Georgetown University Press: 313 books
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...
Deep Currents and Rising Tides
The Indian Ocean and International Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power and the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. The security of energy supplies, persistent poverty and its contribution to political extremism, piracy, and related...
The Changing Landscape of Spanish Language Curricula
Designing Higher Education Programs for Diverse Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Spanish remains a large and constant fixture in the foreign language learning landscape in the United States. As Spanish language study has grown, so too has the diversity of students and contexts of use, placing the field in the midst of a curricular identity crisis. Spanish has become a second,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. Transforming U.S. Intelligence argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look...
American Power and Liberal Order
A Conservative Internationalist Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Paul D. Miller offers a tough minded critique of recent trends in American grand strategy. He rejects retrenchment but also the excesses of liberal internationalism. He prescribes a conservative internationalist grand strategy to preserve the American security and leadership in the world while avoiding...
Cyberspace and National Security
Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In a very short time, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, individuals, subnational groups, and governments are using cyberspace to advance interests...
Brave New Digital Classroom, Enhanced Ebook Edition
Technology and Foreign Language Learning, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Brave New Digital Classroom examines the most effective ways to utilize technology in language learning. The author deftly interweaves the latest results of pedagogical research with descriptions of the most successful computer-assisted language learning (CALL) projects to show how to implement technology...
Mission Creep
The Militarization of US Foreign Policy?
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Mission Creep: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy? examines the question of whether the US Department of Defense (DOD) has assumed too large a role in influencing and implementing US foreign policy. After the Cold War, and accelerating after September 11, the United States has drawn upon the enormous...
Peak Japan
The End of Great Ambitions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The post-Cold War era has been difficult for Japan. A country once heralded for evolving a superior form of capitalism and seemingly ready to surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy lost its way in the early 1990s. The bursting of the bubble in 1991 ushered in a period of political...
Languages in Africa
Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds...
by James B. Tubbs Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
The term bioethics was first used in the early 1970s by biologists who were concerned about ethical implications of genetic and ecological interventions, but was soon applied to all aspects of biomedical ethics, including health care delivery, research, and public policy. Its literature draws from disciplines...
Organizational Learning at NASA
The Challenger and Columbia Accidents
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The investigation...
To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond
Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second Language Ability
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond: Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second Language Ability addresses an important issue in Second Language Acquisition—how to help learners progress from Intermediate and Advanced proficiency to Superior and beyond. Due to the pressures of globalization,...
War's Ends
Human Rights, International Order, and the Ethics of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Before military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public. As they address the right or wrong of such action, it is also a time when, in the language of the just war tradition, the wise would deeply investigate their...