Security

This volume recommends an integrated programme of strategy, policy, arms-control negotiations and nuclear deployments to foster the necessary co-operation between America and other countries, while retaining strong nuclear deterrence as the foundation of...

Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror and other irregular methods of fighting, have led commentators to speak of 'new wars'. They have assumed that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876093764Author Princeton N LymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Council on Foreign Relations PressPublisher Council on Foreign Relations...

As the Internet diffuses across the globe, many have come to believe that the technology poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. Grounded in the Internet's early libertarian culture and predicated on anecdotes pulled from diverse political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333432099Author Clive RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 424g

For nearly fifty years, including the decade and a half since the end of the Cold War, deterrence has remained the central nuclear arms control policy between the United States, Russia, and other principal nuclear powers. The question today is: Has the...

Providing an unbiased analysis of the past, present, and future of the hostile relationship between Iran, Israel, and the United States, this book presents an up-to-date discussion of the security implications for each of the two states as well as the...

Experts explore the sources of contemporary terrorism, what terrorists want, and how the United States and other countries should respond. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, scholars and policy analysts in national security have turned their...

This report from the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development looks at the domestic resource mobilization (DRM) reforms in developing countries through a political economy lens. As countries mobilize more resources to fund their governments and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288210Author Andrew W NealFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This in-depth study provides a timely assessment of how the foreign, military, and security policies of Venezuela shape relations with the United States in the Chavez era. The growing importance of Venezuela in the global oil market along with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333359686Author Geoffrey TillFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 394g

The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice is an original contribution to the general theory of strategy. While heavily indebted to Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and the very few other classic authors, this book presents the theory, rather than merely...

When the Senate released its so-called "Torture Report " in December 2014 the world would learn that, for years, the CIA had used unimaginably brutal methods to interrogate its prisoners - often without yielding any useful or truthful...

Based on a conference at West Point, this volume explores the national security policies developed by the Truman and Eisenhower administrations in response to the threat of Soviet expansionism. More pointed and analytic than any other book on the...

A review of the full range of recent official and non-official schemes for improving NATO's conventional posture, from exploitation of emerging technologies to non-provocative defences, in the light of prevailing military, political, economic and...

Accumulating Insecurity examines the relationship between two vitally important contemporary phenomena: a fixation on security that justifies global military engagements and the militarization of civilian life, and the dramatic increase in day-to-day...

The essays collected in Global Dangers provide both conceptual analysis and empirical assessment of the environment, migration, and nationalism as sources of conflict. The East-West confrontation that dominated the international security agenda during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898758535Author Jeffrey SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

A collection of essays on British and American maritime relationships in the 20th century together with details on the British organization of warfare, Anglo-American maritime theory, their rivalries and coalitions and their plans for dealing with a...

The dramatic declaration by U.S. President George W. Bush that, in light of the attacks on 9/11, the United States would henceforth be engaging in "preemption" against such enemies as terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction forced a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333340882Author Gerald SegalFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 232g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826414151Author Wendy BarnabyFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Continnuum-3PLPublisher Continnuum-3PLWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806139883Author John T FishelFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 431g

In the first book to focus on civil-military tensions after American wars, Thomas Langston challenges conventional theory by arguing that neither civilian nor military elites deserve victory in this perennial struggle. What is needed instead, he...

The concept of 'radicalization' is now used to account for all forms of violent and non-violent political Islam. Used widely within the security services and picked up by academia, the term was initially coined by the General Intelligence and Security...

On the afternoon of September 11 2001 the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), Bertie Ahern ordered the 'heads of the security services of key government departments' to undertake a complete re-evaluation of measures to protect the state from attack. Hence,...

Until now little attention has been paid to the development of military capabilities designed to target food crops with biological warfare agents. This book represents the first substantive study of state-run activities in this field. It shows that all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333414118Author John DewarFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 355g

Setting the terms for an effective public debate on nuclear issues, this provides essays and excerpts from longer works that have charted the development of American nuclear strategy. Each section ends with questions for study and analysis with suggested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333193693Author B. R. TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 286g

This timely and important work offers an in-depth analysis of the existence-or nonexistence-of a nexus between international terrorism and drug trafficking emanating from Afghanistan. The Nexus: International Terrorism and Drug Trafficking from...

This volume provides a concise introduction to the issues and debates regarding modern piracy, including naval operations, law, and diplomacy, and focuses on the recent surge of attacks off the coasts of Africa and Asia. In the past decade, the incidence...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Japan's national security institutions and policy today, including a detailed discussion of Japan's regional security environment and its alliance with the United States in the context of the Democratic Party...

This comprehensive account examines the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)-the most significant Muslim militant group in China-including its origins, objectives, ideology, leadership, and tactics. To effectively engage China on counterterrorism...

This book offers an expert analysis of Russia's foreign and military defense policies since the Federation was established in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. To help readers understand the current state of this crucially important...

The need for drastic change in American foreign policy is clear, argues Etzioni, and he proposes an approach that is both pragmatic and morally sound "Rarely have more profound changes in American foreign policy been called for than today,"...

Security depends on intelligence. A leading authority discusses basic problems in American intelligence and how to fix them William E. Odom is the highest-ranking member of the United States Intelligence community ever to write a book outlining...

An overview of offense-defense theory, which argues that the relative ease of offense and defense varies in international politics. Offense-defense theory argues that the relative ease of offense and defense varies in international politics. When the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262522021Author Michael E. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 541Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 771g