International Security category: 2908 books
International Intervention and State-making
How Exception Became the Norm
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from contemporary international state-building interventions.
It aims to highlight how the exercise of ‘exceptional’ forms of power by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of intervened states. Drawing upon...
International Military Operations in the 21st Century
Global Trends and the Future of Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational operations in the 21st century.
Expanding on Rupert Smith’s The Utility of Force, the volume assesses the changing parameters within which force as a political instrument is ultimately carried out. By analysing...
Defacing Power
The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"Combining a rich and varied set of theoretical insights with a subtle analysis of the politics of American foreign policy, Defacing Power marks an important contribution toward understanding the power of identity in world politics. Engagingly written and rigorously argued, Steele's challenging...
Negotiating with Terrorists
Strategy, Tactics, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This edited volume addresses the important issue of negotiating with terrorists, and offers recommendations for best practice and processes.
Hostage negotiation is the process of trying to align two often completely polarised parties. Authorities view hostage taking as unacceptable demands...
Territorial Separatism in Global Politics
Causes, Outcomes and Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This volume examines the various aspects of territorial separatism, focusing on how and why separatist movements arise.
Featuring essays by leading scholars from different disciplinary perspectives, the book aims to situate the question of separatism within the broader socio-political context...
Local Ownership in International Peacebuilding
Key Theoretical and Practical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This edited volume empirically examines key theoretical and practical issues relevant to the promotion of local ownership in contemporary international peacebuilding.
This book attempts to provide comprehensive understanding of the issue of local ownership in international peacebuilding. By...
Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention
Strategic, Ethico-Legal and Decisional Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention.
Since the end of the Cold War, US technological superiority has led to a more proactive and, some would argue, high risk approach to international...
by Tricia Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Terrorist groups with a shared enemy or ideology have ample reason to work together, even if they are primarily pursuing different causes. Although partnering with another terrorist organization has the potential to bolster operational effectiveness, efficiency, and prestige, international alliances...
International Conflicts, 1816-2010
Militarized Interstate Dispute Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A militarized interstate dispute (MID) refers to international conflict short of war. The MID dataset from the Correlates of War Project catalogs summary data on all threats, displays, and uses of force between two or more states. These dispute data are essential in quantitative analyses of international...
The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy
Why Strategic Superiority Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation...
Summary and Analysis of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Based on the Book by Fred Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Fred Kaplan’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to...
We Are Anonymous
Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A thrilling, exclusive expose of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.
WE ARE ANONYMOUS is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the feds-and the ultimate betrayal...
Body of Secrets
Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The National Security Agency is the world’s most powerful, most far-reaching espionage. Now with a new afterword describing the security lapses that preceded the attacks of September 11, 2001, Body of Secrets takes us to the inner sanctum of America’s spy world. In the follow-up to his bestselling...
The Gatekeepers
Inside Israel’s Internal Security Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The companion to the Oscar-nominated documentary—six former heads of Shin Bet honestly assess their attempts to stop Palestinian terror in Israel.
Imagine the following situation: You have just received a tip that six suicide bombers are making their way into the heart of Israel’s major cities,...