International Security category: 2908 books
Death and security
Memory and mortality at the bombsite
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security. It considers the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman alongside literature from the sociology of death, before undertaking a comparative exploration...
Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait
In the shadow of China
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of cross-Taiwan Strait relations and the complex dynamics at play in the region.
Since the election of Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan’s president in 2008, the relationship across the Taiwan Strait—long viewed as one of Asia’s most volatile potential...
The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security
Domestic and International Ramifications
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This volume analyzes the political, economic and strategic dimensions of the recent upheavals in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring.
Mass demonstrations in many Arab states challenged the political status quo and the existing political and cultural system in the region. While it is too...
Securing Development
Public Finance and the Security Sector
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Securing Development: Public Finance and the Security Sector highlights the role of public finance in the delivery of security and criminal justice services. This book offers a framework for analyzing public financial management, financial transparency, and oversight, as well as expenditure policy issues...
Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific
Perspectives from China, India, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
In the twenty-first century, the Indo-Pacific, which spans from the western Pacific Ocean to the western Indian Ocean along the eastern coast of Africa, has emerged as a crucial geostrategic region for trade, investment, energy supplies, cooperation, and competition. It presents complex maritime security...
Application of Big Data for National Security
A Practitioner’s Guide to Emerging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Application of Big Data for National Security provides users with state-of-the-art concepts, methods, and technologies for Big Data analytics in the fight against terrorism and crime, including a wide range of case studies and application scenarios. This book combines expertise from an international...
The remaining security gap
Peace-building in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 5, University of Geneva (Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales (IUHEI)), course: UN peace operations and Human Rights, 34 entries in the bibliography,...
The Afghan War in 2013: Meeting the Challenges of Transition
The Challenges of Leadership and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges, and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance, corruption, development, security,...
Security in Africa
A Critical Approach to Western Indicators of Threat
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Security in Africa: A Critical Approach to Western Indicators of Threat questions the dominant Western narrative of security threats in Africa. Based on an analysis traditional security studies and Western security policy, it argues that commonly used indicators are based on mainstream security studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Although the events that have come to be known as 9/11 happened over a decade ago, lingering effects from the tragedy remain in the everyday life of the US and Canada today. This special volume explores these effects, investigating how 9/11 and its aftermath have changed political and cultural discourses...
Nuclear Terrorism
Countering the Threat
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This volume aims to improve understanding of nuclear security and the prevention of nuclear terrorism.
Nuclear terrorism is perceived as one of the most immediate and extreme threats to global security today. While the international community has made important progress in securing fissile...
The Emergency State
America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
**Editor’s Choice, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Ambitious and valuable” --WASHINGTON POST**
America is trapped in a state of war that has consumed our national life since before Pearl Harbor. Over seven decades and several bloody wars, Democratic and Republican politicians alike...
Socio-Political Order and Security in the Arab World
From Regime Security to Public Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book examines the connection between socio-politics and security in the Arab World. In an effort to understand the social and political developments that have been on-going in the Arab World since the 1990s, culminating in the Arab Spring, Krieg moves beyond liberal deterministic assumptions...
US-Japan-North Korea Security Relations
Irrepressible Interests
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book examines the major security and related issues between the United States, Japan and North Korea (officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - DPRK).
Although focusing mainly on current issues, this book also provides sufficient historical background to enable readers...