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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
The global and regional security landscapes will change dramatically following the Western drawdown in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, and their allies are poised to return to Afghanistan and the Mujahidin in Pakistan may once again draw the support of pools of fighters. Experts from the...
Developing a United Nations Emergency Peace Service
Meeting Our Responsibilities to Prevent and Protect
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This book makes the case for a standing UN Emergency Peace Service. With this one development - effectively a UN first responder for complex emergencies - the organization would finally have a rapid, reliable capacity to help fulfill its tougher assigned tasks. To date, the UNEPS initiative has encountered...
Power Transition and International Order in Asia
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This edited volume examines how the transition and diffusion of power in global politics is impacting on stability and order in Asia.
Both in the academic field of International Relations (IR) and among policymakers, the big question today concerns the rise of China, the relative decline of...
Japan Prepares for Total War
The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Historian Michael Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of Japan's quest for economic security. Drawing on...
The Sovereignty Solution
A Common Sense Approach to Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Sovereignty Solution is not an Establishment national security strategy. Instead, it describes what the U.S. could actually do to restore order to the world without having to engage in either global policing or nation-building. Currently there is no coherent plan that addresses questions like: If...
Reforming Civil-Military Relations in New Democracies
Democratic Control and Military Effectiveness in Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations. By tracing the development of civil-military relations in various new democracies from a comparative perspective, it links two bodies of scholarship that thus far have remained largely...
Kosovo between War and Peace
Nationalism, Peacebuilding and International Trusteeship
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
A major contribution to the debate about the reconstruction of Kosovo, and to the general discussion surrounding the revived 'trusteeship institution' model in the context of the UN internationalism of the 1990s and the War on Terror following 9/11.
Bringing together leading international scholars,...
The United Kingdom’s Defence After Brexit
Britain’s Alliances, Coalitions, and Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
This new work examines how the European states, the United Kingdom and the United States will approach the defence and Security of Europe in the medium and long-term. It is often assumed that Brexit, the United Kingdom’s departure from the political and commercial European Union, would affect defence...
by Robert J. Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The United States today is the most powerful nation in the world, perhaps even stronger than Rome was during its heyday. It is likely to remain the world's preeminent power for at least several decades to come. What behavior is appropriate for such a powerful state?
To answer this question,...
Countering Extremism
Building Social Resilience through Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This unique work is the first to address the subject of community engagement strategies in countering extremism, and explores the development and research of these strategies. In so doing it demystifies the process of community engagement, while simultaneously extolling the virtues of the ground breaking...
US Military Innovation since the Cold War
Creation Without Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
This book explains how the US military reacted to the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), and failed to innovate its organization or doctrine to match the technological breakthroughs it brought about.
Many called for the transformation of the US military in the years after the end of the...
by Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions...
Accountability for Killing
Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The unintended deaths of civilians in war are too often dismissed as unavoidable, inevitable, and accidental. And despite the best efforts of the U.S. to avoid them, civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan have been a regular feature of the United States' wars after 9/11. In Accountability...
by Mariya Grozdanova
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: First-class Honours, Royal Holloway, University of London, course: Terrorism and Counterterrorism, language: English, abstract: While in recent years suicide terrorism proved...