International Security category: 2908 books
Transnational Actors in War and Peace
Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Transnational Actors in War and Peace provides a comparative examination of a range of transnational actors who have been key to the conduct of war and peace promotion, and of how they interact with states and each other. It explores the identities, organization, strategies and influence of transnational...
by Lutz Lindenau
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 7,5 from max 10, University of Amsterdam (FMG), course: United Nations International Students Conference in Amsterdam 2001, 10 entries in the bibliography, language:...
ASEAN 50
Regional Security Cooperation through Selected Documents
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
ASEAN 50: Regional Security Cooperation through Selected Documents curates key official documents that establish ASEAN as the foundation of Southeast Asia's peace and security. Since 1967, ASEAN has played the crucial role of managing conflicts and maintaining stability in a region shaped by diverse...
The Life and Work of General Andrew J. Goodpaster
Best Practices in National Security Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
General Andrew J. Goodpaster (1915-2005) was a brilliant military leader, a scholar and, most of all, an exceptional presidential adviser who served under seven successive administrations. A respected strategist, he participated at the highest levels of government in many of the most important decisions...
Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan
In a Time of Western Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan.
It engages with a well-established debate in academic and policy-making contexts regarding the utility of human security as a framework for understanding and redressing...
Homeland Security and Criminal Justice
Five Years After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
No event has shaped international events of recent years more than the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Tragically, less than four years later, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. In less than five years, the United States has experienced its worst terrorist attack and worst natural...
War, Peace and International Security
From Sarajevo to Crimea
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book examines and explains the dialectic of war and peace between the outbreak of WWI and the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. The theoretical inspiration is built upon Galtung’s concept of negative and positive peace, Aron´s distinction between strategy and diplomacy, and Carr´s theory...
Border Security
Shores of Politics, Horizons of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
What kind of a world is one in which border security is understood as necessary? How is this transforming the shores of politics? And why does this seem to preclude a horizon of political justice for those affected? Border Security responds to these questions through an interdisciplinary exploration...
Socially Responsible Innovation in Security
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book examines the possibility of socially responsible innovation in security, using an interdisciplinary approach.
Responsible innovation in security refers to a comprehensive approach that aims to integrate knowledge related to stakeholders operating at both the demand and the supply...
NATO, Gender and the Military
Women Organising from Within
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures.
Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO’s long-established engagement with gender issues. These documents bring to the fore the stories...
by Group Captain Manoj Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
This book deals with the contemporary and controversial topic of Environmental Change and National Security. Security encompasses various elements of human security that are going to be affected by the vagaries of environmental change, brought about by the relentless unsustainable development path...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book on the security context in the Black Sea region is a timely endeavour and substantive contribution to understanding the state of play in the region and its linkages to the rest of the world. With contributions from analysts from Europe, the United States, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, the...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2019
The thirteenth of a well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure, Commercial Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is intended to help law enforcement, security specialists, managers, and anyone involved in protecting commercial facilities, handle the security threats...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The tenth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Communications Sector Protection and Homeland Security is an eye-opening account and an important reference source of a complex sector.
Communications systems are the backbone for...