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by Lutz Lindenau
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 7,5 from max 10, University of Amsterdam (FMG), course: United Nations International Students Conference in Amsterdam 2001, 10 entries in the bibliography, language:...
by Murray Hiebert, Phuong Nguyen, Gregory B. Poling
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
With elections in both the Philippines and the United States in 2016, the future of the alliance must be institutionalized to ensure that it is not diminished by a change of leadership in either country. A new Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement and cooperation in the South China Sea are important...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia highlights the choices and problems confronting the alliance as it approaches the new century. An alliance created to keep Western Europe out of the Soviet orbit during the Cold War has sought to reinvent itself as a "crisis-management" organization...
U.S. Counterterrorism
From Nixon to Trump – Key Challenges, Issues, and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
*"Writing with years of experience in government, Ambassador Edward Marks and Michael Kraft have produced a splendid history of America’s long campaign against terrorism. The book analyzes the recent changes in technology and tactics that have profoundly altered today’s terrorist challenge…to...
Warring Friends
Alliance Restraint in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war. Furthermore, restraint often becomes an issue in existing alliances as one ally wants to start a war, launch a military intervention,...
A Biological Threat Prevention Strategy
Complicating Adversary Acquisition and Misuse of Biological Agents
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
A contradiction sits at the core of U.S. biological threat prevention policy. Despite the U.S. government accepting the scientific and industrial costs of a domestic biosecurity system, it has not committed the diplomatic and financial resources needed to successfully promote the global adoption of...
Peace Operations and Organized Crime
Enemies or Allies?
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community’s fight against organized crime; this book explores how, in some cases, peace operations and organized crime are clear enemies, while in others, they may become tacit allies.
The threat posed by organized crime...
Institutional Reforms and Peacebuilding
Change, Path-Dependency and Societal Divisions in Post-War Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This book deals with the question how institutional reform can contribute to peacebuilding in post-war and divided societies.
In the context of armed conflict and widespread violence, two important questions shape political agendas inside and outside the affected societies: How can we stop...
Bombs, Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs
Intelligence and America's Quest for Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Recent years have seen numerous books about the looming threat posed to Western society by biological and chemical terrorism, by narcoterrorists, and by the unpredictable leaders of rogue nations. Some of these works have been alarmist. Some have been sensible and measured. But none has been by Loch...
UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era
Adapting to Stabilisation, Protection and New Threats
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice. Recent UN peacekeeping operations have challenged the traditional peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and the minimum use of force. The...
by Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
In Red Rogue, Bruce Bechtol analyzes the changing nature of North KoreaÆs national defense, foreign policy, and illicit economic activities in the postû9/11 era. He describes how North Korea has adapted to a changing global and regional environment to ensure regime survival and has often dictated the...
Withdrawing from Iraq
Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In studying the withdrawal from Iraq, RAND assessed logistical constraints, trends in insurgent activity, the readiness of Iraqi security forces, and implications for the size of the residual U.S. force and for security in Iraq and the region. This report presents alternative schedules: one consistent...
by Lawrence E. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Putin's Kremlin - Epicenter of Global Cyber Warfare: This goal of this eBook is provide a wake-up call for the new US government’s executive leadership, however well intentioned, yet seemingly naïve, that Russian cyber warfare is a clear and present danger to national security. Key topics...
Developing a United Nations Emergency Peace Service
Meeting Our Responsibilities to Prevent and Protect
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
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...