Social Security category: 3077 books
by Kathleen H. Hicks, Zack Cooper, Michael J. Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This report is the first regional study in the CSIS Federated Defense series. The Federated Defense Project aims to shift the paradigm with key allies and partners from capacity building to a federated approach that would expand regional security and prosperity by joining regional allies and partners...
The Supply Side of Security
A Market Theory of Military Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services. At the international level, the market for these contracts is shaped by how many countries can supply security.
Tongfi Kim identifies the supply of policy concessions and military commitments...
Future Security of the Global Arctic
State Policy, Economic Security and Climate
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In the globalized Arctic there has been a transformation from military security to human security. Climate change, the utilization of Arctic resources and other global challenges have caused the Arctic 'paradox' and a need to redefine security.
No Place for Russia
European Security Institutions Since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The optimistic vision of a “Europe whole and free” after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has given way to disillusionment, bitterness, and renewed hostility between Russia and the West. In No Place for Russia, William H. Hill traces the development of the post–Cold War European security...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This book reveals how the idea of human security, combined with other human-centric norms, has been embraced, criticized, modified and diffused in East Asia (ASEAN Plus Three). Once we zoom in to the regional space of East Asia, we can see a kaleidoscopic diversity of human security stakeholders and...
Stealing Your Life
The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The charismatic forger immortalized in Catch Me If You Can exposes the astonishing tactics of today’s identity theft criminals and offers powerful strategies to thwart them based on his second career as an acclaimed fraud-fighting consultant.
When Frank Abagnale trains law enforcement officers...
The Threatened Net
How the Web Became a Perilous Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The Internet can appear to be elegantly designed, but as The Washington Post’s Craig Timberg demonstrated in his illuminating series “Net of Insecurity,” the network is much more an assemblage of kludges—more Frankenstein than Ferrari—that endure because they work, or at least work well enough....
by John W. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
A guide for facility managers of varying types of facilities including, apartment buildings/complexes, office buildings, retail stores, educational facilities (schools), restaurants, and countless others. It will look specifically at the physical similarities inherent in all buildings/facilities and...
Security Sector Reform in Southeast Asia
From Policy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Successful reform of the security sector has been regarded as pivotal for a successful transition from authoritarianism to democracy by Western donors. A global cast of contributors examines SSR in a variety of policy fields in Southeast Asia, paying specific attention to the adaption of 'Western' reform concepts by local actors.
Militarism and International Relations
Political Economy, Security, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies.
Militarism – understood as the social and international relations of the preparation for, and conduct of, organized political violence...
by Chidiebere C. Ogbonna
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Scientific Study from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 10, University of Jaume I (UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace, Jaume I University, Spain), course: Master of Philosophy in Peace, Conflict and Development, language:...
NATO and the Middle East
The Geopolitical Context Post-9/11
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Despite having been active in the region since the mid-1990s, the role of NATO in the Middle East has attracted particular attention since the events of 11th September 2001. This book analyses the limits of NATO’s role in the Middle East region and examines whether or not the Alliance is able to...
Private Military and Security Contractors
Controlling the Corporate Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Private Military and Security Contractors (PMSCs) a multinational team of scholars and experts address a developing phenomenon: controlling the use of privatized force by states in international politics. Robust analyses of the evolving, multi-layered tapestry of formal and informal mechanisms of...
The Sovereignty Solution
A Common Sense Approach to Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Sovereignty Solution is not an Establishment national security strategy. Instead, it describes what the U.S. could actually do to restore order to the world without having to engage in either global policing or nation-building. Currently there is no coherent plan that addresses questions like: If...