International Security category: 2908 books
Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East
The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Increasingly the Middle East and its growing population face a highly complex and fragile security system. The rich deposits of natural resources, such as oil and gas, suffer from a strained renewable resource base that includes water and arable land. This leads to water scarcity, desertification,...
Security Surveillance Centers
Design, Implementation, and Operation
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Unlike current books on the market that focus primarily on the technical aspects of surveillance and protection, Security Surveillance Centers: Design, Implementation, and Operation focuses on the operation of a security surveillance center. This text explains in detail the role of security surveillance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well as offering an interpretation of Russia’s coherence on the international stage, seeking to understand Russia and explain its behaviour.
The authors analyse...
Issues in Terrorism and Homeland Security
Selections From CQ Researcher
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In the tradition of nonpartisanship and current analysis that is the hallmark of CQ Press, CQ Researcher readers investigate important and controversial policy issues. The Second Edition of Issues in Terrorism and Homeland Security covers timely issues such as Terrorism and the Internet, Homeland...
Cyber Security and Policy
A substantive dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
A world without the advantages and convenience provided by cyberspace and the internet of things is now unimaginable. But do we truly grasp the threats to this massive, interconnected system? And do we really understand how to secure it? After all, cyber security is no longer just a technology problem;...
War and Ideas
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book collects the key essays, together with updating notes and commentary, of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions.
Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) are, in essence, merely ideas, and that war has waned as the notion that 'peace' is a decidedly good...
War, Torture and Terrorism
Rethinking the Rules of International Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This book seeks to demonstrate how rules not only guide a variety of practices within international politics but also contribute to the chaos and tension on the part of agents in light of the structures they sustain. Four central themes- practice, legitimacy, regulation, and responsibility- reflect...
A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management
From Home to Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management: From Home to Abroad offers a comprehensive overview of the homeland security field, examining topics such as counter-terrorism, border and infrastructure security, and emergency management. Authors Bruce Newsome and Jack Jarmon...
Human Security
Concepts and implications
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
This book, now available in paperback, traces the key evolutions in the development of the concept of human security, the various definitions and critiques, how it relates to other concepts, and what it implies for polities, politics, and policy.
Human security is an important subject for...
by David Omand
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Governments recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early twenty-first century must centre on the creation of public confidence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terrorism and proliferation, and of natural hazards such as pandemics and climate...
Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society (Open Access)
The Civilization of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
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China's International Behavior
Activism, Opportunism, and Diversification
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
China is now a global actor of significant and growing importance. It is involved in regions and on issues that were once only peripheral to its interests, and it is effectively using tools previously unavailable. China's international behavior is clearly altering the dynamics of the current international...
by Lucas Kello
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes...
Insecure Gulf
The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-oil Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Insecure Gulf examines how the concept of Arabian/Persian Gulf 'security' is evolving in response to new challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer-term. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of environmental degradation and climate change, addressing demographic...