International Security category: 2908 books
Nuclear Safeguards, Security, and Nonproliferation
Achieving Security with Technology and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Nuclear Safeguards, Security and Nonproliferation: Achieving Security with Technology and Policy, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference covering the cutting-edge technologies used to trace, track and safeguard nuclear material. Sections cover security, the illicit trafficking of nuclear materials,...
The EU and the European Security Order
Interfacing Security Actors
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book attempts to conceptualise EU action in the field of regional security.
Drawing on constructivist theory, the framework of the book focuses on the meeting - or 'interface' - of actors, a situation reflecting the mutual construction of self, other and situation. The analytical framework...
by William A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This compelling book serves as a comprehensive resource for readers interested in contemporary security issues in Africa. It details the impact of complex challenges in Africa and explains why addressing them grows increasingly important.
• Acknowledges principal terms, underlying concepts,...
by Thomas Oeljeklaus
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, University of Münster (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), course: Theater Missile Defense in Europe and Asia - A Comparison, language: English, abstract: Strengthening...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
The United States must be prepared to operate in a range of complex environments to meet a range of security challenges and threats, such as humanitarian emergencies, terrorism and violent extremism, great power aggression, health security crises, and international criminal violence. This study focuses...
Understanding Security Practices in South Asia
Securitization Theory and the Role of Non-State Actors
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book explores the ways in which non-state actors (NSAs) in South Asia are involved in securitizing non-traditional security challenges in the region at the sub-state level.
South Asia is the epicentre of some of the most significant international security challenges today. Yet, the complexities...
Russia's Foreign Security Policy in the 21st Century
Putin, Medvedev and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This book examines Russia’s external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond.
The Russian Federation has developed from a neglected regional power into a self-declared resurgent superpower. Russia’s background in the former Soviet Union as well...
by Elizabeth L. Chalecki
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Issues of climate change, dwindling resources, natural disaster, and disease that comprise environmental security are at the forefront of global politics and the media today. Environmental Security: A Guide to the Issues is a primer for anyone attuned to these threats. This well-reasoned, thought-provoking...
Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Search for Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Whether possessed by a state or non-state actor, the specter of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), and more specifically, nuclear weapons and their associated material, present a significant threat to global security. Notwithstanding the fact that there are fewer nuclear weapons today than the massive...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This collection of papers rigorously examines the current place of deterrence in international security relations, delivering the best of contemporary thinking. This is a special issue of the leading journal Contemporary Security Policy.
It shows how and why nuclear deterrence was the central...
Insurance and governance in public-private security cooperation
Notes prepared for Panel Session 16.30-18.00: Public-Private Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities in Security Governance, International Security Forum, 30 May 2011, Zurich
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, course: International Security Forum 2011, language: English, abstract: Beitrag zu Podiumsdiskussion zu öffentlich-privater...
by Peter Hough
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Fully revised to incorporate recent developments, this fourth edition of Understanding Global Security analyses the variety of ways in which people's lives are threatened and/or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of Security Studies texts: war, deterrence and terrorism,...
India’s National Security
Annual Review 2016-17
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The global security environment in the last five years has been characterised by a state of ‘no war, no peace’ among major powers, resulting in a state of uncertainty about their national security objectives. For instance, the US has been concerned about the attitudes of Iran, Russia, North Korea,...
by Norrin M. Ripsman, T.V. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
In the past two decades, many have posited a correlation between the spread of globalization and the decline of the nation-state. In the realm of national security, advocates of the globalization thesis have argued that states' power has diminished relative to transnational governmental institutions,...