Social Security category: 3077 books
by Nadja Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The volume deals with the fundamentals of the contemporary relations between civic actors and state power structures. The main focus lies on public control of armed forces and the question of why civilians should have a vigilant eye on the military institution as well as the civilian authority that...
The New Spatiality of Security
Operational Uncertainty and the US Military in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This book provides a rigorous critical analysis of how the US military operates in Iraq, exploring the spatial practices of violence.
Contemporary critical analyses of the United States’ involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan emphasise the hegemonic nature of the US military experience, while...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The focus is on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, situations that occupy a central role in international affairs and that have become highly...
by Paul Rexton Kan
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
This book describes militias as significant and prevalent actors in today’s international security environment. To separate them from other types of violent non-state groups, such as terrorists, guerrillas and insurgents, the author describes militias as local guardians that use violence to fill...
One Nation Under Surveillance
A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the interests of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject...
US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century
More than Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
In this edited book, leading scholars and analysts trace the origins, evolution and the current state of Indo-US strategic cooperation.
During the Cold War, owing to opposing grand strategies, the two states frequently found themselves at odds. With the end of the Cold War and the demise of...
by Seema Shekhawat, Veronica Fynn Bruey, Antal Berkes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of gender with peace...
Understanding Lone Actor Terrorism
Past Experience, Future Outlook, and Response Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This volume examines the lone actor terrorist phenomenon, including the larger societal trends which may or may not have led to their acts of terrorism.
With lone actor terrorism becoming an increasingly common threat, the contributors to this volume aim to answer the following questions: What...
Big Data Challenges
Society, Security, Innovation and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book brings together an impressive range of academic and intelligence professional perspectives to interrogate the social, ethical and security upheavals in a world increasingly driven by data. Written in a clear and accessible style, it offers fresh insights to the deep reaching implications...
The Long War
CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally, they include the most energy-rich places...
Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States
Asymmetrical Economic Power and Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book examines China’s relations with its weak peripheral states through the theoretical lens of structural power and structural violence.
China’s foreign policy concepts toward its weak neighbouring states, such as the ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy, are premised on the assumption...
Emergency Preparedness for Business Professionals
How to Mitigate and Respond to Attacks Against Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Emergency Response for Business Professionals provides business managers who do not have in-house security expertise as well as the security professionals who advise them with an overview on how to prepare and react to potential unexpected incidents that can occur to their organization.
The...
Surveillance in Action
Technologies for Civilian, Military and Cyber Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book addresses surveillance in action-related applications, and presents novel research on military, civil and cyber surveillance from an international team of experts. The first part of the book, Surveillance of Human Features, reviews surveillance systems that use biometric technologies. It...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Old sergeants say, "we're here to defend democracy, not to practice it!" But are they right? The special mandate with which defence and security organizations are tasked imposes unique constraints with respect to the accommodation of diversity which differs from those faced by any other...