Security category: 5602 books
The Invisible Soldiers
How America Outsourced Our Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The urgent truth about the privatization of America’s national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading—and why we should be concerned.
Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs); there were only mercenaries....
International Aviation and Terrorism
Evolving Threats, Evolving Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
This book examines terrorism's impact on the international aviation security regime, with a focus on the role of the United States.
Tracing the historical development of the international civil aviation system, the volume examines how it has dealt with the evolving security environment caused...
Information Systems Security
13th International Conference, ICISS 2017, Mumbai, India, December 16-20, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2017, held in Mumbai, India, in December 2017.
The 17 revised full papers and 7 short papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected...
Advances in Information and Computer Security
10th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2015, Nara, Japan, August 26-28, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2015, held in Nara, Japan, in August 2015. The 18 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named:...
by Kuan Zhang, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This book examines state-of-art research on designing healthcare applications with the consideration of security and privacy. It explains the Mobile Healthcare Network (MHN) architecture and its diverse applications, and reviews the existing works on security and privacy for MHNs. Critical future...
by Seung-Whan Choi
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
When American jihadists join such international terrorist organizations as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and Al Qaeda, the danger to security and stability is often magnified on both global and domestic fronts. The global rise of terrorism in turn causes a deterioration in the quality of human...
Sustainable Security
Rethinking American National Security Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
As the world shifts away from the unquestioned American hegemony that followed in the wake of the Cold War, the United States is likely to face new kinds of threats and sharper resource constraints than it has in the past. However, the country's alliances, military institutions, and national security...
Corporate Soldiers and International Security
The Rise of Private Military Companies
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This book traces the history of private military companies, with a special focus on UK private forces.
Christopher Kinsey examines the mercenary companies that filled the ranks of many European armies right up to the 1850s, the organizations that operated in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s,...
by Patrick Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2004
Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2 (B), University of Kent (Brussels School of International Studies), 64 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although the world stood united...
by Dan Caldwell, Robert E. Williams Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This revised edition of Seeking Security in an Insecure World provides a thorough, accessible introduction to contemporary security studies.
All chapters are updated and a wide range of new topics are discussed, including the Syrian civil war, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its intervention...
Nuclear Weapons and International Security
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This volume brings together more than three decades of research and writings by Professor Ramesh Thakur on the challenges posed by nuclear weapons.
Following an introduction to the current nuclear state of play, the book addresses the challenge of nuclear weapons in three parts. Part I describes...
Exporting Security
International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the US Military, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
In this thoroughly updated second edition, Derek S. Reveron provides a comprehensive analysis of the shift in US foreign policy from coercive diplomacy to cooperative military engagement. The US military does much more than fight wars; it responds to humanitarian crises and natural disasters, assists...
Insecure Gulf
The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-oil Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Insecure Gulf examines how the concept of Arabian/Persian Gulf 'security' is evolving in response to new challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer-term. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of environmental degradation and climate change, addressing demographic...
Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
This book provides a critical analysis of the changing discourse and practice of post-conflict security-promoting interventions since the Cold War, such as disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), and security-sector reform (SSR)
Although the international aid and security sectors...