Social Security category: 3077 books
The Maritime Turn in EU Foreign and Security Policies
Aims, Actors and Mechanisms of Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This book provides the first substantial treatment of the maritime foreign and security policies of the European Union. Its findings add to the literature by a comparative, theoretically informed analysis of EU maritime foreign and security policies across five cases: the EU’s Maritime Security...
Diplomacy and Security Community-Building
EU Crisis Management in the Western Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book contributes to the ongoing debate in IR on the role of security communities and formulates a new mechanism-based analytical framework.
It argues that the question we need to ask is how security communities work at a time when armed conflicts among states have become significantly...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2019
The thirteenth of a well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure, Commercial Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is intended to help law enforcement, security specialists, managers, and anyone involved in protecting commercial facilities, handle the security threats...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This textbook examines non-traditional forms of security and expands the notion of security to include non-state actors and non-human actors.
Proposing an expansive view of non-traditional forms of security that go beyond traditionally recognized issues of threats to state and national territory,...
Reinventing Regional Security Institutions in Asia and Africa
Power shifts, ideas, and institutional change
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Regional security institutions play a significant role in shaping the behavior of existing and rising regional powers by nurturing security norms and rules, monitoring state activities, and sometimes imposing sanctions, thereby formulating the configuration of regional security dynamics. Yet, their...
The Homeland Security Dilemma
Fear, Failure and the Future of American Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book explores the paradox of the ‘security dilemma’ in International Relations, as applied to the post-9/11 context of homeland security.
The book's central argument can be summed up by the following counterintuitive thesis: the more security you have, the more security you will need....
Open Participatory Security
Unifying Technology, Citizens, and the State
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Our modern security systems have recently come under a lot of criticism: as too bureaucratic and unadaptable, too secretive and untrustworthy, and too obsessed with information technology rather than human needs. Yet listing failures is easy; security is never perfect. The question is why current...
Critical Security and Chinese Politics
The Anti-Falungong Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
This book examines how critical approaches to security developed in Europe can be used to investigate a Chinese security issue - the case of the Falungong.
The past few decades have produced a rich field of theoretical approaches to ‘security’ in Europe. In this book, the security-specific...
Diplomatic Security
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates. As diplomatic personnel are increasingly targeted by terrorism and political violence while overseas, sending states are augmenting host nations' security measures with their own. Protective arrangements range from deploying...
Nuclear Safeguards, Security, and Nonproliferation
Achieving Security with Technology and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Nuclear Safeguards, Security and Nonproliferation: Achieving Security with Technology and Policy, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference covering the cutting-edge technologies used to trace, track and safeguard nuclear material. Sections cover security, the illicit trafficking of nuclear materials,...
Of Privacy and Power
The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship between the European Union and the United States and what this means for the future
We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce...
European Peace and Security Policy
Transnational Risks of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
After the attacks of 9/11 terrorism and other forms of transnational risks of violence dominated official security policy. Researchers at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg investigated the consequences of this change for security governance in a multi-annual...
The EU and the European Security Order
Interfacing Security Actors
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book attempts to conceptualise EU action in the field of regional security.
Drawing on constructivist theory, the framework of the book focuses on the meeting - or 'interface' - of actors, a situation reflecting the mutual construction of self, other and situation. The analytical framework...
Private Security and Identity Politics
Ethical Hero Warriors, Professional Managers and New Humanitarians
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
This book examines the self-representation and identity politics of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs).
PMSCs have become increasingly important over the past few decades. While their boom is frequently explained in functional terms, such as their cost-efficiency and effectiveness,...