Social Security category: 3077 books
America the Vulnerable
Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Now available in a new edition entitled GLASS HOUSES: Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World.
A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America's next great battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that identifies...
America: Our Next Chapter
Tough Questions, Straight Answers
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Senator Chuck Hagel has long been admired by his colleagues on both sides of the Senate floor for his honesty, integrity, and common-sense approach to the challenges of our times. The Los Angeles Times has praised his "bold positions on foreign policy and national security" and wondered,...
by Clifford Stoll
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would...
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism
Containing and Preventing Biological Threats
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, Second Edition, takes a holistic approach to biosecurity, with coverage of pathogens, prevention, and response methodology. It addresses these hazards in the context of vulnerability assessments and the planning strategies government and industry can use to prepare for...
The United States and the Atlantic Community
Issues and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The restiveness among some members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as to its structure and functions was an indication not of the failure of NATO, but of a need for a new adjustment to the changes that had developed in world conditions since the organization was established. Such was the...
The Arab-U.S. Strategic Partnership and the Changing Security Balance in the Gulf
Joint and Asymmetric Warfare, Missiles and Missile Defense, Civil War and Non-State Actors, and Outside Powers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The ongoing confrontation with Iran, the war against ISIL, the instability in Iraq, the Civil war in Syria, and the conflict in Yemen have all caused major changes in the security situation in the Persian Gulf and in the regional military balance. The strategic partnership between Arab Gulf states,...
Failures of Imagination
The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
From the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, a gripping look at the most dangerous and unexpected threats to our national security—and the actions needed to protect us.
America’s inability to foresee the September 11, 2001 attacks was deemed a collective...
Democracy in the Dark
The Seduction of Government Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in” (The Washington Post**).**
From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured...
Sinai
Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt's rugged Sinai Peninsula has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords, yet its internal politics and security have remained largely under media blackout. While the international press descended on the capital Cairo in...
North Korean Foreign Policy
Security Dilemma and Succession
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
North Korean Foreign Policy: Security Dilemma and Succession, by Yongho Kim, starts from the point of view that North Korea's provocations have been motivated more by fear than by her in-born provocative nature. Kim argues that North Korea's provocative foreign policy reflects its threat perception...
The Long War
A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the alarms, emergencies, controversies, and confusions that have characterized America's Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's "Global War on Terror." This "Long...
Storming the Wall
Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Immigration and borders continues to be a major issue in the national and international news cycle and Todd Miller's print history ranging from his feature in the New York Times Magazine to Border Patrol Nation position him to address this. As people are displaced from the coast, they being to "challenge"...
Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly...
Creeping Failure
How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and even pay...