International Security category: 2908 books
Quasi-state Entities and International Criminal Justice
Legitimising Narratives and Counter-Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book explores the intended and unintended impact of international criminal justice on the legitimacy of quasi-state entities (QSEs).
In order to do so, the concept of ‘quasi-state entity’ is introduced to distinguish actors in statehood conflicts that aspire to statehood, and fulfil...
Pre-emptive Self-Defence: 'In an age of international terrorism, the law on self-defence needs to be expanded to include the right to pre-emptive self-defence.'
An evaluation of arguments both for and against this proposition
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: Distinction, Macquarie University, course: IRPG 842 Politics of International Law, language: English, abstract: This paper will argue against an expansion of international...
Cyberspace and National Security
Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In a very short time, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, individuals, subnational groups, and governments are using cyberspace to advance interests...
Targeting Terrorist Financing
International Cooperation and New Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This book examines the dynamics of terrorist financing, including a discussion about the importance of money from both the terrorist and the counter-terrorist perspective.
Targeting Terrorist Financing argues that it is not the institutions that have failed the war on terrorist financing; rather...
International Order at Sea
How it is challenged. How it is maintained.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
This book examines how international order at sea is challenged, changed and maintained. The book surveys challenges to the international order at sea in the Asia-Pacific, the Indian Ocean Region, the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. It explores the interaction between and cooperation among leading,...
EU Foreign Policy and Crisis Management Operations
Power, purpose and domestic politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This bookexplores the drivers of the EU’s recent forays into peace- and state-building operations.
Since the Union’s European (now Common) Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP) became operational in 2003, the EU has conducted more than 20 civilian and military operations that broadly...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Peacekeeping has been the technique most frequently used by, and associated with, the United Nations to end conflicts and to preserve peace. In addition, international and regional organizations have also performed peacekeeping functions. Since the establishment of the first UN peacekeeping mission,...
Rethinking Neo-Institutional Statebuilding
The Knowledge Paradox of International Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book examines how neo-institutional statebuilding undercuts international policy agency. Post-Cold War interventions are marked by a peculiar paradox. From peace and statebuilding projects in war-shattered societies to World Bank development programmes in Africa, the scope of external regulation...
International Law and Drone Strikes in Pakistan
The Legal and Socio-political Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
While conventional warfare has an established body of legal precedence, the legality of drone strikes by the United States in Pakistan and elsewhere remains ambiguous. This book explores the legal and political issues surrounding the use of drones in Pakistan. Drawing from international treaty law,...
Understanding Crime Prevention
The Case Study Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Crime prevention benefits everyone, including would-be criminals saved from the negative consequences of offending. Yet much of today’s policy on preventing crime is driven by political ideology and anecdotal evidence, with insufficient planning and evaluation. Improving the practice of crime prevention...
Coercing Compliance
State-Initiated Brute Force in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for —the first comprehensive systematic...
Theory and Practice of International Mediation
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
This volume brings together some of the most significant papers on international conflict mediation by Professor Jacob Bercovitch, one of the leading scholars in the field.
It has become common practice to note that mediation has been, and remains, one of the most important structures of dealing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
This volume provides an authoritative, cutting-edge resource on the characteristics of both technological and social change in warfare in the twenty-first century, and the challenges such change presents to international law.
The character of contemporary warfare has recently undergone significant...
The Father of Jihad
'Abd Allāh 'Azzām's Jihad Ideas and Implications to National Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
This study revolves around the jihad ideas of 'Abd Allāh 'Azzām — an iconic figure in the study of militant jihad in the 20th century, history of Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union, Al-Qaeda and current threat of terrorism.
This study has several objectives:
to render an in-depth...