Social Security category: 3077 books
Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists
Lessons from the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Guidance for maintaining national security without abandoning the rule of law and our democratic values.
In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its “global war on terrorism,” the Bush administration...
Small Arms, Crime and Conflict
Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book focuses on the use of small arms in violence and attempts by the state to govern the use and acquisition of these weapons.
It is likely that hundreds of thousands of people are killed every year as a result of armed violence – in contexts ranging from war zones to domestic violence....
by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Joan Johnson-Freese argues that the race for space weapons and the U.S. quest for exclusive or at least dominant ownership of strategic space assets have alienated the very allies that the United States needs in order to maintain its leading role in space exploration. Taking a balanced look at the...
Unmanned
Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety.
Drones, however, are only part of the problem....
by Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This report analyzes contracting for products, services, and research development by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its key components. In provides an in-depth look at trends in DHS contracting since the establishment of the agency and provides an initial picture of the impact that...
by Conrad Jaeger
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
The Internet was never conceived to be the preserve of commercial interests. It should not be a hunting ground for law enforcement. The time has come to take back control.Everything you do on the Internet – every site you visit, every image or file you download, every email or message you...
Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks
Rediscovering U.S. Counterintelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Decision makers matching wits with an adversary want intelligence—good, relevant information to help them win. Intelligence can gain these advantages through directed research and analysis, agile collection, and the timely use of guile and theft. Counterintelligence is the art and practice of defeating...
Global Forecast 2014
U.S. Security Policy at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
After a dozen years of war, the 2008 financial crisis, budgetary contraction inside government, and growing political polarization, U.S. security policy stands at a crossroads as America finds itself lacking a durable political consensus on the nation’s role in the world. In Global Forecast 2014,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
The security architecture of the Asia/Pacific region is in a profound transformation. Such changes are not without problems, which are discussed here.
by Paul Rexton Kan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Now in its sixth year, the conflict in Mexico is a mosaic of several wars occurring at once: cartels battle one another, cartels suffer violence within their own organizations, cartels fight against the Mexican state, cartels and gangs wage war against the Mexican people, and gangs combat gangs. The...
No Use
Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States...
Atomic Assistance
How "Atoms for Peace" Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Nuclear technology is dual use in nature, meaning that it can be used to produce nuclear energy or to build nuclear weapons. Despite security concerns about proliferation, the United States and other nuclear nations have regularly shared with other countries nuclear technology, materials, and knowledge...
Nonproliferation Policy and Nuclear Posture
Causes and Consequences for the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This volume examines the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies.
The real-world importance of nuclear weapons has led to the production of a voluminous scholarly literature on the causes and consequences of nuclear weapons proliferation. Missing from this...
Special Operations Forces in the 21st Century
Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book sets out the major social scientific approaches to the study of Special Operations Forces.
Despite consistent downsizing, over the past two decades the armed forces of the industrial democracies have seen a huge growth in Special Operations Forces (SOF). Through increasing numbers...