International Security category: 2908 books
Regional Resurgence in Africa
Prospects and Challenges of African Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Regional Resurgence in Africa: Prospects and Challenges of African Union perceives the AU as a Pan-African entity with its mandate for 'comprehensive security' in the continent, implying its pursuit of three security objectives: resolution of armed conflicts, political stability and economic security....
Deferring Peace in International Statebuilding
Difference, Resilience and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book explores the last 25 years of international peacebuilding and recasts them as a growing crisis of confidence in universal ideas of peacebuilding and self-government.
Since current peacebuilding interventions are abandoning domineering, top-down and linear methodologies, and experimenting...
Prosecuting War Crimes
Lessons and legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This volume examines the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was created under Chapter VII of the UN Charter as a mechanism explicitly aimed at the restoration and maintenance of international peace and security.
As the ICTY has now entered...
Size and Survival
The Politics of Security in the Caribbean and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This book provides the first comparative survey of the security problems faced by the small island and enclave developing states of the two major regions in the world characterised by the presence of such states - the Caribbean and the Pacific. It both contributes to the theoretical debate about size...
From Lambs to Lions
Future Security Relationships in a World of Biological and Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
While many books discuss how nations can prevent the proliferation of biological and nuclear weapons, this unique and controversial volume begins with the premise that these weapons will certainly multiply despite our desperate desire to slow this process. How worried should we be and what should...
The Power Problem
How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. In The Power Problem, Christopher A. Preble explores the aims, costs,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This two-volume work offers a comprehensive examination of the distressing topics of transnational crime and the implications for global security.
• Represents global collaboration among contributors including scholars from respected universities in Europe, North America, and Australia; professionals...
by Dr. Vijay Sakhuja, Dr. Kapil Narula
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive view of the maritime safety and security challenges in countries of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). Various issues such as trans-national crime including piracy, terrorism, drug and arms smuggling; Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) and...
American Biodefense
How Dangerous Ideas about Biological Weapons Shape National Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Technology provides numerous opportunities for positive developments in modern society; however, these venues inevitably increase vulnerability to threats in online environments. Addressing issues of security in the cyber realm is increasingly relevant and critical to society. Threat Mitigation and Detection...
European Military Culture and Security Governance
Soldiers, Scholars and National Defence Universities
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of military education and training in Europe within the context of the post-Cold War security environment.
Based on an analysis of military education institutions in the UK, Germany, Finland, Romania and the Baltic States, this book...
American Technology Policy
Evolving Strategic Interests after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. policymakers have faced the challenge of addressing the technological requirements of both economic competitiveness and national security. Promoting the technological objectives of competitiveness and security poses a daunting task, as these objectives can differ...
Securing Japan
Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded...
Culture and Security
Multilateralism, Arms Control and Security Building
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A comprehensive and empirically rich set of case studies that examine the impact of socio-cultural influences on multilateral arms control and security-building processes around the world.