Social Security category: 3077 books
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China
Power and Politics in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power. The contributors note that the shifting regional...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
China’s rise is changing the dynamics of the international system. Middle Powers and the Rise of China is the first work to examine how the group of states referred to as “middle powers” are responding to China’s growing economic, diplomatic, and military power. States with capabilities immediately...
Naval Strategy in Northeast Asia
Geo-strategic Goals, Policies and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Over the past decade, Northeast Asia has been dominated by quite significant strategic change, which is ongoing and brings with it many uncertainties. naval capabilities in Northwest Asia are instrumental in promoting maritime security interests - helping to build a stable security environment through...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Contributions to this book question the concept of the clash of cultures. The challenge to the West does not lie in the monolith of Islam turning aggressively outward to Europe and the US, but in the rivalries between regimes ruling over societies divided by an imbalance in wealth and power.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
India’s First War of Independence in 1857 ended in a fiasco, primarily for want of effective leadership and perhaps equally important, for lack of a viable strategy. Even after Independence, India has been found wanting on many occasions in dealing with situations concerning our National Security....
Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
From Words to Deeds
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This book provides an in-depth introduction to, and analysis of, the issues relating to the implementation of the recent Responsibility to Protect principle in international relations
The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) has come a long way in a short space of time. It was endorsed by the General...
East Asia-Arctic Relations
Boundary, Security and International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Canada, Russia and the United States have expressed a renewed interest in the region, and East Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea and China are now increasingly fixated on prospects offered by the Arctic; however, Arctic and East Asian nations have not yet engaged in extensive discussions about...
The Ethics of Military Privatization
The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate.
While privatization is not a new concept for the US military, the public debate on military privatization is limited to legal, financial, and pragmatic...
Peacekeeping and the United Nations in Mozambique
One aspect of the Peace Soldier's role in a conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,7, University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town), course: Vorlesung, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Ever since the Second World War international...
The Canada-US Border in the 21st Century
Trade, Immigration and Security in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Borders are critical to the development and survival of modern states, offer security against external threats, and mark public policy and identity difference. At the same time, borders, and borderlands, are places where people, ideas, and economic goods meet and intermingle. The United States-Canada...
by Anthony Tu
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Written by the world’s leading expert on the Tokyo sarin attacks, Chemical and Biological Weapons and Terrorism is a comprehensive examination of the use, detection, and prevention of chemical and biological attacks.
Divided in two parts, one devoted to chemical and the other biological weapons,...
by Robert Fiedler
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, Macquarie University, language: English, abstract: Given today's existence of hundreds of terrorist groups and thousands of criminal ones (Schmid, 2005) it is not surprisingly...
Countering New(est) Terrorism
Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence — Assessing, Negotiating, and Assaulting
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
How should we analyze and assess new terrorist behaviors? What are the particular risks and challenges from new terrorism? Should we negotiate with terrorists, and, if so, how? When should we use force against terrorists? Countering New(est) Terrorism: Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence—Assessing,...
The EU and Effective Multilateralism
Internal and external reform practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book investigates the extent to which the EU has defined and operationalised the notion of effective multilateralism.
Reform has dominated the agenda of the EU in recent years with the adoption and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty. However, various international organisations have also...