Social Security category: 3077 books
Global Biosecurity
Threats and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases,...
Ukraine after Maidan
Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
When public protests first began in Ukraine at the end of 2013, the failed promise of the Orange Revolution was still fresh in the minds of many Ukrainians. However, unlike in the aftermath of 2004-2005, the political and military crises ignited by the Euromaidan brought profound changes not only...
Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
China's continuing rapid economic growth and expanding involvement in global affairs pose major implications for the power structure of the international system. To more accurately and fully assess the significance of China's emergence for the United States and the global community, it is necessary...
New Security Threats and Crises in Africa
Regional and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This book is a multidisciplinary approach to Africa's international relations in an era of globalization and the shifting of power from the West. It moves beyond colonization, marginalization, imperialism to look at the forces and dynamics that are reshaping Africa's external relations today.
by Dr. Vijay Sakhuja, Dr. Kapil Narula
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive view of the maritime safety and security challenges in countries of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). Various issues such as trans-national crime including piracy, terrorism, drug and arms smuggling; Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) and...
Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism
Liberty, Security and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book is an analysis and critique of the concepts of ‘exception’ and ‘exceptionalism’ in the context of the politics of liberty and security in the so-called ‘War on Terror’.
Since the destruction of the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001, a notable transformation has...
American Biodefense
How Dangerous Ideas about Biological Weapons Shape National Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending...
The Global Illusion of Citizen Protection
Transnational Threats and Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today. This text helps students understand a central puzzle in human security, which has two distinct components: (1) although it might be reasonable to assume that political leaders’ threat responses would almost...
European Recovery and the Search for Western Security, 1946-1948
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This volume documents the British Government’s response from mid-1946 to early 1948 to the twin challenges of economic recovery and the search for a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence.
Although...
Social Networks, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
Radical and Connected
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This book examines two key themes in terrorism studies, the radicalization process and counter-terrorism policies, through the lens of social networks.
The book aims to show that networks should be at the forefront not only when analysing terrorists, but also when assessing the responses to...
Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy
The strategic use of a concept
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book examines the use of concepts – specifically ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD) – in US foreign policy discourse.
Current analysis of WMD definition has made headway into identifying the repercussions that the conceptual conflation of such diverse weapons – typically understood...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Technology provides numerous opportunities for positive developments in modern society; however, these venues inevitably increase vulnerability to threats in online environments. Addressing issues of security in the cyber realm is increasingly relevant and critical to society. Threat Mitigation and Detection...
European Military Culture and Security Governance
Soldiers, Scholars and National Defence Universities
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of military education and training in Europe within the context of the post-Cold War security environment.
Based on an analysis of military education institutions in the UK, Germany, Finland, Romania and the Baltic States, this book...
Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security
Safeguarding the Responsibility to Protect
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the international community is increasingly called upon to...