Security

The new MAD, Massive Attacks of Disruption-and not China or Russia-are the most immediate and greatest dangers to the nation. But no one has recognized and thus acted to contain and prevent these potentially existential threats that, if left unchecked,...

Alongside the emergence of the railways in the nineteenth century came a huge expansion of docks and shipping. Worldwide demand for Welsh steam coal also saw a population explosion in the towns of Newport, Cardiff, Penarth, Barry and Swansea. Foreign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578451428Author Daniel BaggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Defense PressPublisher Defense PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This new IISS Strategic Dossier examines the recent development of Moscow's armed forces and military capabilities. It analyses the aspirations underpinning Russia's military reform programme and its successes as well as its failures. The book also...

This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis.While recent technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics...

How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central...

With the death of Professor Sir Michael Howard, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) lost not only its president emeritus but the last of its founders and intellectual parents. The foremost military historian of his generation, Sir...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815727125Author Hal BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

"Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing expose to date of the bizarre 'power games' played by multinational corporations and tycoons." -Publishers Weekly A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860792185Author The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)Format PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint International Institute for Strategic...

With a focus on the economic battlefront and in-depth analysis of the diplomatic, military, and ideological arenas, the world’s foremost expert on US-China global competition offers a rousing, strategic call to action and playbook—harvesting all of our...

The rise or resurgence of revisionist, repressive and authoritarian powers threatens the Western, US-led international order upon which Germany's post-war security and prosperity were founded. With Washington increasingly focused on China's rise in Asia,...

The widely misunderstood country of Belarus, squeezed both literally and geopolitically between Russia and the West, was typically overlooked by post–Cold War military planners until Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Now, with Russia’s latest...

African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections provokes new ways of thinking about solutions to African security—solutions that consider the eclectic and sometimes disparate natures of African conflicts and that address both their domestic and...

Traditional notions of national security have generally dominated cybersecurity debates, but the response to emerging cybersecurity issues should not merely focus on the militarization of cyberspace. Weaponizing a space heavily populated by civilians has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474467117Author Omar AshourFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Recent acts of terrorism in Britain and Europe and the events of 9/11 in the United States have greatly influenced immigration, security, and integration policies in these countries. Yet many of the current practices surrounding these issues were...

Critical Masses and Critical Choices examines American attitudes on issues of national and international security. Based on over 13,000 in-depth interviews conducted over a ten-year period, Kerry Herron and Hank Jenkins-Smith have created a unique and...

At the heart of the current Palestinian-Israeli struggle lies the question of territorial partition and the establishment of sovereignty. The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority negotiated interim borders, but new permanent checkpoints and...

This is an original work from leading international relations scholars on domestic strife, ethnic conflict, and genocide.""Handbook of War Studies III"" is a follow-up to ""Handbook of War Studies"" I (1993) and II...

Safeguarding Cultural Properties is a step-by-step guide for creating and maintaining a comprehensive security program in any cultural facility or public institution. Author Stevan P. Layne, the leading expert in the field of cultural property...

Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay...

Homeland Security: The Essentials, Second Edition concisely outlines the risks facing the US today and the structures we have put in place to deal with them. The authors expertly delineate the bedrock principles of preparing for, mitigating, managing,...

This book is a compilation of the most recent theoretically and empirically oriented research on international warfare. Some of the chapters are updated from the earlier Handbook of War Studies; most are new contributions representing new understandings...

This CSIS report asks two main questions. How is the Russian military thinking about the future of warfare? How is the Russian military thinking about force design over the next five years? The report has several findings. First, Russian military...

Peter Batchelor and Susan Willett analyse the response of the South African defence industry to drastic cuts in military expenditure and the demilitarization of society since the end of the cold war and apartheid, and the stabilization of the regional...

Although US foreign policy was largely unpopular in the early 2000s,many nation-states, especially those bordering Russia and China,expanded their security cooperation with the United States. In Alignment,Alliance, and American Grand Strategy, Zachary...

The drug trade. Crime. Terrorism. Cyber threats. In the Caribbean, these cross-border Problems Without Passports (PWPs) have shaken the very foundation of nation states. Blending case studies with regional analysis, Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith examines the...

This volume offers a set of concise and accessible introductions to the seminal figures in the historical development of the just war tradition. In what, if any, circumstances are political communities justified in going to war? And what limits should...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833085641Author Jan OsburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 204g

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As the world shifts away from the unquestioned American hegemony that followed in the wake of the Cold War, the United States is likely to face new kinds of threats and sharper resource constraints than it has in the past. However, the country's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991420919Author Massouda JalalFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Prolex PublishingPublisher Prolex PublishingWeight(grams) 470g

More than forty global leaders and activists reflect on the state of the world, and the indivisibility of lasting peace and security.Book InformationISBN 9781623719722Author Ru FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher...

Today, concerns over homeland security have led thousands of Americans to volunteer for various citizen emergency response groups, such as the Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Community Emergency Response Teams, fire units, etc. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955055802Author Hicham AlaouiFormat HardbackPage Count 397Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner PublishersWeight(grams) 363g

The murderous war in Yugoslavia brings a daily round of revulsion, with the world's press fixed on the Serbs as children of darkness. "A valiant and warlike race," Churchill called the Serbs. Certainly their reputation for war has stuck. But as...

The regime in Syria is in league with the theocrats in Iran, facilitating their access to Lebanon and to the Palestinian territories, but hints that it is open to accommodation with Israel and for a strategic bargain with the United States. In Syria...

Twenty-five years of relative calm and predictability in relations between Russia and the West enabled European governments largely to neglect their military capabilities for territorial defense and dramatically redraw Northern Europe’s multilateral,...

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...