Security category: 5602 books
African security in the twenty-first century
Challenges and opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book explores and analyses the evolving African security paradigm in light of the multitude of diverse threats and challenges facing the continent and the international community. It challenges current thinking and traditional security constructs as woefully inadequate to meet the real security...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book presents a range of cloud computing security challenges and promising solution paths. The first two chapters focus on practical considerations of cloud computing. In Chapter 1, Chandramouli, Iorga, and Chokani describe the evolution of cloud computing and the current state of practice, followed...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
The new millennium has brought with it an ever-expanding range of threats to global security: from cyber attacks to blue-water piracy to provocative missile tests. Now, more than ever then, national security and prosperity depend on the safekeeping of a global system of mutually supporting networks...
Europeanisation and the Transformation of EU Security Policy
Post-Cold War Developments in the Common Security and Defence Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).
The analysis takes into consideration previous studies on Europeanisation and its impact on the transformation of national security and defence,...
Japan’s Security Renaissance
New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
For decades after World War II, Japan chose to focus on soft power and economic diplomacy alongside a close alliance with the United States, eschewing a potential leadership role in regional and global security. Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since the rise of Prime Minister Shinzo...
by Group Captain Manoj Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
This book deals with the contemporary and controversial topic of Environmental Change and National Security. Security encompasses various elements of human security that are going to be affected by the vagaries of environmental change, brought about by the relentless unsustainable development path...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
The book, in addition to the cyber threats and technology, processes cyber security from many sides as a social phenomenon and how the implementation of the cyber security strategy is carried out.
The book gives a profound idea of the most spoken phenomenon of this time. The book is suitable...
High-Table Diplomacy
The Reshaping of International Security Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The proliferation of “minilateral” summits is reshaping how international security problems are addressed, yet these summits remain a poorly understood phenomenon. In this groundbreaking work, Kjell Engelbrekt contrasts the most important minilateral summits—the G7 (formerly G8) and G20—with...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book on the security context in the Black Sea region is a timely endeavour and substantive contribution to understanding the state of play in the region and its linkages to the rest of the world. With contributions from analysts from Europe, the United States, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, the...
Trusted Computing and Information Security
11th Chinese Conference, CTCIS 2017, Changsha, China, September 14-17, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Chinese Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security, CTCIS 2017, held in Changsha, China, in September 2017.
The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers focus...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The tenth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Communications Sector Protection and Homeland Security is an eye-opening account and an important reference source of a complex sector.
Communications systems are the backbone for...
Information Security Practice and Experience
13th International Conference, ISPEC 2017, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, December 13–15, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Security and Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2017, held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2017.
The 34 full and 14 short papers presented together with 9 papers from the SocialSec Track in this volume were...
The EU, Strategy and Security Policy
Regional and Strategic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU’s efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions.
Despite a special European Council summit in December 2013 on defence, it is generally acknowledged that fifteen years since its inception the EU’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is a significant international normative and policy framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on women and girls,...