Social Security category: 3077 books
EU-US Cooperation on Internal Security
Building a Transatlantic Regime
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book analyses the cooperation between the European Union and the United States on internal security and counter-terrorism since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In particular, four areas of cooperation are examined: customs and supply chain security; judicial cooperation (the mutual legal assistance...
by Emmanuel David Togba
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 68, Coventry University, course: Terrorism, International Crimes and Global Security, language: English, abstract: Community policing is a new phenomenon widely...
Mercenaries, Hybrid Armies and National Security
Private Soldiers and the State in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book assesses the use of ‘mercenaries’ by states, and their integration into the national armed forces as part of a new hybridisation trend of contemporary armies.
Governments, especially in the West, are undertaking an unprecedented wave of demilitarisation and military budget cuts....
Poland's Security Policy
The West, Russia, and the Changing International Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book examines how the changing post-Cold War order affected Poland’s security policy and particularly how the West’s weakening position and Russia’s revisionist policy reinforced the traditional view of security in Poland. It addresses the reasons why Poland, a middle power in Central Europe,...
International Organizations and The Rise of ISIL
Global Responses to Human Security Threats
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book seeks to understand the obligations of the international community to promote and protect state and human security in situations of international humanitarian crises.
In Iraq and Syria, as well as in neighbouring states, the rise of ISIL has raised serious state and human security...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Now updated and expanded for its second edition, this book investigates the role intelligence plays in maintaining homeland security and emphasizes that effective intelligence collection and analysis are central to reliable homeland security.
• Addresses the most recent changes in homeland...
by Amit Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
India is poised to join the major nations of the world as one of the next superpowers in the multi-polar, 21st-century world. At the same time, it still faces significant domestic problems such as widespread poverty and public health issues, and faces considerable security threats posed by China and...
Forward Engagement
RSIS as a Think Tank of International Studies and Security in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
In many ways, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) is a microcosm of the Singapore brand of government. The DNA of Singapore's policymaking is its forward-looking nature. S. Rajaratnam's trademark is taking the long view while Lee Kuan Yew articulated his wish for leadership foresight...
Geopolitics, Security and Bilateral Relations
Perspectives from India and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
India-South Korea bilateral relations achieved a critical landmark with the upgrade of a fast growing relationship to a ‘Strategic Partnership’. As a timely initiative intended to contribute to the process of this upgrade, two premier strategic think tanks, namely the United Services Institution...
Security Integration in Europe
How Knowledge-based Networks Are Transforming the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
At a time when many observers question the EU’s ability to achieve integration of any significance, and indeed Europeans themselves appear disillusioned, Mai’a K. Davis Cross argues that the EU has made remarkable advances in security integration, in both its external and internal dimensions....
The European Union as an Actor in Security Sector Reform
Current Practices and Challenges of Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book critically analyzes the European Union’s role in Security Sector Reform (SSR), a topical issue with regards to European security. While the literature on SSR has increased significantly in the past decade, too little remain in the way of comparative analyses of SSR case studies that are...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This book takes up a wide variety of human security challenges beyond the dimension of human conflict, and looks at both natural and human disasters that the East Asian region faces or is attempting to resolve. While discussing various human security issues, the case studies offer practical lessons...
Great Powers and Strategic Stability in the 21st Century
Competing Visions of World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book addresses the issue of grand strategic stability in the 21st century, and examines the role of the key centres of global power - US, EU, Russia, China and India - in managing contemporary strategic threats.
This edited volume examines the cooperative and conflictual capacity of Great...
by Michael C. LeMay
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Homeland Security: A Reference Handbook covers the precursor events and laws from 1965 to 2000 that set the stage for the 2002 law that established the Department of Homeland Security. It identifies and discusses a dozen problems associated with homeland security policy objectively, allowing readers...