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Presidential Doctrines
U.S. National Security from George Washington to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This text assesses and evaluates the key U.S. presidential doctrines from Washington to Obama. It demonstrates that in spite of differences between successive administrations, in most instances presidential doctrines have articulated both the responses and directions conducive to an international...
by Christian Kreß
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen, course: Course 'Normative Theories of International Relations', 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Somalia,...
Limited War in South Asia
From Decolonization to Recent Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia.
Although South Asia has experienced large-scale conventional warfare on several occasions since the end of World War II, there is an almost total neglect of analysis of conventional warfare...
Regional Organizations and Peacemaking
Challengers to the UN?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book analyses the new and difficult roles of regional organizations in peacemaking after the end of the Cold War and how they relate to the United Nations (UN).
Regional organizations have taken an increasingly prominent role in international efforts to deal with international security....
Understanding Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century
Journeys in Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Over the past few decades, international history and security have been significantly influenced by greater understanding of the role of intelligence in national security and foreign policy-making. In Britain, much of the work has developed in the subdiscipline of international history with its methodological predisposition towards archive-ba
Biological Threats in the 21st Century
The Politics, People, Science and Historical Roots
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Biological Threats in the 21st Century offers a fresh understanding of contemporary biological threats to national security. Readers are introduced to the politics, people, science and historical roots of contemporary biological threats through up-to-date, rigorous and accessible chapters written...
Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
Assessing the U.S. Government's Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The Cold War phrase “weapons of mass destruction” continues to be used despite significant changes in international political cultures, military concepts of operation, and technology advances. Today, the term “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD) is used to address many things, from grams of...
Eve of Destruction
The Coming Age of Preventive War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In an age of new threats to international security, the old rules of war are rapidly being discarded. The great powers are moving toward norms less restrictive of intervention, preemption, and preventive war. This evolution is taking place not only in the United States but also in many of the world's...
Wither Power Politics?
A Study of the United States' Approach to the Caspian Sea Region 1991-2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, , course: US Foreign Policy, International Relations in the Caspian Sea Region, language: English, abstract: The New Great Game in the Caspian Sea Region received moderate...
by Girma Yohannes Iyassu Menelik
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: excellent, University of Miami (FL. And Brookings Institution Washington D. C.; Security And Terrorism Studies), course: Homegrown Terrorists And...
Terrorist Histories
Individuals and Political Violence since the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book addresses provides a series of in-depth portraits of men and women who have been labelled ‘terrorists’, from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Bridging historical methodologies and theoretical approaches to terrorism studies, it seeks to contribute to the developing historicising...
Decline of the U.S. Hegemony?
A Challenge of ALBA and a New Latin American Integration of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book analyzes ALBA’s structure and dynamics, its practicality, its medium and long-term sustainability, and its capacity to influence regional and international affairs. The work examines ALBA’s possible economic and security consequences for neighboring non-member states in the region, particularly...
Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013
Defence, Diplomacy and Development in Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was wracked by a devastating civil war and the complete collapse of state institutions. Since then, however, the UK’s contribution to post-war reconstruction has been widely held up as an example of successful stabilisation and state-building – particularly...
by Kenneth R. Himes, OFM
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Drones have become an essential part of U.S. national security strategy, but most Americans know little about how they are used, and we receive conflicting reports about their outcomes. In Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing, ethicist Kenneth R. Himes provides not only an overview of the role...