Social Security category: 3077 books
The Chinese Invasion Threat
Taiwan's Defense and American Strategy in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Are war clouds gathering in Asia? Will China make good on threats to invade Taiwan? What would this conflict mean for America and the world? Exposing internal Chinese military documents and restricted-access studies, The Chinese Invasion Threat explores the secret world of war planning and strategy,...
Allies and Adversaries
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military...
by Gregory F Treverton, Carl Matthies, Karla J Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
A study of the involvement of organized-crime and terrorist groups in product counterfeiting. Case studies of film piracy illustrate the problem of criminal--and perhaps terrorist--groups using this new high-payoff, low-risk way to fund their activities. Cooperation among law enforcement and governments...
The Sources of Military Doctrine
France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive,...
by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi, Pita Ogaba Agbese, Glen Segell
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book examines two sides of civil–military relations in developing countries. One is the place of civil-military relations within a state’s political and economic systems; the other is the role of the military on a state’s maintenance of peace and stability. The book thus proposes that the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book critically analyses the 2011 intervention in Libya arguing that the manner in which the intervention was sanctioned, prosecuted and justified has a number of troubling implications for the both the future of humanitarian intervention and international peace and security.
The Politics of International Intervention
The Tyranny of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book critically explores the practices of peacebuilding, and the politics of the communities experiencing intervention.
The contributions to this volume have a dual focus. First, they analyse the practices of western intervention and peacebuilding, and the prejudices and politics that...
Strategic Appraisal
The Changing Role of Information in Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 1999
Advances in information technology have led us to rely on easy communication and readily available information--both in our personal lives and in the life of our nation. For the most part, we have rightly welcomed these changes. But information that is readily available is available to friend and...
Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Security, Memory and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This book offers the first multi-case analysis of the politics of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU, including studies on Central Europe, the Balkans and Cyprus. Tesser explains the politics of minority return in a post-national Europe, with particular attention to the long-term aftermath of minority removal as a conflict resolution policy.
by Renard Teipelke
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, University of California, San Diego (Department of Political Science), course: Introduction to International Relations, language: English, abstract: Bargaining can be...
Humanitarian Hypocrisy
Civilian Protection and the Design of Peace Operations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In Humanitarian Hypocrisy, Andrea L. Everett maps the often glaring differences between declared ambitions to protect civilians in conflict zones and the resources committed for doing so. Examining how powerful governments contribute to peace operations and determine how they are designed, Everett...
Open Source Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century
New Approaches and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This edited book provides an insight into the new approaches, challenges and opportunities that characterise open source intelligence (OSINT) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It does so by considering the impacts of OSINT on three important contemporary security issues: nuclear proliferation, humanitarian crises and terrorism.
The New Geopolitics of Terror
Demons and Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The New Geopolitics of Terror examines the impact of global reach terror on states.
This book surveys the current crises and tensions in the Middle East, focussing primarily on the upheavals in Syria and Iraq, and the interaction between groups, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS state actors and Western...
Understanding Violent Radicalisation
Terrorist and Jihadist Movements in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This is the first book to address in depth the interplay between radicalisation and political violence in Europe, as well as the effectiveness of counter-measures.
As evidenced from the multitude of intercepted plots across several European cities since 2001, the threat level and the intensity...