Social Security category: 3077 books
by Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University of People's Liberation Army
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
The international strategic relations have been undergoing great turbulence, readjustment and reformation since the financial crisis in 2008. This round of transition is mainly driven by economic competition instead of wars. International competition, crises and collisions will ebb and flow and happen...
American National Security Policy
Authorities, Institutions, and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Security policy is a key factor not only of domestic politics in the U.S., but also of foreign relations and global security. This text sets to explain the process of security policy making in the United States by looking at all the elements that shape it, from institutions and legislation to policymakers...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The seventh of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Transportation Protection and Homeland Security is a valuable reference source. The book was fashioned in response to the critical needs of transportation production managers, transportation...
by Christopher S. Browning
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, and international...
U.S.-India Homeland Security Cooperation
Building a Lasting Partnership via Transportation Sector Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
India’s growing strategic importance, coupled with the gaps in its homeland security enterprise, provides an opportunity to extend its partnership with the United States and become a key partner in ensuring stability and security in Asia. Extending the U.S.-India partnership to homeland security...
A Global Security Triangle
European, African and Asian interaction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations.
The urgency attached to the agenda of international terrorism and human and drugs- trafficking has forced the European Union...
Gender, Peace and Security
Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This volume explores the implementation of key gender policies in international peace and security, following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325 in October 2000, the first thematic resolution on Women, Peace and Security.
How should we understand women’s participation in...
Asia-Pacific Security
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This new textbook gathers an international roster of top security studies scholars to provide an overview of Asia-Pacific’s international relations and pressing contemporary security issues. It is a suitable introduction for undergraduate and masters students' use in international relations and security...
Securing Development
Public Finance and the Security Sector
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Securing Development: Public Finance and the Security Sector highlights the role of public finance in the delivery of security and criminal justice services. This book offers a framework for analyzing public financial management, financial transparency, and oversight, as well as expenditure policy issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This book explores the various dimensions of energy security in Asia – which has become an increasingly important geopolitical issue. Reputable international contributors look at the roles played by each of the major energy importers: the United States, China, Japan and India, as well as the main...
Chinese Security Policy
Structure, Power and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
This volume provides a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Chinese security policy, comprising essays written by one of America's leading scholars.
Chinese Security Policy covers such fundamental areas as the role of international structure in state behavior, the use of force in international...
The European Union and Human Security
External Interventions and Missions
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This edited book examines European external interventions in human security, in order to illustrate the evolution and nature of the European Union as a global political actor.
In 2003, the EU deployed its first external mission under the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) with a military...
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...
Gulf Security and the U.S. Military
Regime Survival and the Politics of Basing
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
The U.S. military maintains a significant presence across the Arabian Peninsula but it must now confront a new and emerging dynamic as most Gulf Cooperation Council countries have begun to diversify their political, economic, and security partnerships with countries other than the United States—with...