International Security category: 2908 books
The Global Politics of Combating Nuclear Terrorism
A Supply-Side Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The most difficult challenge for a terrorist organization seeking to build a nuclear weapon or improvised nuclear device is obtaining fissile material, either plutonium or highly enriched uranium (HEU). Experts acknowledge that obtaining HEU, uranium that has been processed to increase the proportion...
Dismantling the Iraqi Nuclear Programme
The Inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1991–1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book is an authoritative account of the nuclear weapons inspections regime in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
Without a proper understanding of those years, the 2003 US invasion of Iraq after a futile WMD search remain unintelligible. In the 1990s, after adapting to a completely new kind of intrusive...
Withdrawing from Iraq
Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In studying the withdrawal from Iraq, RAND assessed logistical constraints, trends in insurgent activity, the readiness of Iraqi security forces, and implications for the size of the residual U.S. force and for security in Iraq and the region. This report presents alternative schedules: one consistent...
The Evolving U.S. Nuclear Narrative
Communicating the Rationale for the Role and Value of U.S. Nuclear Weapons, 1989 to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear to many observers that the Department of Defense must better communicate to the officers at the tactical end of the nuclear mission a rationale for nuclear weapons and deterrence, the critical role that they play in the post–Cold War strategy of...
Militancy and the Arc of Instability
Violent Extremism in the Sahel
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
An arc of instability stretching across Africa’s Sahel region, an area of strategic interest for the United States and its allies, is plagued by violent extremist organizations (VEOs). These organizations, including Boko Haram, al Qaeda, and other terror groups, have metastasized and present a serious...
Afghanistan at Transition
The Lessons of the Longest War
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This new study covers the civil and military lessons of the war in Afghanistan as of 2015, the trends at the time of transition, and the risks inherent in the current approach to supporting Afghanistan. The report focuses on the lessons to be learned from the US experience in Afghanistan to date and...
American Foreign Policy
Alliance Politics in a Century of War, 1914-2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The text aims to uncover the roots of the United States' near perpetual involvement in war since the beginning of WWI in 1914. Using alliance politics as the main framework of analysis, it offers a new interpretation that contrasts with the traditional views that war is an interruption of the American...
by Marcel de Haas
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Statebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa
The Aftermath of Regime Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This book examines the regime changes in Iraq and Libya to unravel the complexity of statebuilding in countries emerging from authoritarianism and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Framed in a comparative study of post-2003 Iraq and post-2011 Libya, the book examines...
Strategic Cooperation
Overcoming the Barriers of Global Anarchy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Power inequalities and mistrust have characterized many interstate relationships. Yet most international relations theories do not take into account power and mistrust when explaining cooperation. While some scholars argue that power relations inhibit cooperation between states, other scholars expect...
by Ernest Z. Bower, Murray Hiebert, Phuong Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Building on a careful analysis of Southeast Asia’s recent history, politics, economics, and place within the Asia Pacific, this report looks forward two decades to anticipate the development of trends in the region and how they will impact the U.S.-Japan alliance. How will Southeast Asian states...
The Wastrels of Defense
How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In this damning expose, a veteran senate defense advisor argues that since Sept 11, 2001, the conduct of the U.S. Congress has sunk to new depths and endangered the nation's security. Winslow Wheeler draws on three decades of work with four prominent senators to tell in lively detail how members of Congress...
Intelligence Governance and Democratisation
A Comparative Analysis of the Limits of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation.
Within the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), academics have paid significant attention to both the police and military. The democratisation of intelligence structures...
Crude Strategy
Rethinking the US Military Commitment to Defend Persian Gulf Oil
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Should the United States ask its military to guarantee the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf? If the US security commitment is in fact strategically sound, what posture should the military adopt to protect Persian Gulf oil?Charles L. Glaser and Rosemary A. Kelanic present a collection of new essays from...