International Security category: 2908 books
Red Line
American Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Over the past quarter century, four consecutive American presidents—two Democrat, two Republican—have spent more time, diplomatic capital, and military resources on Iraq than any other country in the world. Much as the Vietnam syndrome cast a long shadow over American security policy in the decades...
The Threatened Net
How the Web Became a Perilous Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The Internet can appear to be elegantly designed, but as The Washington Post’s Craig Timberg demonstrated in his illuminating series “Net of Insecurity,” the network is much more an assemblage of kludges—more Frankenstein than Ferrari—that endure because they work, or at least work well enough....
Political Aspirations and Perils of Security
Unpacking the Military Strategy of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This book comprises of a range of case studies of military strategy, based on UN documents, observing and concluding the effectiveness of each individual case. Edstrom and Gyllensporre analyse the UN's military strategy, its consequences and its potential to fulfil political ambitions.
Small Arms, Crime and Conflict
Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book focuses on the use of small arms in violence and attempts by the state to govern the use and acquisition of these weapons.
It is likely that hundreds of thousands of people are killed every year as a result of armed violence – in contexts ranging from war zones to domestic violence....
American Pendulum
Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
As new presidential administrations come into power, they each bring their own approach to foreign policy. No grand strategy, however, is going to be completely novel. New administrations never start with a blank slate, so it is always possible to see similarities between an administration and its...
Sinai
Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt's rugged Sinai Peninsula has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords, yet its internal politics and security have remained largely under media blackout. While the international press descended on the capital Cairo in...
Unmanned
Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety.
Drones, however, are only part of the problem....
Storming the Wall
Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Immigration and borders continues to be a major issue in the national and international news cycle and Todd Miller's print history ranging from his feature in the New York Times Magazine to Border Patrol Nation position him to address this. As people are displaced from the coast, they being to "challenge"...
Choices
Inside the Making of Indias Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A look behind the scenes of some of India’s most critical foreign policy decisions by the country’s former foreign secretary and national security adviser.
Every country must make choices about foreign policy and national security. Sometimes those choices turn out to have been correct,...
American State-Building in Afghanistan and Its Regional Consequences
Achieving Democratic Stability and Balancing China's Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The book calls for rethinking U.S. policy toward promoting Afghanistan as a regional economic hub in Southwest and Central Asia as it fits within the broader national security interest of the regional states. It argues for defining Afghanistan within the U.S. national security interests in Southwest...
Foreign Policy Begins at Home
The Case for Putting America's House in Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran, a turbulent Middle East, and a reckless North Korea all present serious challenges to America's national security. But it depends even more on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure, second class...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
The security architecture of the Asia/Pacific region is in a profound transformation. Such changes are not without problems, which are discussed here.
by Michael E. O'Hanlon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?
In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the...
by Paul Rexton Kan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Now in its sixth year, the conflict in Mexico is a mosaic of several wars occurring at once: cartels battle one another, cartels suffer violence within their own organizations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people, and gangs combat gangs. The...