Security

Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict regions, amount to strategic challenges for the state...

This book offers the first multi-case analysis of the politics of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU, including studies on Central Europe, the Balkans and Cyprus. Tesser explains the politics of minority return in a post-national Europe, with particular...

This book is about the strategic relevance of quantum technologies. It debates the military-specific aspects of this technology. Various chapters of this book cohere around two specific themes. The first theme discusses the global pattern of ongoing...

This book brings together an impressive range of academic and intelligence professional perspectives to interrogate the social, ethical and security upheavals in a world increasingly driven by data. Written in a clear and accessible style, it offers...

Based on extensive Japanese-language materials, this book is the first to examine the development of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force. It addresses: how the GSDF was able to emerge as the post-war successor of the Imperial Japanese Army despite Japan's...

This book examines the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis and applies lessons from there to the national security realm. It rethinks the way risk contributes to strategy, with insights relevant to practitioners and scholars in...

This book provides a pre-history of Russia's war on Ukraine and Europe’s relations to it, illuminating the deep roots of the EU’s neighbourhood crisis as well as the migration crises the Union created in the last decade. To do so, the book employs a new...

This book begins with an account of the evolution of improvised explosive devices using a number of micro case studies to explore how and why actors have initiated IED campaigns; how new and old technologies and expertise have been exploited and how...

During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of...

In this book, the authors explore the controversial Iranian nuclear programme through the conceptual lens of nuclear hedging. In 2002, revelations regarding undeclared nuclear facilities thrust Iran's nuclear activities under the spotlight and...

This book examines the convergence of conservation and security efforts along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. The author presents a unique analysis of the history of Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, a federally protected border wilderness area...

This book conceptualizes Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) as part of a global cosmopolitan agenda, drawing on the work of Jurgen Habermas, and argues that R2P is reflective of a shift towards a more cosmopolitan approach to human protection. The...

This book provides an understanding of Russia's geopolitical strategic interests as well as a larger picture of its political realities. It shares insights on how to understand and solve the problems affecting US-Russian relations and the world.The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410217448Author Dr Jeffrey RecordFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11, 2001, few issues have been more hotly debated than the United States' role in the world. In this hard-nosed but sophisticated examination, Colin S. Gray argues that America is the...

This book aids any researcher, policymakers and military personnel in researching small states and militaries, European defence and security policy, as well as contemporary and emerging threats. This edited collection gathers academic commentators on...

This expert's view into the strategic directions, tactics, leaders, and significant attacks connected to Chechen and North Caucasus terrorists examines the network's operations as well as the success of Russia's counterterrorist responses. This...

The protection of the homeland is the top priority for U.S. national security strategy. Strategic defense, however, has been an overlooked dimension in the vast literature on the U.S. strategic posture, with even less attention given to the necessity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780397276Author Tammy S. SchultzFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Books Express PublishingPublisher Books Express PublishingWeight(grams) 288g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780397986Author Volker C. FrankeFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Books Express PublishingPublisher Books Express PublishingWeight(grams) 643g

This study captures the attitudes and values of the youth generation of college students in the USA toward the military, war, national defence, and foreign policy matters. Providing a unique insight into civilian and military Millenials, the authors...

While the deterrence of cyber attacks is one of the most important issues facing the United States and other nations, the application of deterrence theory to the cyber realm is problematic. This study introduces cyber warfare and reviews the challenges...

Facing Down the Soviet Union reveals for the first time the historic deliberations regarding the Chevaline upgrade to Britain's Polaris force, the decisions to procure the Trident C-4 and then D-5 system from the Americans in 1980 and 1982. It also...

The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics, but sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394915664Author Anil ChopraFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint K W Publishers Pvt LtdPublisher K W Publishers Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391490560Author Pk MallickFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint K W Publishers Pvt LtdPublisher K W Publishers Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 826gDimensions(mm)...

This book examines the current phase of world order transition in the Atlantic area, focusing on Europe and Northern America, Asia, and Africa. In particular, it describes four processes of world order transition, namely the decreasing American...

This study aims to show that current thinking about the role of resources in war, and as a component of military potential in peacetime, relies on notions derived from historical experience and changes in the nature of warfare, not least the advent of...

Taking its departure in the concept of strategic culture, this book answers the question of why European countries decide either to participate or not in international military operations. This volume examines strategic culture and its relation to...

This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses. TEC has become one of the greatest threats to environmental and human security today, as well...

The contributors to this text discuss the cases for and against the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel elements to remove the plutonium from them.Book InformationISBN 9781349116959Author Dr. Frank BarnabyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Palgrave...

Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanotech, robotics, cyberwar, human enhancement, and, non-lethal weapons, weaving a historical, legal, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780391434Author Matthew MotenFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Books Express PublishingPublisher Books Express PublishingWeight(grams) 507g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735579702Author Todd A WeilerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Todd A. WeilerPublisher Todd A. WeilerWeight(grams) 152g

Differentiation from the Self has been a unifying feature of war stories since they were first told highlighting that war stories are about the production of identity. Based on analysis of military documents, this book aims to unravel some of the...

This book examines the nexus between maritime security and the 'blue economy' in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, maritime security issues have received increasing attention, but academic and policy-related discussions are largely limited to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383649440Author G S SachdevaFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint KW Publishers Pvt LtdPublisher KW Publishers Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 490g

This book demonstrates that civil-military relations have evolved beyond symbiosis to quasi-institutionalization in post-Deng Xiaoping China. As the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is a Leninist party-army, it is commonly assumed that the relationship...

This book traces changes in the concept of security in Asia from realist to cooperative, comprehensive, and human security approaches, and assesses a number of policy alternatives to management of both old and new security threats. It surveys not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410220943Author Benjamin B FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...