Social Security category: 3077 books
by Martha Crenshaw, Gary LaFree
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Can We Construct a Grand Strategy to Counter Terrorism?
Fifteen years after September 11, the United States still faces terror threats-both domestic and foreign. After years of wars, ever more intensive and pervasive surveillance, enhanced security measures at major transportation centers,...
America and Iraq
Policy-making, Intervention and Regional Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict.
Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture, the book provides a broad set of reflections...
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy
India, Iraq and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.
Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international...
Nuclear Asymmetry and Deterrence
Theory, Policy and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book offers a broader theory of nuclear deterrence and examines the way nuclear and conventional deterrence interact with non-military factors in a series of historical case studies.
The existing body of literature largely leans toward the analytical primacy of nuclear deterrence and it...
Corporate Warriors
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
While the president is the commander in chief, the US Congress plays a critical and underappreciated role in civil-military relations—the relationship between the armed forces and the civilian leadership that commands it. This unique book edited by Colton C. Campbell and David P. Auerswald will help...
Healing the Wounded Giant
Maintaining Military Preeminence while Cutting the Defense Budget
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
President Barack Obama survived a tenuous economy and a toxic political environment to win re-election in 2012, but the bitter partisan divide in Washington survived as well. So did the country's huge fiscal deficit. in this, the latest in a long line of Brookings Institution analyses of the defense...
Cyber Insecurity
Navigating the Perils of the Next Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Growing dependence on cyberspace for commerce, communication, governance, and military operations has left society vulnerable to a multitude of security threats. Mitigating the inherent risks associated with the use of cyberspace poses a series of thorny public policy problems. In this volume, academics,...
The Logic of Intelligence Analysis
Why Hypothesis Testing Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book discusses the application of hypothesis testing to the practice of intelligence analysis.
By drawing on longstanding procedures of scientific method, particularly hypothesis testing, this book strongly critiques standard intelligence analytic practices. It shows these practices to...
A U.S.-Indonesia Partnership for 2020
Recommendations for Forging a 21st Century Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A U.S.-Indonesia Partnership for 2020 explores avenues to boost cooperation in all three of these pillars. Political and security relations between the United States and Indonesia have grown more robust in recent years. Trade and economic relations, while growing, remain contentious. This study assesses...
Militants, Criminals, and Warlords
The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia...
Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation
Bridging Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding.
After the experience of a physical and psychological trauma, the period of individual healing and recovery is intertwined with political and social reconciliation....
Media and War on Terror
A Study of Media Propaganda and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 77.0, University of Sheffield, course: Theory and Practice of International Relations, language: English, abstract: In 2012, at least 67 journalists had been killed...
War, Conflict and Human Rights
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative inter-disciplinary textbook, combining aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict.
This third edition has been fully revised and updated, and contains a completely new chapter...