International Security category: 2908 books
Private Military and Security Companies
Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to...
by American Board for Certification in Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Sensitive security information (SSI) is a category of sensitive but unclassified information under the United States government's information sharing and control rules. SSI plays a crucial role in all types of security. It is information obtained in the conduct of security activities which, if publicly...
by Elzbieta Posluszna
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
As concerns about human treatment of the environment and animals have increased over the years, so have decentralized and extremist groups related to these causes. Environmental and Animal Rights Extremism, Terrorism, and National Security analyzes the international development of radical movements...
U.S. National Security and Foreign Policymaking After 9/11
Present at the Re-creation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
In December 2004 the 109th Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the Intelligence Reform and Intelligence Prevention Act (IRTPA). M. Kent Bolton argues that IRTPA represented a change in the trajectory of U.S. national-security policy-the first fundamental, demonstrable change since...
Biosecurity Dilemmas
Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of “biosecurity,” the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Biosecurity encompasses both the natural occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks and the use of biological weapons....
The Western European Union
International Politics Between Alliance and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This full-term study of the Western European Union (WEU) brings to life the history of Europe’s search for a co-operative security and defence order, from its post World War II origins to the present day. Establishing the WEU as a support organization, designed to promote the two security "ideas"...
Governing Borders and Security
The Politics of Connectivity and Dispersal
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book explores and maps the relationship between borders, security and global governance.
Theoretically, the book seeks to establish to what degree, and in what ways, traditional notions of borders, security and (global) governance are being eroded, undermined and contested in the context...
by Paul Shoust
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: Good, European University at St. Petersburg, course: Security and Disarmament in Europe, language: English, abstract: The world has not become safer...
Intelligence and Security Oversight
An Annotated Bibliography and Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This book presents a comprehensive source document on intelligence and security oversight and review. It compares the oversight arrangements found in nine countries—New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and South Africa. This is done through...
by Max G. Manwaring
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
This book will help civilian and military leaders, opinion makers, scholars, and interested citizens come to grips with the realities of the twenty-first-century global security arena by dissecting lessons from both the past and the present.
• Addresses the changing nature of the contemporary...
by Yared Debebe
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: Masters Level, Addis Ababa University (Peace and Security Studies), course: Human Security, language: English, abstract: In this study the causes, effects, and...
Terror, Security, and Money:Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security
Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
In seeking to evaluate the efficacy of post-9/11 homeland security expenses--which have risen by more than a trillion dollars, not including war costs--the common query has been, "Are we safer?" This, however, is the wrong question. Of course we are "safer"--the posting of a single...
Israel and Hizbollah
An asymmetric conflict in historical and comparative perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book examines the local and international dynamics and strategies that have come to define the often violent relationship between Israel and Lebanon.
Since the end of the Cold War, academic debate over the nature of war in the contemporary world has focused upon the asymmetric nature of...
Containment
Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future. His bold vision for American security in the post-September 11 world is reminiscent of George Kennan's historic "Long Telegram,"...