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Threat Perceptions
The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism is a study of the legal, scientific and social constructions of danger and risk of crime in the United States since the late nineteenth century. Governance of risk has emerged as an intrinsic part of the legislative...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This volumes discusses three principal issues: the Israeli army and the Revolution of Military Affairs (RMA); Israel's present and future answers to the threays of weapons of mass destruction (WMD); and the impact of societal, political, and technological changes on Israel's future war objectives.
Project Atom
A Competitive Strategies Approach to Defining U.S. Nuclear Strategy and Posture for 2025–2050
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Project Atom is a forward-looking, “blue-sky” review of U.S. nuclear strategy and posture in a 2025-2050 world in which nuclear weapons are still necessary. The report highlights and addresses the current deficit in national security attention paid to the continued relevance and importance of...
China’s Expanding African Relations
Implications for U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Across economic, political, and security domains, the growth of China’s presence in Africa has been swift and staggering, which has fed both simplistic caricatures of China’s role on the continent and fears of renewed geopolitical competition. A closer look reveals a more balanced picture. This...
Religion and Violence in Russia
Context, Manifestations, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Religious violence is surely as old as both faith and fighting themselves. In the Russian Federation, as elsewhere in the world, religious teachings and philosophies are used both to justify and combat violence. While many, including Russian authorities, increasingly view religious conflict through...
Axis of Convenience
Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Few relationships have been as misunderstood as the "strategic partnership" between Russia and China. Official rhetoric portrays it as the very model of international cooperation: Moscow and Beijing claim that ties are closer and warmer than at any time in history. In reality, however, the...
American Christian Support for Israel
Standing with the Chosen People, 1948–1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The dominant political theme of the State of Israel is the perpetual quest for security. In its first 25 years, Israel experienced five wars with Arab states declaring their goal to destroy Israel. In *American Christian Support for Israel:*Standing with the Chosen People, 1948–1975, Eric R. Crouse...
Hacking the Bomb
Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber-attack? Could terrorists launch a nuclear weapon through hacking? Are we standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order? These are among the many pressing security questions addressed in Andrew Futter’s ground-breaking study of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's...
Beyond the Last War
Balancing Ground Forces and Future Challenges Risk in USCENTCOM and USPACOM
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
There are currently real pressures on U.S. ground forces to define their contingency future. For example, there is a perceived decline in plausible conventional warfighting scenarios, and many see maintaining large standing ground capabilities solely as a hedge against uncertainty as cost-prohibitive...
Global Biosecurity
Threats and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases,...
Biological Threats in the 21st Century
The Politics, People, Science and Historical Roots
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Biological Threats in the 21st Century offers a fresh understanding of contemporary biological threats to national security. Readers are introduced to the politics, people, science and historical roots of contemporary biological threats through up-to-date, rigorous and accessible chapters written...
Understanding Civil Wars
Continuity and change in intrastate conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective.
Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests that these conflicts...
Terrorist Histories
Individuals and Political Violence since the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book addresses provides a series of in-depth portraits of men and women who have been labelled ‘terrorists’, from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Bridging historical methodologies and theoretical approaches to terrorism studies, it seeks to contribute to the developing historicising...