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by John W. Schiemann
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When the Senate released its so-called "Torture Report" in December 2014 the world would learn that, for years, the CIA had used unimaginably brutal methods to interrogate its prisoners - often without yielding any useful or truthful information. The agency had long and adamantly defended its use...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
The global and regional security landscapes will change dramatically following the Western drawdown in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, and their allies are poised to return to Afghanistan and the Mujahidin in Pakistan may once again draw the support of pools of fighters. Experts from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Despite a U.S. focus on securing an international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear development for the last several years, the United States lacks a strategy to combat the full range of Iranian activities that threaten the interests of the United States and its allies but fall short of conventional warfare....
Developing a United Nations Emergency Peace Service
Meeting Our Responsibilities to Prevent and Protect
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This book makes the case for a standing UN Emergency Peace Service. With this one development - effectively a UN first responder for complex emergencies - the organization would finally have a rapid, reliable capacity to help fulfill its tougher assigned tasks. To date, the UNEPS initiative has encountered...
Power Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Mapping a Multipolar World?
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This volume critiques contemporary power trends by examining key bilateral dynamics between five putative ‘poles’ of the multipolar order in the twenty-first century.
Written by emerging scholars and established academics, this work provides a timely and authoritative analysis of one of...
Japan Prepares for Total War
The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Historian Michael Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of Japan's quest for economic security. Drawing on...
Striking Power
How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as drones,...
US Foreign Policy and Global Standing in the 21st Century
Realities and Perceptions
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This book examines US foreign policy and global standing in the 21st Century.
The United States is the most powerful actor in world politics today. Against this backdrop, the present volume examines how the foreign policies pursued by Presidents’ George W. Bush and Barack Obama have affected...
Border Insecurity
Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren't Making Us Safer
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
When confronted with the challenges of border security and illegal immigration, government officials are fond of saying that our borders have never been as safe and secure as they are now. But ranchers in the borderlands of Arizona and Texas fear for their lands, their cattle, their homes, and sometimes...
The Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations
An Assessment of Mexican Security Based on Existing RAND Research on Urban Unrest, Insurgency, and Defense-Sector Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A RAND team conducted a Delphi expert elicitation exercise, the results of which offer an assessment of the contemporary security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing RAND research on urban instability and unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform. Assessment scorecards from...
Policy Paper on Iran's Nuclear Program
Strategy Options for the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, University of California, San Diego (Department of Political Science), course: National Security Strategy , language: English, abstract: The Iranian nuclear...
Postwar Japan
Growth, Security, and Uncertainty since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Japanese security, economic, institutional, and developmental policies have undergone a remarkable evolution in the 70 years since the end of World War II. In this volume, distinguished Japanese scholars reflect on the evolution of these policies and draw lessons for the coming decades. The pillars...
by Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor, Sylvain Paile, Quentin Michel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Chaudfontaine Group was established in 2010 as an annual two-day gathering of young Europeans with diverse academic backgrounds, including lawyers, economists and political scientists, from relevant national authorities, European institutions, scientific centres and industry. Its members are invited...
The Wounded Giant
America's Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity An eSpecial from The Penguin Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A farseeing and controversial analysis of the military America needs and the military we can afford from the director of research at Brookings.
As total federal debt trends toward 100 percent of the GDP, and America wavers on the edge of another recession, Congress has responded with a plan...