Social Security category: 3077 books
by James A. Lewis, Denise E. Zheng, William A. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
The Internet has become central to global economic activity, politics, and security, and the security environment has changed recently, as we face much more aggressive state actors in espionage. Terrorists and criminals find creative ways to leverage the latest technologies to evade security and privacy...
The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security
Domestic and International Ramifications
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This volume analyzes the political, economic and strategic dimensions of the recent upheavals in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring.
Mass demonstrations in many Arab states challenged the political status quo and the existing political and cultural system in the region. While it is too...
by Cynthia A. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: A Guide to the Issues puts the people, places, and events crucial to nation-building and security operations through U.S. experiences under the microscope. This book focuses on the period after the Cold War, when U.S. operations...
Understanding Complex Military Operations
A case study approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations.
Today, America faces security challenges unlike any it has faced before, many of which requiring lengthy U.S. involvement in stability operations. These...
by Zachary Abuza
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia presents a penetrating new investigation of religious radicalism in the largest Muslim country in the world.
Indonesia is a country long known for its diversity and tolerant brand of Islam. However, since the fall of Suharto, a more intolerant form...
Analyzing Intelligence
National Security Practitioners' Perspectives, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioners point of view. The contributors—most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community—review the evolution of the...
Absorptive Capacity in the Security and Justice Sectors
Assessing Obstacles to Success in the Donor-Recipient Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
In development, stabilization, and peace building, donors increasingly recognize the importance of being sensitive to the local contexts of their efforts. Yet the use of “blueprints” remains widespread. Even when standard approaches are modified for particular aid partners, there often remains...
Beyond Snowden
Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass Surveillance
America’s mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration’s own reforms have also helped...
Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy and Cyber-Defense
Challenges, Opportunities and Implications for Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
In this volume, contributors from academia, industry, and policy explore the inter-connections among economic development, socio-political democracy and defense and security in the context of a profound transformation, spurred by globalization and supported by the rapid development of information...
by Kathryn Marie Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Counterterrorism laws and policies have become a normalized fixture of security agendas across the globe. How do 'us/them' identity constructions contribute to the legitimizing strategies surrounding this development? The British case provides a historically-situated illustration which is of ongoing significance for security and insecurity today.
by Steven Metz
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Today the U.S. military is more nimble, mobile, and focused on rapid responses against smaller powers than ever before. One could argue that the Gulf War and the postwar standoff with Saddam Hussein hastened needed military transformation and strategic reassessments in the post–Cold War era. But the...
Policing Politics
Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Numerous allegations of abuse of power have been made against the domestic security intelligence agencies in the United Kingdom such as police special branches and MI5. These include the improper surveillance of trade unionists and peace activists, campaigns of mis-information against elected politicians...
Handbook of Defense Economics
Defense in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
The second volume of the Handbook of Defense Economics addresses defense needs, practices, threats, and policies in the modern era of globalization. This new era concerns the enhanced cross-border flows of all kinds (e.g., capital and labor flows, revolutionary rhetoric, guerrillas, and terrorists)...
Charting Transformation through Security
Contemporary EU-Africa Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
This book analyses security cooperation in the domain of inter-regionalism, addressing the emergence of the African Union as a regional actor and its impact on EU-Africa relations. It explores the transformative potential of security cooperation for equality, partnership and local ownership in EU-Africa relations.