International Security category: 2908 books
by Richard Jackson, Director, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
The unsustainable federal budget outlook will inevitably push entitlement reform to the forefront of the national policy debate. As America’s leaders consider reform options, they will have much to learn from the experience of other developed countries, several of which have recently enacted far-reaching...
China's Energy Geopolitics
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2008
China’s need for energy has become a driving factor in contemporary world politics and a precondition for sustaining China’s continuing high economic growth. Accordingly, Chinese energy policy has been a political and strategic rather than market-driven policy. This book focuses on the need of...
by Tatiana Mitrova
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Russia is one of the world’s largest hydrocarbon resource holders, producers, and exporters, but it is undergoing an uncertain economic and energy transition. An economic slowdown, the dual shocks of a sharp decline in oil prices and the imposition of finance and technology-oriented sanctions, shifting...
A New Approach to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Best Practices for Security, Nonproliferation, and Sustainable Nuclear Energy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
The Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Center for Strategic and International Studies joined to launch the New Approaches to the Fuel Cycle project. This project sought to build consensus on common goals, address practical challenges, and engage a spectrum of actors that influence policymaking regarding...
by George David Banks, Michael Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The United States is at risk of finding its nuclear weapons capabilities severely weakened by the absence of an available capability to enrich uranium. International legal obligations prohibit the United States from using, for military purposes, foreign-produced enriched uranium or uranium enriched...
Nuclear Scholars Initiative
A Collection of Papers from the 2013 Nuclear Scholars Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The 2013 class of Nuclear Scholars, selected from a very competitive applicant pool, contained some of the best and brightest young professionals in the nuclear field. Drawn from graduate programs, the national labs, the civil service, and the U.S. military, these Nuclear Scholars participated in...
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy
India, Iraq and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.
Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international...
A U.S.-Indonesia Partnership for 2020
Recommendations for Forging a 21st Century Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A U.S.-Indonesia Partnership for 2020 explores avenues to boost cooperation in all three of these pillars. Political and security relations between the United States and Indonesia have grown more robust in recent years. Trade and economic relations, while growing, remain contentious. This study assesses...
Militants, Criminals, and Warlords
The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia...
International Conflict and Cyberspace Superiority
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book examines cyberspace superiority in nation-state conflict from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.
This volume analyses superiority concepts from the domains of land, maritime, and air to build a model that can be applied to cyberspace. Eight different cyberspace conflicts...
Engaged Neutrality
An Evolved Approach to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The notion that neutrality is a phenomenon only relevant to the Cold War is false in many ways. The Cold War was about building blocks, neutrality about staying out of them. From 1975 until the end of the Cold War, neutral states offered mediation and good offices and fought against the stagnation...
US-Israeli Relations in a New Era
Issues and Challenges after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
This book examines in depth the fundamental problems, factors and issues in current US-Israeli relations, which will have implications both for the Middle East and for world peace and prosperity.
The US and Israel have established an exceptional relationship, which has significant effects on...
Securing Africa
Local Crises and Foreign Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Africa has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as specifically African problems or the problems of Europeans in Africa, but newer scholarship on other aspects of Africa has come to stress the interconnectness of Africa and the wider world....
Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War
Winning domestic support for the Afghan War
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies.
In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes,...