Social Security category: 3077 books
by Nathan P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities in Mexico and abroad, these illicit networks are remarkably resilient to state intervention.Drawing on...
Securing Africa
Local Crises and Foreign Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Africa has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as specifically African problems or the problems of Europeans in Africa, but newer scholarship on other aspects of Africa has come to stress the interconnectness of Africa and the wider world....
Defacing Power
The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"Combining a rich and varied set of theoretical insights with a subtle analysis of the politics of American foreign policy, Defacing Power marks an important contribution toward understanding the power of identity in world politics. Engagingly written and rigorously argued, Steele's challenging...
Zones of Rebellion
Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
How do insurgents and governments select their targets? Which ideological discourses and organizational policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory? Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence suggest that both insurgents and governments adopt a wide variety of coercive strategies in...
Prisons, Terrorism and Extremism
Critical Issues in Management, Radicalisation and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
This volumeprovides an overview of intervention and management strategies for dealing with terrorist and extremist offenders in prisons.
The management of terrorist and extremist prisoners has long been recognised as a difficult problem in prisons. In most countries, such offenders are relatively...
Improving the U.S. Military’s Understanding of Unstable Environments Vulnerable to Violent Extremist Groups
Insights from Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
For over a decade, operations associated with irregular warfare have placed large demands on U.S. ground forces and have led to development of new Army and Joint doctrine. This report helps analysts identify and assess twelve key factors that create and perpetuate environments susceptible to insurgency,...
How India Became Territorial
Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based on a close examination...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
In light of growing discussion about the future of the Korean peninsula, the CSIS Korea Chair held a major conference featuring senior-level policy and scholarly discussions on the topic of unification, and this report provides a record of that conference. It was a landmark event addressing economic,...
Afghan Endgames
Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The United States and its allies have been fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for a decade in a war that either side could still win. While a gradual drawdown has begun, significant numbers of US combat troops will remain in Afghanistan until at least 2014, perhaps longer, depending on...
Gendering Counterinsurgency
Performativity, Embodiment and Experience in the Afghan ‘Theatre of War’
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book analyses the various ways counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is gendered.
The book examines the US led war in Afghanistan from 2001 onwards, including the invasion, the population-centric counterinsurgency operations and the efforts to train a new Afghan military charged with securing...
Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia
Legacies and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The twentieth century has been labelled the ‘century of genocide’, and according to estimates, more than 250 million civilians were victims of genocide and mass atrocities during this period. This book provides one of the first regional perspectives on mass atrocities in Asia, by exploring the...
Dangerous Sanctuaries
Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populations....
Understanding Civil Wars
Continuity and change in intrastate conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective.
Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests that these conflicts...
Nuclear Realism
Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
What is a realist response to nuclear weapons? This book is animated by the idea that contemporary attempts to confront the challenge of nuclear weapons and other global security problems would benefit from richer historical foundations.
Returning to the decade of deep, thermonuclear anxiety...