International Security category: 2908 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Cyber Warfare is gaining special significance in today’s national security aspects. This book through various articles covers aspects on Cyber Security, Cyberspace, Cyber Surveillance, Cyber Warfare including Laws of War, Cyber Weapons as new weapons of mass destruction et. al.
by Sopheada Phy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A, University for Peace (Department of Peace and Conflict Studies), course: International Peace Studies, language: English, abstract: Contemporary Cambodia is most...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
This book offers a comparative survey of 18 contemporary peace processes conducted by leading international scholars.
There is no standard model of peace processes and all will vary according to the context, type of conflict, timing, national and global economic climate, and factors like natural...
Naval Strategy in Northeast Asia
Geo-strategic Goals, Policies and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Over the past decade, Northeast Asia has been dominated by quite significant strategic change, which is ongoing and brings with it many uncertainties. naval capabilities in Northwest Asia are instrumental in promoting maritime security interests - helping to build a stable security environment through...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Contributions to this book question the concept of the clash of cultures. The challenge to the West does not lie in the monolith of Islam turning aggressively outward to Europe and the US, but in the rivalries between regimes ruling over societies divided by an imbalance in wealth and power.
Beyond South Asia
India's Strategic Evolution and the Reintegration of the Subcontinent
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
The Republic of India occupies a key geopolitical and strategic space at the center of the Indian Ocean. How it interacts with the rest of the world will have profound consequences in the 21st century.
Beyond South Asia follows the evolution of India's strategic thinking since 1947, providing...
The Ecology of Violent Extremism
Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremism. Nothing can be fixed until it is understood. News media keep us alarmed to the close--‐up devastation of acts of terrorism.
This book climbs...
by Lawrence E. Cline
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Operating in four African nations, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) routinely engages in human rights violations that include mutilation, murder, mass-scale abductions, and sex trafficking—and it has done so with seeming impunity for more than 20 years. This timely book offers a concise, expert...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
India’s First War of Independence in 1857 ended in a fiasco, primarily for want of effective leadership and perhaps equally important, for lack of a viable strategy. Even after Independence, India has been found wanting on many occasions in dealing with situations concerning our National Security....
The Ethics of Military Privatization
The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate.
While privatization is not a new concept for the US military, the public debate on military privatization is limited to legal, financial, and pragmatic...
The Canada-US Border in the 21st Century
Trade, Immigration and Security in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Borders are critical to the development and survival of modern states, offer security against external threats, and mark public policy and identity difference. At the same time, borders, and borderlands, are places where people, ideas, and economic goods meet and intermingle. The United States-Canada...
by Anthony Tu
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Written by the world’s leading expert on the Tokyo sarin attacks, Chemical and Biological Weapons and Terrorism is a comprehensive examination of the use, detection, and prevention of chemical and biological attacks.
Divided in two parts, one devoted to chemical and the other biological weapons,...
Countering New(est) Terrorism
Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence — Assessing, Negotiating, and Assaulting
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
How should we analyze and assess new terrorist behaviors? What are the particular risks and challenges from new terrorism? Should we negotiate with terrorists, and, if so, how? When should we use force against terrorists? Countering New(est) Terrorism: Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence—Assessing,...
The Gulf Military Balance
The Conventional and Asymmetric Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The United States faces major challenges in dealing with Iran, the threat of terrorism, and the tide of political instability in the Arabian Peninsula. The presence of some of the world’s largest reserves of oil and natural gas, vital shipping lanes, and Shia populations throughout the region have...