Security category: 5602 books
European Recovery and the Search for Western Security, 1946-1948
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This volume documents the British Government’s response from mid-1946 to early 1948 to the twin challenges of economic recovery and the search for a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence.
Although...
Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy
The strategic use of a concept
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book examines the use of concepts – specifically ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD) – in US foreign policy discourse.
Current analysis of WMD definition has made headway into identifying the repercussions that the conceptual conflation of such diverse weapons – typically understood...
Wartime Sexual Violence
From Silence to Condemnation of a Weapon of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Reports of sexual violence in armed conflict frequently appear in political discussions and news media, presenting a stark contrast to a long history of silence and nonrecognition. Conflict-related sexual violence has transitioned rapidly from a neglected human rights issue to an unambiguous security...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Technology provides numerous opportunities for positive developments in modern society; however, these venues inevitably increase vulnerability to threats in online environments. Addressing issues of security in the cyber realm is increasingly relevant and critical to society. Threat Mitigation and Detection...
European Military Culture and Security Governance
Soldiers, Scholars and National Defence Universities
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of military education and training in Europe within the context of the post-Cold War security environment.
Based on an analysis of military education institutions in the UK, Germany, Finland, Romania and the Baltic States, this book...
Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security
Safeguarding the Responsibility to Protect
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the international community is increasingly called upon to...
High Stakes and Stakeholders
Oil Conflict and Security in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producing country. Oil generates enormous wealth but also extensive and devastating conflict in the country. High Stakes and Stakeholders critically explores the oil conflict in Nigeria, its evolution, dynamics and most significantly, the interplay and consequences...
by Zaryab Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Assessments of the costs of war generally focus on the financial, political, military, and territorial risks associated with involvement in violent conflict. Often overlooked are the human costs of war, particularly their effects on population well-being. In War and the Health of Nations, Zaryab Iqbal...
American Technology Policy
Evolving Strategic Interests after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. policymakers have faced the challenge of addressing the technological requirements of both economic competitiveness and national security. Promoting the technological objectives of competitiveness and security poses a daunting task, as these objectives can differ...
Societal Security and Crisis Management
Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
This book studies governance capacity* and governance legitimacy *for societal security and crisis management. It highlights the importance of building organizational capacity by focusing on the coordination of public resources and underscores the relevance of legitimacy by emphasizing the importance...
Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards
A Practitioner's Reference
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards: A Practitioner's Reference gives you a blueprint on how to develop effective information security policies and procedures. It uses standards such as NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, and COBIT, and regulations such as HIPAA and PCI DSS as the foundation...
The Globalization of NATO
Intervention, Security and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
This book examines NATO’s transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.
Originally, NATO bound the western allies together for the...
by Manan Dwivedi, Devaditya Chakravarty
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
The book is a latest and informative addition to the literature on South Asia with the ministrations of the great powers such as United States, with the focus being upon the notion of internal security in the region. The internal security scenario in each of the nations in South Asia has been zeroed...
Securing Japan
Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded...