Social Security category: 3077 books
Spooked
The Truth about Intelligence in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
With contributions from a number of prominent intelligence, security, and legal experts such as Michael Mori, Ben Saul, Anne Aly, and Peter Leahy, this examination lays bare the facts about spying and security in post-9/11 Australia. Compelling chapters cut through the panic and fear-mongering to...
by Paul Rexton Kan
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Global drug trafficking intersects with a vast array of international security issues ranging from war and terrorism to migration and state stability. More than just another item on the international security agenda, drug trafficking in fact exacerbates threats to national and international security....
Climate change as a cause of intra-state conflicts: Darfur case study
A tragedy of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A, , course: International security, language: English, abstract: Climate change presents a serious threat to the security and prosperity of all countries. The...
Against Security
How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
The inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post–9/11 world. But do...
The Dollar and National Security
The Monetary Component of Hard Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Defense establishments and the armed forces they organize, train, equip, and deploy depend upon the security of capital and capital flows, mechanisms that have become increasingly globalized. Military capabilities are thus closely tied not only to the size of the economic base from which they are...
by Christopher Deliso
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks marked the definitive moment when the migration crisis became associated with terrorism, stoking an increasingly heated debate over the perceived dangers of migration, Islam, and extremist politics in Europe. The sudden emergence of migration as the mobilizing...
Debating Security in Turkey
Challenges and Changes in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Debating Security in Turkey: Challenges and Changes in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ebru Canan-Sokullu, gives a detailed account of the strategic security agenda facing Turkey in an era of uncertainty and swift transformation in global politics, and regional and local dynamics. The contributors...
Regional Organisations and Security
Conceptions and practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book aims to examine the conceptions and practices of security adopted by Regional Organisations (ROs) across the globe.
Since the end of the Cold War, there has been an increased focus on regions as a relevant realm for security, with actors within regional contexts identifying a significant...
Soft Targets and Crisis Management
What Emergency Planners and Security Professionals Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Uniting the best of Michael Fagel and Jennifer Hesterman's books in the fields of homeland security and emergency management, the editors of this volume present the prevailing issues affecting the homeland security community today. Many natural and man-made threats can impact our communities—but...
Religion and Security
The New Nexus in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations focuses on a groundbreaking theme. In global security today, religion is not only part of the problem but also part of the solution. This book explores positive nexus points between religion and security, paying particular attention to...
Protecting Transportation
Implementing Security Policies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Protecting Transportation: Implementing Security Policies and Programs provides a thorough overview of transportation security in the United States, with a focus on policy. The book coversall major transportation modes and puts the American security system into perspective against other national and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor.
In the two decades since the end of the Cold War, the EU has gradually emerged as an autonomous actor in the field of...
A Decade of Human Security
Global Governance and New Multilateralisms
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Human security has been advanced as an alternative to traditional state-based conceptualizations of security, yet controversies about the use and abuse of the concept remain. Investigating innovations in the advancement of the human security agenda over the past decade, this book identifies themes...
Critique, Security and Power
The Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations.
In general, 'critical security'...