Social Security category: 3077 books
Global Terrorism and New Media
The Post-Al Qaeda Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Global Terrorism and New Media carefully examines the content of terrorist websites and extremist television programming to provide a comprehensive look at how terrorist groups use new media today.
Based partly on a content analysis of discussion boards and forums, the authors share their findings...
Climate Change and Resource Conflict
The Role of Scarcity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book examines the links between climate change and resource scarcity to violent conflict.
Does climate change cause conflicts? This book analyses the economic, political and social conditions under which countries with low levels of freshwater or arable land experience armed conflict....
Education and Peacebuilding. What role has formal education played in fostering a sustainable, positive peace in post-genocide Rwanda?
The 'two faces' of the Rwandan education system's contribution to the national peacebuilding project
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: First Class Honours - 74, University of Exeter (College of Social Sciences and International Studies), course: BA International Relations, language: English, abstract:...
Dark Matters
On the Surveillance of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black...
Understanding Dark Networks
A Strategic Framework for the Use of Social Network Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Dark networks are the illegal and covert networks (e.g, insurgents, jihadi groups, or drug cartels) that security and intelligence analysts must track and identify to be able to disrupt and dismantle them. This text explains how this can be done by using the Social Network Analysis (SNA) method. Written...
Defect or Defend
Military Responses to Popular Protests in Authoritarian Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Although social movements and media can help destabilize authoritarian governments, not all social protest is effective or culminates in the toppling of dictatorships. Frequently, the military’s response determines the outcome.
In Defect or Defend, Terence Lee uses four case studies from...
Theory and Practice of International Mediation
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
This volume brings together some of the most significant papers on international conflict mediation by Professor Jacob Bercovitch, one of the leading scholars in the field.
It has become common practice to note that mediation has been, and remains, one of the most important structures of dealing...
DarkMarket
How Hackers Became the New Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
"This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah
The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The...
The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy
Why Strategic Superiority Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation...
Warnings
Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
From President Bill Clinton's recommended reading list
Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the U.S. economy, and possibly the fate of civilization.
In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but...
Summary and Analysis of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Based on the Book by Fred Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Fred Kaplan’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to...
A New Development Agenda
Trade, Development, and Procurement
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The link between economic development and state security has been well documented. As policymakers consider that link, the model for international development in the twenty-first century must include both governments and the private sector. In this new report, the CSIS Scholl Chair in International...
Brotherhood of Warriors
Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Units
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At the age of eighteen, Aaron Cohen left Beverly Hills to prove himself in the crucible of the armed forces. He was determined to be a part of Israel's most elite security cadre, akin to the American Green Berets and Navy SEALs. After fifteen months of grueling training designed to break down each...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this revealing broadside, Victor Davis Hanson explains how President Obama has imprinted his domestic ideology of victimhood onto a therapeutic, Carter-inspired foreign policy. In Obama’s vision, the United State renounces its role as a defender of the postwar order and instead becomes an agent...