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Biosecurity in the Global Age
Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Biosecurity comprehensively analyzes the dramatic transformations that are reshaping how the international community addresses biological weapons and infectious diseases. The book examines the renewed threat from biological weapons, and explores the new world of biological weapons governance. Gostin...
The Economics of Excess
Addiction, Indulgence, and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The Economics of Excess discusses both standard and behavioral economics as they apply to addiction, indulgence, and social policy. Chapter One provides a thorough discussion of economic models of addiction. The model developed in most detail takes into account both standard and behavioral approaches....
Preventing Catastrophe
The Use and Misuse of Intelligence in Efforts to Halt the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Preventing Catastrophe is written by two authors who are experienced "Washington hands" and who understand the interplay between intelligence and policymaking. Both have been personally involved, in the United States and overseas, in pursuing national and international measures to stop the...
The Welfare Experiments
Politics and Policy Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2004
Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical—and unexpected—role in the broader policymaking process. Through these experiments, previously unpopular reform ideas, such as welfare time limits, gained...
Flourishing
A Frank Conversation About Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other books about sustainability, this one goes...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
In every decade of the nuclear era, one or two states have developed nuclear weapons despite the international community's opposition to proliferation. In the coming years, the breakdown of security arrangements, especially in the Middle East and Northeast Asia, could drive additional countries to...
Arms and Influence
U.S. Technology Innovations and the Evolution of International Security Norms
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Arms and Influence explores the complex relationship between technology, policymaking, and international norms. Modern technological innovations such as the atomic bomb, armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and advanced reconnaissance satellites have fostered debates about the boundaries of international...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink of a fourth in 2001 following an attack on the Indian parliament, which the Indian government blamed on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed...
Governing Security
The Hidden Origins of American Security Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Statutes and regulations are frequently designed to affect the public in specific ways. But exactly how these laws ultimately impact the public often depends on how politicians go about securing control of the complex public agencies that implement policies, and how these organizations in turn are...
Making Law Matter
Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Although many developing countries have environmental statutes, regulations, and resolutions on the books, these laws are rarely enforced and often ignored. Making Law Matter presents the first book-length treatment of an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The authors of Culture, Conflict and Counterinsurgency contend that an enduring victory can still be achieved in Afghanistan. However, to secure it we must better understand the cultural foundations of the continuing conflicts that rage across Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, and shift our strategy...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Following the 9/11 attacks, a war against al Qaeda by the U.S. and its liberal democratic allies was next to inevitable. But what kind of war would it be, how would it be fought, for how long, and what would it cost in lives and money? None of this was known at the time. What came to be known was...
Terrorism, War, or Disease?
Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
The use of biological warfare (BW) agents by states or terrorists is one of the world's most frightening security threats but, thus far, little attention has been devoted to understanding how to improve policies and procedures to identify and attribute BW events. Terrorism, War, or Disease? is the...
Global Security Upheaval
Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability.
By assessing recent real-world trends,...