International Security category: 2908 books
Think Tanks and Non-Traditional Security
Governance Entrepreneurs in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Asian security institutions have struggled to adapt to the so-called 'non-traditional' security issues that characterise the strategic landscape of the 21st century. The resulting gaps in governance have increasingly been filled by think tanks, which have arguably begun to change the way that Asian security is governed.
by Menandro Abanes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Internship Report from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A, University for Peace, course: International Peace Studies, language: English, abstract: Internship bridges the gap between the theory and practice in the field...
Security, Law and Borders
At the Limits of Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
This book focuses on security practices, civil liberties and the politics of borders in liberal democracies.
In the aftermath of 9/11, security practices and the denial of human rights and civil liberties are often portrayed as an exception to liberal rule, and seen as institutionally, legally...
The Politics of Space Security
Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
For the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they have not yet fought in this environment. This book examines the international politics of the space age from 1957 to the present, the reasons why strategic restraint...
Digital Privacy, Terrorism and Law Enforcement
The UK's Response to Terrorist Communication
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This book examines the UK’s response to terrorist communication. Its principle question asks, has individual privacy and collective security been successfully managed and balanced? The author begins by assessing several technologically-based problems facing British law enforcement agencies, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Cold War profoundly transformed American society, perhaps most significantly through the development of national security institutions that are very much alive more than two decades after the end of the Cold War. The essays in this volume explore the highly charged political environment in which...
Rethinking the 21st Century
'New' Problems, 'Old' Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Rethinking the 21st Century brings much needed context and perspective to the security problems we face today. In recent years, the 'Bush Doctrine' - that the security threats we now face are entirely unprecedented - has echoed around the world. Global security and stability is now challenged not...
Global Security Upheaval
Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability.
By assessing recent real-world trends,...
NATO and Article 5
The Transatlantic Alliance and the Twenty-First-Century Challenges of Collective Defense
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
For much of the last 25 years, NATO has focused on crisis managementin places such as Kosovo and Afghanistan,resulting in major changes to alliance strategy, resourcing,force structure, and training. Re-embracing collective defense —which lies at the heart of the Treaty of Washington’s Article...
Internal Security Problems in Northeast India
Insurgency and Counter Insurgency (Insurgency And Counter Insurgency In Assam Since 1985)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In today's changing scenario, the key objective of national security is not only to protect the country from external aggression but also to maintain peace and harmony. To maintain law and order, peace and harmony, the Government should carry out the process of assimilation effectively without any...
NATO and the Crisis in the International Order
The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges.
How can NATO adapt to the dangerous combination of a revisionist Russia, a reluctant United States, and a Europe...
Hydrocarbon Nation
How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Hydrocarbon Nation, Thor Hogan looks at how four technological revolutions—industrial, agricultural, transportation, and electrification—drew upon the enormous hydrocarbon wealth of the United States, transforming the young country into a nation with unparalleled economic and military potential.
Each...
The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - 2013)
The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - 2013)
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This book examines how the armed forces of the United States and Australia have responded to the threat posed by climate change to national security. Drawing on established securitisation frameworks (‘Copenhagen’ and ‘Paris’ Schools), the author uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative...
If China Attacks Taiwan
Military Strategy, Politics and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This is a new analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan. This is one of the most tense and potentially explosive relationships in world politics.
This book explains succinctly the impetus, the methods and the consequences if China is to use force,...