Security category: 5602 books
NATO
From Regional to Global Security Provider
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliance’s new vision (the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact – associated tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon. The book serves as a relevant...
by Panos Koutrakos
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Presenting the first analytical overview of the legal foundations of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), this book provides a detailed examination of the law and practice of the EU's security policy. The European Union's security and defence policy has long been the focus of political...
India's National Security
Annual Review 2015–16
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The last two years have witnessed deterioration in the global security situation characterised by increasing tensions among major powers. The threat perceptions of the US, China and Russia vis-à-vis each other have sharpened. There is stiff competition among them to dominate the strategic space in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book seeks to understand the role of regions in the provision of security (and insecurity) practices across the globe. Specialists with expertise in the regions they examine present eight case studies and analyses of the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Europe.
Discussing...
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Communication Security
Cryptography and Physical Layer Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book focuses on techniques that can be applied at the physical and data-link layers of communication systems in order to secure transmissions against eavesdroppers. It discusses topics ranging from information theory-based security to coding for security and cryptography, and presents cutting-edge...
Private Security Companies during the Iraq War
Military Performance and the Use of Deadly Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book explores the use of deadly force by private security companies during the Iraq War.
The work focuses on and compares the activities of the US companies Blackwater and Dyncorp. Despite sharing several important characteristics, such as working for the same client (the US State Department)...
The New Era in U.S. National Security
An Introduction to Emerging Threats and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The New Era in U.S. National Security focuses on the emerging threats of the second decade of the twenty-first century, well after 9/11, and well into the age of globalization. It is a thorough, technically competent survey of the current arena of conflict and the competition for political and economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
One of the most significant factors for contemporary international relations is the growth of China’s economic, military, and political power. Indeed, few analysts would dispute the observation that China’s power has strongly influenced the structure of the international system, major-power strategic...
Computer Network Security
7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2017, Warsaw, Poland, August 28-30, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2017, held in Warsaw, Poland, in August 2017.
The 12 revised full papers, 13 revised short presentations, and 3 invited...
Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan
In a Time of Western Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan.
It engages with a well-established debate in academic and policy-making contexts regarding the utility of human security as a framework for understanding and redressing...
Privacy, Security and Accountability
Ethics, Law and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
What is the appropriate balance between privacy, security, and accountability? What do we owe each other in terms of information sharing and access? Why is privacy valuable and is it more or less important than other values like security or free speech? Is Edward Snowden a hero or villain?
Within...
NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2016
Organizing for Safety and Security in Military Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
NL ARMS 2016 offers a collection of studies on the interrelatedness of safety and security in military organizations so as to anticipate or even prepare for dire situations. The volume contains a wide spectrum of contributions on organizing for safety and security in a military context that are theoretically...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This book focuses on techniques that can be applied at the physical and data-link layers of communication systems in order to secure transmissions against eavesdroppers. Topics ranging from information theory-based security to coding for security and cryptography are discussed, with presentation of...
Border Security
Shores of Politics, Horizons of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
What kind of a world is one in which border security is understood as necessary? How is this transforming the shores of politics? And why does this seem to preclude a horizon of political justice for those affected? Border Security responds to these questions through an interdisciplinary exploration...