Social Security category: 3077 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
While, over the last 30 years, the global economy's center of gravity has shifted to East Asia, the region has remained surprisingly free of interstate military conflict. Yet this era of peace and growth has been punctuated by periodic reminders of enduring security problems in the region—from China's...
Africa in the New World Order
Peace and Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book examines the role of the emerging African nations in the new international order of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, little significance has been placed on the African continent in the security and political considerations of the Western world. However, post-9/11...
International Relations Theory and European Security
We Thought We Knew
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book engages with key contemporary European security issues from a variety of different theoretical standpoints, in an attempt to uncover the drivers of foreign policy and defence integration in the EU.
Although European foreign policy has been attracting an ever-increasing number of International...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studies—strategic culture—illuminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific region’s difficult issues, from the rise of China and the American pivot, to the shifting calculations of many other actors. Strategic culture...
by Nora Görne
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A-, Utrecht University (Roosevelt Academy), course: Security in the Post-Cold War Era, language: English, abstract: Rare earth metals are chemical elements which...
by Nassef M. Adiong
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A+, Technological University of the Philippines (International Studies), course: for college papers, 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
NATO, Civilisation and Individuals
The Unconscious Dimension of International Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book critically engages with NATO’s two main referent objects of security: civilisation and individuals. By rethinking the seemingly natural assumption of these two referent objects, it suggests the epistemological importance of an unconscious dimension to understand meaning formation and behaviour...
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...
Peace, Security and Defence Cooperation in Post-Brexit Europe
Risks and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Highlighting the challenges and prospects of European security cooperation, this volume examines the impact of Brexit on strategic aspects of security, peace, defence and foreign policy for both the European Union and the UK. It applies theoretical and methodological approaches from international...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Featuring an outstanding international line-up of contributors, this edited volume offers a timely examination of two of the most crucial and controversial issues in international relations, namely the evolution of particular concepts of multilateralism and whether international security institutions...
The Science and Technology of Counterterrorism
Measuring Physical and Electronic Security Risk
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Scientists with little or no background in security and security professionals with little or no background in science and technology often have difficulty communicating in order to implement the best counterterrorism strategies. The Science and Technology of Counterterrorism offers the necessary...
Justice and Security Reform
Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Justice and Security Reform: Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone undertakes a deep contextual analysis of the reform of the country’s security and justice sectors since the end of the civil war in 2002. Arguing that the political and bureaucratic nature of development...
The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy
Learning Communities in International Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book accounts for transformations in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)during fifteen years of operations (2001-2016), and argues that the EU evolved into a softer and more civilian security provider, rather than a military one. This learning process was driven by transnational...
by Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University of People's Liberation Army
China
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In 2016, economic globalization suffered a severe crisis after over half a century of smooth development, and deglobalization was running mountains high. Not only did it trigger domestic political discord in major countries like the United States, Britain, France and Germany, but also led to international...