International Security category: 2908 books
Nuclear Realism
Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
What is a realist response to nuclear weapons? This book is animated by the idea that contemporary attempts to confront the challenge of nuclear weapons and other global security problems would benefit from richer historical foundations.
Returning to the decade of deep, thermonuclear anxiety...
by Kenneth R. Himes, OFM
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Drones have become an essential part of U.S. national security strategy, but most Americans know little about how they are used, and we receive conflicting reports about their outcomes. In Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing, ethicist Kenneth R. Himes provides not only an overview of the role...
Ukraine and Beyond
Russia's Strategic Security Challenge to Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book is the first full-spectrum analysis of Russian and European norms of political action, ranging from international law, ethics, and strategy, to the specific norms for the use of force. It brings together leading scholars from these various fields, examining the differences in norm understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia highlights the choices and problems confronting the alliance as it approaches the new century. An alliance created to keep Western Europe out of the Soviet orbit during the Cold War has sought to reinvent itself as a "crisis-management" organization...
One Nation Under Surveillance
A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the interests of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject...
Regional Intervention Politics in Africa
Crisis, Hegemony, and the Transformation of Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This book analyses regional interventions in African conflict spaces by engaging with political discourse theory.
Interventions are a performance of agency, but what happens if interventions are performed by forces that scholars have hardly ever considered as relevant agents in this regard?...
by Annie Herro
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book examines the attitudes of political, military and non-state actors towards the idea of a UN Emergency Peace Service, and the issues that might affect the establishment of this service in both theory and practice.
The United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) is a civil society-led...
by Kristina Beckmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 70 / 1- (A-), South Bank University London (Humanities and Social Science), 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Since 1945, various groups...
Bombs, Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs
Intelligence and America's Quest for Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Recent years have seen numerous books about the looming threat posed to Western society by biological and chemical terrorism, by narcoterrorists, and by the unpredictable leaders of rogue nations. Some of these works have been alarmist. Some have been sensible and measured. But none has been by Loch...
Social Networks, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
Radical and Connected
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This book examines two key themes in terrorism studies, the radicalization process and counter-terrorism policies, through the lens of social networks.
The book aims to show that networks should be at the forefront not only when analysing terrorists, but also when assessing the responses to...
Violent Extremism Online
New Perspectives on Terrorism and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This book explores the interface between terrorism and the internet and presents contemporary approaches to understanding violent extremism online.
The volume focuses on four issues in particular: terrorist propaganda on the internet; radicalisation and the internet; counter campaigns and approaches...
by Paul E. Lenze Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Since the Arab Spring, militaries have received renewed attention regarding their intervention into politics of Middle Eastern and South Asian states. This book examines the factors which influence military intervention and withdrawal from politics—namely, United States and Soviet/Russian economic...
Confronting the Global Forced Migration Crisis
A Report of the CSIS Task Force on the Global Forced Migration Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
The size and scope of the global forced migration crisis are unprecedented. Almost 66 million people worldwide have been forced from home by conflict. If recent trends continue, this figure could increase to between 180 and 320 million people by 2030. This global crisis already poses serious challenges...
by Hon. Philip E. Coyle III, Richard Dean Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
The Challenges of Nuclear Non-Proliferation is an exhaustive survey of the many aspects of non-proliferation efforts. It explains why some nations pursued nuclear programs while others abandoned them, as well as the challenges, strengths, and weaknesses of non-proliferation efforts. It addresses key...