International Security category: 2908 books
Understanding Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century
Journeys in Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Over the past few decades, international history and security have been significantly influenced by greater understanding of the role of intelligence in national security and foreign policy-making. In Britain, much of the work has developed in the subdiscipline of international history with its methodological predisposition towards archive-ba
Legitimising the Use of Force in International Politics
Kosovo, Iraq and the Ethics of Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book aims to examine the conditions under which the decision to use force can be reckoned as legitimate in international relations. Drawing on communicative action theory, it provides a provocative answer to the hotly contested question of how to understand the legitimacy of the use of force...
New Security Threats and Crises in Africa
Regional and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This book is a multidisciplinary approach to Africa's international relations in an era of globalization and the shifting of power from the West. It moves beyond colonization, marginalization, imperialism to look at the forces and dynamics that are reshaping Africa's external relations today.
by Murray Hiebert, Phuong Nguyen, Gregory B. Poling
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
With elections in both the Philippines and the United States in 2016, the future of the alliance must be institutionalized to ensure that it is not diminished by a change of leadership in either country. A new Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement and cooperation in the South China Sea are important...
Understanding Quality Peace
Peacebuilding after Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book provides an analytical framework for understanding how the concept of quality peace can be used to evaluate post-conflict peacebuilding, using social science, statistics, and case studies.
Including contributions from more than 20 researchers and practitioners, it argues that the...
A Biological Threat Prevention Strategy
Complicating Adversary Acquisition and Misuse of Biological Agents
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
A contradiction sits at the core of U.S. biological threat prevention policy. Despite the U.S. government accepting the scientific and industrial costs of a domestic biosecurity system, it has not committed the diplomatic and financial resources needed to successfully promote the global adoption of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The trend for international engagement in post-conflict reconstruction has produced a host of best-practice postulates on topics such as local involvement in decision-making, accountability for past atrocities, sensitivity to context, and the construction of democratic institutions of governance....
UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era
Adapting to Stabilisation, Protection and New Threats
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice. Recent UN peacekeeping operations have challenged the traditional peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and the minimum use of force. The...
by Aysegul Aydin
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers. This book argues that rethinking intervention—redefining what it is and why foreign powers take an interest in others' conflicts—is of critical importance to understanding how conflicts evolve...
Pathways to Productivity
The Role of GMOs for Food Security in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This report provides an overview of the debate in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda over genetically modified (GM) crops and their potential role in improving food security among smallholder farmers. Specifically, in each country, it examines regulatory structures, science and research capacity, communication...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The North Atlantic continues to be an area of international strategic significance regionally and globally. This study explores the strong processes of sovereignty, as well as new independent states and micro-proto-states that are forming in the region.
Science, Technology, and U.S. National Security Strategy
Preparing Military Leadership for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In today’s challenging, technologically informed environment, the U.S. military must continue to ensure a competitive advantage. This report suggests ways to develop a cadre of technologically competent officers with the requisite leadership and operational skills to excel in this fast-paced and...
Maritime Strategy and Global Order
Markets, Resources, Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement—but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top scholars offers historical perspectives...
by Andrew P. Hunter, Ryan Crotty
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Technology innovations in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have delivered unmatched national security capability for the United States for the greater part of the last seven decades. Federal research and development funding is at the heart of the U.S. high-technology advantage. Continuing to push...