International Security category: 2908 books
Only the Most Able
Moving Beyond Politics in the Selection of National Security Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The nature of the threats facing America today has drastically reduced the margin for error in senior political appointments. In Only the Most Able, Stephen M. Duncan draws on a lifetime of military, public service, executive, and legal experience to critique the political appointment process, focusing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a state-of-the-art work on intelligence and national security. Edited by Loch Johnson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, the handbook examines the topic in full, beginning with an examination of the major theories of intelligence....
by Daniel J. Benny
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The threat against the homeland continues and the private investigator plays a critical part in this effort. This includes in providing criminal, civil and background investigation, protective service, security consulting and electronic sweeps. The text will provide an overview of the role of private...
by Cynthia A. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: A Guide to the Issues puts the people, places, and events crucial to nation-building and security operations through U.S. experiences under the microscope. This book focuses on the period after the Cold War, when U.S. operations...
Understanding Complex Military Operations
A case study approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations.
Today, America faces security challenges unlike any it has faced before, many of which requiring lengthy U.S. involvement in stability operations. These...
by Yahia H. Zoubir, Louisa Dris-Aït-Hamadouche
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
An unprecedented analysis of how the liberation from colonial rule has threatened the Maghreb region of Africa and created political and social challenges that puts global security at risk.
• Includes biographies of key security leaders
• Contains documents and excerpts from state...
Communitarian International Relations
The Epistemic Foundations of International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
In Emanuel Adler's distinctive constructivist approach to international relations theory, international practices evolve in tandem with collective knowledge of the material and social worlds. This book - comprising a fresh selection of his journal publications, a substantial new introduction, three...
Analyzing Intelligence
National Security Practitioners' Perspectives, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioners point of view. The contributors—most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community—review the evolution of the...
by Kathryn Marie Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Counterterrorism laws and policies have become a normalized fixture of security agendas across the globe. How do 'us/them' identity constructions contribute to the legitimizing strategies surrounding this development? The British case provides a historically-situated illustration which is of ongoing significance for security and insecurity today.
Handbook of Defense Economics
Defense in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
The second volume of the Handbook of Defense Economics addresses defense needs, practices, threats, and policies in the modern era of globalization. This new era concerns the enhanced cross-border flows of all kinds (e.g., capital and labor flows, revolutionary rhetoric, guerrillas, and terrorists)...
Charting Transformation through Security
Contemporary EU-Africa Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
This book analyses security cooperation in the domain of inter-regionalism, addressing the emergence of the African Union as a regional actor and its impact on EU-Africa relations. It explores the transformative potential of security cooperation for equality, partnership and local ownership in EU-Africa relations.
Zion's Dilemmas
How Israel Makes National Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In Zion's Dilemmas, a former deputy national security adviser to the State of Israel details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies in the making of Israeli national security policy. Chuck Freilich identifies profound, ongoing problems that he ascribes to a series of factors: a hostile...
The War on Leakers
National Security and American Democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii-but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly...
Developing the Mekong
Regionalism and Regional Security in China–Southeast Asian Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In Southeast Asia, China’s growing economic and political strength has been accompanied by adept diplomacy and active promotion of regional cooperation, institutions and integration. Southeast Asian states and China engage in ‘strategic regionalism’: they seek regional membership for regime...