International Security category: 2908 books
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization
An Unofficial History
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book traces the history of Australia's highly secret Intelligence Security Organisation. Established in the early days of the Cold War, like most intelligence organisations working under covert conditions, it exceeded the vague powers entrusted to it. It has been the subject of two Royal Commissions...
The Global Village Myth
Distance, War, and the Limits of Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent threats like terrorism or cyberwar. As a result, they practice responses driven by fear: theories of falling...
To Lead the World
American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
U.S. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of democracy by force has proven disastrous. The United States now finds itself vilified abroad, weakened at home, and bogged down in a seemingly endless and...
Presidential Doctrines
U.S. National Security from George Washington to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This text assesses and evaluates the key U.S. presidential doctrines from Washington to Obama. It demonstrates that in spite of differences between successive administrations, in most instances presidential doctrines have articulated both the responses and directions conducive to an international...
Strategy in Asia
The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Some of the United States' greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. China and India are rising and Militant Islam continues to take root in Pakistan, while nuclear proliferation threatens to continue in fits and starts. If America is to meet these...
Limited War in South Asia
From Decolonization to Recent Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia.
Although South Asia has experienced large-scale conventional warfare on several occasions since the end of World War II, there is an almost total neglect of analysis of conventional warfare...
The New Spatiality of Security
Operational Uncertainty and the US Military in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This book provides a rigorous critical analysis of how the US military operates in Iraq, exploring the spatial practices of violence.
Contemporary critical analyses of the United States’ involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan emphasise the hegemonic nature of the US military experience, while...
Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
Assessing the U.S. Government's Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The Cold War phrase “weapons of mass destruction” continues to be used despite significant changes in international political cultures, military concepts of operation, and technology advances. Today, the term “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD) is used to address many things, from grams of...
by Girma Yohannes Iyassu Menelik
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: excellent, University of Miami (FL. And Brookings Institution Washington D. C.; Security And Terrorism Studies), course: Homegrown Terrorists And...
U.S. Counterterrorism
From Nixon to Trump – Key Challenges, Issues, and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
*"Writing with years of experience in government, Ambassador Edward Marks and Michael Kraft have produced a splendid history of America’s long campaign against terrorism. The book analyzes the recent changes in technology and tactics that have profoundly altered today’s terrorist challenge…to...
Warring Friends
Alliance Restraint in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war. Furthermore, restraint often becomes an issue in existing alliances as one ally wants to start a war, launch a military intervention,...
Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
Bridging the Theoretical and Practical Divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, sometimes in competition or in tension and occasionally with contradictory approaches towards achieving a lasting peace. Although human rights norms have been incorporated and institutionalized by various...
Institutional Reforms and Peacebuilding
Change, Path-Dependency and Societal Divisions in Post-War Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This book deals with the question how institutional reform can contribute to peacebuilding in post-war and divided societies.
In the context of armed conflict and widespread violence, two important questions shape political agendas inside and outside the affected societies: How can we stop...
by Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
In Red Rogue, Bruce Bechtol analyzes the changing nature of North KoreaÆs national defense, foreign policy, and illicit economic activities in the postû9/11 era. He describes how North Korea has adapted to a changing global and regional environment to ensure regime survival and has often dictated the...