Social Security category: 3077 books
by Bruce M. Bagley, Marten Brienen, Alejandro Chanona
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
In light of the rapid fluctuations in oil prices and subsequent impact on the stability and economic perspectives of energy producing and energy importing states in the Western Hemisphere, this book stresses the urgency to integrate sustainability at the very core of national energy security strategies....
Zion's Dilemmas
How Israel Makes National Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In Zion's Dilemmas, a former deputy national security adviser to the State of Israel details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies in the making of Israeli national security policy. Chuck Freilich identifies profound, ongoing problems that he ascribes to a series of factors: a hostile...
by Alex Ovsienko
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2.0, University of Hamburg (Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät), course: Law of War in International Conflict, language: English, abstract: In this paper I am going...
Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism
Challenges, Trends and Priorities
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This book comprises an authoritative and accessible edited collection of chapters of substantial practical and operational value. For the very first time, it provides security practitioners with a trusted reference and resource designed to guide them through the complexities and operational challenges...
The War on Leakers
National Security and American Democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii-but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly...
"Lost" Causes
Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Why do some issues and threats—diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations—get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to Charli Carpenter,...
Mechanistic Realism and US Foreign Policy
A New Framework for Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy decision-making.
Typically, realism discounts the role of individuals and uses states as the unit of analysis. By examining instead the mental...
Securitization and the Iraq War
The rules of engagement in world politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book critiques the conceptualization of security found in mainstream and critical theoretical debates, and applies this to the empirical case of the 2003 Iraq War.
The Iraq War represents one of the most puzzling, complex, and controversial events in the post-Cold War era. The manner in...
War, Ethics and Justice
New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world.
There is a lively debate in contemporary international relations concerning the relationship between statist obligations to one’s own political community and cosmopolitan duties...
by Nicole Goldin
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The Youth, Prosperity, and Security Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in partnership with the International Youth Foundation (IYF), has developed a groundbreaking Global Youth Wellbeing Index, to elevate distinct young people’s issues and comparative status...
Perspectives on Security and Strategic Stability
A Track 2 Dialogue with the Baltic States and Poland
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This study presents the outcome of a Track II dialogue among civil society leaders, security experts, academics, and government representatives from across the Baltic States, Poland, and the United States who came together to discuss the shared threats and challenges facing NATO’s eastern flank...
Star Spangled Security
Applying Lessons Learned over Six Decades Safeguarding America
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Harold Brown served as U.S. secretary of defense when the Soviet Union posed an existential threat with superior conventional force capability and a daunting nuclear weapons arsenal. No one could have been better suited to deter the Soviets during that most dangerous period in the Cold War.
A...
by Richard L. Kugler; Hans Binnendijk
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
What is the current state of the global security system, and where is it headed? What challenges and opportunities do we face, and what dangers are emerging? How will various regions of the world be affected? How can the United States best act to help shape the future while protecting its security, interests,...
Developing the Mekong
Regionalism and Regional Security in China–Southeast Asian Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In Southeast Asia, China’s growing economic and political strength has been accompanied by adept diplomacy and active promotion of regional cooperation, institutions and integration. Southeast Asian states and China engage in ‘strategic regionalism’: they seek regional membership for regime...