International Security category: 2908 books
The US NATO Debate
From Libya to Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Since the Libya War in 2011 it has been widely suggested that NATO's role in US security policy has diminished, because Washington gives Europe less and Asia more strategic priority (a tendency that is reinforced by budget restraints), and because the US is no longer interested in always leading NATO...
New Energy, New Geopolitics
Background Report 2: Geopolitical and National Security Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The second background report in the New Energy, New Geopolitics series, this report evaluates the geopolitical and national security impacts of the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States. It examines how the unconventional energy trend has already...
by Christina Perkins, Erin Nealer
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The Northern Triangle of Latin America, consisting of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, has experienced overwhelming challenges to economic growth and development. Gang violence is the root of many of these challenges, and the cost of hiring security forces for individuals and businesses creates...
A Dangerous World?
Threat Perception and U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In 2013, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey stated that the world is “more dangerous than it has ever been.” Is this accurate? Do we live in a world that is uniquely dangerous? Is it possible that the many threats and dangers promoted by policymakers and the media are exaggerated...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
This thoughtful book provides a much-needed look at the vulnerabilities and security of our nation's water sources. Written as a result of 9/11 and in response to the critical needs of water/wastewater plant managers, plant engineers, design engineers, and utility managers, it addresses the need to...
China and the Middle East Since World War II
A Bilateral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book examines Sino-Middle Eastern relations on a bilateral level since World War II. It highlights the depth of China’s involvement in the region with each country on a five dimensional approach: energy security, trade relations, political relations, arms sales/security cooperation, and cultural...
Democracy Betrayed
The Rise of the Surveillance Security State
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
**“A persuasive *****cri de coeur ***from a national security expert . . . makes a spirited case for preferring untrammeled freedom to managed and monitored safety.” —Kirkus Reviews
In the aftermath of 9/11, in lockstep with booming technological advancements, a new and more authoritarian...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
The eighth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Government Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise project designers, engineers, security specialists, managers, building...
Securitization and the Iraq War
The rules of engagement in world politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book critiques the conceptualization of security found in mainstream and critical theoretical debates, and applies this to the empirical case of the 2003 Iraq War.
The Iraq War represents one of the most puzzling, complex, and controversial events in the post-Cold War era. The manner in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Despite a U.S. focus on securing an international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear development for the last several years, the United States lacks a strategy to combat the full range of Iranian activities that threaten the interests of the United States and its allies but fall short of conventional warfare....
by Nicole Goldin
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The Youth, Prosperity, and Security Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in partnership with the International Youth Foundation (IYF), has developed a groundbreaking Global Youth Wellbeing Index, to elevate distinct young people’s issues and comparative status...
Policy Paper on Iran's Nuclear Program
Strategy Options for the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, University of California, San Diego (Department of Political Science), course: National Security Strategy , language: English, abstract: The Iranian nuclear...
Private Military and Security Contractors
Controlling the Corporate Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Private Military and Security Contractors (PMSCs) a multinational team of scholars and experts address a developing phenomenon: controlling the use of privatized force by states in international politics. Robust analyses of the evolving, multi-layered tapestry of formal and informal mechanisms of...
Star Spangled Security
Applying Lessons Learned over Six Decades Safeguarding America
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Harold Brown served as U.S. secretary of defense when the Soviet Union posed an existential threat with superior conventional force capability and a daunting nuclear weapons arsenal. No one could have been better suited to deter the Soviets during that most dangerous period in the Cold War.
A...