Social Security category: 3077 books
Critical Security Methods
New frameworks for analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Critical Security Methods offers a new approach to research methods in critical security studies.
It argues that methods are not simply tools to bridge the gap between security theory and security practice. Rather, to practise methods critically means engaging in a more free and experimental...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This book confronts both the maritime security challenges and responses. In Southeast Asia, maritime security has, over the last twenty years, taken on a much greater importance, due to the Law of the Sea convention, which has resulted in a 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs).
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by Francis Wiafe-Amoako
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Achieving security and development in the post-conflict era is a challenge with which stakeholders have to grapple. While stakeholders are quick to claim success when physical hostilities cease between the belligerents, ensuring sustainable peace has been a daunting task. In some countries in Africa,...
European Security in a Global Context
Internal and External Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
This new edited volume examines contemporary European security from three different standpoints. It explores security dynamics, first, within Europe; second, the interaction patterns between Europe and other parts of the world (the United States, Africa, the Middle East, China and India); and,...
by Kavoy Ashley
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: To what extent has security moved from a more individualistic concern to one of commonality for sates within the international community?...
The Markets for Force
Privatization of Security Across World Regions
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
The Markets for Force examines and compares the markets for private military and security contractors in twelve nations: Argentina, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, China, Canada, and the United States. Editors Molly Dunigan and Ulrich...
by Joakim Berndtsson, Christopher Kinsey
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in which states have come to rely on private contractors to support interventions.
Part One puts into context the evolution of outsourcing in Western...
Everyday security threats
Perceptions, experiences, and consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Everyday security threats explores public perceptions of security threats in contemporary Britain, using data from extensive fieldwork and drawing on perspectives from International Relations, security studies and political psychology.
State, Society and National Security
Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Addressing the complexities of radicalisation, resilience, cyber, and homeland security, State, Society and National Security: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century aims to shed light on what has changed in recent years security discourse, what has worked (as well as what has not), and...
Military Engagement
Influencing Armed Forces Worldwide to Support Democratic Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world. But what exact internal conditions have led to real-world democratic transitions, and have external forces helped or hurt? Here, experts with military and policy backgrounds,...
NATO, Gender and the Military
Women Organising from Within
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures.
Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO’s long-established engagement with gender issues. These documents bring to the fore the stories...
Biometrics
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Security and authentication issues are surging to the forefront of the research realm in global society. As technology continues to evolve, individuals are finding it easier to infiltrate various forums and facilities where they can illegally obtain information and access. By implementing biometric authentications...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Agriculture represents one of America’s critical infrastructures. The second edition of Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security addresses threats to humans including the introduction of anthrax, various poisons, small pox, or salmonella to our food supply. As in the first edition, the author...
Security and Development in Global Politics
A Critical Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Security and development matter: they often involve issues of life and death and they determine the allocation of truly staggering amounts of the world’s resources. Particularly since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been momentum in policy circles to merge the issues of security...