International Security category: 2908 books
European Recovery and the Search for Western Security, 1946-1948
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This volume documents the British Government’s response from mid-1946 to early 1948 to the twin challenges of economic recovery and the search for a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence.
Although...
Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy
The strategic use of a concept
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book examines the use of concepts – specifically ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD) – in US foreign policy discourse.
Current analysis of WMD definition has made headway into identifying the repercussions that the conceptual conflation of such diverse weapons – typically understood...
High Stakes and Stakeholders
Oil Conflict and Security in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producing country. Oil generates enormous wealth but also extensive and devastating conflict in the country. High Stakes and Stakeholders critically explores the oil conflict in Nigeria, its evolution, dynamics and most significantly, the interplay and consequences...
The Globalization of NATO
Intervention, Security and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
This book examines NATO’s transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.
Originally, NATO bound the western allies together for the...
NATO and Collective Defence in the 21st Century
An Assessment of the Warsaw Summit
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book presents a cutting-edge assessment of NATO's collective defence strategies in the immediate aftermath of the July 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit.
Collective defence and deterrence came back on the agenda at the 2014 Wales Summit following the Russian annexation of Crimea, and was in many...
New Energy, New Geopolitics
Balancing Stability and Leverage
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This report evaluates the energy and geopolitical shifts that have arisen from the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States. It begins by assessing how much the unconventional energy trend has already impacted energy, geopolitics, and national security. The report then posits...
by Marco Boggero
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China’s negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria’s first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit...
Climate Change and National Security
A Country-Level Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional and global order through the year 2030. In profiles...
European-American Relations and the Middle East
From Suez to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book examines the evolution of European-American relations with the Middle East since 1945.
Placing the current transatlantic debates on the Middle East into a broader context, this work analyses how, why, and to what extent European and US roles, interests, threat perceptions, and policy...
Security at a Price
The International Politics of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This volume in the Weapons of Mass Destruction series makes the case that the United States’ expansive missile defence policy has eroded both its own security and that of its allies. These findings are based on an examination of the response of a number of key states to U.S. policy, including Russia,...
India's Rise as an Asian Power
Nation, Neighborhood, and Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
India’s Rise as an Asian Power examines India’s rise to power and the obstacles it faces in the context of domestic governance and security, relationships and security issues with its South Asian neighbors, and international relations in the wider Asian region. Instead of a straight-line projection...
The Value of Resilience
Securing life in the twenty-first century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The Value of Resilience represents one of the first systematic studies of resilience in the field of security studies. At the turn of the twenty-first century, resilience has become a ‘buzz-word’ within fields as diverse as network engineering, ecosystems management, child psychology and military...
Nuclear Energy and Global Governance
Ensuring Safety, Security and Non-proliferation
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The book considers the implications of the nuclear energy revival for global governance in the areas of safety, security and non-proliferation.
Increased global warming, the energy demands of China, India and other emerging economic powerhouses and the problems facing traditional and alternative...
The Strategist
Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Based on the full cooperation of the subject-with no restraining conditions-The Strategist provides an in-depth portrait of a man whose career has been intimately linked to the great transformations in U.S. foreign policy, from the last third of the Cold War, to September 11, 2001, and up to the present....