International Security category: 2908 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The United States and her allies have found themselves plunged into ‘a war over [humanity’s] future social and political organization’ with criminal challengers to the nation-state form. These new wars are currently being fought globally with Al Qaeda, in Iraq with shifting coalitions of criminal...
US National Cybersecurity
International Politics, Concepts and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This volume explores the contemporary challenges to US national cybersecurity.
Taking stock of the field, it features contributions by leading experts working at the intersection between academia and government and offers a unique overview of some of the latest debates about national cybersecurity....
Cyber Warfare
Its Implications on National Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Each era brings with it new techniques and methods of waging a war. While military scholars and experts have mastered land, sea, air and space warfare, time has come that they studied the art of cyberwar too. Our neighbours have acquired the capabilities to undertake this new form of asymmetric form...
by Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Since the 1990s, the American government has under prioritized the North Korean threat to global security, according to Bruce Bechtol, an associate professor of political science at Angelo State University. Because North Korea appears economically weak and politically unstable, it is therefore often...
China's Assertive Nuclear Posture
State Security in an Anarchic International Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
China’s nuclear capability is crucial for the balance of power in East Asia and the world. As this book reveals, there have been important changes recently in China’s nuclear posture: the movement from a minimum deterrence posture toward a medium nuclear power posture; the pursuit of space warfare...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Old sergeants say, "we're here to defend democracy, not to practice it!" But are they right? The special mandate with which defence and security organizations are tasked imposes unique constraints with respect to the accommodation of diversity which differs from those faced by any other...
Special Operations from a Small State Perspective
Future Security Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
“Over the past dozen years special operations forces (SOF) have been one of the few areas of growth and expansion in a number of militaries. This growth and expansion, however, has not been mirrored by a comparable one in academic inquiries into the subject. Special Operations from a Small State...
Europe's Strategic Future
From Crisis to Coherence?
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
Europe has suffered a decade of crises, with sovereign-debt troubles leading to austerity policies that exacerbated divisions inside member states and between them. Thereafter the Union was confronted with the challenges posed by a revanchist Russia in Ukraine and by a surge in migration from the...
Al Qaeda's Global Crisis
The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This book focuses on the crises facing Al Qaeda and how the mass killing of Muslims is challenging its credibility as a leader among Islamist jihadist organizations.
The book argues that these crises are directly related to Al Qaeda’s affiliation with the extreme violence employed against...
Russia Abroad
Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life. Further, deliberate “un-regioning,” applied by actors external as well as internal to...
Research in Security Sector Reform Policy
The Case of Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book investigates the extent to which research has influenced and interacted with SSR policies, programmes and activities implemented by the UK in conflict-affected Sierra Leone. Varisco uses concepts and notions from the literature on the policy process and research utilisation to explore the...
The United Nations and Space Security
Conflicting Mandates between UNCOPUOS and the CD
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2019
This book provides a detailed analysis on the history and development of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) and the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and the coordination and cooperation between these two fora. Furthermore, it discusses the future challenges that these fora...
The De-Radicalization of Jihadists
Transforming Armed Islamist Movements
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
This book is the first detailed study of the causes of de-radicalization in armed Islamist movements. It is based on frontline research that includes interviews with Jihadist leaders, mid-ranking commanders, and young sympathizers, as well as former security and intelligence officers and state officials.
Additionally,...
National Security
Wie der amerikanische Geheimdienst uns ausspäht
Language: German
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Das F.A.Z.-eBook "National Security" lässt die seit Sommer 2013 stückweise durch Edward Snowden enthüllten Aktivitäten amerikanischer und britischer Geheimdienste gegen Deutschland Revue passieren und beantwortet die Frage nach den Folgen für das transatlantische Verhältnis. Der Schock war groß,...