Social Security category: 3077 books
Human Security, Changing States and Global Responses
Institutions and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book critically assesses the human security challenges faced by states, focusing on how and to what extent the state is influenced by global structures and operations.
Having grown rapidly since the 1990s, the field of human security has spawned a wide variety of academic research. This...
Antarctic Security in the Twenty-First Century
Legal and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The Antarctic Treaty (1959) was adopted for the purpose of bringing peace and stability to Antarctica and to facilitate cooperation in scientific research conducted on and around the continent. It has now been over fifty years since the signing of the treaty, nevertheless security continues to drive...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies.
The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past 20 years, and is now one...
European Security Governance
The European Union in a Westphalian World
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
This book focuses on the problems of, and prospects for, strengthening the global system of security governance in a manner consistent with the aspirations and practices of the EU. The EU approach to security governance has been successful in its immediate neighbourhood: it has successfully exported...
by David Brooksbank
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Security Manual provides practical guidance on all aspects of security work and is a ready made source of information for all members of the security profession, including managers, supervisors and trainers. This eighth edition has been fully restructured to better reflect recent changes in the criminal...
Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security
Overcoming the World Food Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security: Overcoming the World Food Crisis discusses rising energy prices, increased biofuel use, water scarcity, and the rising world population, all factors that directly affect worldwide food security. The book examines the range of approaches to promoting...
The National Security Enterprise
Navigating the Labyrinth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Recent breakdowns in American national security have exposed the weaknesses of the nation’s vast overlapping security and foreign policy bureaucracy and the often dysfunctional interagency process. In the literature of national security studies, however, surprisingly little attention is given to the...
National Security Cultures
Patterns of Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
This edited collection examines changes in national security culture in the wake of international events that have threatened regional or global order, and analyses the effects of these divergent responses on international security.
Tracing the links between national security cultures and preferred...
The Evolution of Military Power in the West and Asia
Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book investigates how states in both the West and Asia have responded to multi-dimensional security challenges since the end of the Cold War, focusing on military transformation.
Looking at a cross-section of different countries, this volume assesses how their armed forces have responded...
The Ethical Subject of Security
Geopolitical Reason and the Threat Against Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ and other security practices take place.
First, it argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a function of security...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
National security is pervasive in government and society, but there is little scholarly attention devoted to understanding the context, institutions, and processes the U.S. government uses to promote the general welfare. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security aims to fill this gap. Coming from...
US National Security Reform
Reassessing the National Security Act of 1947
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
This collection of essays considers the evolution of American institutions and processes for forming and implementing US national security policy, and offers diverse policy prescriptions for reform to confront an evolving and uncertain security environment.
Twelve renowned scholars and practitioners...
Perspectives on the Security of Singapore
The First 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Perspectives on the Security of Singapore: The First 50 Years explores the security of Singapore in the last 50 years and its possible trajectories into the future. This volume brings together the diverse perspectives of a team of academics with different expertise, ranging from history to political...
Chinese-Japanese Competition and the East Asian Security Complex
Vying for Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This volume examines contemporary diplomatic, economic, and security competition between China and Japan in the Asia-Pacific region.
The book outlines the role that Sino-Japanese competition plays in East Asian security, an area of study largely overlooked in contemporary writing on Asian security,...