Security category: 5602 books
The Power Problem
How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. In The Power Problem, Christopher A. Preble explores the aims, costs,...
US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century
The Case For Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book challenges the dominant strategic culture and makes the case for restraint in US grand strategy in the 21st century.
Grand strategy, meaning a state’s theory about how it can achieve national security for itself, is elusive. That is particularly true in the United States, where...
Information Science and Applications 2017
ICISA 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book contains selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2017) and provides a snapshot of the latest issues encountered in technical convergence and convergences of security technology. It explores how information science is core to...
Space Warfare in the 21st Century
Arming the Heavens
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US back into a space-technology security dilemma.
The dual-use nature of the vast majority of space technology, meaning of value to both civilian and military communities and being unable to differentiate...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Although the events that have come to be known as 9/11 happened over a decade ago, lingering effects from the tragedy remain in the everyday life of the US and Canada today. This special volume explores these effects, investigating how 9/11 and its aftermath have changed political and cultural discourses...
Ukraine after Maidan
Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
When public protests first began in Ukraine at the end of 2013, the failed promise of the Orange Revolution was still fresh in the minds of many Ukrainians. However, unlike in the aftermath of 2004-2005, the political and military crises ignited by the Euromaidan brought profound changes not only...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This two-volume work offers a comprehensive examination of the distressing topics of transnational crime and the implications for global security.
• Represents global collaboration among contributors including scholars from respected universities in Europe, North America, and Australia; professionals...
China Turns to Multilateralism
Foreign Policy and Regional Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
China’s recent rapid economic growth has drawn global attention to its foreign policy, which increasingly has had an impact on world politics. In contrast with China’s long-standing preference for bilateralism or unilateralism in foreign policy, recent decades have seen changes in the PRC’s...
Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
China's continuing rapid economic growth and expanding involvement in global affairs pose major implications for the power structure of the international system. To more accurately and fully assess the significance of China's emergence for the United States and the global community, it is necessary...
by Dr. Vijay Sakhuja, Dr. Kapil Narula
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive view of the maritime safety and security challenges in countries of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). Various issues such as trans-national crime including piracy, terrorism, drug and arms smuggling; Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) and...
VoIP and PBX Security and Forensics
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book begins with an introduction to PBXs (Private Branch Exchanges) and the scene, statistics and involved actors. It discusses confidentiality, integrity and availability threats in PBXs. The author examines the threats and the technical background as well as security and forensics involving...
Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism
Liberty, Security and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book is an analysis and critique of the concepts of ‘exception’ and ‘exceptionalism’ in the context of the politics of liberty and security in the so-called ‘War on Terror’.
Since the destruction of the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001, a notable transformation has...
American Biodefense
How Dangerous Ideas about Biological Weapons Shape National Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending...
The Global Illusion of Citizen Protection
Transnational Threats and Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today. This text helps students understand a central puzzle in human security, which has two distinct components: (1) although it might be reasonable to assume that political leaders’ threat responses would almost...