Social Security category: 3077 books
by Zaryab Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Assessments of the costs of war generally focus on the financial, political, military, and territorial risks associated with involvement in violent conflict. Often overlooked are the human costs of war, particularly their effects on population well-being. In War and the Health of Nations, Zaryab Iqbal...
by Sopheada Phy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A-, University for Peace, language: English, abstract: Cambodia has been on its peace building effort for the sake of peace and prosperity right...
Playing the Identity Card
Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the...
by R. Bitzinger, Haris Vlavianos
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The proliferation of advanced militarily relevant technologies in the Asia-Pacific over the past few decades has been a significant, and perhaps even alarming, development. This volume addresses how such technologies may affect military capabilities and military advantage in the region.
Societal Security and Crisis Management
Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
This book studies governance capacity* and governance legitimacy *for societal security and crisis management. It highlights the importance of building organizational capacity by focusing on the coordination of public resources and underscores the relevance of legitimacy by emphasizing the importance...
The Globalization of NATO
Intervention, Security and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
This book examines NATO’s transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.
Originally, NATO bound the western allies together for the...
by Manan Dwivedi, Devaditya Chakravarty
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
The book is a latest and informative addition to the literature on South Asia with the ministrations of the great powers such as United States, with the focus being upon the notion of internal security in the region. The internal security scenario in each of the nations in South Asia has been zeroed...
Securing Japan
Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded...
NATO and Collective Defence in the 21st Century
An Assessment of the Warsaw Summit
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book presents a cutting-edge assessment of NATO's collective defence strategies in the immediate aftermath of the July 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit.
Collective defence and deterrence came back on the agenda at the 2014 Wales Summit following the Russian annexation of Crimea, and was in many...
Culture and Security
Multilateralism, Arms Control and Security Building
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A comprehensive and empirically rich set of case studies that examine the impact of socio-cultural influences on multilateral arms control and security-building processes around the world.
Small States and Hegemonic Competition in Southeast Asia
Pursuing Autonomy, Security and Development amid Great Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In the last few decades, Southeast Asia has become generally more peaceful and more prosperous, with progress in economic development, regional cooperation and integration. ASEAN in particular plays a leading role within and beyond the region in promoting multilateral cooperation in both security...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
The issues and current events of the Greater Middle East continue to hold deep implications for American geopolitical interests in the region—as they have for many decades. An ideal resource for students in undergraduate courses on the Middle East and related regions as well as students in graduate...
New Energy, New Geopolitics
Balancing Stability and Leverage
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This report evaluates the energy and geopolitical shifts that have arisen from the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States. It begins by assessing how much the unconventional energy trend has already impacted energy, geopolitics, and national security. The report then posits...
by Marco Boggero
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China’s negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria’s first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit...