Stanford Security Studies imprint: 74 books
Eating Grass
The Making of the Pakistani Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched a nuclear energy program in 1956 and consciously interwove nuclear developments into the broader narrative of Pakistani nationalism. Then, impelled first...
Explanation and Progress in Security Studies
Bridging Theoretical Divides in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Explanation and Progress in Security Studies asks why Security Studies, as a central area of International Relations, has not experienced scientific progress in the way natural sciences have—and answers by arguing that the underlying reason is that scholars in Security Studies have advanced a range...
The Dollar and National Security
The Monetary Component of Hard Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Defense establishments and the armed forces they organize, train, equip, and deploy depend upon the security of capital and capital flows, mechanisms that have become increasingly globalized. Military capabilities are thus closely tied not only to the size of the economic base from which they are...
Providing for National Security
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats. In this timely volume experts from both the academic and policy worlds present 13 different country case...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
The new millennium has brought with it an ever-expanding range of threats to global security: from cyber attacks to blue-water piracy to provocative missile tests. Now, more than ever then, national security and prosperity depend on the safekeeping of a global system of mutually supporting networks...
Gulf Security and the U.S. Military
Regime Survival and the Politics of Basing
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
The U.S. military maintains a significant presence across the Arabian Peninsula but it must now confront a new and emerging dynamic as most Gulf Cooperation Council countries have begun to diversify their political, economic, and security partnerships with countries other than the United States—with...
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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...
Dark Logic
Transnational Criminal Tactics and Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Since the end of the Cold War, transnational non-state forces have been a major source of global instability, with many ominous and disruptive flows of people, goods, and services moving readily across international boundaries. And because these activities are so multifaceted and so intertwined within...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military—suggesting that a nationalistic and increasingly influential...
The Politics of Space Security
Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
The past five decades have witnessed often fierce international rivalry in space, but also surprising military restraint. Now, with an increasing number of countries capable of harming U.S. space assets, experts and officials have renewed a long-standing debate over the best route to space security....
Strategy in Asia
The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Some of the United States' greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. China and India are rising and Militant Islam continues to take root in Pakistan, while nuclear proliferation threatens to continue in fits and starts. If America is to meet these...
Balance Sheet
The Iraq War and U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The last six years have witnessed a virtually unending debate over U.S. policy toward Iraq, a debate that is likely to continue well into the new administration and perhaps the next, notwithstanding recent improvements on the ground. Too often, however, the debate has been narrowly framed in terms...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are not always the best option. In some cases, a state may be better off seeking to give others a greater sense...
Victory for Hire
Private Security Companies’ Impact on Military Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.S. troops. Yet, no book has so far assessed the impact of private security companies on military effectiveness. Filling that gap, Molly Dunigan reveals how the increasing...