International Security category: 2908 books
The EU, Strategy and Security Policy
Regional and Strategic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU’s efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions.
Despite a special European Council summit in December 2013 on defence, it is generally acknowledged that fifteen years since its inception the EU’s...
China's Global Engagement
Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Assessing China's rapidly changing role on the international stage
China is again undergoing a period of significant transition. Internally, China's leaders are addressing challenges to the economy and other domestic issues after three decades of dramatic growth and reforms. President Xi Jinping...
by Netra Bahadur Karki
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1, , course: Masters Degree in Strategic Studies, language: English, abstract: In this study, descriptive research design was used to find out the refugee influx...
by Richard Weitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Global Security Watch—China presents a comprehensive overview of the main foreign and defense policies of the People's Republic of China, emphasizing the political-military developments in the modern era since the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident. It provides a historical overview in the first chapter,...
Open Participatory Security
Unifying Technology, Citizens, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Our modern security systems have recently come under a lot of criticism: as too bureaucratic and unadaptable, too secretive and untrustworthy, and too obsessed with information technology rather than human needs. Yet listing failures is easy; security is never perfect. The question is why current...
Critical Security and Chinese Politics
The Anti-Falungong Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
This book examines how critical approaches to security developed in Europe can be used to investigate a Chinese security issue - the case of the Falungong.
The past few decades have produced a rich field of theoretical approaches to ‘security’ in Europe. In this book, the security-specific...
by Bruce Oliver Newsome
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management is the first book to introduce the full spectrum of security and risks and their management. Author and field expert Bruce Newsome helps readers learn how to understand, analyze, assess, control, and generally manage security and risks from...
Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century
The Revival of Economic Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice.
States increasingly practice power politics...
by Gus Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Dr. Gus Martin’s Understanding Homeland Security, Second Edition is a thoroughly updated textbook offering much-needed insight into the complex nature of issues addressed by the homeland security enterprise. This comprehensive textbook addresses such subject areas as emergency management, terrorism,...
Of Privacy and Power
The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship between the European Union and the United States and what this means for the future
We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce...
International Approach to Conflict Management
Discuss three reasons why an international approach to conflict management might be more successful than a regional or state approach.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: Conflict Management, language: English, abstract: In many cases, actors on the international level can...
Intelligence Oversight in the Twenty-First Century
Accountability in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight.
Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing security environment. This book addresses the...
Cases in U.S. National Security
Concepts and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Modeled after his successful Cases in International Relations, now in its seventh edition, revered author and scholar, Don Snow, presents an engaging and novel approach to national security. A series of brief case studies representing current and controversial policy problems facilitates deliberation...
Secession and Security
Explaining State Strategy against Separatists
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"The book is an excellent addition to the scholarly literature on subnational movements, both past and present, offering a range of insights to policymakers across the globe."—Ayesha Jalal, author of The Struggle for Pakistan
"With judicious use of empirical evidence and rich case studies,...