Social Security category: 3077 books
by Natalie Züfle
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,1, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: International Relations Online, language: English, abstract: Uncertainty has grown considerably...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Cold War profoundly transformed American society, perhaps most significantly through the development of national security institutions that are very much alive more than two decades after the end of the Cold War. The essays in this volume explore the highly charged political environment in which...
NATO and Article 5
The Transatlantic Alliance and the Twenty-First-Century Challenges of Collective Defense
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
For much of the last 25 years, NATO has focused on crisis managementin places such as Kosovo and Afghanistan,resulting in major changes to alliance strategy, resourcing,force structure, and training. Re-embracing collective defense —which lies at the heart of the Treaty of Washington’s Article...
by J. Lloyd Mecham
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Of the several regional arrangements that function within the United Nations, the most elaborate in organization and function is the Organization of American States. Although the United Nations holds the primary responsibility for preserving international peace, its charter concedes virtual autonomy...
Cases in U.S. National Security
Concepts and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Modeled after his successful Cases in International Relations, now in its seventh edition, revered author and scholar, Don Snow, presents an engaging and novel approach to national security. A series of brief case studies representing current and controversial policy problems facilitates deliberation...
Secession and Security
Explaining State Strategy against Separatists
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"The book is an excellent addition to the scholarly literature on subnational movements, both past and present, offering a range of insights to policymakers across the globe."—Ayesha Jalal, author of The Struggle for Pakistan
"With judicious use of empirical evidence and rich case studies,...
Internal Security Problems in Northeast India
Insurgency and Counter Insurgency (Insurgency And Counter Insurgency In Assam Since 1985)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In today's changing scenario, the key objective of national security is not only to protect the country from external aggression but also to maintain peace and harmony. To maintain law and order, peace and harmony, the Government should carry out the process of assimilation effectively without any...
Hydrocarbon Nation
How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Hydrocarbon Nation, Thor Hogan looks at how four technological revolutions—industrial, agricultural, transportation, and electrification—drew upon the enormous hydrocarbon wealth of the United States, transforming the young country into a nation with unparalleled economic and military potential.
Each...
Security Governance in East Africa
Pictures of Policing from the Ground
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This collection of cases from East Africa, contributed largely by locally-based authors, explores the increasing security governance phenomenon in the region: that is, the mix of state and non-state actors, including private entities, volunteer auxiliaries, homegrown vigilantes and gangs, and the...
Risk, Global Governance and Security
The Other War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
This book applies risk society theory to the 'War on Terror', steering the discussion away from the militaristic discourse of the Bush era towards an emphasis on global cooperation and a new cosmopolitan agenda.
The literature and rhetoric of the 'War on Terror' has been dominated by dramatic...
Intelligence and Security Oversight
An Annotated Bibliography and Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This book presents a comprehensive source document on intelligence and security oversight and review. It compares the oversight arrangements found in nine countries—New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and South Africa. This is done through...
Fuels Paradise
Seeking Energy Security in Europe, Japan, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In recent years, the efforts of nations to promote energy security have been hotly debated. Fuels Paradise examines how five major developed democracies—Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States—have sought to enhance their energy security since the oil shocks of the 1970s and in...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
This book argues that security and defense have never been true priorities in the European Union, and have constantly been marginalized by the elites since the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact disintegrated. Despite the official rhetoric, only a few tangible results can be presented concerning...
by David L. Altheide
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This thoughtful text demonstrates how the mass media constructs a politics of fear in the United States. Using a social interactionist perspective, the chapters examines such issues as the expansion of surveillance on the Internet, the construction of a terrorism-fighting hero to promote patriotism,...