Social Security category: 3077 books
by Wilson W.S. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Emerging Military Technologies: A Guide to the Issues examines the potential of the United States to bring new technologies to deployment in the service of America's security and defense. The work also discusses how other international actors may regard the United States' investment in these high-tech...
Digital Privacy, Terrorism and Law Enforcement
The UK's Response to Terrorist Communication
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This book examines the UK’s response to terrorist communication. Its principle question asks, has individual privacy and collective security been successfully managed and balanced? The author begins by assessing several technologically-based problems facing British law enforcement agencies, including...
Cyber Warfare
A Multidisciplinary Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This book is a multi-disciplinary analysis of cyber warfare, featuring contributions by leading experts from a mixture of academic and professional backgrounds.
Cyber warfare, meaning interstate cyber aggression, is an increasingly important emerging phenomenon in international relations, with...
Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Kazakhstan's Evolving Foreign Economic and Security Interests
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.S. policy toward the states of Central Asia is transitioning to a new era. The United States now has an opportunity to refashion its approach to the region. In doing so, it should capitalize on trends already underway, in particular the...
Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia
Turkmenistan's Evolving Foreign Economic and Security Interests
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.S. policy toward the states of Central Asia is transitioning to a new era. The United States now has an opportunity to refashion its approach to the region. In doing so, it should capitalize on trends already underway, in particular the...
by Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Since the 1990s, the American government has under prioritized the North Korean threat to global security, according to Bruce Bechtol, an associate professor of political science at Angelo State University. Because North Korea appears economically weak and politically unstable, it is therefore often...
Preventing Mass Atrocities
Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
What can be done to warn about and organize political action to prevent genocide and mass atrocities?
The international contributors to this volume are either experts or practitioners, often both, who have contributed in substantial ways to analyzing high risk situations, recommending preventive...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
This book examines changing international dynamics through the lens of some of the leading think tanks from the emerging powers in the world. Through twelve case studies, the authors explore how security and international affairs think tanks in emerging powers collaborate with their policy makers...
The Kremlin Playbook 2
The Enablers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers, the CSIS Europe Program and the Center for the Study of Democracy explored whether some of these jurisdictions and companies could be enabling forces that amplify Russian malign economic influence in some countries in Europe. The study analyzed the following...
by Maiah Jaskoski
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes challenges conventional theories regarding military behavior in post-transition democracies. Through a deeply researched comparative analysis of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian armies, Maiah Jaskoski argues that militaries are concerned more with the predictability...
by Karina Oborune
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A-, University of Basel (Europainstitute), course: Mediation, language: English, abstract: In the last fifteen years performance of mediators in the circumstances of lack...
Fixing the EU Intel Crisis
Intelligence Sharing, Law Enforcement and the Threat of Chemical Biological and Nuclear Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
The epidemic of wars and military clashes from Syria to Yemen, the rising powers of China and Russia, and the turbulence in Pakistan, Central Asia and North Africa all underscore the urgent need for a highly professional intelligence agency within the European Union and between the EU and the UK in particular....
Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security
From Pacifism to Realism?
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
In this book, Paul Midford engages claims that since 9/11 Japanese public opinion has turned sharply away from pacifism and toward supporting normalization of Japan's military power, in which Japanese troops would fight alongside their American counterparts in various conflicts worldwide. Midford...
NATO and the Crisis in the International Order
The Atlantic Alliance and Its Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges.
How can NATO adapt to the dangerous combination of a revisionist Russia, a reluctant United States, and a Europe...