International Security category: 2908 books
The Gulf Military Balance
The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The United States faces major challenges in dealing with Iran, the threat of terrorism, and the tide of political instability in the Arabian Peninsula. The presence of some of the world’s largest reserves of oil and natural gas, vital shipping lanes, and Shia populations throughout the region have...
The Gulf Military Balance
The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The United States faces major challenges in dealing with Iran, the threat of terrorism, and the tide of political instability in the Arabian Peninsula. The presence of some of the world’s largest reserves of oil and natural gas, vital shipping lanes, and Shia populations throughout the region have...
Crossing Nuclear Thresholds
Leveraging Sociocultural Insights into Nuclear Decisionmaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book applies the cutting-edge socio-cultural model Cultural Topography Analytic Framework (CTAF) pioneered in the authors’ earlier volume Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security Policymaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)...
Civil-Military Relations in Europe
Learning from Crisis and Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This new book illustrates how democracy cannot develop or endure unless military and security forces are under the full control of democratic institutions and all the necessary safeguards, checks and balances are in place.
The contributors show how contemporary European states manage the following...
Tearing Apart the Land
Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale...
Explorations of True Freedom and Global Balance
A Philosophical Adventure for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
EXPLORATIONS OF TRUE~FREEDOM & GLOBAL~BALANCE {A philosophical adventure for our times...}
By:
Daniel John.
Copyright 2007 by Daniel John.
This work is an empowering philosophical adventure for our times...
We are going, here, on a robust, analytical, creative, and frequently...
The Cosmopolitan Military
Armed Forces and Human Security in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security, and asks whether we might expect the emergence of armed forces that exist to serve the wider human community.
Just War Thinkers
From Cicero to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This volume offers a set of concise and accessible introductions to the seminal figures in the historical development of the just war tradition.
In what, if any, circumstances are political communities justified in going to war? And what limits should apply to the conduct of any such war? The...
Triadic Coercion
Israel’s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In the post–Cold War era, states increasingly find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors. Finding it difficult to fight these opponents directly, many governments instead target states that harbor or aid nonstate actors, using threats and punishment to coerce host states into stopping those...
by Maiah Jaskoski
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes challenges conventional theories regarding military behavior in post-transition democracies. Through a deeply researched comparative analysis of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian armies, Maiah Jaskoski argues that militaries are concerned more with the predictability...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This new Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and debates on terrorism and counterterrorism, as well as providing a benchmark for future research.
The attacks of 9/11 and the ‘global war on terror’ and its various legacies have dominated international...
by Abdulwali Sherzad Miakhel
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A, University of Missouri-Saint Louis (political science), course: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, language: English, abstract: The status of Jerusalem is the main and most...
Fixing the EU Intel Crisis
Intelligence Sharing, Law Enforcement and the Threat of Chemical Biological and Nuclear Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
The epidemic of wars and military clashes from Syria to Yemen, the rising powers of China and Russia, and the turbulence in Pakistan, Central Asia and North Africa all underscore the urgent need for a highly professional intelligence agency within the European Union and between the EU and the UK in particular....
Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security
From Pacifism to Realism?
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford...