Social Security category: 3077 books
Bilateral Perspectives on Regional Security
Australia, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book assesses the key factors underlying such Australian-Japanese cooperation and those policy challenges that could impede it. Experts offer critical insights into why their two countries – traditionally the two key 'spokes' in the US bilateral alliance network spanning Asia – are moving toward a security relationship in their own right.
by Amr Yossef, Joseph Cerami
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In this study, which highlights a renewed emphasis in international affairs on regional studies, the co-authors provide an assessment of the revolutionary changes in the politics and security of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
While America Sleeps
Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In While England Slept Winston Churchill revealed in 1938 how the inadequacy of Britain's military forces to cope with worldwide responsibilities in a peaceful but tense era crippled its ability to deter or even adequately prepare for World War II.
In While America Sleeps, historians Donald...
by Sarah Percy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The under-regulation of the private security industry has increasingly become a topic of media and academic interest. This Adelphi Paper enters the debate by explaining why the industry requires further regulation, and what is wrong with the current system. It begins by briefly defining the industry...
Israel under Siege
The Politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Raffaella A. Del Sarto examines the creation of Israel's neo-revisionist consensus about security threats and regional order, which took hold of Israeli politics and society after 2000 and persists today. The failed Oslo peace process and the trauma of the Second Palestinian Intifada triggered this shift...
Security Versus Freedom?
A Challenge for Europe's Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
From the viewpoint of migration and asylum policy and the fight against terrorism, justice and home affairs is a key policy area. It is also an area that raises important challenges and questions with regard to the preservation of fundamental freedoms. This engaging volume examines the emerging European...
Normalizing Japan
Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take, by considering how policy has evolved since World War II, and what factors shaped this evolution. It argues that Japanese security policy has not changed as much in recent years as...
Japan in a Dynamic Asia
Coping with the New Security Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Japan in a Dynamic Asia examines a new phenomenon in Japanese foreign policy: Japan's increasing activism under the Koizumi administration. Behind this policy shift are the end of the Cold War, drastic growth of China, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and new transnational security threats....
The Middle East, Oil, and the U.S. National Security Policy
Intractable Conflicts, Impossible Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Three interrelated subject areas are at the heart of the current foreign and national security dilemma. One is the Middle East, which has been the epicenter of most U.S. policy activity for over a third of a century. The second is energy policy, particularly as it is affected by the development and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book discusses how Europe’s Roma minorities have often been perceived as a threat to majority cultures and societies. Frequently, the Roma have become the target of nationalism, extremism, and racism. At the same time, they have been approached in terms of human rights and become the focus...
by Sharon Squassoni, Stephanie Cooke, Robert Kim
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
As part of the global Governing Uranium Project headed by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzed U.S. experiences with the security of its “front-end” uranium industry. This report examines current U.S. regulation...
Byting BackA-Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents
RAND Counterinsurgency StudyA-Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being used advantageously by insurgents. Because insurgency and counterinsurgency involve a battle for the allegiance of a population between a government...
UN Peace Operations
Lessons from Haiti, 1994-2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book assesses the UN Peace Operations in Haiti and establishes what lessons should be taken into account for future operations elsewhere.
Specifically, the book examines the UN’s approaches to security and stability, demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR), police, justice...
by Carl J. Jensen, III, David H. McElreath
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Introduction to Intelligence Studies provides a comprehensive overview of intelligence and security issues confronting the United States today.
Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community has undergone an extensive overhaul. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview...