International Security category: 2908 books
by Fatemeh Shayan
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book examines changes in the Persian Gulf security complex following the United States (US) invasion of Iraq in 2003, focusing on threats to the collective identities of two religious sects - Shia and Sunni. Although there is a growing body of literature examining security in the Persian Gulf,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This volume examines the trajectory of Pakistan’s democratic transition and the implications of this change for its security.
In May 2013, for the first time in its 66-year history, Pakistan saw an elected government complete a full term in office and transfer power through the ballot box...
Living Weapons
Biological Warfare and International Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
"Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were the first weapon prohibited by an international treaty, yet the proliferation of these weapons increased after they were banned in 1972. Biological weapons are frequently called 'the poor man's atomic bomb,' yet they cannot...
by Jonathan Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In this book, top scholars of international relations assess the consequences of globalization for national security, identifying three distinct ‘processes’ of globalization - the intensification of economic exchange, the flow of information, and marketization (the expansion of the set of social...
Lessons learned - The UN's sanctions policy on Iraq from 1990 to 2003 and its implications for the future
The UN's sanctions policy on Iraq from 1990 to 2003 and its implications for the future
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,3, University of Marburg (Zentrum für Konfliktforschung), course: Seminar, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Golf-Crisis in August...
Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security
Overcoming the World Food Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security: Overcoming the World Food Crisis discusses rising energy prices, increased biofuel use, water scarcity, and the rising world population, all factors that directly affect worldwide food security. The book examines the range of approaches to promoting...
George W. Bush's Foreign Policies
Principles and Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book offers a fresh assessment of George W. Bush’s foreign policies.
It is not designed to offer an evaluation of the totality of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. Instead, the analysis will focus on the key aspects of his foreign and security policy record, in each case considering...
Russia as a Great Power
Dimensions of Security Under Putin
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
After a period of relative weakness and isolation during most of the 1990s, Russia is again appearing as a major security player in world politics. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Russia's current security situation, addressing such questions as:
What kind of player is Russia...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This new handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing naval strategy and security in the twenty-first century.
Featuring contributions from some of the world’s premier researchers and practitioners in the field of naval strategy and security, this handbook covers naval...
The Securitisation of Climate Change
Actors, Processes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses.
It analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany, Turkey, and Mexico. The empirical analysis traces how specific climate-security discourses have become dominant,...
International Terrorism Post-9/11
Comparative Dynamics and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This edited volume brings together both western and non-western approaches to counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 era.
This multi-cultural study of counter-terrorism strategies identifies common lessons from failed and successful attempts to counter the terrorist threat and provides guidelines...
Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism
Human rights perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In the name of fighting terrorism, countries have been invaded; wars have been waged; people have been detained, rendered and tortured; and campaigns for "hearts and minds" have been unleashed. Human rights analyses of the counter-terrorism measures implemented in the aftermath of 11 September 2001...
Surveillance, Privacy and Security
Citizens’ Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy–security trade-off, focusing on the citizen’s perspective.
Recent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing capabilities of surveillance technologies....
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism
U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism gathers together decades of writing by Melvyn Leffler, one of the most respected historians of American foreign policy, to address important questions about U.S. national security policy from the end of World War I to the global war on terror. Why did the United...