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Regional Peacemaking and Conflict Management
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This volume examines mechanisms for regional peacemaking and conflict management in Europe and the Middle East.
To date little research has been devoted to uncovering the conditions for peace, and the factors that contribute to stabilizing the state of peace. This volume assesses the factors...
by Aysegul Aydin
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers. This book argues that rethinking intervention—redefining what it is and why foreign powers take an interest in others' conflicts—is of critical importance to understanding how conflicts evolve...
Victims of Terrorism
A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This book examines the politicisation of victims of terrorism and the reality of the victimisation experience within the broader field of terrorism and the resulting conflict.
Victims of terrorism are a unique group of individuals whose experience is overlooked in the current literature on...
Talking to Terrorists
Concessions and the Renunciation of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
This book examines the doctrine of giving no concessions to terrorists, and uses empirical research to establish whether there is any link between negotiating with such groups and the spread of violence.
The logic of the no-concessions doctrine is based on the argument that other terrorist...
by Marcel de Haas
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This new handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays that investigate the contribution of Critical Terrorism Studies to our understanding of contemporary terrorism and counterterrorism.
Terrorism remains one of the most important security and political issues of our time....
Speaking the Law
The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
When Barack Obama came into office, the strategic landscape facing the United States in its overseas counterterrorism operations was undergoing a shift. Even before the rise of drones necessitated the articulation of legal doctrine, the Obama administration had to explain itself. In Speaking the Law,...
Perspectives on the South China Sea
Diplomatic, Legal, and Security Dimensions of the Dispute
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The South China Sea is arguably one of the world’s most dangerous regions, with conflicting diplomatic, legal, and security claims by major and mid-level powers. To assess these disputes, CSIS brought together an international group of experts—from Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia,...
From Deterrence to Engagement
The U.S. Defense Commitment to South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
From Deterrence to Engagement provides a comprehensive examination of the U.S.-South Korea defense relationship from 1945 to the present. Using deterrence theory as its framework, this work explores the evolving nature of U.S. interests in a region that became a focal point only after the North Korean...
The Wastrels of Defense
How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In this damning expose, a veteran senate defense advisor argues that since Sept 11, 2001, the conduct of the U.S. Congress has sunk to new depths and endangered the nation's security. Winslow Wheeler draws on three decades of work with four prominent senators to tell in lively detail how members of Congress...
Intelligence Governance and Democratisation
A Comparative Analysis of the Limits of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation.
Within the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), academics have paid significant attention to both the police and military. The democratisation of intelligence structures...
Crude Strategy
Rethinking the US Military Commitment to Defend Persian Gulf Oil
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Should the United States ask its military to guarantee the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf? If the US security commitment is in fact strategically sound, what posture should the military adopt to protect Persian Gulf oil?Charles L. Glaser and Rosemary A. Kelanic present a collection of new essays from...
Pathways to Productivity
The Role of GMOs for Food Security in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This report provides an overview of the debate in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda over genetically modified (GM) crops and their potential role in improving food security among smallholder farmers. Specifically, in each country, it examines regulatory structures, science and research capacity, communication...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The North Atlantic continues to be an area of international strategic significance regionally and globally. This study explores the strong processes of sovereignty, as well as new independent states and micro-proto-states that are forming in the region.