Social Security category: 3077 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This book explores the human rights consequences of the new mercenarism, as channeled through so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs), and offers an overview of the evolution and status quo of both non-legal (soft law and self-regulation) and legal initiatives seeking to limit them....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This book focuses on the Mediterranean/MENA migration crisis and explores the human security implications for migrants and refugees in this troubled region. Since the Arab uprisings of 2010/2011, the Middle East and North Africa region has experienced major political transformations and called into...
North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era
A New International Security Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This study is one of the very first to analyze North Korea and the challenges that it presents to international security and community, by looking through the prism of the first two years of the Kim Jong-un regime.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The Asia-Pacific region presents a challenge to international security in the post-Cold War era. Doubts as to the US' military commitment, concern with Japan's security aspirations, build-up of military capabilities and the nuclear ambitions of North Korea have further heightened tension.
(In)Security and the Production of International Relations
The Politics of Securitisation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book provides a framework for analysing the interplay between securitisation and foreign affairs, reconnecting critical security studies with traditional IR concerns about interstate relations.
What happens to foreign policymaking when actors, things or processes are presented as threats?...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together into one coherent volume a range of international authors, who firmly establish the relevance of war within the discipline of criminology. The chapters address emerging and prevailing issues in the criminological study of war, including state crime,...
Peacekeeping Intelligence
New Players, Extended Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This is a new evaluation of the role, dynamics and challenges of intelligence in peacekeeping activities and its place in a much wider social, economic and political context.
It assesses the role of coalition forces, law enforcement agencies, development institutions, and non-governmental organisations...
International Conflicts in Cyberspace - Battlefield of the 21st Century
Cyber Attacks at State Level, Legislation of Cyber Conflicts, Opposite Views by Different Countries on Cyber Security Control & Report on the Latest Case of Russian Hacking of Government Sectors
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Conflict in cyberspace is not a new phenomenon, but the legality of hostile cyber activity at a state level remains imperfectly defined. While the United States and its allies are in general agreement on the legal status of conflict in cyberspace, China, Russia, and a number of like-minded nations...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. Transforming U.S. Intelligence argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
As tensions between China and Japan increase, including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe a new security posture. This involves, internally, adapting Japan’s constitutional position on defence and, externally, building stronger international...
by Daniel Marshall, Terry Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book offers a comparison of the differences between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both. Beginning with the origins of the concept of privacy, before addressing more current thinking, the authors examine the notion of privacy...
EU Foreign Policy and Crisis Management Operations
Power, purpose and domestic politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This bookexplores the drivers of the EU’s recent forays into peace- and state-building operations.
Since the Union’s European (now Common) Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP) became operational in 2003, the EU has conducted more than 20 civilian and military operations that broadly...
Security at a Price
The International Politics of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This volume in the Weapons of Mass Destruction series makes the case that the United States’ expansive missile defence policy has eroded both its own security and that of its allies. These findings are based on an examination of the response of a number of key states to U.S. policy, including Russia,...
Biosecurity Dilemmas
Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of “biosecurity,” the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Biosecurity encompasses both the natural occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks and the use of biological weapons....