International Security category: 2908 books
by Michael Petranick
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Scientific Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, , language: English, abstract: This paper discusses in varying detail the realities of the twenty-first-century battlefield environment. Unless practiced by large nation-states...
Forging China's Military Might
A New Framework for Assessing Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Among the most important issues in international security today are the nature and the global implications of China’s emergence as a world-class defense technology power. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Chinese defense industry has reinvented itself by emphasizing technological...
Deterring Terrorism
A Model for Strategic Deterrence
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This book examines the question of how to deter a non-state terrorist actor.
Can terrorism be deterred? This book argues that current research is unable to find strong cases of deterrence success, because it uses a flawed research design which does not capture the longitudinal dynamics of the...
The fragile state concept and the emergence of the caliphate
The IS and al-Qaeda in comparison
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: C, University of Bergen (Department of Comparative Politcs), language: English, abstract: The Islamic State´s [IS] establishment of a caliphate in 2014 received...
Bridging Troubled Waters
China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Sino-Japanese relations have been repeatedly strained by the territorial dispute over a group of small islands, known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu islands in China. The rich fishing grounds, key shipping lanes, and perhaps especially, potentially rich oil deposits around the islands...
Proxy Wars
Suppressing Violence through Local Agents
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has...
Cyberspace Sovereignty
Reflections on building a community of common future in cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book is the first one that comprehensively discusses cyberspace sovereignty in China, reflecting China’s clear attitude in the global Internet governance: respecting every nation’s right to independently choose a development path, cyber management modes and Internet public policies and to...
by Etienne Salborn
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,0, Management Center Innsbruck, course: Non-profit Management, Peace Studies, language: English, abstract: Relative peace since 2006, after 20 years of armed...
Climate Change and Resource Conflict
The Role of Scarcity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book examines the links between climate change and resource scarcity to violent conflict.
Does climate change cause conflicts? This book analyses the economic, political and social conditions under which countries with low levels of freshwater or arable land experience armed conflict....
Liberal Wars
Anglo-American Strategy, Ideology and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This book addresses the relationship between the 'liberal' values of Anglo-Saxon cultures and the way that they conduct themselves when they are fighting - or preparing to fight - wars.
The United States and the United Kingdom are characterised by a consensus that their social and political...
Creativity and Conflict Resolution
Alternative Pathways to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations.
Creativity and Conflict Resolution explores a subject with which political communities involved in social conflict have always grappled:...
Cyber Weaponry
Issues and Implications of Digital Arms
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
There is little doubt that cyber-space has become the battle space for confrontations. However, to conduct cyber operations, a new armory of weapons needs to be employed. No matter how many, or how sophisticated an aggressor’s kinetic weapons are, they are useless in cyber-space.
This...
Naval Modernisation in Southeast Asia
Problems and Prospects for Small and Medium Navies
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This edited volume reviews the nature and consequences of naval modernisation in Southeast Asia against the backdrop of growing tensions over the South China Sea and increasing competition between the United States and China in the region. The varying problems and challenges facing the small and...
Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime
The War on Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This edited volume examines the use of militarised responses to different forms of criminal activity, discussing the outcomes and unintended consequences. Politicians and policymakers frequently use militarised responses to look tough on crime. The deployment of armies, navies, military assets and...