International Security category: 2908 books
by Jacqueline Brewer, Michael Miklaucic, James G. Stavridis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The Center for Complex Operations (CCO) has produced this edited volume, Convergence: Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization, that delves deeply into everything mentioned above and more. In a time when the threat is growing, this is a timely effort. CCO has gathered an...
The Cybersecurity Dilemma
Hacking, Trust and Fear Between Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Why do nations break into one another's most important computer networks? There is an obvious answer: to steal valuable information or to attack. But this isn't the full story. This book draws on often-overlooked documents leaked by Edward Snowden, real-world case studies of cyber operations, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
As the activities of individuals, organizations, and nations increasingly occur in cyberspace, the security of those activities is becoming a growing concern. Political, economic and military leaders must manage and reduce the level of risk associated with threats from hostile states, malevolent nonstate...
Interrogation in War and Conflict
A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This edited volume offers a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of interrogation and questioning in war and conflict in the twentieth century.
Despite the current public interest and its military importance, interrogation and questioning in conflict is still a largely under-researched...
by Jeffrey Record
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
No historical event has exerted more influence on AmericaÆs postûWorld War II use of military force than the Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Informed by the supposed grand lesson of Munichûnamely, that capitulating to the demands of aggressive dictatorships invites further aggression...
NATO's Return to Europe
Engaging Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
NATO’s 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance’s mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much...
by Col. Daniel M Gerstein, USA (Ret.)
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
As the world moves into the Information Age, globalization continues to alter the customary relationships among peoples, societies, and nations that evolved during the Industrial Age. Author Daniel Gerstein, however, maintains the United States still follows an Industrial Age framework for national security....
Principled Spying
The Ethics of Secret Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy. Principled Spying explores how to strike a balance between necessary intelligence activities and protecting...
Strategic Intelligence–Community Security Partnerships
Molding Partnerships in Conflict-Prone Regions
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book examines the need to bridge strategic intelligence and community collaboration. It explores intelligence collection, analysis, and operations as they relate to conflicts that can be solved through community collaboration. Its argument sits at the nexus of intelligence collection, operations...
Striking Power
How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as drones,...
Security, Strategy and Military Change in the 21st Century
Cross-Regional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing.
A significant shift in policy, strategy and military affairs is underway in both Asia and Europe, with the former gaining increasing...
Making Threats
Biofears and Environmental Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses,...
NATO and the Middle East
The Geopolitical Context Post-9/11
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Despite having been active in the region since the mid-1990s, the role of NATO in the Middle East has attracted particular attention since the events of 11th September 2001. This book analyses the limits of NATO’s role in the Middle East region and examines whether or not the Alliance is able to...
Security in Shared Neighbourhoods
Foreign Policy of Russia, Turkey and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
This edited volume addresses the foreign policy approaches demonstrated by the European Union (EU), Russia and Turkey towards their shared neighbourhood. These three geopolitical players promote active foreign and security policies towards the Black and Caspian Seas, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and determine stability in these regions.