International Security category: 2908 books
Russian Energy Power and Foreign Relations
Implications for Conflict and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
This book examines Russia's new assertiveness and the role of energy as a key factor in shaping the country's behavior in international relations, and in building political and economic power domestically, since the 1990s.
Energy transformed Russia's fortunes after its decline during the 1990s....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This book explores the various dimensions of energy security in Asia – which has become an increasingly important geopolitical issue. Reputable international contributors look at the roles played by each of the major energy importers: the United States, China, Japan and India, as well as the main...
Russia's Security Policy under Putin
A critical perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book examines the evolution of Russia’s security policy under Putin in the 21st century, using a critical security studies approach.
Drawing on critical approaches to security the book investigates the interrelationship between the internal-external nexus and the politics of (in)security...
Ethical Security Studies
A New Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
At a time of grave ethical failure in global security affairs, this is the first book to bring together emerging theoretical debates on ethics and ethical reasoning within security studies.
In this volume, working from a diverse range of perspectives—poststructuralism, liberalism, feminism,...
Critical Security Methods
New frameworks for analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Critical Security Methods offers a new approach to research methods in critical security studies.
It argues that methods are not simply tools to bridge the gap between security theory and security practice. Rather, to practise methods critically means engaging in a more free and experimental...
Feminist Security Studies
A Narrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective – uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to security studies.
The volume explicitly works toward an opening up of security studies that would allow for feminist (and...
by Stefan Pauly
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,7, Leiden University (Public Administration), language: English, abstract: The idea of an internal-external security nexus is holding greater sway in both politics...
by Melvyn P. Leffler
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
In the United States the Cold War shaped our political culture, our institutions, and our national priorities. Abroad, it influenced the destinies of people everywhere. It divided Europe, split Germany, and engulfed the Third World. It led to a feverish arms race and massive sales of military equipment...
by Joakim Berndtsson, Christopher Kinsey
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in which states have come to rely on private contractors to support interventions.
Part One puts into context the evolution of outsourcing in Western...
Military Engagement
Influencing Armed Forces Worldwide to Support Democratic Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world. But what exact internal conditions have led to real-world democratic transitions, and have external forces helped or hurt? Here, experts with military and policy backgrounds,...
Poland's Security Policy
The West, Russia, and the Changing International Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book examines how the changing post-Cold War order affected Poland’s security policy and particularly how the West’s weakening position and Russia’s revisionist policy reinforced the traditional view of security in Poland. It addresses the reasons why Poland, a middle power in Central Europe,...
Inter-organizational Relations in International Security
Cooperation and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book examines the politics of the relationships between multilateral organizations that have come to play a major role in contemporary efforts to manage international security.
Drawing on concepts developed in Organizational Studies, the book starts from the assumption that inter-organizational...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
The threats the world currently faces extend beyond traditional problems such as major power competition, interstate conflict, and nuclear proliferation. Non-traditional security challenges such as climate change, migration, and natural disasters surpass states’ capacity to address them. These limitations...
Reinventing Regional Security Institutions in Asia and Africa
Power shifts, ideas, and institutional change
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Regional security institutions play a significant role in shaping the behavior of existing and rising regional powers by nurturing security norms and rules, monitoring state activities, and sometimes imposing sanctions, thereby formulating the configuration of regional security dynamics. Yet, their...