International Security category: 2908 books
How NATO Adapts
Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down." These differences are not simply the result of the Cold War’s...
The EU and the European Security Strategy
Forging a Global Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
The European Security Strategy (ESS) has become an important reference framework for the EU since its inception in 2003. Without strategy an actor can only really be a ‘reactor’ to events and developments. In the ESS the EU now has a strategy, with which it has the potential of shifting boundaries...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars.
Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Whereas security studies has...
Peace Operations in the Francophone World
Global governance meets post-colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention and peace operation practices and experiences in francophone spaces.
Francophone Africa as a specific space is relatively little studied in the peace and security literature, despite the fact that almost half of all peacekeepers...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
In this much-needed study of current strategic thinking on both sides of the Atlantic, a diverse collection of leading European and American analysts are assembled to tackle key questions that remain unanswered in the existing literature:
how much do new security strategies signal convergence...
China and Africa
Building Peace and Security Cooperation on the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book investigates the expanding involvement of China in security cooperation in Africa. Drawing on leading and emerging scholars in the field, the volume uses a combination of analytical insights and case studies to unpack the complexity of security challenges confronting China and the continent....
Critical Terrorism Studies
A New Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
In response to the growth of a critical perspective on contemporary issues of terrorism, this edited volume brings together a number of leading scholars to debate the new subfield of 'critical terrorism studies'.
In the years since the 9/11 attacks, terrorism studies has undergone a major transformation...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Responding to security scholars’ puzzling dearth of attention to children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the ways in which they not only are already present in security discourses but are actually indispensable to them and to the political projects they make possible. From...
Nuclear Multilateralism and Iran
Inside EU Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Drawing on the author’s personal experience, this book presents an insider’s chronology and policy analysis of the EU’s role in the nuclear negotiations with Iran.
The European Union strives to be a global player, a “soft power” leader that can influence international politics and...
Proxy Warriors
The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
In this book, Ariel Ahram offers a new perspective on a growing threat to international and human security—the reliance of 'weak states' on quasi-official militias, paramilitaries, and warlords. Tracing the history of several "high profile" paramilitary organizations, including Indonesia's...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
In the post-9/11 world, the possibility of energy infrastructure-terrorism—the use of weapons to cause devastating damage to the energy industrial sector and cause cascading effects—is very real. Energy Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security, Second Edition, is a reference for those involved...
Multilateral Asian Security Architecture
Non-ASEAN Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book provides a comparative assessment of the material and ideational contributions of five countries to the regional architecture of post-Cold War Asia.
In contrast to the usual emphasis placed on the role and centrality of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Asia’s...
by Astrid Arrarás, Luis Bitencourt, José Miguel Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
With contributions from leading experts, Culture and National Security in the Americas examines the most influential historical, geographic, cultural, political, economic, and military considerations shaping national security policies throughout the Americas. In this volume, contributors explore the...
Securing Southeast Asia
The Politics of Security Sector Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book uniquely applies the security reform agenda to Southeast Asia. It investigates recent developments in civil-military relations in the region, looking in particular at the impact and utility of the agenda on the region and assessing whether it is likely to help make the region more stable...