Stanford Security Studies imprint: 74 books
Fighting Back
What Governments Can Do About Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Since terrorism became a global national security issue in the new millennium, all governments have wrestled with its effects. Yet strong measures against terrorism have often made the root causes of the problem worse, while weak responses have invited further attack. In response, this book explains...
Coercing Compliance
State-Initiated Brute Force in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for —the first comprehensive systematic...
The Culture of Military Innovation
The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel.
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual history of the Revolution in Military...
Open Skies
Transparency, Confidence-Building, and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
This book recounts and analyzes the history of one of the best-kept diplomatic and security secrets of the last half-century—the Open Skies Treaty: a treaty that allows the U.S., the Russian Federation, and over 30 other signatories to fly unarmed reconnaissance aircraft over one another's territory....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
When NATO took charge of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan in 2003, ISAF conceptualized its mission largely as a stabilization and reconstruction deployment. However, as the campaign has evolved and the insurgency has proved to more resistant and capable, key operational...
South Asia's Weak States
Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
South Asia, which consists of eight states of different sizes and capabilities, is characterized by high levels of insecurity at the inter-state, intra-state, and human level: insecurity that is manifest in both traditional and non-traditional security problems—especially transnational terrorism...
Patriots for Profit
Contractors and the Military in U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost. The approach is applied to the United States using official documents and interviews with...
Hyperconflict
Globalization and Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
This book addresses two questions that are crucial to the human condition in the twenty-first century: does globalization promote security or fuel insecurity? And what are the implications for world order? Coming to grips with these matters requires building a bridge between the geoeconomics and geopolitics...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
In every decade of the nuclear era, one or two states have developed nuclear weapons despite the international community's opposition to proliferation. In the coming years, the breakdown of security arrangements, especially in the Middle East and Northeast Asia, could drive additional countries to...
Global Security Upheaval
Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability.
By assessing recent real-world trends,...
Islam in the Balance
Ideational Threats in Arab Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics is an analysis of how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states react to ideational threats. It examines the threat perception and policies of two Arab Muslim majority states, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in response to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's...
by Aysegul Aydin
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers. This book argues that rethinking intervention—redefining what it is and why foreign powers take an interest in others' conflicts—is of critical importance to understanding how conflicts evolve...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Interest in nuclear energy has surged in recent years, yet there are risks that accompany the global diffusion of nuclear power—especially the possibility that the spread of nuclear energy will facilitate nuclear weapons proliferation. In this book, leading experts analyze the tradeoffs associated...