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Lessons learned - The UN's sanctions policy on Iraq from 1990 to 2003 and its implications for the future
The UN's sanctions policy on Iraq from 1990 to 2003 and its implications for the future
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, University of Marburg (Zentrum für Konfliktforschung), course: Seminar, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Golf-Crisis in August...
New Energy, New Geopolitics
Background Report 2: Geopolitical and National Security Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The second background report in the New Energy, New Geopolitics series, this report evaluates the geopolitical and national security impacts of the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States. It examines how the unconventional energy trend has already...
Principled Spying
The Ethics of Secret Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy. Principled Spying explores how to strike a balance between necessary intelligence activities and protecting...
The Polythink Syndrome
U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of conflicts? The leading concept of group dynamics, groupthink, offers one explanation: policy-making groups make sub-optimal decisions due to their desire for...
by Christina Perkins, Erin Nealer
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The Northern Triangle of Latin America, consisting of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, has experienced overwhelming challenges to economic growth and development. Gang violence is the root of many of these challenges, and the cost of hiring security forces for individuals and businesses creates...
A Dangerous World?
Threat Perception and U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In 2013, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey stated that the world is “more dangerous than it has ever been.” Is this accurate? Do we live in a world that is uniquely dangerous? Is it possible that the many threats and dangers promoted by policymakers and the media are exaggerated...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders—trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. From Edward Snowden to the Fort Hood shooter to the theft of nuclear materials, the threat from insiders is on the front page and...
Strategic Intelligence–Community Security Partnerships
Molding Partnerships in Conflict-Prone Regions
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book examines the need to bridge strategic intelligence and community collaboration. It explores intelligence collection, analysis, and operations as they relate to conflicts that can be solved through community collaboration. Its argument sits at the nexus of intelligence collection, operations...
Tower of Babble
How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
A United Nations insider exposes how anti-American and antidemocratic forces have hijacked the UN and put America and its allies at risk
Politicians and pundits are imploring the United States to give the UN a major role in American foreign policy. But as bestselling author Dore Gold reveals...
George W. Bush's Foreign Policies
Principles and Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book offers a fresh assessment of George W. Bush’s foreign policies.
It is not designed to offer an evaluation of the totality of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. Instead, the analysis will focus on the key aspects of his foreign and security policy record, in each case considering...
Making Threats
Biofears and Environmental Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses,...
Security in Shared Neighbourhoods
Foreign Policy of Russia, Turkey and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
This edited volume addresses the foreign policy approaches demonstrated by the European Union (EU), Russia and Turkey towards their shared neighbourhood. These three geopolitical players promote active foreign and security policies towards the Black and Caspian Seas, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and determine stability in these regions.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars.
Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Whereas security studies has...
Afghanistan's Local War
Building Local Defense Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
In Afghanistan, local communities have played a critical role in security, especially in rural areas. Afghan national security forces are important to the top-down strategy, but the Afghan government and NATO forces also need to leverage local communities to gain a complementary bottom-up strategy....