Social Security category: 3077 books
The Inside Man
Evaluating Security Communication Failures at a United States Commercial Airport
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Organizational communication impacts service efficiency and productivity. An increase in federal funding to strengthen communication within the airport stakeholders has failed to deliver expected results. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore whether miscommunication among the TSA...
by Yared Debebe
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: Masters Level, Addis Ababa University (Peace and Security Studies), course: Human Security, language: English, abstract: In this study the causes, effects, and...
The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security, 2nd Edition
Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The U.S.-Mexico border remains a hot topic in the news—and a contentious one. This second edition of a popular work brings readers up to date on what is really going on at the U.S.-Mexico border and why. The book offers a detailed, history-based examination of the evolution of current conditions...
Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence
War Against the Other
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
In a world plagued by war and terror, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence sounds a warning: not only are global patterns of insecurity, violence and conflict getting ever more destructive and out of hand, but the ways we understand and respond to them will only prolong the crisis. When security is...
State Responses to Human Security
At Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The aim of this book is to analyse why and how states respond to human security, both at home and abroad.
Although states still define security as "the defense of territory" from military attack, increasingly security pertains to the protection of human beings from violence. This...
Next Generation Homeland Security
Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Security governance in the second decade of the 21st century is ill-serving the American people. Left uncorrected, civic life and national continuity will remain increasingly at risk. At stake well beyond our shores is the stability and future direction of an international political and economic system...
Gender, Human Security and the United Nations
Security Language as a Political Framework for Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
This book examines the relationship between women, gender and the international security agenda, exploring the meaning of security in terms of discourse and practice, as well as the larger goals and strategies of the global women's movement.
Today, many complex global problems are being located...
by Jonathan Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In this book, top scholars of international relations assess the consequences of globalization for national security, identifying three distinct ‘processes’ of globalization - the intensification of economic exchange, the flow of information, and marketization (the expansion of the set of social...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines Gulf Security in a holistic way seeing past the narrow military aspect and also trying to debunk the conventional narratives propagated by regional and external actors. In particular, the emphasis is be on the historical legacy of Gulf security and the fundamental domestic and international...
Russia's Security Policy under Putin
A critical perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book examines the evolution of Russia’s security policy under Putin in the 21st century, using a critical security studies approach.
Drawing on critical approaches to security the book investigates the interrelationship between the internal-external nexus and the politics of (in)security...
Ethical Security Studies
A New Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
At a time of grave ethical failure in global security affairs, this is the first book to bring together emerging theoretical debates on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies.
In this volume, working from a diverse range of perspectives—poststructuralism, liberalism, feminism,...
The Baltic Security Puzzle
Regional Patterns of Democratization, Integration, and Authoritarianism
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
International experts assess the components of the Baltic security puzzle by placing the security and political interests of the states of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania within the historical, economic, and political narratives of the greater Baltic region. They first reevaluate Baltic history as...
Security, the Environment and Emancipation
Contestation over Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change.
The end of the Cold War created a context in which traditional approaches to security could be systematically questioned. This period also saw a...
Gender and International Security
Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book defines the relationship between gender and international security, analyzing and critiquing international security theory and practice from a gendered perspective.
Gender issues have an important place in the international security landscape, but have been neglected both in the theory...