Social Security category: 3077 books
Socio-Political Order and Security in the Arab World
From Regime Security to Public Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book examines the connection between socio-politics and security in the Arab World. In an effort to understand the social and political developments that have been on-going in the Arab World since the 1990s, culminating in the Arab Spring, Krieg moves beyond liberal deterministic assumptions...
Researching Non-state Actors in International Security
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This volume provides researchers and students with a discussion of a broad range of methods and their practical application to the study of non-state actors in international security.
All researchers face the same challenge, not only must they identify a suitable method for analysing their...
Beyond the Security Dilemma
Ending America's Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2001. The security dilemma has long been at the heart of the security studies discipline. Moving beyond this, this book attacks the assumptions of the traditional concept and redefines the security dilemma in a way more useful for examining security policy. By exposing...
by Bruce Oliver Newsome
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management is the first book to introduce the full spectrum of security and risks and their management. Author and field expert Bruce Newsome helps readers learn how to understand, analyze, assess, control, and generally manage security and risks from...
Issues in Terrorism and Homeland Security
Selections From CQ Researcher
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In the tradition of nonpartisanship and current analysis that is the hallmark of CQ Press, CQ Researcher readers investigate important and controversial policy issues. The Second Edition of Issues in Terrorism and Homeland Security covers timely issues such as Terrorism and the Internet, Homeland...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The threats to security in Southeast Asia have been serious and constant since the end of the Second World War. The book provides an absorbing account of the evolution of a key axis of regional stability - defence contacts between Japan and Australia, tracing the relationship from the early post-war...
A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management
From Home to Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management: From Home to Abroad offers a comprehensive overview of the homeland security field, examining topics such as counter-terrorism, border and infrastructure security, and emergency management. Authors Bruce Newsome and Jack Jarmon...
by Peter Hough
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Fully revised to incorporate recent developments, this fourth edition of Understanding Global Security analyses the variety of ways in which people's lives are threatened and/or secured in contemporary global politics. The traditional focus of Security Studies texts: war, deterrence and terrorism,...
Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society (Open Access)
The Civilization of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
This...
Strategic Intelligence Management
National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Strategic Intelligence Management introduces both academic researchers and law enforcement professionals to contemporary issues of national security and information management and analysis. This contributed volume draws on state-of-the-art expertise from academics and law enforcement practitioners...
Visual Security Studies
Sights and Spectacles of Insecurity and War
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
The present volume engages visuality in security from a variety of angles and explores what the subfield of Visual Security Studies might be.
To structure this experimentation, and to encourage a more careful and multifaceted approach to visuality and security, the main conceptual move in this...
The Changing Dimensions of Security
India's Security Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The end of cold war and the on-going globalization process along with the proliferation of non-traditional threat to security of the nations led to multilateralism in international relations. Though the great powers are not ready to accept the new developments, the post-cold war events such as threat...
by Elzbieta Posluszna
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
As concerns about human treatment of the environment and animals have increased over the years, so have decentralized and extremist groups related to these causes. Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security analyzes the international development of radical movements...
Death and security
Memory and mortality at the bombsite
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security. It considers the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman alongside literature from the sociology of death, before undertaking a comparative exploration...