International Security category: 2908 books
by Karina Oborune
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A-, University of Basel (Europainstitute), course: Mediation, language: English, abstract: In the last fifteen years performance of mediators in the circumstances of lack...
Security Governance in East Africa
Pictures of Policing from the Ground
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This collection of cases from East Africa, contributed largely by locally-based authors, explores the increasing security governance phenomenon in the region: that is, the mix of state and non-state actors, including private entities, volunteer auxiliaries, homegrown vigilantes and gangs, and the...
Strategic Security Public Protection
Implications of the Boko Haram Conflict for Creating Active Security & Intelligence DNA-Architecture for Conflict-Torn Societies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book explores the theory and practice of security conflict intervention by examining the experience of the Boko Haram security assault conflict. Through an examination of the realities of conflict it provides pragmatic approaches to strategic security and suggests ways to create practical security...
Fuels Paradise
Seeking Energy Security in Europe, Japan, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In recent years, the efforts of nations to promote energy security have been hotly debated. Fuels Paradise examines how five major developed democracies—Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States—have sought to enhance their energy security since the oil shocks of the 1970s and in...
Global Data Shock
Strategic Ambiguity, Deception, and Surprise in an Age of Information Overload
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Intelligence and security communities have access to an overwhelming amount of information. More data is better in an information-hungry world, but too much data paralyzes individual and institutional abilities to process and use information effectively. Robert Mandel calls this phenomenon "global...
Security, Risk and the Biometric State
Governing Borders and Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life.
In the wake of the events of 9/11, the reliance on increasingly sophisticated and invasive technologies across a burgeoning field of applications...
Jihad as Grand Strategy
Islamist Militancy, National Security, and the Pakistani State
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Islamist militants based in Pakistan have played a major role in terrorism around the world and pose a significant threat to regional and international security. Although the Pakistan-militant connection has received widespread attention only in recent years, it is not a new phenomenon. Pakistan has,...
Securing the Sacred
Religion, National Security, and the Western State
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Western nations have increasingly recognized religion as a consideration in domestic and foreign policy. In this empirical comparison of the securitization of Islam in Britain, France, and the United States, Robert M. Bosco argues that religion is...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
This book argues that security and defense have never been true priorities in the European Union, and have constantly been marginalized by the elites since the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact disintegrated. Despite the official rhetoric, only a few tangible results can be presented concerning...
by M. Kent Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Since September 11, 2001, the White House—under both Bush and Obama—has pushed the envelope of taking the United States to war (without declarations), interrogating prisoners of war, spying on potential threats, and acting unilaterally. Why have these trends occurred? How has the apex of foreign...
by Gordon B. Greer
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, American citizens within the United States constantly worry about security against future terrorist attacks. But author Gordon Greer delves further into this subject by trying to understand why the general public is so intent on the ramifications of security...
Homeland Security in Europa - Ein mögliches Konzept oder Utopie?
Ein mögliches Konzept oder Utopie?
Language: German
Release Date: December 27, 2006
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: Sehr Gut, Universität Wien (Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Forschungsseminar, 19 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nach den Anschlägen...
The Fight
A Secret Service Agent's Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The New York Times bestseller!
"The Fight shines a much needed light on the troubling games DC politicians and insiders play with the American people." -Sean Hannity
"The Fight is a lesson plan for fighting back against the Washington DC political machine." - Mark...
An Introduction to Non-Traditional Security Studies
A Transnational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
With the end of the Cold War, threats to national security have become increasingly non-military in nature. Issues such as climate change, resource scarcity, infectious diseases, natural disasters, irregular migration, drug trafficking, information security and transnational crime have come to the...