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Science, Technology, and U.S. National Security Strategy
Preparing Military Leadership for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In today’s challenging, technologically informed environment, the U.S. military must continue to ensure a competitive advantage. This report suggests ways to develop a cadre of technologically competent officers with the requisite leadership and operational skills to excel in this fast-paced and...
Risk and Securitization in Japan
1945-60
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Since the early 1990s, there has been an emphasis in international relations theory on the shift from a Cold War rationality of ‘threat’, to a post-Cold War rationality of ‘risk’. However, in Risk and Securitization in Japan, 1945-1960, Piers R. Williamson argues that this assumption of...
The European Neutrals and NATO
Non-alignment, Partnership, Membership?
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book provides the first detailed comparative analysis of the unusual partnership between the main European neutral states and NATO. Neutrality and alliance membership are fundamentally incompatible, but through the vehicle of NATO’s post-Cold War partnerships the European neutral states and...
Blinking Red
Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish AmericaÆs new enemiesùstateless international terrorists. In the midst of the 2004 presidential...
The Soul of Armies
Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with counterterrorism, has been the greatest security challenge after September 11, 2001. In The Soul of Armies Austin Long compares and contrasts counterinsurgency...
Maritime Strategy and Global Order
Markets, Resources, Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement—but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top scholars offers historical perspectives...
by Andrew P. Hunter, Ryan Crotty
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Technology innovations in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have delivered unmatched national security capability for the United States for the greater part of the last seven decades. Federal research and development funding is at the heart of the U.S. high-technology advantage. Continuing to push...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This edited volume argues that producers of analysis need to shift from producing static, narrative products to much more dynamic, digitally-based platforms in order to remain competitive and relevant.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Cyber Warfare is gaining special significance in today’s national security aspects. This book through various articles covers aspects on Cyber Security, Cyberspace, Cyber Surveillance, Cyber Warfare including Laws of War, Cyber Weapons as new weapons of mass destruction et. al.
Changing US Security Strategy
The Search for Stability and the "Non-War" against "Non-Terrorism"
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
More than a decade into the “war on terrorism,” much of the political debate in the United States is still fixated on the legacy of 9/11. US politics has a partisan fixation on Benghazi, the Boston Marathon bombing, intelligence intercepts, and Guantanamo. Far too much attention still focuses...
Modern Maritime Piracy
Genesis, Evolution and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book examines the complex phenomena of modern maritime piracy.
The work offers a cutting-edge analysis of modern maritime piracy in the two most pirate-prone regions – southeast Asia and northeast Africa – from the late twentieth century to the modern day. These case studies present...
India’s Emerging Partnerships in Eurasia
Strategies of New Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The discourse on the emerging partnerships between India and the Eurasian States is framed under the label of new regionalism. This discourse has tended to explore the historical linkages, institutions, policies and economic relations that underpin such region-building approaches. This book attempts...
China's Global Engagement
Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Assessing China's rapidly changing role on the international stage
China is again undergoing a period of significant transition. Internally, China's leaders are addressing challenges to the economy and other domestic issues after three decades of dramatic growth and reforms. President Xi Jinping...
Preventing the Proliferation of WMDs
Measuring the Success of UN Security Council Resolution 1540
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution’s...