International Security category: 2908 books
The Paradox of our National Security Complex
How Secrecy and Security Diminish Our Liberty and Threaten Our Democratic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Most Americans live very hectic lives and have little time to devote to reading lengthy tomes on a single subject, never mind researching these matters. Here, in a single volume, Richard Otto presents a series of compelling essays on Vietnam, Watergate and the assassinations of the 1960s. The Paradox...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
The sixth of a new, well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Dam Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise U.S. project designers, engineers, managers, superintendents and supervisors of dams, navigation...
by Carl J. Jensen, III, David H. McElreath
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Introduction to Intelligence Studies provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues confronting the United States today.
Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military—suggesting that a nationalistic and increasingly influential...
Beyond Realism
Human Security in India and Pakistan in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
As the world is changing, many scholars, analysts, and policy makers agree that even as governments need to confront external threats, creating sustainable domestic environments is imperative as a policy priority. As events surrounding September 11, 2001 continue to remind us, marginalized sections...
The Indo Pacific Region
Security Dynamics and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Asia’s diversity in culture, ethnicity, religions, ideology, environment, history, economy and systems of governance is without parallel. Consequently, conflict is endemic. Going hand in hand with conflict is multi-faceted competition. At one level, it is for resources: the emerging economies of...
Modern Maritime Piracy
Genesis, Evolution and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book examines the complex phenomena of modern maritime piracy.
The work offers a cutting-edge analysis of modern maritime piracy in the two most pirate-prone regions – southeast Asia and northeast Africa – from the late twentieth century to the modern day. These case studies present...
by Nur Azha Putra, Mely Caballero-Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book aims to introduce and discuss the policy issues and challenges surrounding the development of nuclear power energy in Southeast Asia (SEA). Nuclear energy is poised for substantial growth in a region that is in need of more sustainable and clean energy source against the background of rising...
Food Security and the Modernisation Pathway in China
Towards Sustainable Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
This book aims at providing students, experts and practitioners with a detailed overview of agricultural and food security issues in China, analyzed through the lenses of a multidisciplinary approach that enables to fully grasp the current socio-political challenges and lock-ins of agricultural transformation...
Uniting Africa
Building Regional Peace and Security Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Plagued by bloody wars and armed conflicts, political instability, communal violence and displaced persons, and at the mercy of natural catastrophes such as drought and famine, it is not surprising that the Western press has long dismissed Africa as the 'hopeless continent'. In the face of these challenges,...
Militarizing the Environment
Climate Change and the Security State
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in “climate change war games,” and preparing for the effects of climate change—from conflicts due to loss of food,...
Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
From Words to Deeds
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This book provides an in-depth introduction to, and analysis of, the issues relating to the implementation of the recent Responsibility to Protect principle in international relations
The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) has come a long way in a short space of time. It was endorsed by the General...
China and North Africa since World War II
A Bilateral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This manuscript examines Sino-North Africa relations on a bilateral level since World War II. It highlights the depth of China’s involvement in the region with each country on a five dimensional approach: energy security, trade relations, political relations, arms sales/security cooperation, and...
by David Barling
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Advances in Food Security and Sustainability takes a scientific look at the challenges, constraints, and solutions necessary to maintain a healthy and accessible food supply in different communities around the world. The series addresses a wide range of issues related to the principles and practices...