Social Security category: 3077 books
by Dr. Natasha Ezrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Moving beyond terror groups to examine non-state actors including warlords, gangs and private security companies, Violent Non-State Actors:
Guides you through the core theories and concepts, taking a multidisciplinary approach
Examines different explanations for the emergence of violent non-state...
by Mariya Grozdanova
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: First-class Honours, Royal Holloway, University of London, course: Terrorism and Counterterrorism, language: English, abstract: While in recent years suicide terrorism proved...
Complex Peace Operations and Civil-Military Relations
Winning the Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
This book explores the impact of different civil-military structures on operational effectiveness in complex peace operations. Recent operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are examples of grand failures to enforce peace and to promote democracy and development through international interventions....
China’s Expanding African Relations
Implications for U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Across economic, political, and security domains, the growth of China’s presence in Africa has been swift and staggering, which has fed both simplistic caricatures of China’s role on the continent and fears of renewed geopolitical competition. A closer look reveals a more balanced picture. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
At a time of geopolitical tension and mutual distrust, the United States and Russia must work together in those areas where coordination is critical to global security, both to help stabilize the relationship and to buffer against conflict in the future. The analyses in this volume examine prospects...
Improving Intelligence Analysis
Bridging the Gap between Scholarship and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis.
Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. Compared to the more established...
American Christian Support for Israel
Standing with the Chosen People, 1948–1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The dominant political theme of the State of Israel is the perpetual quest for security. In its first 25 years, Israel experienced five wars with Arab states declaring their goal to destroy Israel. In *American Christian Support for Israel:*Standing with the Chosen People, 1948–1975, Eric R. Crouse...
by James Igoe Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The cross-border sharing of intelligence is fundamental to the establishment and preservation of security and stability. The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based in part on flawed intelligence, and current efforts to defeat al Qaeda would not be possible without an exchange of information among...
Hacking the Bomb
Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber-attack? Could terrorists launch a nuclear weapon through hacking? Are we standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order? These are among the many pressing security questions addressed in Andrew Futter’s ground-breaking study of...
The Global Village Myth
Distance, War, and the Limits of Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent threats like terrorism or cyberwar. As a result, they practice responses driven by fear: theories of falling...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's...
The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy
Ensuring Access and Promoting Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Indian Ocean, with its critical routes for global commerce, is a potentially volatile location for geopolitical strife. Even as the region’s role in the international economy and as a highway to conflict zones increases, the US has failed to advance a coherent strategy for protecting its interests...
Game Changer
The Impact of 9/11 on North American Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Game Changer will be of interest to students and scholars of North American history, international relations, political science, and terrorism studies and to general readers with an interest in security, politics, or the legacy of 9/11.
To Lead the World
American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
U.S. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of democracy by force has proven disastrous. The United States now finds itself vilified abroad, weakened at home, and bogged down in a seemingly endless and...