International Security category: 2908 books
Changing US Security Strategy
The Search for Stability and the "Non-War" against "Non-Terrorism"
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
More than a decade into the “war on terrorism,” much of the political debate in the United States is still fixated on the legacy of 9/11. US politics has a partisan fixation on Benghazi, the Boston Marathon bombing, intelligence intercepts, and Guantanamo. Far too much attention still focuses...
India’s Emerging Partnerships in Eurasia
Strategies of New Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The discourse on the emerging partnerships between India and the Eurasian States is framed under the label of new regionalism. This discourse has tended to explore the historical linkages, institutions, policies and economic relations that underpin such region-building approaches. This book attempts...
Preventing the Proliferation of WMDs
Measuring the Success of UN Security Council Resolution 1540
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together into one coherent volume a range of international authors, who firmly establish the relevance of war within the discipline of criminology. The chapters address emerging and prevailing issues in the criminological study of war, including state crime,...
East Asia-Arctic Relations
Boundary, Security and International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Canada, Russia and the United States have expressed a renewed interest in the region, and East Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea and China are now increasingly fixated on prospects offered by the Arctic; however, Arctic and East Asian nations have not yet engaged in extensive discussions about...
Peacekeeping Intelligence
New Players, Extended Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This is a new evaluation of the role, dynamics and challenges of intelligence in peacekeeping activities and its place in a much wider social, economic and political context.
It assesses the role of coalition forces, law enforcement agencies, development institutions, and non-governmental organisations...
by Robert Fiedler
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, Macquarie University, language: English, abstract: Given today's existence of hundreds of terrorist groups and thousands of criminal ones (Schmid, 2005) it is not surprisingly...
Worldwide Secret Service and Intelligence Agencies
That delivers unforgettable customer service Tome II of III
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to the information gathering (known in the context as "intelligence") for purposes of national security and defense. Means of information gathering may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation...
Nuclear Authority
The IAEA and the Absolute Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Once dismissed as ineffectual, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has in the past twenty years emerged as a powerful international organization. Member states allow the IAEA to render judgment on matters vital to peace and security while nations around the globe comply with its rules and commands...
Surveillance in Action
Technologies for Civilian, Military and Cyber Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book addresses surveillance in action-related applications, and presents novel research on military, civil and cyber surveillance from an international team of experts. The first part of the book, Surveillance of Human Features, reviews surveillance systems that use biometric technologies. It...
Mercenaries
The History of a Norm in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
The main aim of this book is to argue that the use of private force by states has been restricted by a norm against mercenary use. The book traces the evolution of this norm, from mercenaries in medieval Europe through to private security companies in modern day Iraq, telling a story about how the...
by Natalie Züfle
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,0, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: International Security, language: English, abstract: Warfare patterns have changed in a number of aspects which make it more difficult for regular state armies to defeat a non-state opponent. A
by Natalie Züfle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: International Security, language: English, abstract: Peacekeeping should not go 'back to basics'. The...
China and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute
Escalation and De-escalation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book examines the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute from a foreign policy perspective, focusing on three key stakeholders: China, Japan and the United States.
The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute is a prominent territorial dispute between China and Japan. This book critically assesses that...