International Security category: 2908 books
by Wilson W.S. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Emerging Military Technologies: A Guide to the Issues examines the potential of the United States to bring new technologies to deployment in the service of America's security and defense. The work also discusses how other international actors may regard the United States' investment in these high-tech...
Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Kazakhstan'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
Turkmenistan'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...
Preventing Mass Atrocities
Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
What can be done to warn about and organize political action to prevent genocide and mass atrocities?
The international contributors to this volume are either experts or practitioners, often both, who have contributed in substantial ways to analyzing high risk situations, recommending preventive...
The Kremlin Playbook 2
The Enablers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers, the CSIS Europe Program and the Center for the Study of Democracy explored whether some of these jurisdictions and companies could be enabling forces that amplify Russian malign economic influence in some countries in Europe. The study analyzed the following...
Strategic Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region
Russia, Deterrence, and Reassurance
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
How should the countries in the Baltic Sea region and their allies meet the strategic challenges posed by an openly aggressive and expansionist Russia? NATO and the nonaligned states in the region are now more concerned about an external threat than they have been since the end of the Cold War. Russia...
Civil-military cooperation as a vital part in the stabilization-process in Afghanistan
How is its meaning different within certain deployed military actors?
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,1, University of Potsdam (Lehrstuhl für internationale Politik), course: State Failure, Crisis and Conflict Management, 32 entries in the bibliography, language:...
by Göran Swistek
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,7, , language: English, abstract: Under the term of asymmetric threats or warfare are these actions of combat summarized which deal with the unknown and surprise...
Failures of Imagination
The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
From the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, a gripping look at the most dangerous and unexpected threats to our national security—and the actions needed to protect us.
America’s inability to foresee the September 11, 2001 attacks was deemed a collective...
The Long War
A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the alarms, emergencies, controversies, and confusions that have characterized America's Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's "Global War on Terror." This "Long...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
Evaluating the Responsibility to Protect
Mass Atrocity Prevention as a Consolidating Norm in International Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book evaluates the extent to which the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has consolidated as a norm in international society.
A consolidated norm in international society is defined here as a regularised pattern of behaviour that is widely accepted as appropriate within a given social context....
Cyberphobia
Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Cybercrime is increasingly in the news on both an individual and national level--from the stolen identities and personal information of millions of Americans to the infiltration of our national security networks allowing access to both economic and trade secrets.
In Cyberphobia, Edward Lucas...
Absence in Science, Security and Policy
From Research Agendas to Global Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2016
This book explores the absent and missing in debates about science and security. Through varied case studies, including biological and chemical weapons control, science journalism, nanotechnology research and neuroethics, the contributors explore how matters become absent, ignored or forgotten and...