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The Hacked World Order
How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
In this updated edition of The Hacked World Order, cybersecurity expert Adam Segal offers unmatched insight into the new, opaque global conflict that is transforming geopolitics.
For more than three hundred years, the world wrestled with conflicts between nation-states, which wielded military...
The Honored Dead
A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes—but if anything has become clear, it’s that our understanding of the region remains shrouded and incomplete. The seeds of revolution, radicalism, and—possibly—reform...
Libya's Post-Qaddafi Transition
The Nation-Building Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
A year after Qaddafi's death, the light-footprint approach adopted for Libya's postwar transition is facing its most serious test. Security, the political transition, and economic development all present challenges. But if Libya's transitional authorities and the international community handle this...
Somalia - A Model for Collapsed State
A Model for Collapsed State
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,3, University of Potsdam (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät ), course: State Failure, Crisis, and Conflict Management, 11 entries in the bibliography,...
by Martin Weiser
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1, Charles University in Prague, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The conflict in Darfur has been repeatedly described as one of the worst...
The American Warfare State
The Domestic Politics of Military Spending
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
How is it that the United States—a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power—came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high levels of military...
A New Era in U.S.-Vietnam Relations
Deepening Ties Two Decades after Normalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
A New Era of U.S.-Vietnam Relations examines the history of the relationship and offers concrete recommendations for policymakers in both countries to deepen cooperation across each major area of the relationship: political and security ties, trade and economic linkages, and people-to-people connections.
Tyranny of Consensus
Discourse and Dissent in American National Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Why does the most highly advanced industrial country, commanding unparalleled access to vast sources of global intelligence and information, seem to so often miscalculate the realities and risks of its foreign interventions? In Tyranny of Consensus, Janne E. Nolan examines three cases—the Islamic...
Irish Republican Terrorism and Politics
A Comparative Study of the Official and the Provisional IRA
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This book examines the post-ceasefire evolutions and histories of the main Irish republican terrorist factions, and the interconnected character of politics and militarism within them.
Offering the first comparative study of the two leading Irish republican terrorist movements the Official...
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the cybersecurity...
Is America Safe?
Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Emergency Preparedness
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
As potential targets, such as military facilities, symbols of democracy, government buildings, and infrastructure are 'hardened' against possible terrorist attack, terrorists will shift to softer targets: churches, schools, malls, mass entertainment centers, high-rise apartments, transportation centers,...
The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War
The State-Private Network
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War.
By moving beyond state-dominated, ‘top-down’ interpretations of international relations and exploring instead the engagement and mobilization of whole societies...
Walking Away from Terrorism
Accounts of Disengagement from Radical and Extremist Movements
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
This accessible new book looks at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process.
Focusing on the tipping points for disengagement from groups such as Al Qaeda, the IRA and the UVF, this volume is informed by the...
by Priya Dixit, Jacob L. Stump
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This book shows how to use a range of critical approaches to conduct research on terrorism.
Featuring the work of researchers who have already utilized these methods to study terrorism, it includes a diverse range of critical methodological approaches – including discourse analysis, feminist,...