International Security category: 2908 books
Security Versus Freedom?
A Challenge for Europe's Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
From the viewpoint of migration and asylum policy and the fight against terrorism, justice and home affairs is a key policy area. It is also an area that raises important challenges and questions with regard to the preservation of fundamental freedoms. This engaging volume examines the emerging European...
Blinking Red
Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish AmericaÆs new enemiesùstateless international terrorists. In the midst of the 2004 presidential...
The Middle East, Oil, and the U.S. National Security Policy
Intractable Conflicts, Impossible Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Three interrelated subject areas are at the heart of the current foreign and national security dilemma. One is the Middle East, which has been the epicenter of most U.S. policy activity for over a third of a century. The second is energy policy, particularly as it is affected by the development and...
Byting BackA-Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents
RAND Counterinsurgency StudyA-Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being used advantageously by insurgents. Because insurgency and counterinsurgency involve a battle for the allegiance of a population between a government...
Hyperconflict
Globalization and Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
This book addresses two questions that are crucial to the human condition in the twenty-first century: does globalization promote security or fuel insecurity? And what are the implications for world order? Coming to grips with these matters requires building a bridge between the geoeconomics and geopolitics...
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China
Power and Politics in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power. The contributors note that the shifting regional...
Jago Pakistan / Wake Up, Pakistan
The Report of The Century Foundation International Working Group on Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Pakistan is at a crossroads. While the threat from al-Qaeda has been diminished, militancy is still a critical, evolving, and growing threat. Pakistan lags behind most of its neighbors in many economic and human development indicators, while its democratic institutions are undercut by recurring civil-military...
by Daniel Marshall, Terry Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book offers a comparison of the differences between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both. Beginning with the origins of the concept of privacy, before addressing more current thinking, the authors examine the notion of privacy...
Adopting Biometric Technology
Challenges and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Many types of security technologies are currently in use, with biometrics being one of the latest and most cutting-edge forms that has been produced for mass application. Biometrics, while intriguing, is often broached with hesitation and poor understanding. Adopting Biometric Technology: Challenges...
Emergency Preparedness for Business Professionals
How to Mitigate and Respond to Attacks Against Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Emergency Response for Business Professionals provides business managers who do not have in-house security expertise as well as the security professionals who advise them with an overview on how to prepare and react to potential unexpected incidents that can occur to their organization.
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Project on Nuclear Issues
A Collection of Papers from the 2012 Conference Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The Center for Strategic and International Studies launched the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) in 2003 in order to revitalize and strengthen a community of nuclear weapons experts whose training and background increasingly emphasize multidisciplinary expertise, especially among younger generations....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
This book examines how international intelligence cooperation has come to prominence post-9/11 and introduces the main accountability, legal and human rights challenges that it poses.
Since the end of the Cold War, the threats that intelligence services are tasked with confronting have become...
Local Legitimacy in Peacebuilding
Pathways to Local Compliance with International Police Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book analyses the role of legitimacy in explaining local actors’ compliance with international peacebuilding operations.
The book provides a comparative, micro-level study of local actors’ reasons for compliance with or resistance to international peacebuilding. Specifically, it analyses...
Combating Proliferation
Strategic Intelligence and Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
The intelligence community's flawed assessment of Iraq's weapons systems—and the Bush administration's decision to go to war in part based on those assessments—illustrates the political and policy challenges of combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In this comprehensive assessment,...