International Security category: 2908 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2011
The Munk Debates is Canada's premier international debate series, a highly anticipated cultural event and feast of ideas. Launched in 2008 by philanthropists Peter and Melanie Munk, these debates bring together some of the world's greatest thinkers to discuss the most pressing political, social, and...
The Threat on the Horizon
An Inside Account of America's Search for Security after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations in the U.S. intelligence...
Thinking beyond Boundaries
Transnational Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Written under the direction of West Point social sciences faculty for its Student Conference on U.S. Affairs (SCUSA), Thinking beyond Boundaries introduces undergraduates to aspects of transnational conflict that extend beyond traditional political and intellectual boundaries, providing context to...
by John W. Schiemann
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When the Senate released its so-called "Torture Report" in December 2014 the world would learn that, for years, the CIA had used unimaginably brutal methods to interrogate its prisoners - often without yielding any useful or truthful information. The agency had long and adamantly defended its use...
"Lost" Causes
Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Why do some issues and threats—diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations—get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to Charli Carpenter,...
North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
Entering the New Era of Deterrence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un’s regime now appears to be close, however....
by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi, Pita Ogaba Agbese, Glen Segell
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book examines two sides of civil–military relations in developing countries. One is the place of civil-military relations within a state’s political and economic systems; the other is the role of the military on a state’s maintenance of peace and stability. The book thus proposes that the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book critically analyses the 2011 intervention in Libya arguing that the manner in which the intervention was sanctioned, prosecuted and justified has a number of troubling implications for the both the future of humanitarian intervention and international peace and security.
Border Insecurity
Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren't Making Us Safer
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
When confronted with the challenges of border security and illegal immigration, government officials are fond of saying that our borders have never been as safe and secure as they are now. But ranchers in the borderlands of Arizona and Texas fear for their lands, their cattle, their homes, and sometimes...
The Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations
An Assessment of Mexican Security Based on Existing RAND Research on Urban Unrest, Insurgency, and Defense-Sector Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A RAND team conducted a Delphi expert elicitation exercise, the results of which offer an assessment of the contemporary security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing RAND research on urban instability and unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform. Assessment scorecards from...
by Renard Teipelke
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, University of California, San Diego (Department of Political Science), course: Introduction to International Relations, language: English, abstract: Bargaining can be...
The Wounded Giant
America's Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity An eSpecial from The Penguin Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A farseeing and controversial analysis of the military America needs and the military we can afford from the director of research at Brookings.
As total federal debt trends toward 100 percent of the GDP, and America wavers on the edge of another recession, Congress has responded with a plan...
A Glass Half Full?
Rebalance, Reassurance, and Resolve in the U.S.-China Strategic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.
The U.S.-China relationship has not always been smooth, but since Richard Nixon’s opening in the early 1970s, the two countries have evolved a relationship that has been generally beneficial to both parties. Economic...
Military Cooperation in Multinational Peace Operations
Managing Cultural Diversity and Crisis Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This edited volume uses theoretical overviews and empirical case studies to explore both how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity occurring within various multinational military operations, and how their organizations manage them.
Military organizations, like other complex...