Security category: 5602 books
A Decade of Human Security
Global Governance and New Multilateralisms
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Human security has been advanced as an alternative to traditional state-based conceptualizations of security, yet controversies about the use and abuse of the concept remain. Investigating innovations in the advancement of the human security agenda over the past decade, this book identifies themes...
Critique, Security and Power
The Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations.
In general, 'critical 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...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This book confronts both the maritime security challenges and responses. In Southeast Asia, maritime security has, over the last twenty years, taken on a much greater importance, due to the Law of the Sea convention, which has resulted in a 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs).
As...
Surveillance, Privacy and Security
Citizens’ Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy–security trade-off, focusing on the citizen’s perspective.
Recent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing capabilities of surveillance technologies....
Cyber Security Standards, Practices and Industrial Applications
Systems and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Cyber security, encompassing both information and network security, is of utmost importance in today’s information age. Cyber Security Standards, Practices and Industrial Applications: Systems and Methodologies details the latest and most important advances in security standards. First, it introduces...
Practical Embedded Security
Building Secure Resource-Constrained Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The great strides made over the past decade in the complexity and network functionality of embedded systems have significantly enhanced their attractiveness for use in critical applications such as medical devices and military communications. However, this expansion into critical areas has presented...
by Francis Wiafe-Amoako
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Achieving security and development in the post-conflict era is a challenge with which stakeholders have to grapple. While stakeholders are quick to claim success when physical hostilities cease between the belligerents, ensuring sustainable peace has been a daunting task. In some countries in Africa,...
European Security in a Global Context
Internal and External Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
This new edited volume examines contemporary European security from three different standpoints. It explores security dynamics, first, within Europe; second, the interaction patterns between Europe and other parts of the world (the United States, Africa, the Middle East, China and India); and,...
by Kavoy Ashley
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: To what extent has security moved from a more individualistic concern to one of commonality for sates within the international community?...
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...
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...
Data-Driven Security
Analysis, Visualization and Dashboards
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Uncover hidden patterns of data and respond with countermeasures
Security professionals need all the tools at their disposal to increase their visibility in order to prevent security breaches and attacks. This careful guide explores two of the most powerful data analysis and visualization....