International Security category: 2908 books
Seapower
A Guide for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century.
The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds...
The Limits of Alignment
Southeast Asia and the Great Powers since 1975
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
The Limits of Alignment is an engaging and accessible study that explores how small states and middle powers of Southeast Asia ensure their security in a world where they are overshadowed by greater powers. John D. Ciorciari challenges a central concept in international relations theory—that states...
Cases on Research and Knowledge Discovery
Homeland Security Centers of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
To ensure its protection from enemies both foreign and domestic, a government must invest resources and personnel toward the goal of homeland security. It is through these endeavors that citizens are able to live out their lives in peace. Cases on Research and Knowledge Discovery: Homeland Security Centers...
Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific
Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Why does North Korea behave erratically in pursuing its nuclear weapons program? Why did the United States prefer bilateral alliances to multilateral ones in Asia after World War II? Why did China become "nice"—no more military coercion—in dealing with the pro-independence Taiwan President...
Homeland Security
An Introduction to Principles and Practice, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since formed in 2002, DHS has been at the forefront of determining and furthering some of the most hotly debated security issues facing the U.S. and global community in the 21st century. Nearly 200 university programs with undergrad and graduate majors have cropped up in the last dozen-plus years...
Eve of Destruction
The Coming Age of Preventive War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In an age of new threats to international security, the old rules of war are rapidly being discarded. The great powers are moving toward norms less restrictive of intervention, preemption, and preventive war. This evolution is taking place not only in the United States but also in many of the world's...
European Security, Terrorism and Intelligence
Tackling New Security Challenges in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage. In this collection, a series of experts discuss how the EU has shed its reputation as a weak international actor in light of its policies on police cooperation and intelligence-sharing as part of the global effort to combat terrorism
Decline of the U.S. Hegemony?
A Challenge of ALBA and a New Latin American Integration of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book analyzes ALBA’s structure and dynamics, its practicality, its medium and long-term sustainability, and its capacity to influence regional and international affairs. The work examines ALBA’s possible economic and security consequences for neighboring non-member states in the region, particularly...
Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013
Defence, Diplomacy and Development in Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone was wracked by a devastating civil war and the complete collapse of state institutions. Since then, however, the UK’s contribution to post-war reconstruction has been widely held up as an example of successful stabilisation and state-building – particularly...
by Marouf Hasian Jr., Sean Lawson, Megan D. McFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The Rhetorical Invention of America’s National Security State examines the rhetoric and discourse produced by and constitutive of America’s national security state. Hasian, Lawson, and McFarlane illustrate the importance of rhetoric to the expansion of the American national security state in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book reinforces our knowledge and understanding of the problems involved in balancing human rights protection and security concerns, considering how these human rights issues have been raised by the various international debates and policy issues which have been created by the continuing global...
The Securitization of Society
Crime, Risk, and Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even private citizens, have enforced some form of security,...
Securing Health
HIV and the Limits of Securitization
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book offers a critical inquiry into the framing of health and disease as a security issue.
In particular, the book examines what happens in the United Nations when the ostensibly ‘low’ politics of global health meet the ‘high’ politics of security, and when the logic of security...
Human Security and the Chinese State
Historical Transformations and the Modern Quest for Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Offering a fresh and unique approach to surveying the historical transformations of the Chinese state, Human Security and the Chinese State focuses on human security in contrast with the twenty-first century obsession with national security. Building upon Hobbes' Leviathan, Robert Bedeski demonstrates...