Social Security category: 3077 books
The U.N. Exposed
How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Less than five miles from Ground Zero in Manhattan sits an international hotbed of anti-Americanism.
The United Nations was created after World War II to promote peace and international understanding. But over the years, and today more than ever, the U.N. has failed to achieve its original...
On the Hunt
How to Wake Up Washington and Win the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
So says Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt in a book that cuts like a buzz saw through the half-measures and half-truths, the dangerous timidity, and the outright stupidity that—if left unchecked—will lead America to lose the War on Terror.
In the hard-hitting On the Hunt, Colonel...
Rumsfeld's War
The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Not since Robert McNamara has a secretary of defense been so hated by the military and derided by the public, yet played such a critical role in national security policy—with such disastrous results.
Donald Rumsfeld was a natural for secretary of defense, a position he'd already occupied...
Dark Mirror
Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2020
From the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, who unearthed the deepest secrets of Edward Snowden's NSA archive, the first master narrative of the surveillance state that emerged after 9/11 and why it matters, based on scores of hours of conversation with...
Avoiding Armageddon
America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
India and Pakistan will be among the most important countries in the twenty-first century. In Avoiding Armageddon, Bruce Riedel clearly explains the challenge and the importance of successfully managing America's affairs with these two emerging powers and their toxic relationship.
Born from...
Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East
Geopolitics, Ideology, and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups. To understand the nature of transformation in the Middle Eastern geopolitical space, it provides new empirical and analytical insights...
The Shadow World
Inside the Global Arms Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Soon to be a Major PBS Documentary Event
The Shadow World is the harrowing behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, revealing the deadly collusion that all too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military—a situation that compromises...
by Carol Leonnig, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The Secret Service has one of the most important jobs in the United States. In this Pulitzer Prize winning investigation, Carol Leonnig’s exposes the dereliction of duty that has put the President—and the nation—at risk. In September of 2014, a man leapt the White House fence, ran across the lawn,...
by John J. Mearsheimer
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
"A superb book....Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—The National Interest, Barry R. Posen
A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which...
Dawn of the Drones
Europe's Security Response to the Cyber Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In the twenty-first century, Europe faces disruptive technological developments that have an immediate impact on its societies. The historyof mankind has seen several of these disruptions, such as the inventions of gunpowder, aircraft, tanks, weapons of mass destruction and missiles. ...
The Image of the Enemy
Intelligence Analysis of Adversaries since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Intelligence agencies spend huge sums of money to collect and analyze vast quantities of national security data for their political leaders. How well is this intelligence analyzed, how often is it acted on by policymakers, and does it have a positive or negative effect on decision making? Drawing on...
Communication and Peace
Mapping an emerging field
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation.
From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine following events in the Crimea,...
International Intervention and State-making
How Exception Became the Norm
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book analyses the changing dynamics of sovereignty resulting from contemporary international state-building interventions.
It aims to highlight how the exercise of ‘exceptional’ forms of power by intervening agencies impacts on the sovereign capacity of intervened states. Drawing upon...
by Sylvia Longmire
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in...