International Security category: 2908 books
Against War with Iraq
An Anti-War Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Despite public outcry at home and international opposition abroad, the Bush Administration deployed troops and invested millions in preparation for a massive military assault on Iraq. In this Open Media Series special edition, three legal scholars from the Center for Constitutional Rights argue persuasively...
Between Threats and War
U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymakers and opinion formers have increasingly resorted to recommending the use of limited military force: that is, enough...
Blood Year
The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lost a third of its territory...
The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies, and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr
Terror, Lies, and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A controversial look at the headline-making story of the last Western prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and the larger implications to national security, justice, and international relations.
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Omar Khadr is the last Western prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. He has been held at the American...
by Kathrin Wiedenbauer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2, University of Innsbruck (Politikwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: In the following, the background to the United States' involvement in the Bosnian war,...
The Struggle for the West
A Divided and Contested Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
In recent years debates about the nature and future of the West have been high on the political agenda. Prognoses of the West’s imminent demise have been countered by those arguing for its continued relevance, or those arguing that while the West will survive its nature, and the balance of power...
The Threat Matrix
Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
An intimate look at Robert Mueller, the sixth Director of the FBI, who has just been named special counsel to oversee the investigation into ties between President Trump's campaign and Russian officials.
Covering more than 30 years of history, from the 1980s through Obama's presidency, The...
Avoiding Armageddon
America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
India and Pakistan will be among the most important countries in the twenty-first century. In Avoiding Armageddon, Bruce Riedel clearly explains the challenge and the importance of successfully managing America's affairs with these two emerging powers and their toxic relationship.
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Danger and Opportunity
An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
When Edward P. Djerejian arrived in Beirut for his first Foreign Service assignment, the city was a thriving metropolis, a nexus for a diversity of religious beliefs, political ideas, and cultural practices. More than forty years since, the broader Middle East region is undergoing significant change...
by John J. Mearsheimer
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
"A superb book....Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—The National Interest, Barry R. Posen
A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which...
Communication and Peace
Mapping an emerging field
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation.
From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine following events in the Crimea,...
The Hacked World Order
How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
In this updated edition of The Hacked World Order, cybersecurity expert Adam Segal offers unmatched insight into the new, opaque global conflict that is transforming geopolitics.
For more than three hundred years, the world wrestled with conflicts between nation-states, which wielded military...
The Honored Dead
A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes—but if anything has become clear, it’s that our understanding of the region remains shrouded and incomplete. The seeds of revolution, radicalism, and—possibly—reform...
Libya's Post-Qaddafi Transition
The Nation-Building Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
A year after Qaddafi's death, the light-footprint approach adopted for Libya's postwar transition is facing its most serious test. Security, the political transition, and economic development all present challenges. But if Libya's transitional authorities and the international community handle this...