International Security category: 2908 books
US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century
More than Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
In this edited book, leading scholars and analysts trace the origins, evolution and the current state of Indo-US strategic cooperation.
During the Cold War, owing to opposing grand strategies, the two states frequently found themselves at odds. With the end of the Cold War and the demise of...
by Arabinda Acharya
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a comprehensive assessment of what the countries in Southeast Asia have achieved is overdue. We need to consider whether the strategies against both the domestic and transnational terrorist and...
Developing a United Nations Emergency Peace Service
Meeting Our Responsibilities to Prevent and Protect
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
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...
Regional Peacemaking and Conflict Management
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This volume examines mechanisms for regional peacemaking and conflict management in Europe and the Middle East.
To date little research has been devoted to uncovering the conditions for peace, and the factors that contribute to stabilizing the state of peace. This volume assesses the factors...
by Seema Shekhawat, Veronica Fynn Bruey, Antal Berkes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of gender with peace...
Bilateral Perspectives on Regional Security
Australia, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book assesses the key factors underlying such Australian-Japanese cooperation and those policy challenges that could impede it. Experts offer critical insights into why their two countries – traditionally the two key 'spokes' in the US bilateral alliance network spanning Asia – are moving toward a security relationship in their own right.
Victims of Terrorism
A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This book examines the politicisation of victims of terrorism and the reality of the victimisation experience within the broader field of terrorism and the resulting conflict.
Victims of terrorism are a unique group of individuals whose experience is overlooked in the current literature on...
Talking to Terrorists
Concessions and the Renunciation of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
This book examines the doctrine of giving no concessions to terrorists, and uses empirical research to establish whether there is any link between negotiating with such groups and the spread of violence.
The logic of the no-concessions doctrine is based on the argument that other terrorist...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This new handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays that investigate the contribution of Critical Terrorism Studies to our understanding of contemporary terrorism and counterterrorism.
Terrorism remains one of the most important security and political issues of our time....
Big Data Challenges
Society, Security, Innovation and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book brings together an impressive range of academic and intelligence professional perspectives to interrogate the social, ethical and security upheavals in a world increasingly driven by data. Written in a clear and accessible style, it offers fresh insights to the deep reaching implications...
Speaking the Law
The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
When Barack Obama came into office, the strategic landscape facing the United States in its overseas counterterrorism operations was undergoing a shift. Even before the rise of drones necessitated the articulation of legal doctrine, the Obama administration had to explain itself. In Speaking the Law,...
From Deterrence to Engagement
The U.S. Defense Commitment to South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
From Deterrence to Engagement provides a comprehensive examination of the U.S.-South Korea defense relationship from 1945 to the present. Using deterrence theory as its framework, this work explores the evolving nature of U.S. interests in a region that became a focal point only after the North Korean...
by Sopheada Phy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A-, University for Peace, language: English, abstract: Cambodia has been on its peace building effort for the sake of peace and prosperity right...
Rethinking the World
Great Power Strategies and International Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Stunning shifts in the worldviews of states mark the modern history of international affairs: how do societies think about—and rethink—international order and security? Japan's "opening," German conquest, American internationalism, Maoist independence, and Gorbachev's "new thinking" molded international...