International Security category: 2908 books
by Bruce Russett
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Hegemony and Democracy is constructed around the question of whether hegemony is sustainable, especially when the hegemon is a democratic state. The book draws on earlier publications over Bruce Russett’s long career and features new chapters that show the continuing relevance of his scholarship....
Georgia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Foreign Economic and Security Interests
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Georgia in a Reconnecting Eurasia examines the full scope of Georgian national interests in the wider Eurasian region and analyzes the broad outlines of Georgian engagement over the coming years. It is part of a four-part CSIS series, “The South Caucasus in a Reconnecting Eurasia,” which includes studies focusing on Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the South Caucasus.
Don't Wait for the Next War
A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
With the end of the Cold War came not the end of history, but the end of America's sense of its strategic purpose in the world. Then, after a decade of drift, the US was violently dragged back into international conflict. Its armed forces responded magnificently but its leaders' objectives were substantially...
America: Our Next Chapter
Tough Questions, Straight Answers
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Senator Chuck Hagel has long been admired by his colleagues on both sides of the Senate floor for his honesty, integrity, and common-sense approach to the challenges of our times. The Los Angeles Times has praised his "bold positions on foreign policy and national security" and wondered,...
Brotherhood of Warriors
Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Units
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At the age of eighteen, Aaron Cohen left Beverly Hills to prove himself in the crucible of the armed forces. He was determined to be a part of Israel's most elite security cadre, akin to the American Green Berets and Navy SEALs. After fifteen months of grueling training designed to break down each...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this revealing broadside, Victor Davis Hanson explains how President Obama has imprinted his domestic ideology of victimhood onto a therapeutic, Carter-inspired foreign policy. In Obama’s vision, the United State renounces its role as a defender of the postwar order and instead becomes an agent...
by David Tucker, Christopher Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
In October and November of 2001, small numbers of soldiers from the Army Special Forces entered Afghanistan, linked up with elements of the Northern Alliance (an assortment of Afghanis opposed to the Taliban), and, in a remarkably short period of time, destroyed the Taliban regime. Trained to work...
The Devil We Know
Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Over the past thirty years, while the United States has turned either a blind or dismissive eye, Iran has emerged as a nation every bit as capable of altering America’s destiny as traditional superpowers Russia and China. Indeed, one of this book’s central arguments is that, in some ways, Iran’s...
The Bureau
The Secret History of the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
No institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, no institution is as powerful. Yet until now, no book has presented the full story of the FBI from its beginnings in 1908 to the...
Your Government Failed You
Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families during the 9/11 Commission hearings touched a raw nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks but it has proven itself, time and again, incapable of handling the majority of our most crucial...
Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East
Geopolitics, Ideology, and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups. To understand the nature of transformation in the Middle Eastern geopolitical space, it provides new empirical and analytical insights...
The Much Too Promised Land
America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with...
Dawn of the Drones
Europe's Security Response to the Cyber Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In the twenty-first century, Europe faces disruptive technological developments that have an immediate impact on its societies. The historyof mankind has seen several of these disruptions, such as the inventions of gunpowder, aircraft, tanks, weapons of mass destruction and missiles. ...
Permanent Emergency
Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Since 2001 the TSA has accepted responsibility for protecting over two million people a day at U.S. airports and managing transportation operations around the world. But how effective is this beleaguered agency, and is it really keeping us safe from terrorism? In this riveting expose, former TSA administrator...