International Security category: 2908 books
Transforming NATO
New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Transforming NATO: New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities, by Ivan Dinev Ivanov, examines the three dimensions of NATO’s transformation since the end of the Cold War: the addition of a dozen new allies; the undertaking of new missions such as peacekeeping, crisis response, and stabilization; and...
International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance
Hybrid Forms of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Using the case studies of Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Lebanon and Northern Ireland this book dissects internationally-supported peace interventions. Looking at issues of security, statebuilding, civil society and economic and constitutional reform, it proposes using the concept of hybridity to understand the dynamics of societies in transition.
Asian Rivalries
Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
The most typical treatment of international relations is to conceive it as a battle between two antagonistic states volleying back and forth. In reality, interstate relations are often at least two-level games in which decision-makers operate not only in an international environment but also in a...
by Stephen M. Walt
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so, and suggests how the risk of conflicts brought on by domestic upheaval might be reduced in the future. In doing so, he...
Creating Consensus
The Journey Towards Banning Cluster Munitions
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
This book analyses the events leading up to the cluster munitions ban, the provisions of the treaty, as well as assesses the progress made in the years since towards a world **without the presence of cluster munitions. **
Cluster bombs are weapons that are small but deadly. They often look...
How India Became Territorial
Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based on a close examination...
Project on Nuclear Issues
A Collection of Papers from the 2016 Nuclear Scholars Initiative and PONI Conference Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The role that nuclear weapons play in international security has changed since the end of the Cold War, but the need to maintain and replenish the human infrastructure for supporting nuclear capabilities and dealing with the multitude of nuclear challenges remains essential. Recognizing this challenge,...
Chinese Military Modernization and Force Development
A Western Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
China’s military development has become a key focus of US security policy as well as that of virtually all Asia-Pacific states. This report from the CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy examines trends in Chinese strategy, military spending, and military forces based on Chinese defense white papers and...
Trade and Tribulations
An Evaluation of Trade Barriers to the Adoption of Genetically Modified Crops in the East African Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Agricultural biotechnology holds great promise in contributing to Africa’s socioeconomic development. This is confirmed by a growing body of literature analyzing the positive economic effects at the farm level, and also for a growing number of farmers in Africa. However, with the exception of Burkina...
by Nicholas Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,0, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (International Politics Department), course: September 11, International Terrorism and the Middle East, language: English, abstract:...
by Anne Uhlhaas
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: ECTS-grade: B = 2, University of Leeds (Institute for Politics and International Studies), course: Popular Culture and International Relations, 13 entries in the bibliography,...
by Thorsten Volberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict), course: European Master Programme, 23 entries in the bibliography,...
Unipolarity and World Politics
A Theory and its Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order.
Unipolarity is usually described either as a ‘brief moment’ or as something historically insignificant. However, we have already seen nearly twenty years of virtual unipolarity and this period has been of great significance...
Nuclear Proliferation and the Psychology of Political Leadership
Beliefs, Motivations and Perceptions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book offers a novel approach to understanding the puzzle of nuclear proliferation by examining how leaders’ beliefs and perceptions about the international system influence states' decisions to acquire nuclear weapons.
Today, there is a persisting dilemma over the spread of nuclear weapons...