Social Security category: 3077 books
A Glass Half Full?
Rebalance, Reassurance, and Resolve in the U.S.-China Strategic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.
The U.S.-China relationship has not always been smooth, but since Richard Nixon’s opening in the early 1970s, the two countries have evolved a relationship that has been generally beneficial to both parties. Economic...
US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy
The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized...
How NATO Adapts
Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Today’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down." These differences are not simply the result of the Cold War’s...
Reforming Civil-Military Relations in New Democracies
Democratic Control and Military Effectiveness in Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations. By tracing the development of civil-military relations in various new democracies from a comparative perspective, it links two bodies of scholarship that thus far have remained largely...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
A collection of the papers from the 1995 Sandhurst conference presented by leading members of the armed forces, the media and academia. The conference marked a major advance in British thinking on this very topical and fast-moving subject, bringing together authorities from various fields in a multidisciplinary...
New Energy, New Geopolitics
Background Report 1: Energy Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
This report evaluates the energy impacts of the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States. It examines how the unconventional energy trend has already impacted energy economics and policy and then posits several possible energy futures that could emerge...
Islam in the Balance
Ideational Threats in Arab Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics is an analysis of how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states react to ideational threats. It examines the threat perception and policies of two Arab Muslim majority states, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in response to the...
by Thierry Tardy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This book explores the possible consequences of the events of 11 September 2001, and of the 'fight against terrorism', the way peace operations are perceived and conducted, and the way that states, international organizations such as NATO or the EU and non-state actors, consider these operations.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
This book addresses a wide range of contemporary operational maritime law issues across the spectrum of operations. It provides sophisticated analyses and insights, and offers new interpretations of topics that are directly relevant for contemporary naval operations.
The book examines unresolved...
Understanding Counterinsurgency
Doctrine, operations, and challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare.
Featuring essays by some of the world’s leading experts on unconventional conflict, both scholars and practitioners, the book discusses how modern regular armed forces react, and...
by Paul Wilkinson, Brian Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Philipp Schweers
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 8.0, University of Amsterdam, course: International Security, language: English, abstract: The theory of democratic peace is perhaps one of the most widely accepted propositions...
Critical Terrorism Studies
A New Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
In response to the growth of a critical perspective on contemporary issues of terrorism, this edited volume brings together a number of leading scholars to debate the new subfield of 'critical terrorism studies'.
In the years since the 9/11 attacks, terrorism studies has undergone a major transformation...
China's International Behavior
Activism, Opportunism, and Diversification
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
China is now a global actor of significant and growing importance. It is involved in regions and on issues that were once only peripheral to its interests, and it is effectively using tools previously unavailable. China's international behavior is clearly altering the dynamics of the current international...