International Security category: 2908 books
Asia-Pacific Security
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This new textbook gathers an international roster of top security studies scholars to provide an overview of Asia-Pacific’s international relations and pressing contemporary security issues. It is a suitable introduction for undergraduate and masters students' use in international relations and security...
Human Security in East Asia
Challenges for Collaborative Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Since the end of the Cold War the number of interstate wars has remained relatively low, although whilst states may be more secure than ever this does not mean that individual human beings are too. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance of human security, in contrast to the traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
While, over the last 30 years, the global economy's center of gravity has shifted to East Asia, the region has remained surprisingly free of interstate military conflict. Yet this era of peace and growth has been punctuated by periodic reminders of enduring security problems in the region—from China's...
International Relations Theory and European Security
We Thought We Knew
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book engages with key contemporary European security issues from a variety of different theoretical standpoints, in an attempt to uncover the drivers of foreign policy and defence integration in the EU.
Although European foreign policy has been attracting an ever-increasing number of International...
State, Society and National Security
Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Addressing the complexities of radicalisation, resilience, cyber, and homeland security, State, Society and National Security: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century aims to shed light on what has changed in recent years security discourse, what has worked (as well as what has not), and...
The Maritime Turn in EU Foreign and Security Policies
Aims, Actors and Mechanisms of Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This book provides the first substantial treatment of the maritime foreign and security policies of the European Union. Its findings add to the literature by a comparative, theoretically informed analysis of EU maritime foreign and security policies across five cases: the EU’s Maritime Security...
NATO, Civilisation and Individuals
The Unconscious Dimension of International Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book critically engages with NATO’s two main referent objects of security: civilisation and individuals. By rethinking the seemingly natural assumption of these two referent objects, it suggests the epistemological importance of an unconscious dimension to understand meaning formation and behaviour...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Featuring an outstanding international line-up of contributors, this edited volume offers a timely examination of two of the most crucial and controversial issues in international relations, namely the evolution of particular concepts of multilateralism and whether international security institutions...
Security and Development in Global Politics
A Critical Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Security and development matter: they often involve issues of life and death and they determine the allocation of truly staggering amounts of the world’s resources. Particularly since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been momentum in policy circles to merge the issues of security...
Japan's Security Policy and the ASEAN Regional Forum
The Search for Multilateral Security in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Based on primary resources, including documents and extensive interviews with Japanese policy makers, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed empirical analysis of Japan’s involvement in Asia-Pacific security multilateralism after the end of the Cold War with special reference to the ARF....
Paul Rogers: A Pioneer in Critical Security Analysis and Public Engagement
With a Foreword by Jenny Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
This book brings together a collection of writings over the past half century from Professor Paul Rogers. As a leading peace researcher he has gained an international reputation for the critical, independent and rigorous analysis of international security and the underlying causes of global conflict. ...
The Euro-Atlantic Security System in the 21st Century
From Cooperation to Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book examines the evolution of the Euro-Atlantic security system, from cooperation to rivalry and crisis, since the beginning of the 21st century. By highlighting the causes, manifestations and international consequences of this evolution, the author describes a stage of crisis in the security...
Beyond Afghanistan
An International Security Agenda for Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
For over a decade, Canada’s participation in the war in Afghanistan dominated media headlines, government discussions, academic studies, and the public international security debate, often to the exclusion of issues that have traditionally shaped Canadian approaches to security and defence policy....
Next Generation Homeland Security
Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Security governance in the second decade of the 21st century is ill-serving the American people. Left uncorrected, civic life and national continuity will remain increasingly at risk. At stake well beyond our shores is the stability and future direction of an international political and economic system...