Social Security category: 3077 books
by Gus Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Dr. Gus Martin’s Understanding Homeland Security, Second Edition is a thoroughly updated textbook offering much-needed insight into the complex nature of issues addressed by the homeland security enterprise. This comprehensive textbook addresses such subject areas as emergency management, terrorism,...
Security for Business Professionals
How to Plan, Implement, and Manage Your Company’s Security Program
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Security for Business Professionals offers business executives and managers everything they need to set-up a security program, especially for those who don’t have the resources to hire an in-house security staff. It can also be used for assessing the adequacy of an existing security program.
The...
Advances in Cyber Security
Technology, Operations, and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
As you read this, your computer is in jeopardy of being hacked and your identity being stolen. Read this book to protect yourselves from this threat.
The world’s foremost cyber security experts, from Ruby Lee, Ph.D., the Forrest G. Hamrick professor of engineering and Director of the Princeton...
by Thomas Oeljeklaus
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, University of Münster (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), course: Theater Missile Defense in Europe and Asia - A Comparison, language: English, abstract: Strengthening...
Critical Security Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Critical Security Studies introduces students to the sub-field through a detailed yet accessible survey of evolving approaches and key issues. This new edition contains two new chapters and has been fully revised and updated.
Written in an accessible and clear manner, Critical Security Studies:
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of current research on private security and military companies, comprising essays by leading scholars from around the world.
The increasing privatization of security across the globe has been the subject of much debate and controversy, inciting...
Insecure Gulf
The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-oil Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Insecure Gulf examines how the concept of Arabian/Persian Gulf 'security' is evolving in response to new challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer-term. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of environmental degradation and climate change, addressing demographic...
Human Security in East Asia
Challenges for Collaborative Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Since the end of the Cold War the number of interstate wars has remained relatively low, although whilst states may be more secure than ever this does not mean that individual human beings are too. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance of human security, in contrast to the traditional...
Surveillance, Privacy and Security
Citizens’ Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy–security trade-off, focusing on the citizen’s perspective.
Recent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing capabilities of surveillance technologies....
The Securitization of Society
Crime, Risk, and Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security,...
U.S. Security Cooperation with Africa
Political and Policy Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
As Africa’s strategic importance has increased over the past decade and a half, United States security cooperation with the continent has expanded. The most visible dimension of this increased engagement was the establishment of the U.S. Military Command for Africa (AFRICOM). Some critics are skeptical...
Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security
Peace Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This volume highlights the ways in which the prospect of peace can generate anxieties and consequently set in motion social and political processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts.
In analysing this issue, the volume builds on the notion of ontological security and its recent applications...
The Quest for Security
Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising from the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor begin with an expansive, balanced analysis of the global landscape and the factors contributing...
Safeguarding Cultural Properties
Security for Museums, Libraries, Parks, and Zoos
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Safeguarding Cultural Properties is a step-by-step guide for creating and maintaining a comprehensive security program in any cultural facility or public institution. Author Stevan P. Layne, the leading expert in the field of cultural property protection, draws from his many years of experience providing...