Social Security category: 3077 books
by Christoph Kircher
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 30 cl., Free University of Bozen-Bolzano , language: English, abstract: The objective of this research paper was to distinguish between two patterns with which Chechen...
U.S.-India Security Cooperation
Progress and Promise for the Next Administration
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The U.S.-India relationship has fluctuated from mutual suspicion to the current high-water mark of cooperation embodied in the seemingly close relationship between U.S. president Barack Obama and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. This study seeks to identify the opportunities to deepen security...
Reframing Climate Change
Constructing ecological geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
"Change the system, not the climate" is a common slogan of climate change activists. Yet when this idea comes into the academic and policy realm, it is easy to see how climate change discourse frequently asks the wrong questions. Reframing Climate Change encourages social scientists, policy-makers,...
Rethinking the 21st Century
'New' Problems, 'Old' Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Rethinking the 21st Century brings much needed context and perspective to the security problems we face today. In recent years, the 'Bush Doctrine' - that the security threats we now face are entirely unprecedented - has echoed around the world. Global security and stability is now challenged not...
Global Security Upheaval
Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability.
By assessing recent real-world trends,...
Cyber Warfare
Its Implications on National Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Each era brings with it new techniques and methods of waging a war. While military scholars and experts have mastered land, sea, air and space warfare, time has come that they studied the art of cyberwar too. Our neighbours have acquired the capabilities to undertake this new form of asymmetric form...
Intelligence Oversight in the Twenty-First Century
Accountability in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight.
Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing security environment. This book addresses the...
Enhanced Deterrence in the North
A 21st Century European Engagement Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Twenty-five years of relative calm and predictability in relations between Russia and the West enabled European governments largely to neglect their military capabilities for territorial defense and dramatically redraw Northern Europe’s multilateral, regional, and bilateral boundaries, stimulating...
by Mohamad Ghazi Janaby
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book investigates the modern privatisation of war. It specifically focuses on the legal regime regulating private military and security company (PMSC) personnel in armed conflicts. The law regulating PMSC personnel is analysed from two perspectives. Firstly, can one of the three following legal...
by Paul Shoust
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: Good, European University at St. Petersburg, course: Security and Disarmament in Europe, language: English, abstract: The world has not become safer...
The Games of July
Explaining the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
"Frank C. Zagare combines a deep command of historical scholarship and the sophisticated skills of an applied game theorist to develop and test a theory of why deterrence failed, catastrophically, in July 1914. . . . Zagare concludes with sage advice on how to avoid even more cataclysmic breakdowns...
The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - 2013)
The Securitization of Climate Change: Australian and United States' Military Responses (2003 - 2013)
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This book examines how the armed forces of the United States and Australia have responded to the threat posed by climate change to national security. Drawing on established securitisation frameworks (‘Copenhagen’ and ‘Paris’ Schools), the author uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative...
If China Attacks Taiwan
Military Strategy, Politics and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This is a new analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan. This is one of the most tense and potentially explosive relationships in world politics.
This book explains succinctly the impetus, the methods and the consequences if China is to use force,...
Al Qaeda's Global Crisis
The Islamic State, Takfir and the Genocide of Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This book focuses on the crises facing Al Qaeda and how the mass killing of Muslims is challenging its credibility as a leader among Islamist jihadist organizations.
The book argues that these crises are directly related to Al Qaeda’s affiliation with the extreme violence employed against...