Security category: 5602 books
Cases on Research and Knowledge Discovery
Homeland Security Centers of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
To ensure its protection from enemies both foreign and domestic, a government must invest resources and personnel toward the goal of homeland security. It is through these endeavors that citizens are able to live out their lives in peace. Cases on Research and Knowledge Discovery: Homeland Security Centers...
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism
U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism gathers together decades of writing by Melvyn Leffler, one of the most respected historians of American foreign policy, to address important questions about U.S. national security policy from the end of World War I to the global war on terror. Why did the United...
Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security
Bridging the Gap
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This book explores mutual common ground between Russia and NATO and the potential to move beyond cultural differences, particularly in political culture.
Lionel Ponsard clearly demonstrates how cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic...
Homeland Security
An Introduction to Principles and Practice, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since formed in 2002, DHS has been at the forefront of determining and furthering some of the most hotly debated security issues facing the U.S. and global community in the 21st century. Nearly 200 university programs with undergrad and graduate majors have cropped up in the last dozen-plus years...
Bosnian Security after Dayton
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Featuring fresh contributions from leading scholars, this new volume considers a varied range of post-war, post-Dayton and post-9/11 problems and issues, reminding readers that Dayton is not the only challenge to the safety, stability, and long-term viability of the post-war Bosnian state.
Drawing...
by Bruce M. Bagley, Jorge Chabat, Sebastían Antonio Cutrona
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
This book illustrates the plethora of security concerns of the Americas in the 21st century. It presents the work of a number of prolific scholars and analysts in the continents of America. The book provides one of the only expansive applications of theory to a wide geographical area. It offers new...
by Marouf Hasian Jr., Sean Lawson, Megan D. McFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The Rhetorical Invention of America’s National Security State examines the rhetoric and discourse produced by and constitutive of America’s national security state. Hasian, Lawson, and McFarlane illustrate the importance of rhetoric to the expansion of the American national security state in the...
by Richard Youngs
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
It is now commonly asserted that climate change will fundamentally change international relations. It has been predicted that global warming will increase conflict within and between states, intensify food insecurity, menace the global trading system and unleash waves of migration. As a result governments...
The Securitization of Society
Crime, Risk, and Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security,...
Securing Health
HIV and the Limits of Securitization
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book offers a critical inquiry into the framing of health and disease as a security issue.
In particular, the book examines what happens in the United Nations when the ostensibly ‘low’ politics of global health meet the ‘high’ politics of security, and when the logic of security...
Human Security and the Chinese State
Historical Transformations and the Modern Quest for Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Offering a fresh and unique approach to surveying the historical transformations of the Chinese state, Human Security and the Chinese State focuses on human security in contrast with the twenty-first century obsession with national security. Building upon Hobbes' Leviathan, Robert Bedeski demonstrates...
EU Security Policy and Crisis Management
A Quest for Coherence
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book explores European Union crisis management and draws implications for its role as an international security actor.
The success of EU crisis management has varied greatly and this book aims to identify the key factors that explain the differing degrees of coherence through a comparative...
Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries
The Evolution of a Model
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book examines the evolution, impact, and future prospects of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) model in conflict-affected countries in the context of the wider debate over the liberal peace project.
Since its emergence as a concept in the late 1990s, SSR has represented a paradigm shift...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
This book focuses on current key issues of international security from an actor-centered approach. The volume is divided into 3 sections: the first part analyses an array of security issues in Europe, the second one explores how those security issues play out in the Americas, and the third focuses...