Social Security category: 3077 books
Beyond Realism
Human Security in India and Pakistan in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
As the world is changing, many scholars, analysts, and policy makers agree that even as governments need to confront external threats, creating sustainable domestic environments is imperative as a policy priority. As events surrounding September 11, 2001 continue to remind us, marginalized sections...
The Indo Pacific Region
Security Dynamics and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Asia’s diversity in culture, ethnicity, religions, ideology, environment, history, economy and systems of governance is without parallel. Consequently, conflict is endemic. Going hand in hand with conflict is multi-faceted competition. At one level, it is for resources: the emerging economies of...
Inter-organizational Relations in International Security
Cooperation and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book examines the politics of the relationships between multilateral organizations that have come to play a major role in contemporary efforts to manage international security.
Drawing on concepts developed in Organizational Studies, the book starts from the assumption that inter-organizational...
by Francis Maiava
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 84% (A), , course: Masters in International Security Studies with an Endorsement in Intelligence, language: English, abstract: Major historical developments continued to...
by Netra Bahadur Karki
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1, , course: Masters Degree in Strategic Studies, language: English, abstract: In this study, descriptive research design was used to find out the refugee influx...
International Security in the Asia-Pacific
Transcending ASEAN towards Transitional Polycentrism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This volume argues that international security in the Asia-Pacific lends itself to contradictory analyses of centrifugal and centripetal trends. Transitional polycentrism is intrinsically awkward as a description of the security of states and their populations; it implies the loosening of state control...
by Richard Weitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Global Security Watch—China presents a comprehensive overview of the main foreign and defense policies of the People's Republic of China, emphasizing the political-military developments in the modern era since the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident. It provides a historical overview in the first chapter,...
Piracy in Southeast Asia
Trends, Hot Spots and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book combines multi-disciplinary ethnographic and theoretical approaches to examine piracy in Southeast Asia and the regional and international responses to this threat.
During the piracy boom of the early to mid-2000s, the issue of piracy in Southeast Asia received substantial academic...
The Afghan War in 2013: Meeting the Challenges of Transition
Afghan Economics and Outside Aid
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges, and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance, corruption, development, security,...
by David Barling
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Advances in Food Security and Sustainability takes a scientific look at the challenges, constraints, and solutions necessary to maintain a healthy and accessible food supply in different communities around the world. The series addresses a wide range of issues related to the principles and practices...
Regulating Global Security
Insights from Conventional and Unconventional Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
This edited collection presents an innovative approach to global security regimes. Employing both conceptual and empirical studies, the volume examines three empirically-oriented sets of cases: weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian disarmament and unconventional threats. The book combines...
Think Tanks and Non-Traditional Security
Governance Entrepreneurs in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Asian security institutions have struggled to adapt to the so-called 'non-traditional' security issues that characterise the strategic landscape of the 21st century. The resulting gaps in governance have increasingly been filled by think tanks, which have arguably begun to change the way that Asian security is governed.
The Western European Union
International Politics Between Alliance and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This full-term study of the Western European Union (WEU) brings to life the history of Europe’s search for a co-operative security and defence order, from its post World War II origins to the present day. Establishing the WEU as a support organization, designed to promote the two security "ideas"...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Technological advances, although beneficial and progressive, can lead to vulnerabilities in system networks and security. While researchers attempt to find solutions, negative uses of technology continue to create new security threats to users. New Threats and Countermeasures in Digital Crime and...