International Security category: 2908 books
European Security in the Twenty-First Century
The Challenge of Multipolarity
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Combining a sophisticated theoretical analysis with detailed empirical case-studies, this book provides an original view of the challenges and threats to a stable peace order in Europe.
The end of Cold War bipolarity has transformed Europe. Using structural realist theory, Adrian Hyde-Price...
NATO
From Regional to Global Security Provider
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliance’s new vision (the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact – associated tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon. The book serves as a relevant...
The National Security Enterprise
Navigating the Labyrinth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Recent breakdowns in American national security have exposed the weaknesses of the nation’s vast overlapping security and foreign policy bureaucracy and the often dysfunctional interagency process. In the literature of national security studies, however, surprisingly little attention is given to the...
by Panos Koutrakos
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Presenting the first analytical overview of the legal foundations of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), this book provides a detailed examination of the law and practice of the EU's security policy. The European Union's security and defence policy has long been the focus of political...
Globalization and Conflict
National Security in a 'New' Strategic Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
This volume highlights the gap between the new security environment and the notion of state-centred national security favoured by Washington, showing how a Cold War phenomenon known as the national security state, in which defence and foreign policy interests essentially converge, remains largely...
India's National Security
Annual Review 2015–16
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The last two years have witnessed deterioration in the global security situation characterised by increasing tensions among major powers. The threat perceptions of the US, China and Russia vis-à-vis each other have sharpened. There is stiff competition among them to dominate the strategic space in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book seeks to understand the role of regions in the provision of security (and insecurity) practices across the globe. Specialists with expertise in the regions they examine present eight case studies and analyses of the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Europe.
Discussing...
American Power and Liberal Order
A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convinced many policymakers and scholars that the United States should pull back in international affairs and that restraint should guide grand strategy. Paul D. Miller offers a tough-minded critique of this trending body of thought, arguing that US security in fact depends...
The Ethical Subject of Security
Geopolitical Reason and the Threat Against Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ and other security practices take place.
First, it argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a function of security...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
National security is pervasive in government and society, but there is little scholarly attention devoted to understanding the context, institutions, and processes the U.S. government uses to promote the general welfare. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security aims to fill this gap. Coming from...
US National Security Reform
Reassessing the National Security Act of 1947
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
This collection of essays considers the evolution of American institutions and processes for forming and implementing US national security policy, and offers diverse policy prescriptions for reform to confront an evolving and uncertain security environment.
Twelve renowned scholars and practitioners...
Nuclear Weapons and International Security
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This volume brings together more than three decades of research and writings by Professor Ramesh Thakur on the challenges posed by nuclear weapons.
Following an introduction to the current nuclear state of play, the book addresses the challenge of nuclear weapons in three parts. Part I describes...
Exporting Security
International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the US Military, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
In this thoroughly updated second edition, Derek S. Reveron provides a comprehensive analysis of the shift in US foreign policy from coercive diplomacy to cooperative military engagement. The US military does much more than fight wars; it responds to humanitarian crises and natural disasters, assists...
The New Era in U.S. National Security
An Introduction to Emerging Threats and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The New Era in U.S. National Security focuses on the emerging threats of the second decade of the twenty-first century, well after 9/11, and well into the age of globalization. It is a thorough, technically competent survey of the current arena of conflict and the competition for political and economic...