International Security category: 2908 books
by David Malet
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Research and development in the emerging fields of biotechnology, including human enhancement and direct-effect genetic weapons, may very well change the nature of war and international politics. This biotech revolution in military affairs will offer great advantages to the United States and other...
China Turns to Multilateralism
Foreign Policy and Regional Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
China’s recent rapid economic growth has drawn global attention to its foreign policy, which increasingly has had an impact on world politics. In contrast with China’s long-standing preference for bilateralism or unilateralism in foreign policy, recent decades have seen changes in the PRC’s...
U.S. Security Cooperation with Africa
Political and Policy Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
As Africa’s strategic importance has increased over the past decade and a half, United States security cooperation with the continent has expanded. The most visible dimension of this increased engagement was the establishment of the U.S. Military Command for Africa (AFRICOM). Some critics are skeptical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This volume explores the repercussions of a changing world order on regional security in Latin America. It examines how global and regional power shifts impact on the evolution of regional institutions as well as on state policies adopted in response to regional security challenges such...
Critical Approaches to Security
An Introduction to Theories and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Focusing on critical approaches to security, this new textbook offers readers both an overview of the key theoretical perspectives and a variety of methodological techniques.
With a careful explication of core concepts in each chapter and an introduction that traces the development of...
African security in the twenty-first century
Challenges and opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book explores and analyses the evolving African security paradigm in light of the multitude of diverse threats and challenges facing the continent and the international community. It challenges current thinking and traditional security constructs as woefully inadequate to meet the real security...
Europeanization of National Security Identity
The EU and the changing security identities of the Nordic states
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
This new book tackles two key questions: 1) How is the EU functioning as a security actor? 2) How and to what extent is the EU affecting national security identities?
Focusing on the four largest Nordic states (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), this incisive study analyzes how and to what...
Securitizing Global Warming
A Climate of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book explores the reasons for a recent securitization of climate change, and reveals how the understanding of climate change as a security threat fuels resilience as a contemporary political paradigm.
Since 2007, political and public discourse has portrayed climate change in terms of international...
Japan’s Security Renaissance
New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
For decades after World War II, Japan chose to focus on soft power and economic diplomacy alongside a close alliance with the United States, eschewing a potential leadership role in regional and global security. Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since the rise of Prime Minister Shinzo...
Security Privatization
How Non-security-related Private Businesses Shape Security Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions. While PMSCs provide security for profit, most other private...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This book explores the human rights consequences of the new mercenarism, as channeled through so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs), and offers an overview of the evolution and status quo of both non-legal (soft law and self-regulation) and legal initiatives seeking to limit them....
International Security in the Asia-Pacific
Transcending ASEAN towards Transitional Polycentrism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This volume argues that international security in the Asia-Pacific lends itself to contradictory analyses of centrifugal and centripetal trends. Transitional polycentrism is intrinsically awkward as a description of the security of states and their populations; it implies the loosening of state control...
(In)Security and the Production of International Relations
The Politics of Securitisation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with traditional IR concerns about interstate relations.
What happens to foreign policymaking when actors, things or processes are presented as threats?...
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...