Social Security category: 3077 books
Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Uzbekistan's Evolving Foreign Economic and Security Interests
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.S. policy toward the states of Central Asia is transitioning to a new era. The United States now has an opportunity to refashion its approach to the region. In doing so, it should capitalize on trends already underway, in particular the...
Glass Houses
Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
A chilling and revelatory appraisal of the new faces of espionage and warfare on the digital battleground
Shortly after 9/11, Joel Brenner entered the inner sanctum of American espionage, first as the inspector general of the National Security Agency, then as the head of counterintelligence...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well as offering an interpretation of Russia’s coherence on the international stage, seeking to understand Russia and explain its behaviour.
The authors analyse...
Foreign Policy Begins at Home
The Case for Putting America's House in Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A rising China, climate change, terrorism, a nuclear Iran, a turbulent Middle East, and a reckless North Korea all present serious challenges to America's national security. But it depends even more on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure, second class...
by Michael E. O'Hanlon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?
In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the...
Multipolarity in the 21st Century
A New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and polarity in the twenty-first century, both by assessing the likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the so-called 'rising powers' can do.
As the twenty-first century moves out of its first decade, American supremacy...
by Brad Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many grounds—including historical, political,...
Exporting the Bomb
Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countries...
by T.V. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states—thanks to a consensus view...
The Future of Extended Deterrence
The United States, NATO, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Are NATO’s mutual security commitments strong enough today to deter all adversaries? Is the nuclear umbrella as credible as it was during the Cold War? Backed by the full range of US and allied military capabilities, NATO’s mutual defense treaty has been enormously successful, but today’s commitments...
Global Nuclear Disarmament
Strategic, Political, and Regional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book examines the issue of nuclear disarmament in different strategic, political, and regional contexts.
This volume seeks to provide a rich theoretical and practical insight to one of the major topics in the field of international security: global abolishment of nuclear weapons. Renewed...
Terrorism Versus Democracy
The Liberal State Response
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This book examines the terrorist networks that operate globally and analyses the long-term future of terrorism and terrorist-backed insurgencies.
Terrorism remains a serious problem for the international community. The global picture does not indicate that the ‘war on terror’, which President...
Pirates, Terrorists, and Warlords
The History, Influence, and Future of Armed Groups Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
An anthology of writings on insurgency-related issues—from guerillas to religious extremists—and their effects on national and international security.
Pirates, Terrorists, and Warlords explores threats to national and international security in the past and present, and what they mean for the...
Cyber War
The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Against All Enemies, former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America’s vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict—Cyber War! Every concerned American should read...