Social Security category: 3077 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book reinforces our knowledge and understanding of the problems involved in balancing human rights protection and security concerns, considering how these human rights issues have been raised by the various international debates and policy issues which have been created by the continuing global...
NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2016
Organizing for Safety and Security in Military Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
NL ARMS 2016 offers a collection of studies on the interrelatedness of safety and security in military organizations so as to anticipate or even prepare for dire situations. The volume contains a wide spectrum of contributions on organizing for safety and security in a military context that are theoretically...
Wartime Sexual Violence
From Silence to Condemnation of a Weapon of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Reports of sexual violence in armed conflict frequently appear in political discussions and news media, presenting a stark contrast to a long history of silence and nonrecognition. Conflict-related sexual violence has transitioned rapidly from a neglected human rights issue to an unambiguous security...
Border Security
Shores of Politics, Horizons of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
What kind of a world is one in which border security is understood as necessary? How is this transforming the shores of politics? And why does this seem to preclude a horizon of political justice for those affected? Border Security responds to these questions through an interdisciplinary exploration...
High Stakes and Stakeholders
Oil Conflict and Security in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producing country. Oil generates enormous wealth but also extensive and devastating conflict in the country. High Stakes and Stakeholders critically explores the oil conflict in Nigeria, its evolution, dynamics and most significantly, the interplay and consequences...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
The new millennium has brought with it an ever-expanding range of threats to global security: from cyber attacks to blue-water piracy to provocative missile tests. Now, more than ever then, national security and prosperity depend on the safekeeping of a global system of mutually supporting networks...
American Technology Policy
Evolving Strategic Interests after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. policymakers have faced the challenge of addressing the technological requirements of both economic competitiveness and national security. Promoting the technological objectives of competitiveness and security poses a daunting task, as these objectives can differ...
Europeanisation and the Transformation of EU Security Policy
Post-Cold War Developments in the Common Security and Defence Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the end of the Cold War led to Europeanisation in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).
The analysis takes into consideration previous studies on Europeanisation and its impact on the transformation of national security and defence,...
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...
High-Table Diplomacy
The Reshaping of International Security Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The proliferation of “minilateral” summits is reshaping how international security problems are addressed, yet these summits remain a poorly understood phenomenon. In this groundbreaking work, Kjell Engelbrekt contrasts the most important minilateral summits—the G7 (formerly G8) and G20—with...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book on the security context in the Black Sea region is a timely endeavour and substantive contribution to understanding the state of play in the region and its linkages to the rest of the world. With contributions from analysts from Europe, the United States, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, the...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The tenth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Communications Sector Protection and Homeland Security is an eye-opening account and an important reference source of a complex sector.
Communications systems are the backbone for...
The EU, Strategy and Security Policy
Regional and Strategic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU’s efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions.
Despite a special European Council summit in December 2013 on defence, it is generally acknowledged that fifteen years since its inception the EU’s...