International Security category: 2908 books
The Rise and Fall of Intelligence
An International Security History
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond.During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas...
Worlds Apart
Bosnian Lessons for Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Worlds Apart tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the voices of everyday people. Its focus is the Bosnian War, but its implications extend to any situation that prompts the consideration of military intervention on humanitarian grounds. Ambassador Swanee Hunt served in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics.
In the years since the US invasion of Iraq it has become clear that the threat of weapons of mass destruction was not...
by Francis Maiava
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A, Massey University, New Zealand (Centre of Defence and Strategic Studies), course: International Security Studies, language: English, abstract: With the United States as...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies provides a broad overview of the growing field of intelligence studies.
The recent growth of interest in intelligence and security studies has led to an increased demand for popular depictions of intelligence and reference works to explain the...
Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism
The Threat to International Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them?
Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections between organised piracy and wider criminal networks and corruption on land...
New Energy, New Geopolitics
Background Report 3: Scenarios, Strategies, and Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The third background report in the New Energy, New Geopolitics series, this report examines the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States and suggests possible energy scenarios and strategies could emerge from the unconventional revolution.
This...
by Richard Downie
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
In this collection of essays, regional and functional experts from CSIS consider Africa’s current place in the world, including trade and investment, peace and security, and democracy and good governance. The authors consider how Africa’s transformation is changing the way the continent is viewed...
by Ted Osius, Raja C. Mohan
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Twenty years ago, India launched its “Look East” policy. For most of those 20 years, Myanmar’s isolation, mistrust between India and its neighbors, and poor infrastructure connectivity hindered the development of links between South and Southeast Asia. With Myanmar’s tentative opening and...
Colombia
Peace and Stability in the Post-Conflict Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This report from the CSIS Americas Program provides a detailed look at the challenges the Colombian government confronts as it moves from providing security to developing rural areas that were previously conflict zones. In particular, the report examines such issues as remaining security needs; land...
Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Kyrgyzstan's Evolving Foreign Economic and Security Interests
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.S. policy toward the states of Central Asia is transitioning to a new era. The United States now has an opportunity to refashion its approach to the region. In doing so, it should capitalize on trends already underway, in particular the...
Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Tajikistan's Evolving Foreign Economic and Security Interests
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.S. policy toward the states of Central Asia is transitioning to a new era. The United States now has an opportunity to refashion its approach to the region. In doing so, it should capitalize on trends already underway, in particular the...
Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Mapping a Multipolar World?
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This volume critiques contemporary power trends by examining key bilateral dynamics between five putative ‘poles’ of the multipolar order in the twenty-first century.
Written by emerging scholars and established academics, this work provides a timely and authoritative analysis of one of...
US Foreign Policy and Global Standing in the 21st Century
Realities and Perceptions
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This book examines US foreign policy and global standing in the 21st Century.
The United States is the most powerful actor in world politics today. Against this backdrop, the present volume examines how the foreign policies pursued by Presidents’ George W. Bush and Barack Obama have affected...