Social Security category: 3077 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is a significant international normative and policy framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on women and girls,...
The EU’s Neighbourhood Policy towards the South Caucasus
Expanding the European Security Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
This book addresses the potential and limitations of the European Union Neighbourhood Policy in sustaining the expansion of the European security community towards the South Caucasus. The Caucasus’ complex regional security dynamics are a hard test for regional security community building and showcase...
Climate Change and National Security
A Country-Level Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional and global order through the year 2030. In profiles...
Private Military and Security Companies
Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to...
Cyberspace and National Security
Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In a very short time, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, individuals, subnational groups, and governments are using cyberspace to advance interests...
European-American Relations and the Middle East
From Suez to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book examines the evolution of European-American relations with the Middle East since 1945.
Placing the current transatlantic debates on the Middle East into a broader context, this work analyses how, why, and to what extent European and US roles, interests, threat perceptions, and policy...
Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific
The ASEAN Regional Forum
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book offers the most comprehensive analysis yet of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), which remains the foremost dialogue forum for the promotion of cooperative security in the Asia-Pacific.
Contributors focus on the perspectives and roles of the key players in the ARF – ASEAN, the United...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The UN Security Council formally acknowledged an obligation to promote justice and the rule of law in 2003. This volume examines the extent to which the Council has honoured this commitment when exercising its powers under the UN Charter to maintain international peace and security. It discusses both...
Understanding Crime Prevention
The Case Study Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Crime prevention benefits everyone, including would-be criminals saved from the negative consequences of offending. Yet much of today’s policy on preventing crime is driven by political ideology and anecdotal evidence, with insufficient planning and evaluation. Improving the practice of crime prevention...
by William A. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This compelling book serves as a comprehensive resource for readers interested in contemporary security issues in Africa. It details the impact of complex challenges in Africa and explains why addressing them grows increasingly important.
• Acknowledges principal terms, underlying concepts,...
Coercing Compliance
State-Initiated Brute Force in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for —the first comprehensive systematic...
Security/Mobility
Politics of movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Mobility and security are key themes for students of international politics in a globalised world. This book brings together research on the political regulation of movement - its material enablers and constraints. It explores aspects of critical security studies and political geography in order to...
The Father of Jihad
'Abd Allāh 'Azzām's Jihad Ideas and Implications to National Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
This study revolves around the jihad ideas of 'Abd Allāh 'Azzām — an iconic figure in the study of militant jihad in the 20th century, history of Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union, Al-Qaeda and current threat of terrorism.
This study has several objectives:
to render an in-depth...
by Gordon B. Greer
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, American citizens within the United States constantly worry about security against future terrorist attacks. But author Gordon Greer delves further into this subject by trying to understand why the general public is so intent on the ramifications of security...