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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars.
Over the past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and least understood areas of international policy-making....
Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security
Safeguarding the Responsibility to Protect
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the international community is increasingly called upon to...
Beyond the Security Dilemma
Ending America's Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2001. The security dilemma has long been at the heart of the security studies discipline. Moving beyond this, this book attacks the assumptions of the traditional concept and redefines the security dilemma in a way more useful for examining security policy. By exposing...
The National Security Enterprise
Navigating the Labyrinth, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
This second edition of The National Security Enterprise provides practitioners’ insights into the operation, missions, and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process. Unlike some textbooks on...
Diplomacy and Security Community-Building
EU Crisis Management in the Western Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book contributes to the ongoing debate in IR on the role of security communities and formulates a new mechanism-based analytical framework.
It argues that the question we need to ask is how security communities work at a time when armed conflicts among states have become significantly...
Understanding Cybersecurity
Emerging Governance and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Over the last decade, the internet and cyber space has had a phenomenal impact on all parts of society, from media and politics to defense and war. Governments around the globe have started to develop cyber security strategies, governance and operations to consider cyberspace as an increasingly important...
by Matthew Sussex
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Much scholarly attention has been paid to the United States' response to the events of 9/11. This timely volume broadens our understanding of the impact of the attacks by considering instead their consequences for European security and for the relationship between the US and leading European states....
by Shanthie Mariet D'Souza, Rajshree Jetly
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This book is a collection of speeches and lectures delivered by political luminaries, practitioners and noted scholars on South Asian security at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
It offers interesting insights on the emerging security dynamics of South...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Across East Asia, intra-regional migration is more prevalent than inter-regional movements, and the region’s diverse histories, geopolitics, economic development, ethnic communities, and natural environments make it an excellent case study for examining the relationship between irregular migration...
Diplomatic Security
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates. As diplomatic personnel are increasingly targeted by terrorism and political violence while overseas, sending states are augmenting host nations' security measures with their own. Protective arrangements range from deploying...
The Afghan War in 2013: Meeting the Challenges of Transition
Afghan Economics and Outside Aid
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,...
Contesting Security
Strategies and Logics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Contesting Security investigates to what extent the ‘logic of security’, which underpins securitization, can be contained, rolled back or dismantled.
Featuring legitimacy as a cement of security practices, this volume presents a detailed account of the "logic" which sustains security in...
Regulating Global Security
Insights from Conventional and Unconventional Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
This edited collection presents an innovative approach to global security regimes. Employing both conceptual and empirical studies, the volume examines three empirically-oriented sets of cases: weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian disarmament and unconventional threats. The book combines...
by Natalie Züfle
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2,1, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: International Relations Online, language: English, abstract: Uncertainty has grown considerably...