Social Security category: 3077 books
by John G. Horgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded.
The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based...
Framing Terrorism
The News Media, the Government and the Public
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Terrorism now dominates the headlines across the world-from New York to Kabul. Framing Terrorism argues that the headlines matter as much as the act, in political terms. Widely publicized terrorist incidents leave an imprint upon public opinion, muzzle the "watchdog" role of journalists and promote a general one-of-us consensus supporting security forces.
Assessing the War on Terror
Western and Middle Eastern Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This volume is a collection of articles that critically examine the efficacy, ethics, and impact of the War on Terror as it has evolved since 9/11.
During the decade and a half of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), numerous books have considered the political, psychosocial, and economic impacts...
by J. B. E. Hittle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear down...
Resolving International Conflict
Dynamics of Escalation, Continuation and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Resolving International Conflict rethinks the dynamics of conflict escalation and continuation by engaging with research from the wide range of subfields in this area.
The book suggests a new framework for understanding conflict as a particular form of situation, interaction and tension. It...
North Korea's Cyber Operations
Strategy and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This report presents an open source analysis of North Korea’s cyber operations capabilities and its strategic implications for the United States and South Korea. The purpose is to mitigate the current knowledge gap among various academic and policy communities on the topic by synthesizing authoritative...
Russia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Foreign Economic and Security Interests
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Russia in a Reconnecting Eurasia examines the full scope of Russian national interests in the South Caucasus and Central Asia and analyzes the broad outlines of Russian engagement over the coming years. It is part of a six-part CSIS series, “Eurasia from the Outside In,” which includes studies focusing on Turkey, the European Union, Iran, India, Russia, and China.
China's Ascent
Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Assessments of China's importance on the world stage usually focus on a single dimension of China's increasing power, rather than on the multiple sources of China's rise, including its economic might and the continuing modernization of its military. This book offers multiple analytical perspectives—constructivist,...
Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below
Ending Conflict between Regional Rivals
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below, Norrin M. Ripsman explains how regional rivals make peace and how outside actors can encourage regional peacemaking. Through a qualitative empirical analysis of all the regional rivalries that terminated in peace treaties in the twentieth century—including...
Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy
Sanctions, Incentives, and Target State Calculations
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book develops a unified theory of economic statecraft to clarify when and how sanctions and incentives can be used effectively to secure meaningful policy concessions.
High-profile applications of economic statecraft have yielded varying degrees of success. The mixed record of economic...
America Abroad
Why the Sole Superpower Should Not Pull Back from the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
A decade and a half of exhausting wars, punishing economic setbacks, and fast-rising rivals has called into question America's fundamental position and purpose in world politics. Will the US continue to be the only superpower in the international system? Should it continue advancing the world-shaping...
The South Asia Papers
A Critical Anthology of Writings by Stephen Philip Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This curated collection examines Stephen Philip Cohen’s impressive body of work.
Stephen Philip Cohen, the Brookings scholar who virtually created the field of South Asian security studies, has curated a unique collection of the most important articles, chapters, and speeches from his fifty-year...
Germany and the Baltic Problem After the Cold War
The Development of a New Ostpolitik, 1989-2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2004
The root question this book addresses is how the new Germany will use its re-found status as a great power. Does Germany - as in the past - aim to dominate Europe? Or has it renounced its imperial ambitions following the trauma of division during the Cold War?
In seeking answers to these questions,...
Engaged Neutrality
An Evolved Approach to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The notion that neutrality is a phenomenon only relevant to the Cold War is false in many ways. The Cold War was about building blocks, neutrality about staying out of them. From 1975 until the end of the Cold War, neutral states offered mediation and good offices and fought against the stagnation...