International Security category: 2908 books
Diversionary War
Domestic Unrest and International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
The very existence of diversionary wars is hotly contested in the press and among political scientists. Yet no book has so far tackled the key questions of whether leaders deliberately provoke conflicts abroad to distract the public from problems at home, or whether such gambles offer a more effective...
Allies That Count
Junior Partners in Coalition Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What qualities make an ally useful in coalition warfare, and when is an ally more trouble than it’s worth? Allies That Count analyzes the utility of junior partners in coalition warfare and reaches surprising conclusions.
In this volume, Olivier Schmitt presents detailed case-study analysis...
Organized Crime and Illicit Trade
How to Respond to This Strategic Challenge in Old and New Domains
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict regions, amount to strategic challenges for the state. Whereas most commentators would agree that criminal...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in combat
Examining the controversy related to the use of UAVs with particular focus drawn on the moral implications within the contexts of harm, agency and regulation.
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Professorial Dissertation from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 78, University of Lincoln, language: English, abstract: The increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has proven to be a catalyst for contentious...
HIV/AIDS in China and India
Governing Health Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book compares the policy approaches taken by China and India in dealing with HIV/AIDS, illuminating the challenges they face as they grapple with this intractable disease and identifying best practices for dealing with HIV/AIDS in the developing world and beyond.
Contemporary Just War
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain contemporary cases, particularly in the Middle East.
The first part of the book addresses and responds to the central theoretical criticisms levelled at traditional just war theory. It...
Learning from the Secret Past
Cases in British Intelligence History
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Identifying “lessons learned” is not new—the military has been doing it for decades. However, members of the worldwide intelligence community have been slow to extract wider lessons gathered from the past and apply them to contemporary challenges. Learning from the Secret Past is a collection of...
by Harsh V. Pant, Yogesh Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
India has come a long way from being a nuclear pariah to a de facto member of the nuclear club. The transition in its nuclear identity has been accompanied by its transformation into a major economic power and underlines a pragmatic turn in its foreign-policy thinking. This book provides a historical...
New Armies from Old
Merging Competing Military Forces after Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Negotiating a peaceful end to civil wars, which often includes an attempt to bring together former rival military or insurgent factions into a new national army, has been a frequent goal of conflict resolution practitioners since the Cold War. In practice, however, very little is known about what works,...
Intelligence Engineering
Operating Beyond the Conventional
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Intelligence continues to undergo significant changes at a remarkable pace, notably developments related to “Big Data,” surveillance, and cyber. Intelligence today involves multiagency, multinational, multidisciplinary, multidomain information sharing and sense-making, conducted by commerce, academic,...
A Critical Theory of Counterterrorism
Ontology, Epistemology and Normativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This book offers a theory and model of counterterrorism based on emancipation and non-violence.
Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) scholars have produced wide-ranging and rich critiques of terrorism-related research, as well as state counterterrorism policies and practices. This work aims to...
Kennedy, Johnson and NATO
Britain, America and the Dynamics of Alliance, 1962-68
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international security.
Andrew Priest closely examines this key relationship by focusing on the so-called Nassau agreement of December 1962. He clearly places...
The Operational Art of Counter-Insurgency
A Handbook for Instructors and Advanced Practitioners of Irregular Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Script from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, abstract: The Operational Art of Counter-Insurgency: A Handbook for Instructors and Advanced Practitioners of Irregular...
by Lea Pfefferle
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 8, Maastricht University, language: English, abstract: Slavery seems like a long gone practice from the past, but even in our times, people suffer from being bought and sold...