International Security category: 2908 books
Spooked
The Truth about Intelligence in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
With contributions from a number of prominent intelligence, security, and legal experts such as Michael Mori, Ben Saul, Anne Aly, and Peter Leahy, this examination lays bare the facts about spying and security in post-9/11 Australia. Compelling chapters cut through the panic and fear-mongering to...
The Pentagon's New Map
War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingly "chaotic" world actually works. Gone is the clash of blocs, but replaced by what?
Thomas Barnett has the answers. A senior military...
The NSA Report
Liberty and Security in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake...
Israel Facing a New Middle East
In Search of a National Security Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The turmoil which has been rattling the Middle East in recent years has confronted Israel with fresh challenges and opportunities and requires it to rethink the three levels of its strategy and security policies: National security Strategy (sometimes referred to as Grand Strategy), National Security...
The United States and the Atlantic Community
Issues and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The restiveness among some members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as to its structure and functions was an indication not of the failure of NATO, but of a need for a new adjustment to the changes that had developed in world conditions since the organization was established. Such was the...
The 2014 Sochi Olympics
A Patchwork of Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
The 22nd Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, possess a singular symbolic character for Russia and its leadership. President Vladimir Putin considers the Games a demonstration of Russia’s growing international role and the success of his administration’s policies. Many view a successful Olympics...
by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Joan Johnson-Freese argues that the race for space weapons and the U.S. quest for exclusive or at least dominant ownership of strategic space assets have alienated the very allies that the United States needs in order to maintain its leading role in space exploration. Taking a balanced look at the...
Against Security
How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
The inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post–9/11 world. But do...
by Christopher Deliso
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks marked the definitive moment when the migration crisis became associated with terrorism, stoking an increasingly heated debate over the perceived dangers of migration, Islam, and extremist politics in Europe. The sudden emergence of migration as the mobilizing...
Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks
Rediscovering U.S. Counterintelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Decision makers matching wits with an adversary want intelligence—good, relevant information to help them win. Intelligence can gain these advantages through directed research and analysis, agile collection, and the timely use of guile and theft. Counterintelligence is the art and practice of defeating...
Exporting the Bomb
Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countries...
Atomic Assistance
How "Atoms for Peace" Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Nuclear technology is dual use in nature, meaning that it can be used to produce nuclear energy or to build nuclear weapons. Despite security concerns about proliferation, the United States and other nuclear nations have regularly shared with other countries nuclear technology, materials, and knowledge...
Soft Targets and Crisis Management
What Emergency Planners and Security Professionals Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Uniting the best of Michael Fagel and Jennifer Hesterman's books in the fields of homeland security and emergency management, the editors of this volume present the prevailing issues affecting the homeland security community today. Many natural and man-made threats can impact our communities—but...
Operation Shakespeare
The True Story of an Elite International Sting
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A secret war. A daring sting operation. The great untold national security story of our time: “An impressive and important work…The book has the glamour of a spy novel and the gravity of a meticulously researched exposé” (Christian Science Monitor).
On today’s high-tech battlefields,...