Social Security category: 3077 books
Liberal Wars
Anglo-American Strategy, Ideology and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This book addresses the relationship between the 'liberal' values of Anglo-Saxon cultures and the way that they conduct themselves when they are fighting - or preparing to fight - wars.
The United States and the United Kingdom are characterised by a consensus that their social and political...
Cyber Weaponry
Issues and Implications of Digital Arms
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
There is little doubt that cyber-space has become the battle space for confrontations. However, to conduct cyber operations, a new armory of weapons needs to be employed. No matter how many, or how sophisticated an aggressor’s kinetic weapons are, they are useless in cyber-space.
This...
Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime
The War on Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This edited volume examines the use of militarised responses to different forms of criminal activity, discussing the outcomes and unintended consequences. Politicians and policymakers frequently use militarised responses to look tough on crime. The deployment of armies, navies, military assets and...
by Lawrence E. Cline
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Operating in four African nations, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) routinely engages in human rights violations that include mutilation, murder, mass-scale abductions, and sex trafficking—and it has done so with seeming impunity for more than 20 years. This timely book offers a concise, expert...
by Michael Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: B+, Webster University, language: English, abstract: This report provides an analysis of the conflict which exists in combatting maritime piracy in Somalia. It identifies...
Local Legitimacy in Peacebuilding
Pathways to Local Compliance with International Police Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book analyses the role of legitimacy in explaining local actors’ compliance with international peacebuilding operations.
The book provides a comparative, micro-level study of local actors’ reasons for compliance with or resistance to international peacebuilding. Specifically, it analyses...
Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?
A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The horrifying terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax strikes that soon followed gave the United States new reason to fear unconventional enemies and atypical weapons. These fears have prompted extensive research, study, and planning within the U.S. military, intelligence, and policy...
Diversionary War
Domestic Unrest and International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
The very existence of diversionary wars is hotly contested in the press and among political scientists. Yet no book has so far tackled the key questions of whether leaders deliberately provoke conflicts abroad to distract the public from problems at home, or whether such gambles offer a more effective...
Taming an Uncertain Future
Temporality, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Anticipatory Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
A popular cliché in contemporary public discourse holds that we live in a time of increasing uncertainty; that the next catastrophe is perpetually imminent and yet increasingly beyond our capacity to foresee. The future, in short, is becoming much more difficult to control. One consequence of this...
Organized Crime and Illicit Trade
How to Respond to This Strategic Challenge in Old and New Domains
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict regions, amount to strategic challenges for the state. Whereas most commentators would agree that criminal...
China's Assertive Nuclear Posture
State Security in an Anarchic International Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
China’s nuclear capability is crucial for the balance of power in East Asia and the world. As this book reveals, there have been important changes recently in China’s nuclear posture: the movement from a minimum deterrence posture toward a medium nuclear power posture; the pursuit of space warfare...
by Terry Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, abstract: This paper looks at the recent conflict in Georgia. Shaping operations are critical to military success. A...
by Edward F. Mickolus, Susan L. Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, terrorism has remained the chief threat to international stability and security. The 50 Worst Terrorist Attacks draws on all forms of terrorism—international, transnational, and domestic—anywhere in the world, covering all types of acts (e.g., bombings,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
This volume provides an authoritative, cutting-edge resource on the characteristics of both technological and social change in warfare in the twenty-first century, and the challenges such change presents to international law.
The character of contemporary warfare has recently undergone significant...