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Strategic Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region
Russia, Deterrence, and Reassurance
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
How should the countries in the Baltic Sea region and their allies meet the strategic challenges posed by an openly aggressive and expansionist Russia? NATO and the nonaligned states in the region are now more concerned about an external threat than they have been since the end of the Cold War. Russia...
Civil-military cooperation as a vital part in the stabilization-process in Afghanistan
How is its meaning different within certain deployed military actors?
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,1, University of Potsdam (Lehrstuhl für internationale Politik), course: State Failure, Crisis and Conflict Management, 32 entries in the bibliography, language:...
Special Operations from a Small State Perspective
Future Security Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
“Over the past dozen years special operations forces (SOF) have been one of the few areas of growth and expansion in a number of militaries. This growth and expansion, however, has not been mirrored by a comparable one in academic inquiries into the subject. Special Operations from a Small State...
When Counterinsurgency Wins
Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military...
Europe's Strategic Future
From Crisis to Coherence?
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
Europe has suffered a decade of crises, with sovereign-debt troubles leading to austerity policies that exacerbated divisions inside member states and between them. Thereafter the Union was confronted with the challenges posed by a revanchist Russia in Ukraine and by a surge in migration from the...
by Göran Swistek
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,7, , language: English, abstract: Under the term of asymmetric threats or warfare are these actions of combat summarized which deal with the unknown and surprise...
Four Guardians
A Principled Agent View of American Civil-Military Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
When the US military confronts pressing security challenges, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps often react differently as they advise and execute civilian defense policies. Conventional wisdom holds that these dynamics tend to reflect a competition for prestige, influence, and dollars. Such...
Unsettled Balance
Ethics, Security, and Canada’s International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This book will be required reading for students and scholars of Canadian foreign policy, international relations, security studies, and political geography.
Global China
Internal and External Reaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
After two decades since the disintegration of Soviet Union in 1991, the largest and the most populist socialist state — the People's Republic of China — does not only manage to stay intact, but has also emerged as the second largest economy in the world. Moreover, its political, diplomatic, military...
Russia Abroad
Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life. Further, deliberate “un-regioning,” applied by actors external as well as internal to...
Research in Security Sector Reform Policy
The Case of Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book investigates the extent to which research has influenced and interacted with SSR policies, programmes and activities implemented by the UK in conflict-affected Sierra Leone. Varisco uses concepts and notions from the literature on the policy process and research utilisation to explore the...
The United Nations and Space Security
Conflicting Mandates between UNCOPUOS and the CD
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2019
This book provides a detailed analysis on the history and development of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) and the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and the coordination and cooperation between these two fora. Furthermore, it discusses the future challenges that these fora...
by Ajey Lele
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
This book debates and discusses the present and future of Disruptive Technologies in general and military Disruptive Technologies in particular. Its primary goal is to discuss various critical and advanced elucidations on strategic technologies. The focus is less on extrapolating the future of technology...
American Spies
Espionage against the United States from the Cold War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
What’s your secret?American Spies presents the stunning histories of more than forty Americans who spied against their country during the past six decades. Michael Sulick, former head of the CIA’s clandestine service, illustrates through these stories—some familiar, others much less well known—the...