Social Security category: 3077 books
Western Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis
A Study in Conflict Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book explores contemporary propaganda and mainstream Western news media, with reference to the Ukraine crisis.
It examines Western media narratives of the immediate causes of the crisis, the respective roles of those who participated in or otherwise supported the demonstrations of 2013–2014...
Enforcing the Peace
Learning from the Imperial Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Anarchy makes it easy for terrorists to set up shop. Yet the international community has been reluctant to commit the necessary resources to peacekeeping—with devastating results locally and around the globe. This daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations...
Political Economy of Statebuilding
Power after Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This volume examines and evaluates the impact of international statebuilding interventions on the political economy of conflict-affected countries over the past 20 years. It focuses on countries that are emerging, or have recently emerged, from periods of war and protracted conflict. The interventions...
Russian Cyber Activity – The Grizzly Steppe Report
Official Joint Analysis Report: Tools and Hacking Techniques Used to Interfere the U.S. Elections and to exploit Government and Private Sectors (Includes Recommended Mitigation Strategies)
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2017
This analysis report provides information and gives insight into the activities of the Russian civilian and military intelligence Services (RIS) conducted during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign. The Grizzly Steppe Report provides details regarding the tools and hacking techniques used...
by Tatiana Mitrova
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Russia is one of the world’s largest hydrocarbon resource holders, producers, and exporters, but it is undergoing an uncertain economic and energy transition. An economic slowdown, the dual shocks of a sharp decline in oil prices and the imposition of finance and technology-oriented sanctions, shifting...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Written in accordance with the President's 2003 homeland security directive and the Department of Education's guidelines, and in response to the ever-present threats facing our school systems, this book helps schools and institutions develop a comprehensive emergency response plan. This book outlines...
A New Approach to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Best Practices for Security, Nonproliferation, and Sustainable Nuclear Energy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
The Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Center for Strategic and International Studies joined to launch the New Approaches to the Fuel Cycle project. This project sought to build consensus on common goals, address practical challenges, and engage a spectrum of actors that influence policymaking regarding...
by George David Banks, Michael Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The United States is at risk of finding its nuclear weapons capabilities severely weakened by the absence of an available capability to enrich uranium. International legal obligations prohibit the United States from using, for military purposes, foreign-produced enriched uranium or uranium enriched...
The Second Nuclear Age
Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable."
The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat...
Nuclear Proliferation and International Order
Challenges to the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century.
Despite the fact that most countries in the world have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) there is growing concern that the NPT is in serious trouble and may not be...
Stable Nuclear Zero
The Vision and its Implications for Disarmament Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This volume examines the conditions necessary for a stable nuclear-weapons-free world and the implications for nuclear disarmament policy.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a road map to nuclear zero, but it is a rudimentary one and it says nothing about the kind of zero to aim...
Rethinking the Bomb
Europe and Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The question of what Europe’s nuclear strategy should be is rarely discussed. While Europe continues to play a crucial role on issues relating to non-proliferation, particularly in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, nuclear strategy is generally considered to be within remit of Russia,...
by Jeffrey A. Larsen, Kerry M. Kartchner
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer "rogue" states in the international system. The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century argue that a time may come when...
Nuclear Scholars Initiative
A Collection of Papers from the 2013 Nuclear Scholars Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The 2013 class of Nuclear Scholars, selected from a very competitive applicant pool, contained some of the best and brightest young professionals in the nuclear field. Drawn from graduate programs, the national labs, the civil service, and the U.S. military, these Nuclear Scholars participated in...