International Security category: 2908 books
Urban Safety and Peacebuilding
New Perspectives on Sustaining Peace in the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances at the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding.
The book reflects the advances in urban safety and peacebuilding to help address the rapidly increasing risk of conflict and insecurity in cities. Specifically,...
Controlling the Weapons of War
Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry.
This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to the...
Mission Creep
The Militarization of US Foreign Policy?
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Mission Creep: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy? examines the question of whether the US Department of Defense (DOD) has assumed too large a role in influencing and implementing US foreign policy. After the Cold War, and accelerating after September 11, the United States has drawn upon the enormous...
Nuclear Disarmament
A Critical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This volume, Nuclear Disarmament, provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward.
Comprising essays by leading scholars on nuclear disarmament, the book highlights arguments in favour and against a world without nuclear weapons (global...
by N. Mohanty
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This book is not just an update to studies of Middle Eastern policy and diplomacy, but an in-depth analysis that covers the United States' foreign and strategic policy from the days of President Roosevelt to President Obama and Pakistan's security and strategic planning since its inception to 2011, under the shadow of India and Afghanistan.
The Destruction of Cultural Property as a Weapon of War
ISIS in Syria and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book aims to advance the understanding of cultural property in armed conflict, and its significance for anti-terrorism and peace-building strategies. As the author argues, ISIS’ orchestrated theft and destruction of cultural property has become a tactic of war. Through a historical, political,...
by Luigi Nicoletti
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: Master Degree, , language: English, abstract: The point of starting this paper is the affirmation of Macharia Munene :'[...],however, is that conflicts...
Capacity Building
Conflict management strategy regarding the conditions surrounding child soldiers and human trafficking.
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: Conflict Management, language: English, abstract: Capacity building is an important strategy appealing...
Conflict Managment. Three Ways to Peacemaking
Discuss three ways an incentive might be applied to conflict parties that are reluctant to sign peace accords.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: Conflict Management, language: English, abstract: The more promising and feasible the incentives on each...
Ethnic Conflict
What are three factors that can move ethnic groups toward ethnopolitical conflict?
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: Conflict Management, language: English, abstract: The illustrated factors represent only a small number...
Mediation or Negotiation
How can the analysis of a conflict inform the conflict manager's implementation choice of negotiation or mediation?
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: Conflict Management, language: English, abstract: The analysis of the nature of and the context in which...
Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
The Turn to Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analysts now routinely invoke Mahan’s writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy.
Economics...
by Christoph Kircher
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 30 cl., Free University of Bozen-Bolzano , language: English, abstract: The objective of this research paper was to distinguish between two patterns with which Chechen...
Defect or Defend
Military Responses to Popular Protests in Authoritarian Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Although social movements and media can help destabilize authoritarian governments, not all social protest is effective or culminates in the toppling of dictatorships. Frequently, the military’s response determines the outcome.
In Defect or Defend, Terence Lee uses four case studies from...