Social Security category: 3077 books
Israel Facing a New Middle East
In Search of a National Security Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The turmoil which has been rattling the Middle East in recent years has confronted Israel with fresh challenges and opportunities and requires it to rethink the three levels of its strategy and security policies: National security Strategy (sometimes referred to as Grand Strategy), National Security...
The Strategist
Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Based on the full cooperation of the subject-with no restraining conditions-The Strategist provides an in-depth portrait of a man whose career has been intimately linked to the great transformations in U.S. foreign policy, from the last third of the Cold War, to September 11, 2001, and up to the present....
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate
Covert Action and Internal Operations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
The rise of Pakistan-backed religious extremist groups in Afghanistan, India, and Central Asia has focused international attention on Pakistan’s premier intelligence organization and...
Security, Economics and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Morality
Keeping or Surrendering the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book seeks to elucidate the decisions of states that have chosen to acquire nuclear arms or inherited nuclear arsenals, and have either disarmed or elected to retain their warheads. It examines nuclear arms policy via an interconnected framework involving the eclectic use of national security...
Troubled Waters
Insecurity in the Persian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Troubled Waters looks at four dynamics in the Persian Gulf that have contributed to making the region one of the most volatile and tension-filled spots in the world. Mehran Kamrava identifies the four dynamics as: the neglect of human dimensions of security, the inherent instability involved in reliance...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
As the activities of individuals, organizations, and nations increasingly occur in cyberspace, the security of those activities is becoming a growing concern. Political, economic and military leaders must manage and reduce the level of risk associated with threats from hostile states, malevolent nonstate...
by Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This book delves into the diffuse relationship between states, citizens, and non-citizens. It explores the theoretical heritage of human security and identifies practical responses to the (re)negotiated relationships between states and citizens, responsibility and accountability. It argues that the...
by Col. Daniel M Gerstein, USA (Ret.)
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
As the world moves into the Information Age, globalization continues to alter the customary relationships among peoples, societies, and nations that evolved during the Industrial Age. Author Daniel Gerstein, however, maintains the United States still follows an Industrial Age framework for national security....
China and Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Era
A Bilateral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This manuscript examines Sino-Middle Eastern relations on a bilateral level. It highlights the depth of China’s involvement in Central Asia with each country on a five dimensional approach: security cooperation, energy security, trade relations, political relations, and cultural relations. Regarding...
by Robert Fiedler
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,1, Macquarie University, language: English, abstract: During the last decades, terrorism has become a serious threat for the national security in almost every region worldwide....
The Politics of Space Security
Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
The past five decades have witnessed often fierce international rivalry in space, but also surprising military restraint. Now, with an increasing number of countries capable of harming U.S. space assets, experts and officials have renewed a long-standing debate over the best route to space security....
by Vanessa Buth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, University of Bath (Modern Languages and European Studies), course: International Relations and International Security, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English,...
The New Power Politics
Networks and Transnational Security Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Traditional analyses of global security cannot explain the degree to which there is "governance" of important security issues -- from combatting piracy to curtailing nuclear proliferation to reducing the contributions of extractive industries to violence and conflict. They are even less able to explain...
Security, Strategy and Military Change in the 21st Century
Cross-Regional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing.
A significant shift in policy, strategy and military affairs is underway in both Asia and Europe, with the former gaining increasing...