Social Security category: 3077 books
Iraq Uncensored
Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The war in Iraq is a divisive issue in the United States, and historians and pundits will spend decades the conflict's causes, conduct, and consequences. Iraq Uncensored, an initiative of the bipartisan American Security Project, is neither pro-war nor antiwar, but an effort to begin to develop collective...
Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism
The Threat to International Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them?
Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections between organised piracy and wider criminal networks and corruption on land...
by Fidelis Etah Ewane
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: '-', University of Freiburg, language: English, abstract: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the greatest conflicts of our time, especially as no peace effort...
New Energy, New Geopolitics
Background Report 3: Scenarios, Strategies, and Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The third background report in the New Energy, New Geopolitics series, this report examines the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States and suggests possible energy scenarios and strategies could emerge from the unconventional revolution.
This...
by Richard Downie
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
In this collection of essays, regional and functional experts from CSIS consider Africa’s current place in the world, including trade and investment, peace and security, and democracy and good governance. The authors consider how Africa’s transformation is changing the way the continent is viewed...
by Ted Osius, Raja C. Mohan
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Twenty years ago, India launched its “Look East” policy. For most of those 20 years, Myanmar’s isolation, mistrust between India and its neighbors, and poor infrastructure connectivity hindered the development of links between South and Southeast Asia. With Myanmar’s tentative opening and...
Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon
Conflict, Cohesion and Confessionalism in a Divided Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This volume examines Lebanon’s post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations. The Syrian civil war has strained the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) cohesion and threatens its neutrality – its most valued assets in a divided society. The spill-over from the Syrian civil war...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa’s regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role of external...
Colombia
Peace and Stability in the Post-Conflict Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This report from the CSIS Americas Program provides a detailed look at the challenges the Colombian government confronts as it moves from providing security to developing rural areas that were previously conflict zones. In particular, the report examines such issues as remaining security needs; land...
Canadian State Trials, Volume IV
Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The fourth volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Great Depression. War prompted the development of new government powers and raised questions about citizenship...
The Threat on the Horizon
An Inside Account of America's Search for Security after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations in the U.S. intelligence...
Strategic Cultural Change and the Challenge for Security Policy
Germany and the Bundeswehr's Deployment to Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
For more than a decade, international troops have been deployed to Afghanistan. Out of all NATO members, this mission was the most difficult for Germany that had thus far never engaged in combat and offensive military activities. This book analyses how Germany's experiences in Afghanistan have changed the country's strategic culture.
Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Kyrgyzstan'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...
Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Tajikistan'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...