Social Security category: 3077 books
Extremism, Radicalization and Security
An Identity Theory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This book provides a detailed application of identity theory to contemporary questions of extremism, radicalization and security. The analysis considers how identity forms a central aspect of notions of extremism and security in Western societies, as articulated both by political leaders, the media...
Homeland Security and Criminal Justice
Five Years After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
No event has shaped international events of recent years more than the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Tragically, less than four years later, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. In less than five years, the United States has experienced its worst terrorist attack and worst natural...
The Failure Factory
How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The U.S. government is in crisis.
With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book,...
Civil Militia
Africa's Intractable Security Menace?
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume critically engages with the phenomenon of civil militias in Africa, especially the nature of threats and challenges they pose to national and human security. It questions why the African political scene is increasingly inundated with the activities of civil militias, examines the socio-political...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
As technology continues to advance, the threats imposed on these innovations also continue to grow and evolve. As such, law enforcement specialists diligently work to counteract these threats, promote national safety, and defend the individual rights of citizens. National Security and Counterintelligence...
Intelligence Security in the European Union
Building a Strategic Intelligence Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book investigates the emergence of an EU strategic intelligence community as a complex multi-dimensional networked construction. It examines the constitution, structure and performance of EU intelligence arrangements as part of security policies of the European Union.
Intelligence security...
by Peter Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The purpose of this book is to introduce the security officer to the elements of “Domestic Terrorism”, which is a growing threat in the United States of America. Since the terrible infliction of harm during 911, most Americans have been confronted with the reality of what terrorism means and its...
Understanding Cybersecurity
Emerging Governance and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Over the last decade, the internet and cyber space has had a phenomenal impact on all parts of society, from media and politics to defense and war. Governments around the globe have started to develop cyber security strategies, governance and operations to consider cyberspace as an increasingly important...
by Ryan K. Baggett, Brian K. Simpkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
A compelling overview of the systems and strategies that have been implemented to safeguard U.S. resources from a plethora of threats, the vulnerabilities and security gaps in these infrastructure systems, and options to enable the future security of the homeland.
• Provides a timely, relevant...
by Matthew Sussex
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Much scholarly attention has been paid to the United States' response to the events of 9/11. This timely volume broadens our understanding of the impact of the attacks by considering instead their consequences for European security and for the relationship between the US and leading European states....
The Paradox of our National Security Complex
How Secrecy and Security Diminish Our Liberty and Threaten Our Democratic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Most Americans live very hectic lives and have little time to devote to reading lengthy tomes on a single subject, never mind researching these matters. Here, in a single volume, Richard Otto presents a series of compelling essays on Vietnam, Watergate and the assassinations of the 1960s. The Paradox...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
The sixth of a new, well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Dam Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise U.S. project designers, engineers, managers, superintendents and supervisors of dams, navigation...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military—suggesting that a nationalistic and increasingly influential...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies provides a detailed exploration of security dynamics in the three distinct subregions that comprise Asia, and also bridges the study of these regions by exploring the geopolitical links between each of them.
The Handbook is divided into four...