Regional Organizations and Peacemaking
Challengers to the UN?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book analyses the new and difficult roles of regional organizations in peacemaking after the end of the Cold War and how they relate to the United Nations (UN).
Regional organizations have taken an increasingly prominent role in international efforts to deal with international security....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studies—strategic culture—illuminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific region’s difficult issues, from the rise of China and the American pivot, to the shifting calculations of many other actors. Strategic culture...
The Science and Technology of Counterterrorism
Measuring Physical and Electronic Security Risk
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Scientists with little or no background in security and security professionals with little or no background in science and technology often have difficulty communicating in order to implement the best counterterrorism strategies. The Science and Technology of Counterterrorism offers the necessary...
Justice and Security Reform
Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Justice and Security Reform: Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone undertakes a deep contextual analysis of the reform of the country’s security and justice sectors since the end of the civil war in 2002. Arguing that the political and bureaucratic nature of development...
Arms and Influence
U.S. Technology Innovations and the Evolution of International Security Norms
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Arms and Influence explores the complex relationship between technology, policymaking, and international norms. Modern technological innovations such as the atomic bomb, armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and advanced reconnaissance satellites have fostered debates about the boundaries of international...
Cyber Warfare
A Multidisciplinary Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This book is a multi-disciplinary analysis of cyber warfare, featuring contributions by leading experts from a mixture of academic and professional backgrounds.
Cyber warfare, meaning interstate cyber aggression, is an increasingly important emerging phenomenon in international relations, with...
The Inside Man
Evaluating Security Communication Failures at a United States Commercial Airport
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Organizational communication impacts service efficiency and productivity. An increase in federal funding to strengthen communication within the airport stakeholders has failed to deliver expected results. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore whether miscommunication among the TSA...
A New Development Agenda
Trade, Development, and Procurement
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The link between economic development and state security has been well documented. As policymakers consider that link, the model for international development in the twenty-first century must include both governments and the private sector. In this new report, the CSIS Scholl Chair in International...
The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security, 2nd Edition
Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The U.S.-Mexico border remains a hot topic in the news—and a contentious one. This second edition of a popular work brings readers up to date on what is really going on at the U.S.-Mexico border and why. The book offers a detailed, history-based examination of the evolution of current conditions...
Scapegoating Islam: Intolerance, Security, and the American Muslim
Intolerance, Security, and the American Muslim
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Exploring the experience of Muslims in America following 9/11, this book assesses how anti-Muslim bias within the U.S. government and the larger society undermines American security and democracy.
• Provides a history of Muslim experience in the United States up to September 11
•...
Lords of Secrecy
The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Forty years ago, a majority of Americans were highly engaged in issues of war and peace. Whether to go to war or keep out of conflicts was a vital question at the heart of the country's vibrant, if fractious, democracy. But American political consciousness has drifted. In the last decade, America...