International Security category: 2908 books
Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security
Peace Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This volume highlights the ways in which the prospect of peace can generate anxieties and consequently set in motion social and political processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts.
In analysing this issue, the volume builds on the notion of ontological security and its recent applications...
U.S. National Security Law
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
The rise of international terrorism in today’s globalized world has focused attention on the degree to which international law should shape U.S. national security law and policy. This unique textbook of readings explores how international law relates to U.S. constitutional and statutory law in terms...
The Swedish Presence in Afghanistan
Security and Defence Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This book delivers on two analytical levels. First, it is a broad study of Sweden as an international actor, an actor that at least for a brief period tried to play a different international role than that to which it was accustomed. Second, the book problematizes the role of international military...
NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Regional Alliance, Global Threats
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
NATO was hugely successful in facing off the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But has it been equally successful in addressing the "new threats" of the post-Cold War era?
This new study assesses the organization’s political and military initiatives, and how its outreach to Russia,...
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate
Covert Action and Internal Operations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
The rise of Pakistan-backed religious extremist groups in Afghanistan, India, and Central Asia has focused international attention on Pakistan’s premier intelligence organization and...
Security, Economics and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Morality
Keeping or Surrendering the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book seeks to elucidate the decisions of states that have chosen to acquire nuclear arms or inherited nuclear arsenals, and have either disarmed or elected to retain their warheads. It examines nuclear arms policy via an interconnected framework involving the eclectic use of national security...
Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want
An Introduction to Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want is a brief introduction to human security, conflict, and development. The book analyzes such key human security issues as climate change, crimes against humanity, humanitarian intervention, international law, poverty,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The threats to security in Southeast Asia have been serious and constant since the end of the Second World War. The book provides an absorbing account of the evolution of a key axis of regional stability - defence contacts between Japan and Australia, tracing the relationship from the early post-war...
Environmental Security
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This student-friendly textbook offers a survey of the competing conceptions and applications of the increasingly prominent notion of environmental security.
The book is divided into three sections. In the first, the key theoretical and practical arguments for and against bringing together environmental...
Safety, Liberty, and Islamist Terrorism
American and European Approaches to Domestic Counterterrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, produced a revolution in domestic security in the United States. The Bush administration responded quickly by aggressively enforcing existing laws, sponsoring new legislation, overhauling domestic intelligence, and employing the president's executive power...
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....
by David Brooksbank
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Security Manual provides practical guidance on all aspects of security work and is a ready made source of information for all members of the security profession, including managers, supervisors and trainers. This eighth edition has been fully restructured to better reflect recent changes in the criminal...
Mechanistic Realism and US Foreign Policy
A New Framework for Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy decision-making.
Typically, realism discounts the role of individuals and uses states as the unit of analysis. By examining instead the mental...
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...