International Security category: 2908 books
Democracy in the Dark
The Seduction of Government Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in” (The Washington Post**).**
From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured...
The Threatening Storm
What Every American Needs to Know Before an Invasion in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
In The Threatening Storm, Kenneth M. Pollack, one of the world’s leading experts on Iraq, provides a masterly insider’s perspective on the crucial issues facing the United States as it moves toward a new confrontation with Saddam Hussein.
For the past fifteen years, as an analyst on Iraq...
A New Era in U.S.-Vietnam Relations
Deepening Ties Two Decades after Normalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
A New Era of U.S.-Vietnam Relations examines the history of the relationship and offers concrete recommendations for policymakers in both countries to deepen cooperation across each major area of the relationship: political and security ties, trade and economic linkages, and people-to-people connections.
Hackers Wanted
An Examination of the Cybersecurity Labor Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The perceived shortage of cybersecurity professionals working on national security may endanger the nation’s networks and be a disadvantage in cyberspace conflict. RAND examined the cybersecurity labor market, especially in regard to national defense. Analysis suggests market forces and government...
Restoring U.S. Leadership in Nuclear Energy
A National Security Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles, failure to find a permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste, reactions to the Fukushima accident in Japan, and other factors are hastening the day when existing U.S. reactors become uneconomic. The...
Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly...
Realizing the Vision
The Soldier/Squad System
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
The U.S. Army is facing a time of great change. The security environment is becoming increasingly complex and uncertain, with defense challenges multiplying. At the same time, the Army is adjusting to rapidly diminishing operational demands, falling endstrength, reorganization, and tightening budgets.
Enforcing the Peace
Learning from the Imperial Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Anarchy makes it easy for terrorists to set up shop. Yet the international community has been reluctant to commit the necessary resources to peacekeeping—with devastating results locally and around the globe. This daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations...
Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Selling the Peace?
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
This edited volume explores and evaluates the roles of corruption in post-conflict peacebuilding.
The problem of corruption has become increasingly important in war to peace transitions, eroding confidence in new democratic institutions, undermining economic development, diverting scarce public...
The Second Nuclear Age
Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable."
The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat...
by Brad Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many grounds—including historical, political,...
by T.V. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states—thanks to a consensus view...
Nuclear Asymmetry and Deterrence
Theory, Policy and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book offers a broader theory of nuclear deterrence and examines the way nuclear and conventional deterrence interact with non-military factors in a series of historical case studies.
The existing body of literature largely leans toward the analytical primacy of nuclear deterrence and it...
Waging Peace
How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1998
Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was...