International Security category: 2908 books
The Failure Factory
How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The U.S. government is in crisis.
With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book,...
Civil Militia
Africa's Intractable Security Menace?
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume critically engages with the phenomenon of civil militias in Africa, especially the nature of threats and challenges they pose to national and human security. It questions why the African political scene is increasingly inundated with the activities of civil militias, examines the socio-political...
Understanding Lone Actor Terrorism
Past Experience, Future Outlook, and Response Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This volume examines the lone actor terrorist phenomenon, including the larger societal trends which may or may not have led to their acts of terrorism.
With lone actor terrorism becoming an increasingly common threat, the contributors to this volume aim to answer the following questions: What...
by Amr Yossef, Joseph Cerami
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In this study, which highlights a renewed emphasis in international affairs on regional studies, the co-authors provide an assessment of the revolutionary changes in the politics and security of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
As technology continues to advance, the threats imposed on these innovations also continue to grow and evolve. As such, law enforcement specialists diligently work to counteract these threats, promote national safety, and defend the individual rights of citizens. National Security and Counterintelligence...
by Sarah Percy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The under-regulation of the private security industry has increasingly become a topic of media and academic interest. This Adelphi Paper enters the debate by explaining why the industry requires further regulation, and what is wrong with the current system. It begins by briefly defining the industry...
Perspectives on the South China Sea
Diplomatic, Legal, and Security Dimensions of the Dispute
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The South China Sea is arguably one of the world’s most dangerous regions, with conflicting diplomatic, legal, and security claims by major and mid-level powers. To assess these disputes, CSIS brought together an international group of experts—from Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia,...
Intelligence Security in the European Union
Building a Strategic Intelligence Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book investigates the emergence of an EU strategic intelligence community as a complex multi-dimensional networked construction. It examines the constitution, structure and performance of EU intelligence arrangements as part of security policies of the European Union.
Intelligence security...
by Peter Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The purpose of this book is to introduce the security officer to the elements of “Domestic Terrorism”, which is a growing threat in the United States of America. Since the terrible infliction of harm during 911, most Americans have been confronted with the reality of what terrorism means and its...
Risk and Securitization in Japan
1945-60
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Since the early 1990s, there has been an emphasis in international relations theory on the shift from a Cold War rationality of ‘threat’, to a post-Cold War rationality of ‘risk’. However, in Risk and Securitization in Japan, 1945-1960, Piers R. Williamson argues that this assumption of...
Normalizing Japan
Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take, by considering how policy has evolved since World War II, and what factors shaped this evolution. It argues that Japanese security policy has not changed as much in recent years as...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book discusses how Europe’s Roma minorities have often been perceived as a threat to majority cultures and societies. Frequently, the Roma have become the target of nationalism, extremism, and racism. At the same time, they have been approached in terms of human rights and become the focus...
UN Peace Operations
Lessons from Haiti, 1994-2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book assesses the UN Peace Operations in Haiti and establishes what lessons should be taken into account for future operations elsewhere.
Specifically, the book examines the UN’s approaches to security and stability, demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR), police, justice...
The Long War
CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally, they include the most energy-rich places...