International Security category: 2908 books
Security and Climate Change
International Relations and the Limits of Realism
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This new book explains why the international community has responded with a sense of fatalistic passivity to climate change.
It presents a distinct critique of realism through the study of this topic, commonly overlooked in international relations. The author argues that the realist view rests...
Global Security Governance
Competing Perceptions of Security in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
This book demarcates the barriers and pathways to major power security cooperation and provides an empirical analysis of threat perception among the world’s major powers.
Divided into three parts, Emil Kirchner and James Sperling use a common analytical framework for the changing security...
The Supply Side of Security
A Market Theory of Military Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services. At the international level, the market for these contracts is shaped by how many countries can supply security.
Tongfi Kim identifies the supply of policy concessions and military commitments...
Future Security of the Global Arctic
State Policy, Economic Security and Climate
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In the globalized Arctic there has been a transformation from military security to human security. Climate change, the utilization of Arctic resources and other global challenges have caused the Arctic 'paradox' and a need to redefine security.
by Patrick C. Coaty
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Small state behavior has been largely ignored by academics in both international relations and strategic/intelligence studies. Yet, when we analyze the root causes of war, insurrections, rebellions, revolutions and general sociological human behavior, it is the small state actors that are usually...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
The Arctic-Barents Region is facing numerous pressures from a variety of sources, including the effect of environmental changes and extractive industrial developments. The threats arising out of these pressures result in human security challenges.
This book analyses the formation, and promotion,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This book reveals how the idea of human security, combined with other human-centric norms, has been embraced, criticized, modified and diffused in East Asia (ASEAN Plus Three). Once we zoom in to the regional space of East Asia, we can see a kaleidoscopic diversity of human security stakeholders and...
by Wasihun S. Gutema
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, , language: English, abstract: The purpose of this research is to examine how the 2014 Ebola crisis affected women in West Africa from a human security perspective. The...
American National Security Policy
Authorities, Institutions, and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Security policy is a key factor not only of domestic politics in the U.S., but also of foreign relations and global security. This text sets to explain the process of security policy making in the United States by looking at all the elements that shape it, from institutions and legislation to policymakers...
The Arab-U.S. Strategic Partnership and the Changing Security Balance in the Gulf
Joint and Asymmetric Warfare, Missiles and Missile Defense, Civil War and Non-State Actors, and Outside Powers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The ongoing confrontation with Iran, the war against ISIL, the instability in Iraq, the Civil war in Syria, and the conflict in Yemen have all caused major changes in the security situation in the Persian Gulf and in the regional military balance. The strategic partnership between Arab Gulf states,...
Afghanistan After the Drawdown
U.S. Civilian Engagement in Afghanistan Post-2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Three primary factors will define post-2014 Afghanistan: security, governance and economic growth. Security is uncertain at best, notwithstanding the optimistic public projections of the U.S. military leaders. Reasonably, decent governance will depend on the security environment. Afghanistan has had...
by James A. Lewis, Denise E. Zheng, William A. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
The Internet has become central to global economic activity, politics, and security, and the security environment has changed recently, as we face much more aggressive state actors in espionage. Terrorists and criminals find creative ways to leverage the latest technologies to evade security and privacy...
Safeguarding Cultural Properties
Security for Museums, Libraries, Parks, and Zoos
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Safeguarding Cultural Properties is a step-by-step guide for creating and maintaining a comprehensive security program in any cultural facility or public institution. Author Stevan P. Layne, the leading expert in the field of cultural property protection, draws from his many years of experience providing...
Absorptive Capacity in the Security and Justice Sectors
Assessing Obstacles to Success in the Donor-Recipient Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
In development, stabilization, and peace building, donors increasingly recognize the importance of being sensitive to the local contexts of their efforts. Yet the use of “blueprints” remains widespread. Even when standard approaches are modified for particular aid partners, there often remains...