Учебное пособие для студентов вузов. — М.: Аспект Пресс, 2007. — 318 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7567-0411-2. Первое отечественное учебное пособие по всему комплексу современной военно-политической безопасности, которое призвано дать целостное представление о разнообразных процессах в этой области. Анализ ведущих тенденций формирования новой системы международной безопасности в наши дни...
Под ред. А.В. Возженикова. — М.: Эксмо, 2007. — 528 с. — ISBN 5-699-19788-5. Авторы книги — ученые и эксперты по вопросам обеспечения национальной безопасности, борьбы с религиозным экстремизмом и терроризмом. В географическом плане работа охватывает разные регионы мира — Европу, Ближний, Средний и Дальний Восток, Центральную и Южную Азию, Кавказ. Исследуются причины...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 570 p. This book develops the idea that, since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS-Europe,...
М.: КноРус, 2011. - 496 с. Рассмотрены особенности современных международных отношений, роль и место в них военной силы. Раскрыта современные взгляды на войны и военные конфликты, их сущность и классификационные признаки, подходы к анализу военно-политической обстановки. Подробно освещены вопросы военной безопасности стран и структурные элементы системы ее обеспечения, в том...
Челябинск: Социум, 2007. — 408 с. — ISBN 978-5-901901-72-4, 0-465-01610-3
Книга ведущего перуанского экономиста Э. де Сото, с 1989 года экономического советника Президента Перу, начавшего рыночные реформы в охваченной гражданской войной, отсталой и нищей стране, была буквально бестселлером в 80-е годы не только в Перу, но и во всей Латинской Америке. Де Сото сумел на громадном...
СПб.: Питер, 2016. — 400 с. — ISBN: 978-5-496-01957-6. Новая книга автора многих бестселлеров и правильных геополитических прогнозов Джорджа Фридмана («Следующие 100 лет»), содержащая интересные высказывания о грядущих событиях в Европе. В этом провоцирующем жаркие споры исследовании рассматриваются «точки возгорания» — те геополитические горячие точки, в которых на протяжении...
Монография. М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2010. – 107 с. Монография посвящена актуальным проблемам европейской безопасности.
Рассматривается специфика политики в области обороны и безопасности в Европейском союзе и в России. Понимание вопросов международной безопасности в ЕС и России проанализировано с учетом деятельности ведущих международных организаций евроатлантического региона. Особое...
Учебное пособие для студентов высших учебных заведений. В 2-х томах. — Под общ. ред. В. А. Орлова. — 2-е изд., переработанное и расширенное. — М.: ПИР-Центр, 2002. — 528 с. В первом томе подробно представлены история создания ядерного оружия, становление международного режима ядерного нераспространения, международно-правовые аспекты, детали дипломатической борьбы, особенности...
М.: Экон-Информ, 2009. — 124 с. Работа подготовлена на основе ряда исследований под эгидой Института современного развития в связи с особой важностью и актуальностью тематики обновления архитектуры европейской безопасности. Основной упор сделан на «аудите» проблем, имеющих отношение к обеспечению безопасности в Евро-Атлантическом регионе, на разработке соответствующих...
Oxford University Press, 2005. 461 p. Geopolitics - the view that geography creates its own enduring strategic logic that states ignore at their peril - seems antiquated in these postcolonial days. The military importance of distance has been challenged by advances in the means of transport and communication and by the range of modern weapons. Nor does geopolitics fit well with...
Учебное пособие для студентов высших учебных заведений. В 2-х томах. — Под общ.ред. В.А. Орлова. — 2-е издание, переработанное и расширенное. — М.: ПИР-Центр, 2002. — 560 с. Во втором томе учебного пособия "Ядерное нераспространение" представлены полностью или в сокращенном виде основные документы, характеризующие международно-правовые и политические аспекты по проблемам...
Routledge, 2007. — 306 p.
War, Peace and International Relations is an introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, years which were shaped and reshaped by wars. The book shows that war is not only about warfare – the military conduct of war – but is crucial to the political, social and cultural behaviour of states.
Written by leading strategist Professor...
Harper Collins publishers 2002
In Statecraft, Margaret Thatcher, a unique world figure, discusses global military, political, and economic challenges of the twenty0first century. The former British Prime Minister brings her unrivaled political experience to comment on the threats that democracy faces at the dawn of the new millennium and the role Western powers should play in the...
Doubleday, January 27, 2015. — 288 pages. With remarkable accuracy, George Friedman has forecasted coming trends in global politics, technology, population, and culture. In Flashpoints, Friedman focuses on Europe—the world’s cultural and power nexus for the past five hundred years...until now. Analyzing the most unstable, unexpected, and fascinating borderlands of Europe and...
РАН. Ин-т всеобщ. истории; Отв. ред. А. О. Чубарьян; Редкол.: Р. М. Илюхина и др. М., 1998. - 289 с. Содержание: Введение. А.О. Чубарьян (Россия) У истоков пацифизма. В.И. Уколова (Россия) Джордж Фокс, ранние квакеры и проблемы пацифизма. Т.А. Павлова (Россия) Антивоенные идеи европейской общественной мысли XVIII - началаXIX ВЕКА. А.В. Чудинов, К.М. Андерсон (Россия)...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2012. — 290 с. В данной книге представлены основные итоги выполнявшегося в 2010-2011 гг. совместного проекта ИМЭМО РАН и фонда « Инициатива по сокращению ядерной угрозы» (Nuclear Threat Initiative, Inc – NTI). Основная цель проекта состояла в том, чтобы представить экспертный анализ возможностей перехода к глубокому ядерному разоружению и основных препятствий на...
Монография. — М.: ИДВ РАН, 2017. — 216 с. Монография посвящена анализу текущей обстановки в Центральной Азии и прилегающих к ней регионов, а также исследованию причин и условий возникновения новых угроз и вызовов региональной безопасности на «пространстве ШОС». Кроме того, в работе дана оценка состояния и перспектив борьбы с международным терроризмом в Центральной Азии и...
Московский Центр Карнеги, РОССПЭН, 2009
Коллективная монография «Космос: оружие, дипломатия, безопасность» (издание на английском языке: Outer Space: Weapons, Diplomacy, and Security), подготовленная российскими исследователями в рамках программы «Проблемы нераспространения» Московского Центра Карнеги, посвящена теме милитаризации космического пространства, проблемам и...
Архангельск: Северный (Арктический) федеральный университет, 2010. — 400 с. — ISBN: 978-5-85879-625-1. Монография представляет собой междисциплинарное исследование современного геополитического пространства и стратегии России в Арктическом макрорегионе с позиций геополитики и регионологии. Изучено географическое водно-территориальное пространство Арктики; последствия изменения...
Ответственные редакторы: Саватеев А.Д., Исаев Л.М. — Москва: Ленанд, 2014. — 256 с. — ISBN 978-5-9710-1260-3. Данная монография предлагает вниманию читателя комплексный анализ социально-политических потрясений в ряде основных арабских государств, так или иначе затронутых событиями «арабской весны». Авторами книги предпринята попытка проанализировать события, произошедшие с 2011...
СПб.: СПбГУ, 2011. — 230 с. ISBN: 978-5-94396-070-3 Книга посвящена актуальным вопросам взаимодействия США и Китая на двустороннем, региональном и глобальном уровнях в начале XXI в. Анализируются основные линии американо-китайских противоречий — тайваньская проблема, вопрос свободы вероисповедания и свободы Интернета в Китае, вопрос свободы навигации и проблематика...
М.: Спецкнига, 2013. — 52 с. В докладе представлен комплексный анализ событий, происходящих сегодня в арабском мире
По мнению ряда экспертов, наблюдаемые изменения могут представлять собой первый этап системной трансформации региона, которая будет продолжаться еще несколько десятков лет. С одной стороны, это предопределяет такие важные черты создавшейся ситуации, как ее...
Под общей ред. И.Ю. Юргенса. — М.: Институт современного развития, 2011. — 67 с. При анализе вопросов обеспечения глобальной и региональной безопасности значительное внимание международного политического и экспертного сообщества обращено на потребность реформирования самой архитектуры безопасности. Такое реформирование предполагает улучшение политических, правовых и иных форм...
М.: Госполитиздат, 1952. — 672 с.
Цель данной книги - показать экспансии главных стран современного блока агрессоров - Соединённых Штатов Америки и Англии на Тихом океане, их взаимоотношений и противоречий, их хищной и кровавой агрессии против народов тихоокеанских стран.
С другой стороны, автор стремился показать борьбу угнетённых колониальных и полуколониальных народов...
Московский Центр Карнеги. Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2009. — 272 с. Предлагаемая коллективная монография подготовлена в рамках исследовательского проекта «Проблемы нераспространения» Московского Центра Карнеги. Авторы уделяют основное внимание крупным и сложным процессам и явлениям, вторгающимся в тема тику ядерного нераспространения и все более влияющим на...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 496 p.
What is real? What can we know? How might we act? This book sets out to answer these fundamental philosophical questions in a radical
and original theory of security for our times. Arguing that the concept of security in world politics has long been imprisoned by conservative
thinking, Ken Booth explores security as a precious...
Самара: Самар. гуманит. акад., 2010. — 172 с. — ISBN 978—5—98996—095—8 Монография посвящена сложной международной проблеме на Балканах в конце XIX - начале XX века - македонскому вопросу, который рассматривается автором через призму отношений между ведущими европейскими державами и балканскими государствами. Большое внимание уделено политике России в македонском вопросе, а...
Strategic Studies Institute, 2011. — 72 p. Power is one of the more contestable concepts in political theory. In recent decades, scholars and commentators have chosen to distinguish between two kinds of power, hard and soft. The former is achieved through military threat or use, and by means of economic menace or reward. The latter is the ability to have influence by co-opting...
Дальнаука, 2008г. - 216с. Рассматриваются теоретические основы исследования трансграничных территорий, географические границы как один из элементов контактных географических структур, дается географическое определение приграничных и трансграничных территорий, характеризуются основные типы и свойства трансграничных географических структур.
Значительное внимание уделено методам...
Сборник документов и материалов. — Кыргыз.-рос. слав. ун-т. — Бишкек: Илим, 2001. — 168 с. Введение Материалы и документы афганской правтельственной коалиции Интервью лидера НИДА генерала Абдул Рашида Достума 3 апреля 1997 года Интервью лидера НИДА генерала Абдул Рашида Достума 19 мая 1997 года Интервью лидера ПИЕА Абдул Карима Халили 26 марта 1997 года Никакой король в...
Московский Центр Карнеги, Гендальф, 1999. Сборник статей под редакцией Д. Тренина и Е. Степановой посвящен международным аспектам кризиса в сербском автономном крае Косово. Большое внимание уделено анализу международного вмешательства в косовский конфликт, резко активизировавшегося с начала 1998 г. в связи с обострением ситуации в крае и вылившегося в марте 1999 г. в военную...
М.: АИРО-XXI, 2016. — 400 с. — (Современная история. Русский взгляд). — ISBN: 978-5-91022-269-8. В книге рассматривается вооруженный конфликт в Сирии по следующим аспектам: Природные, географические условия ведения боевых действий в регионе. Вооруженные силы Сирии и других стран Ближнего Востока. Антисирийский заговор и создание оппозиции. Истоки появления и цели ИГ. Источники...
М.: Госполитиздат, 1947. — 470 с.
В монографии подробно освещается японско-американская дипломатия и её противоречия в Восточной Азии и на Тихом океане в конце XIX - первой половины XX вв.
Монография. — М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2011. — 121 с.
Монография посвящена рассмотрению внешних и внутренних факторов, способных вызвать дестабилизацию общества и государства, инициировать политическую нестабильность. Приводятся данные об использовании стратегий дестабилизации в прошлом, анализируются субъекты, объекты, мотивы и технологии ее применения в современном мире, возможности...
Томск : Иван Фёдоров, 2010. — 336 с. Представленное учебное пособие содержит обзор тематики концептуальных подходов и оценок, позволяющих получить комплексное представление о приоритетных направлениях исследований на настоящий момент. Хотя данное пособие ориентировано на студентов, обучающихся по специальности «Международные отношения», авторский коллектив выражает надежду, что...
М.: Весь Мир, 2011. — 752 с. — (Старый Свет - новые времена). Книга представляет собой результат исследования многопланового комплекса проблем безопасности Европы, места и роли России в системе европейской безопасности, проведенного в Институте Европы РАН под руководством академика РАН В.В. Журкина. В этой фундаментальной монографии подробно рассмотрена сама структура системы...
Random House, 2015. — 256 p. Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to Asia. With oil reserves of several billion barrels, an estimated nine hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and several centuries’ worth of competing territorial claims, the South China Sea in particular is a simmering pot of potential conflict. The...
СПб.: Супер Издательство, 2018. — 720 с. В начале нынешнего столетия мир стал свидетелем самой ужасной из войн – гражданской. В сирийском конфликте уже погибли сотни тысяч людей и число жертв продолжает расти. Рассмотрению внешне локального, но глобального по своей сути сирийского кризиса и посвящена настоящая книга, в которой анализ ситуации подкреплён фактами сирийской истории,...
М.: Научно-образовательный форум по международным отношениям, 2005. — 204 c. — ISBN: 5-901981-14-6. В книге анализируются процессы эволюции форм организации миропорядка в конце XIX – начале XXI вв. При этом особое внимание уделяется функциям системообразующих субъектов каждого из трех сменивших друг друга типов устройства мировой политики и международных отношений: миропорядка...
Отв. редактор О. А. Платонов. — М.: Институт русской цивилизации, 2016. — 480 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4261-0148-7. В книге членов Академии военных наук В. Аладьина, В. Ковалева, С. Малкова, Г. Малинецкого дается подробный анализ глобальных геополитических процессов, происходящих в мире. Опираясь на результаты анализа, делается вывод о том, что сегодня Россия фактически находится в...
Монографія. — К. : НІСД, 2017. — 496 с. У колективній монографії, підготовленій фахівцями Національного інституту стратегічних досліджень, вперше у вітчизняній та світовій науці детально досліджено явище світової гібридної війни в перспективі російської агресії проти України. Сутність гібридної війни розглянуто у контексті системної кризи світової безпеки, а її феномен – як...
Пушкино: Центр стратегической конъюнктуры, 2013. — 138 с. Данное исследование посвящено феномену мирового военно-политического ландшафта последних десятилетий — частным военным компаниям (ЧВК). Авторы рассматривают эволюционный путь современного частного военного бизнеса, исследуют причины коммерческого успеха ЧВК, специфику их боевой работы, преференции, проблемы и перспективы...
Berkley Trade, 2004. — 448 p. Barnett, professor at the U.S. Naval War College, takes a global perspective that integrates political, economic and military elements in a model for the post-September 11 world. Barnett argues that terrorism and globalization have combined to end the great-power model of war that has developed over 400 years, since the Thirty Years War. Instead,...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (November 25, 1983). — 288 pages.
War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. — 592 p. Anarchy and the Struggle for Power. Wealth and Power. The Primacy of Land Power. Strategies for Survival. Great Powers in Action. The Offshore Balancers. Balancing versus Buck-Passing. The Causes of Great Power War. Great Power Politics in the Twenty-first Century.
Yale University, 2008. — 303 p.
The author concentrates in this book n the way in which military capabilities real or imagined are used, skillfully of clumsily, as bargaining power. He sees the steps taken by the U.S. during the Berlin and Cuban crises as not merely preparations for engagement, but as signals to and enemy, with reports from the adversary's own military...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2015. — 118 с. В монографии на фоне меняющегося характера современных вооруженных конфликтов анализируется трансформация международной миротворческой деятельности в последние два десятилетия: расширение ее масштабов, эволюция доктрин, диверсификация и изменение характера операций по поддержанию мира, состава ее участников. Констатируется, что международное...
Самая жесткая, хладнокровная и правдивая книга о современном Ближнем Востоке. Книга израильского эксперта и политика об антитерроризме, арабо-израильской войне и конфликте на Ближнем Востоке. Борьба с терроризмом - следствие конфликта цивилизаций и обязанность цивилизованных стран. Израильский фронт борьбы с терроризмом и распространением ядерного оружия. Эскалация войны в Иране,...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. 640 p. ISBN: 0521734940 The past decades have seen enormous changes in our perceptions of 'security', the causes of insecurity and the measures adopted to address them. Threats of terrorism and the impacts of globalisation and mass migration have shaped our identities, politics and world views. This volume of essays analyses these shifts in...
М., 2015 (Доклады Института Европы Ран №321). Сборник содержит доклады на конференции Института Европы Ран и движения «За укрепление демократического мирового правопорядка и в поддержку Оон», посвящённой 70-летию Оон. В центре внимания – роль Оон и значение её Устава для международной безопасности, проблемы реформирования Совета Безопасности Оон; роль Оон в борьбе с...
М.: Наука, 1990. — 170 с. — ISBN: 5-02-017307-X. Комплексное исследование идеологии и практики экстремистских групп в странах Арабского Востока в 1967-1985 гг. и теоретический анализ проблемы политизированного религиозного экстремизма. Особое внимание уделено анализу взглядов идеологов исламского экстремизма, рассмотрению социального состава, структуры, системы власти...
Ереван: Армянский центр стратегических и национальных исследований, 2010. — 220 с. ISBN: 978-99941-2-387-2 В книге представлена попытка ретроспективного анализа политических процессов периода карабахской войны, а также, этапов становления государственности в НКР и Армении за период 1990-93 годы. Особое внимание уделено кризисным явлениям, в которых, по мнению автора, более...
NY: Basic Books, 2013. - 711 pp.
If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe can control the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to...
М.: ИДВ РАН, 2015. — 168 с. — ISBN 978-5-8381-0291-1. Объектом коллективного исследования являются особенности и направления российско-китайского взаимодействия в «зоне ШОС», к которой авторы относят регион Центральной Азии, а также территорию Афганистана и других стран-наблюдателей. Опираясь на новые методики сравнительного военно-экономического и политического анализа...
Пер. с англ. — ИМЭМО им. Е. М. Примакова РАН. — М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 1998 – 2017. – 2018. — 772 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9535-0534-5. Ежегодник содержит анализ как новых, так и традиционных для СИПРИ тем исследований: различные аспекты конфликтов на Украине и в Сирии, вооруженные конфликты, миротворчество, вооружения и военные расходы, проблемы нераспространения и контроля над вооружениями,...
2nd Edition. — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. — 330 p. — ISBN: 144220804X This comprehensive yet concise introduction to international security explores the constantly changing conditions that lead to an insecure world. During the Cold War, the Soviet-American nuclear rivalry generated insecurity. Since then, state-based nuclear threats have diminished while the threat...
Frank Cass, London and New York, 2005. 227 p.
A new investigation of the role of the modern soldier/diplomat and the nature of military negotiation, in comparison with negotiation in other key contexts.
This new book presents a detailed analysis of the role of the military in current operations as negotiators and liaison workers in the field. It shows how very few in the...
М. : Спецкнига, 2012. — 64 с. В докладах представлены позиции российских и американских специалистов по проблематике ядерного сдерживания и стратегической стабильности в XXI веке. Содержится информация о ядерной стратегии России и США, об оперативном статусе ядерных сил России и США, неядерных силах; предлагаются новые подходы к выстраиванию военно-стратегического баланса в XXI...
М.: Эксмо-Пресс, 2001. – 144 с. — ISBN 5-04-008539-7
Терроризм в нынешнее время приобрел характер общемировой проблемы. Вооружаются им не только одиночки или небольшие группы фанатиков, но и мощные организации с миллиардным бюджетом, и конечно целые государства. Современные террористы оснащены самым современным оружием. Кроме того, специальные службы в своей деятельности...
Воронеж: Научная книга, 2013. — 593 с. Монография является первым фундаментальным комплексным исследованием в отечественной и зарубежной исторической науке проблемы разоружения в американо-советских / российских отношениях в 1969-2010 г.г. В исследовании доказано фундаментальное значение Договоров ОСВ-1, ОСВ-2 и ПРО в становлении договорно-правовой базы американо-советского...
Routledge, 2005. — 385 p.
After a period of relative weakness and instability during most of the 1990s, Russia is again appearing as a major security player in world politics. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Russia's current security situation, addressing such questions as:
What kind of player is Russia in the field of security?
What is the essence of its...
N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1996. — 560 p. Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes or organized along the conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and geography. They argue that perspectives that neglect the roles of culture and identity are no longer adequate to explain the...
Routledge, 2017. — 365 p. The Armed Conflict Survey provides in-depth analysis of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all major armed conflicts, as well as data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced persons. Compiled by the IISS, publisher of The Military Balance, it is the standard reference work on contemporary conflict. The book assesses key...
Москва: Центр стратегических оценок и прогнозов, 2012. — 20 с. В брошюре проводится краткий анализ трендов, отраженных в новом стратегическом руководстве по обороне США, призванного определить приоритеты военной политики и стратегии США в условиях сокращения военных расходов и охватывающего как геополитические, так и военные аспекты оборонной политики.
// Аналитические доклады ИМИ Выпуск 1(25), Январь 2011. – Москва: МГИМО – Университет, 2011. – 82 с.
Настоящий доклад подготовлен Центром ближневосточных исследований ИМИ МГИМО (У) МИД России. В нем анализируются документы палестино-израильского переговорного процесса, инициированного Мадридской конференцией по Ближнему Востоку и Соглашениями «Осло-1» и «Осло-2». Эти документы,...
Чита: ЗабГУ, 2015. — 77 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9293-1390-5. В книге рассмотрены процессы геополитического противостояния Великобритании и России в Азии, включая современные ситуации. Представлена биографическая справка и список основных научных трудов автора книги А.В. Постникова — академического ученого, доктора наук, профессора, Почетного члена Географического общества России....
Routledge, 2010 - 278 P. Part I. Superpower Rivalry: An Overview A Historical Overview Of The Cold War Superpower Rivalry And The Victimization Of Korea: The Korean War And The North Korean Nuclear Crisis Regional Fallout: Vietnam Afghanistan: During The Cold War Pakistan And The Cold War Part II. Prospects For A Multipolar World: Perspectives At The Beginning Of The...
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, 2009. — 143 p. Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057–1025. Genesis of the Project. The Current Study. Core Project Themes and Questions. The Case Studies. The Key Questions for Each Case. Highlights of Key Findings. The Decision-making Process. Quality of Intelligence. Policy Tools. Quality...
ProgressivePress.com, San Diego, Calif. 2016. — 275 p. — ISBN: 1-61577-151-4 — EAN: 978-1-61577-151-6
Authors: Washington's Blog, Wayne Madsen, Syrian Girl Partisan, John-Paul Leonard
Did the "Islamic State" spring full-blown into spontaneous being as the fanatical scourge of the Middle East, or was it helped along by state sponsors?
In ISIS IS US, a panel of cutting-edge...
Братислава: Европейский Центр Изобразительных Искусств, 2013. — 316 с. — ISBN: 978-80-970927-5-7 Архитектоника системы международной безопасности, выстроенной усилиями политиков в послевоенные годы, подвергается сегодня не только ревизии, что связано с геополитическими процессами последних лет, но и вполне реальной угрозе. Разумеется, в первую очередь миру угрожает терроризм,...
Учебное пособие. — М. : МГИМО-Университет, 2012. — 320 с. — (Учебники МГИМО/У/). — ISBN: 978-5-9228-0791-3. В настоящем пособии прослежена эволюция Хельсинкского процесса за годы "холодной войны" и его роль в ее преодолении, проведен анализ его приспособления к условиям постконфронтационной Европы. Особое внимание уделено выявлению слабостей Хельсинкского процесса и обоснованию...
М.: Научно-образовательный форум по международным отношениям, 2006. — 72 с. Очерки текущей политики. В работе применен категориально-теоретический и методологический аппарат семиотики для анализа американо- российских отношений 1991- 2006 годы. Попытки администрации США изменить систему российских кодов восприятия мировой политики при помощи " мягкого" влияния и традиционной...
Казань: Бук, 2018. — 136 с. — ISBN: 978‑5‑00118‑122‑4. Монография посвящена разработке концептуального подхода к разрешению проблемы контролируемой активности и борьбы с международными террористическими организациями в рамках существующего миропорядка. Учитывая, что проблема международного терроризма является относительно самостоятельной и выступает как часть единой системы...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2011. — 43 с. Доклад подготовлен в рамках реализации проекта Евроатлантическая инициатива в области безопасности (EASI), инициированного Фондом Карнеги за Международный мир. Инициатива реализуется группой видных политиков и экспертов из России, США и Европы с целью разработки предложений по новой архитектуре безопасности на евроатлантическом пространстве. Основным...
Монография. — М.: Аспект Пресс, 2013. — 573 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7567-0692-5. Книга посвящена роли «ядерного фактора» в современной мировой политике. В монографии предпринята попытка дать комплексный анализ роли ядерного оружия в международных отношениях начала XXI в. Автор фокусирует внимание на проблемах ядерного сдерживания и нераспространения, политике легальных и нелегальных...
Routledge, 2009. — 233 p. Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond savage globalization? is a collection of essays by scholars intent on rethinking the mainstream security paradigms. Overall, this collection is intended to provide a broad and systematic analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and cultural insecurity from the local to the global. The book...
Благовещенск: Изд-во БГПУ, 2009. - 404 с.
В данной работе, представляющей собой первую часть исследования "Проблема нераспространения оружия массового уничтожения (ОМУ) и общественное мнение", в контексте такого феномена, как общественное мнение, рассмотрена иранская ядерная программа. Представленное исследование носит междисциплинарный характер и предназначено для студентов,...
Blackwell, 2004. – 392 p. In this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power continues to cast long shadows over our own present. Argues the attacks on the World Trade Center and the...
London: Oxford University Press, 2016 — 680 p. — ISBN10: 0190620463; ISBN13: 978-0190620462. From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the past is littered with long-term strategic rivalries. History tells us that such enduring rivalries can end in one of three...
М.: Книга-Сэфер, 2015. — 170 с.
Очерки, составившие эту книгу, были написаны, первоначально, для газеты. В чем-то они сиюминутны, в чем-то публицистичны… Прошло несколько лет. Уже новый лидер выбран в Иране. Его считают "более вменяемым", с ним ведут переговоры… Уже более страшные и чудовищные в варварстве своем толпы вооруженных фанатиков беснуются по Востоку и всему миру,...
М.: МГУП, 2011. — 200 с. ISBN: 0-0000-0000-0 Книга подготовлена исследовательским коллективом профессоров, аспирантов и студентов кафедры мировой политики Национального исследовательского университета – Высшей школы экономики. Целью работы было проследить развитие инициативы по созданию Договора о европейской безопасности, выдвинутой Д.А. Медведевым, и проанализировать...
Архангельск : Северный (Арктический) федеральный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова, 2013. — 284 с. : ил. — ISBN: 978-5-261-00770-8 В монографии раскрываются актуальные вопросы освоения Российской Арктики в современном мире, проблемы геополитики и тренды эволюции арктического пространства. Представлены авторская модель «Арктика – XXI», перфоманс этнокультурного ландшафта,...
М.: Издатель Воробьев А.В., 2010. — 364 с.
Настоящая монография комплексно и расширительно рассматривает общую политическую ситуацию региона Персидского залива в весьма специфический период – с последних десятилетий XX в. вплоть до конца I десятилетия XXI в., и охватывает не только страны непосредственно Залива, но и Афганистан, так как трагические обстоятельства связали их...
SAGE Publications, 2007. — 472 p. — (SAGE Library of International Relations). International Security is one of the main sub-fields of International Relations. This four-volume collection will bring together seminal journal articles and some book chapters to map the main themes and turning points in the development of International Security Studies. Together the four volumes...
SAGE Publications, 2007. — 492 p. — (SAGE Library of International Relations). International Security is one of the main sub-fields of International Relations. This four-volume collection will bring together seminal journal articles and some book chapters to map the main themes and turning points in the development of International Security Studies. Together the four volumes...
London; Mew York: Brookings Inst. Press / Chatham House, 2015. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0815726090; ISBN13: 978-0815726098. The Russian annexation of Crimea was one of the great strategic shocks of the past twenty-five years. For many in the West, Moscow's actions in early 2014 marked the end of illusions about cooperation, and the return to geopolitical and ideological...
Информационно-аналитический доклад 2008 год -21 стр. Резкое изменение геополитической конфигурации в Центральной Азии (ЦА) и вокруг нее, вызванное распадом СССР, в значительной степени стало неожиданностью для Китая. С одной стороны, появление новых независимых государств открывало перед Китаем возможности в плане расширения своего присутствия на глобальном и региональном уровнях....
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2014. — 136 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89282-590-0. Работа посвящена рассмотрению вопросов зарождения и развития исламского экстремизма в странах Центральной Азии. Исследуются наиболее характерные для каждой страны региона особенности распространения идей радикального ислама, меры, предпринимаемые руководством государств Центральной Азии в сфере...
Томск: Издательство Томского университета, 2010. — 356 с. На основе малоизученных материалов исследуется процесс развития политики Соединенных Штатов Америки и Великобритании на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке в период после окончания Суэцкого кризиса 1956 г. Особое внимание уделяется изучению американо-британских отношений в Ближневосточном регионе в контексте реализации «доктрины...
NYU Press, 2015. — 377 p. Understanding the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is essential to understanding the United States in the first decade of the new millennium and beyond. These wars were pivotal to American foreign policy and international relations. They were expensive: in lives, in treasure, and in reputation. They raised critical ethical and legal...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 400 p. International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its...
Simon & Schuster 2006. — 360 p.
President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2006....
Springer, 2017. — 224 p. This book develops a conceptual approach to understanding the face of contemporary terrorism as manifested in the recent attacks in Mumbai and Paris. By analyzing the historical evolution of terrorism and by offering case studies on different forms of terrorism in South Asia and elsewhere, the authors shed new light on the political strategies behind...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2011. – 146 с. ISBN 978-5-9535-0321-1
В монографии рассматриваются современное состояние механизмов сотрудничества стран-членов Европейского Союза в сфере внутренней безопасности, специфика политики отдельных государств ЕС в этой области. Уделено внимание взаимодействию ЕС со странами-партнерами на Балканах, а также сотрудничеству с Россией. В центре внимания...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. — 488 p. Peter van Bergeijk brings together 40 leading experts from all continents to analyze state-of-the-art data covering the sharp increase in (smart) sanctions in the last decade. Original chapters provide detailed analyses on the determinants of sanction success and failure, complemented with innovative research on the impact of sanctions....
SAGE Publications, 2007. — 414 p. — (SAGE Library of International Relations). International Security is one of the main sub-fields of International Relations. This four-volume collection will bring together seminal journal articles and some book chapters to map the main themes and turning points in the development of International Security Studies. Together the four volumes map...
Routledge, 2021. — 316 p. This book outlines the threats from information warfare faced by the West and analyses the ways it can defend itself. Existing on a spectrum from communication to indoctrination, information can be used to undermine trust, amplify emotional resonance, and reformulate identities. The West is currently experiencing an information war, and major setbacks...
Москва: Спецкнига, 2016. — 40 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91891-476-2. Российский совет по международным делам, Рабочая тетрадь № 27/2016. Гл. ред. И. С. Иванов. Рабочая тетрадь подготовлена Российским советом по международным делам (РСМД) в рамках проекта «Интересы России в Центральной Азии». Цель издания – проанализировать актуальную для России и многих других государств мира проблему...
Любительский перевод сообщества "Книжный импорт". Без выходных данных. — 283 с. Лестница Кана — одна из концепций глобальной безопасности, описывающая ее вероятный коллапс. Она представляет 44 ступени эскалации любого конфликта, от кризиса до тотальной ядерной войны. Если по лестнице Витгенштейна мы движемся на новый уровень понимания мира, то по лестнице Кана – к ядерной и...
М.: НП РСМД, 2019. — 268 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6041888-4-2. Хрестоматия включает в себя статьи, систематизирующие информацию об армиях и службах безопасности государств Ближнего Востока и Северной Африки. Авторы материалов – эксперты Российского совета по международным делам (РСМД). В издании рассмотрены структура армий и степень их оснащенности, уровень подготовки военнослужащих,...
SAGE Publications, 2007. — 373 p. — (SAGE Library of International Relations). International Security is one of the main sub-fields of International Relations. This four-volume collection will bring together seminal journal articles and some book chapters to map the main themes and turning points in the development of International Security Studies. Together the four volumes...
Collective authors. — Cham: Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — 334 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-99105-4 (Print); 978-3-319-99106-1 (eBook). This open access volume explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of...
М.: Издатель А.В.Воробьев, 2017. — 636 с. — ISBN: 978–5–93883–346–3. В монографии рассматриваются различные сюжетные линии организации влияния извне на суверенные государства, на первый взгляд не связанные между собой, — экономика, политика, культура, информационное пространство, образование, религия… Наглядно показана хронология и этапы перехода от практики прямых вооруженных...
Благовещенск: Изд-во БГПУ, 2009. - 178 с.
В данной работе, представляющей собой вторую часть исследования "Проблема нераспространения оружия массового уничтожения (ОМУ) и общественное мнение", в контексте такого феномена, как общественное мнение, рассмотрена северокорейская ядерная программа. Представленное исследование носит междисциплинарный характер и предназначено для...
М.: Технологическая школа бизнеса, 1996. — 712 с. — (Социокультурные метаморфозы). — ISBN: 5-86073-013-6. В книге серии "Социокультурные метаморфозы" представлена военная тема: Власть, Деньги и Оружие. Автор — известный востоковед, специалист по истории международных отношений В.И. Шеремет — раскрывает эти проблемы на региональном материале (Ближний Восток, Балканы, Россия,...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2017. — 494 p. This revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies. The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past 20 years, and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within...
Bakı : Mütərcim, 2017. — 728 s. — ISBN 978-9952-28-338-9. Kitabda beynəlxalq təhlükəsizliyin nəzəri-konseptual və hüquqi əsasları, növləri, beynəlxalq təhdidlər və onlara qarşı mübarizə roblemləri, fərqli regionlarda təhlükəsizlik məsələləri ətraflı izah olunub. Kitab siyasət və beynəlxalq münasibətlər tələbələri, həmçinin siyasətlə, beynəlxalq münasibətlərlə, müharibə və...
Московский Центр Карнеги, РОССПЭН, 2007
В коллективной монографии проанализированы уроки ядерных кризисов КНДР и Ирана для укрепления режима нераспространения. Авторы рассматривают ряд ключевых проблем функционирования системы ядерного нераспространения, политики великих держав и деятельности международных организаций в этой области, высвеченных в процессе развития иранского и...
М.: Дашков и К°, 2020. — 190 с. В учебном пособии даны систематизированные подходы к оценке ядерного оружия как фактора современной международной среды в достижении и поддержании стабильности и баланса сил. Представлены проблемные аспекты переговорного процесса при подготовке и заключении межгосударственных соглашений по ограничению и сокращению ядерного оружия. Уделено...
Вінниця: Нілан-ЛТД, 2017. — 412 с. На початку XXI століття у військовій науці з’являється концепція гібридних війн, що описує новітню війну як комбінацію конвенційних, іррегулярних й асиметричних засобів, які включають постійну маніпуляцію політичним та ідеологічним конфліктом, а також залучення сил спеціальних операцій і конвенційних збройних сил, агентів розвідки, політичних...
М.: Издатель Воробьев А.В., 2017. — 240 с. Сегодня мир, как никогда ранее, ощущает поступь и дыхание новой мировой войны. Скачь всадников Апокалипсиса уже отчетливо слышен. Он и в Стратегии национальной безопасности США, и в новых планах НАТО, и в «поддерживающих» эти начинания проектах западных сателлитов. Не секрет, что в отраженном виде они присутствуют и в военных доктринах...
Томск: Издательский Дом ТГУ, 2018. — 152 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94621-708-8. Данное пособие посвящено одному из наиболее запутанных сюжетов международной жизни после Второй мировой войны – Суэцкому кризису 1956 г. Этот конфликт интересен в плане изучения многогранного события, имеющего множество измерений. В нем переплелись советско-американское противостояние в периферийных районах...
New York: Routledge, 2021. — 221 p. This book investigates the relationship between international security governance, democratic civil-military relations and the relevance of strategy, as well as of absolute and relative gains, in norms formation in hybrid orders. Highlighting caveats of the legacy of Huntington’s paradigm of military professionalism, the book applies a robust...
Brookings institution press, 2003. 424 p. Economic Statecraft in American Foreign Policy. A Map to What Lies Ahead. Sanctions, Globalization, and American Preeminence. Post–Cold War Trends in the Use of Sanctions. Changing U.S. Interests. Bringing New Actors to the Fore. Domestic Dynamics in the Making of Foreign Policy. The Sanctions Debate. Outstanding Issues to Be Addressed....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 280 p. In 1999, ten years of heated debate about the EU's role in defense policy came to an end, when the EU decided to establish an autonomous security and defense policy. Germany and Britain had been key players in the years leading to this decision. But they played markedly different roles – the former endorsing the idea from the beginning, the...
Рос. акад. наук, Ин-т Дальнего Востока. — М.: ИДВ РАН, 2020. — 240 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8381-0371-0. Сборник содержит авторские аналитические статьи по оценке ситуации в восточной части Евразии, причин и условий возникновения новых угроз и вызовов региональной безопасности на пространстве ШОС. Авторы исследуют эффективность решения проблем обеспечения стабильности и безопасности в...
Пер. с англ. — ИМЭМО им. Е. М. Примакова РАН. — М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 1998 – 2020. – 2021. — 897 с. — ISBN 978-5-9535-0594-9. Ежегодник SIPRI за 2020 год представляет собой сочетание исходных данных в таких областях, как мировые военные расходы, международные поставки оружия, производство вооружений, ядерные силы, вооруженные конфликты и многосторонние миротворческие операции, с...
Монография. — СПб.: ИПЦ СЗИУ РАНХиГС, 2020. — 228 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89781-676-7. В книге анализируются глобальные риски современного мира — экологические, геополитические, экономические, социальные и технологические — и предлагается авторское толкование нового научного направления глобалистики — асфатроники, предметом которой предстает глобальная безопасность, охватывающая все...
М.С. Барабанов, М. Йешильташ, А.В. Лавров, Н.А. Ломов, Ю.Ю. Лямин, Л.А. Нерсисян, А.В. Никольский, М. Серен, И.А. Топчий. — М.: Центр анализа стратегий и технологий, 2018. — 200 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9909882-3-1. В книге представлен разбор новых военных и военно-политических реалиях современного Закавказья. Главное достоинство работы — в сборе, обработке и структурированного...
Brighton Sussex: Wheatsheaf Books, 1983. — 272 p. "This is the first systematic and in-depth examination of the concept of national security, and of the implications of the security dilemma. It is a searching analysis, rooted in a thorough grounding of the international theory and strategic studies, literatures, and in the author's compelling logic. This innovative study should...
3rd ed. — An East-Gate Book. — London; New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. — 365 p. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Asian Security Handbook focuses on the new challenges to security in the Asia-Pacific region presented by international terrorism. It reviews "old" security realities covered in previous editions, and highlights more recent security issues in the region,...
Part i: the alliance before Iraq Chapter 1: from cold war to Clinton Chapter 2: bush and Europe: the growing divide Part ii: the Iraq crisis Chapter 3: the sources of disagreement Chapter 4: toward crisis Chapter 5: the transatlantic split Chapter 6: the vicious circle Part iii: what next? Chapter 7: restoring the alliance Notes
NATO Office of Information and Press, June 2001, 75 p. The final report on the project titled, "The Kosovo Crisis in an International Law Perspective: Self-Determination, Territorial Integrity and the NATO Intervention". Self-Determination in international conventions The right to secede (External self-Determination) And territorial integrity. NATO air attacks against...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 540 p. The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. That Syria's ongoing civil war is so brutal and protracted has only compounded the situation, as have developments in Iraq and Lebanon....
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 331 p. Patrick Morgan’s authoritative study revisits the place of deterrence after the Cold War. By assessing and questioning the state of modern deterrence theory, particularly under conditions of nuclear proliferation, Morgan argues that there are basic flaws in the design of the theory that ultimately limit its utility. Given the probable...
Date: 20 May 2015 The Armed Conflict Survey (ACS) is a new annual publication that provides yearly data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced people for all major armed conflicts, alongside in-depth analysis of their political, military and humanitarian dimensions. The first edition of the book covers the key developments and context of more than 40 conflicts,...
М.: Московский Центр Карнеги, 2005. — 82 с.
Авторы доклада постарались ответить на следующие вопросы: как влияет военная политика и военное строительство великих держав, особенно в сфере ядерного оружия, на перспективы ядерного распространения? Следует ли великим державам рассматривать свои отношения с другими государствами в сфере ядерного распространения через призму...
М.: Изд-во ЛКИ, 2012. — 464 с. — ISBN: 978-5-382-01344-2. Настоящее издание ставит целью выявить основные системные риски развития современного мира и его регионов. Как и в предыдущем выпуске мониторинга, особое внимание в книге уделено Ближнему и Среднему Востоку. Поскольку этот выпуск готовился в 2011 г., особым объектом его исследований не могли не стать события Арабской...
Монография. — М.: Nota Bene, 2015. — 180 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-8188-0233-6. В монографии исследуется многообразие политических конфигураций, складывающихся в современном многополярном мире. Интегративное рассмотрение их экономических, политических, научно-образовательных, социокультурных, информационно-коммуникационных ресурсов, идейных платформ, способных оказывать воздействие...
(Обзор). НАТО: проблемы и перспективы трансформации/ Ред.- сост. Юрий Александрович Гусаров. 2004. N 4 – С. 70 - 86; В обзоре рассмотрено каким образом кардинальные
изменения международной ситуации отражают ся на трансатлантическом партнерстве. Достижение новых стратегических целей определяет расширение как зоны ответственности НАТО, так и ее состава. Увеличение числа стран...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 421 p. This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary theory, practice and themes in the study of national security. Part 1: Theories examines how national security has been conceptualised and formulated within the disciplines international relations, security studies and public policy. Part 2: Actors shifts the focus of the...
Brookings Institutions Press, 2022. — 444 p. An eyewitness account by a U.S. diplomat of Russia’s brazen attempt to undo the democratic revolution in Ukraine. Told from the perspective of a U.S. diplomat in Kyiv, this book is the true story of Ukraine’s anti-corruption revolution in 2013—2014, Russia’s intervention and invasion of that nation, and the limited role played by the...
М.: Центр стратегических оценок и прогнозов, 2017. — 192 с. Рассматриваются ключевые элементы разрабатываемой в настоящее время третьей стратегии противовеса США. Понимание новой стратегии требует хотя бы краткого знакомства с предыдущими инициативами подобного рода, представляющими собой примеры успешных долгосрочных гранд-стратегий США с целью формирования противовеса...
Отв. ред. Ю.Г. Волков. — Ростов-на-Дону: Издательство СКНЦ ВШ,ЮФУ, 2009. — 164 с. Монография посвящена актуальным проблемам современного терроризма. На обширном фактическом материале США, Западной Европы и Юга России показаны региональные особенности, типы и формы проявления этого сложного и многомерного социально-политического явления. Адресуется ученым-исламоведам, востоковедам,...
Перевод с английского: А.А. Дынкин, А.Г. Арбатов, В.Г. Барановский и др. — Москва: ИМЭМО РАН, 2017. — 1044 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9535-0509-3. Со Специальным приложением ИМЭМО. Русское издание подготовлено совместно: Стокгольмский институт исследования проблем мира (SIPRI) и Национальный исследовательский институт мировой экономики и международных отношений имени Е. М. Примакова...
Изд. стереотип. — М.: Ленанд, 2023. — 88 с. В небольшой работе видных отечественных специалистов по политико-военным и военно-стратегическим проблемам, государственных и военных деятелей, обладающих огромным практическим опытом, представлена разработка «лестницы эскалации», исследованы некоторые теоретические аспекты войны и применения военной силы в современных условиях как...
СПб.: ИПК НП-Принт, 2017. — 833 с. — ISBN 978-5-901724-37-8. Данное учебное пособие состоит из материалов международной научной конференции «Евразийская дуга нестабильности и проблемы региональной безопасности от Восточной Азии до Северной Африки: предварительные итоги 2016 г.», которая прошла в СПбГУ 21-22 октября 2016 г. Материалы группируются вокруг проблем региональной...
Springer, 2019. — 457 p. This book offers a historical analysis of the geopolitical and geoeconomic competition between the USA and Russia, which has recently heated up again due to the eastward expansion of NATO. The analysis departs from an exploration of the USA’s foreign policy and geopolitical ambitions by illustrating the influence of Wall Street and the military-industrial...
Research Paper. European Parliament, Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union, Policy Department, February 2009. - 34 p. Author: Dr Paul Cornish, Chatham House, London This study was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. This paper examines Cyber-Security and Politically, Socially and Religiously Motivated Cyber-Attacks, focusing on...
PART I The Grammar of Security: Cultural Assumptions, Preferences, and Policies 2 The Framework of Analysis: Security, Grand Strategy, and Culture 3 Is Talk Really Cheap? Language as an Interface between Culture and Behavior 4 A nalyzing Security Discourses and Practices: ATypology 69 PART II The Discourse and Practice of the Esdp: Between Auto-communicati on, and Power...
Systemic Approaches to Middle East International Relations by F. Gregory Gause III
This article critiques four important works that use systems-level perspectives to explain the international politics of the Middle East, and suggests an alternative way of conceptualizing the Middle East international system. Its purpose is to show how insights from international relations...
Third Edition. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 1040 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-91734-0, 978-3-030-91735-7. The substantially revised third edition of The Handbook of Security provides the most comprehensive analysis of scholarly security debates and issues to date. It reflects the developments in security technology, the convergence of the cyber and security worlds, and the fact that...
Cambria Press, 2020. — 244 p. With the consolidation of the Russian state under the rule of Vladimir Putin, Russia has begun to assert itself on the international stage to a degree that has not been seen since the end of the Soviet Union. In particular, Russia has engaged in a number of aggressive actions against its neighbors (e.g., Georgia, Ukraine) while also re-asserting...
Routledge, 2014. — 416 p. The Global Arms Trade is written by a team of security experts drawn from around the world, analysing a phenomenon which has continued to flourish despite the end of the Cold War and the preoccupation with global terrorism after 11 September 2001. It provides a clear description and analysis of the demand for, and supply of, modern weapons systems, and...
Oxford University Press, 2002. - 169 p. Is one person's terrorist another's freedom fighter? Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a "War on Terror"? For many, the terrorist attacks of September 2001 changed the face of the world, pushing terrorism to the top of political agendas, and leading to a series of world events including the war in Iraq and the invasion of...
2nd ed. — ABC-CLIO, 2008. — 357 p. National security is always front-page news. A unique reference work now focuses on every aspect of this critical area, from computer security to antiterrorist measures. Was the Marshall Plan simply intended to guarantee the sale of U.S. exports and prevent Western European and Japanese independence? Why is U.S. support for Israel crucial to...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 278 p. A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international order While work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise. The upward trajectory of...
Отв. ред. А.Г. Арбатов. — М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2012. — 768 с. Ежегодник содержит анализ как новых, так и традиционных для СИПРИ тем исследований: коррупция в сфере торговли оружием, безопасность и конфликты, военные расходы и вооружения, проблемы нераспространения и контроля над вооружениями и разоружение, важнейшие тенденции в развитии глобальной безопасности, направления борьбы с...
Учеб.-метод. материалы № 1/2015 / Российский совет по международным делам (РСМД). — М.: Спецкнига, 2015. — 72 с. — Авт. и ред. указаны на обороте тит. л. ISBN: 978-5-91891-436-6 Учебно-методические материалы «Арктический регион: вопросы международного сотрудничества» подготовлен в рамках проекта РСМД «Дорожная карта международного сотрудничества в Арктике» и освещает базовые...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 370 p.
In this book a group of influential and distinguished scholars analyse some of the key questions in contemporary international relations. The
book is in three parts. In the first, the lessons and legacies of Cold War are examined, including debates about its rise and fall, and the
implications of the superpower nuclear confrontation....
Macmillan Press, 1987. — 334 p. — ISBN: 978-0-333-36506-9 ; ISBN: 978-1-349-18796-6. An Introduction to Strategic Studies addresses some of the major questions that govern both international relations and human survival. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts of contemporary strategic thinking. It argues that strategic studies is about the impact...
Oxford University Press, 2005, 278 p. Description Policy makers and publics alike regularly debate the legitimacy of international events, such as the war on terror, or war in Iraq. But what exactly does legitimacy mean in an international setting? This major new work provides the first historically and theoretically grounded analysis of this critical issue in contemporary...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 227 p. This book frames the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in the context of European and international security. It is the first book to focus on the politics of the conflict rather than the dispute itself. Since their emergence twenty years ago, this and other “frozen conflicts” of Eurasia have been affected by transformations...
Routledge, 2015. — 310 p. Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and power. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's work picks up where Edward Said's Orientalism left off. Said traced the origin of the power of representation and the normative agency that it entails to the colonial...
2nd ed. Routledge, 2018. — 405 p. The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies provides a detailed exploration of security dynamics in the three distinct subregions that comprise Asia, and also bridges the study of these regions by exploring the geopolitical links between each of them. This fully revised and updated second edition addresses the significant developments...
Since the formation of the contemporary Middle East in the wake of World War I, its political life has been bedevilled by the doctrine of Arab Nationalism, which postulates the existence of a single [Arab] nation bound by the common ties of language, religion and history… behind the facade of a multiplicity of sovereign states. The territorial expanse of this supposed nation...
Routledge, 2022. — 288 p. This book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Europe’s de facto war between Russia and Ukraine. The book provides a historical and contemporary understanding behind President Vladimir Putin Russia’s obsession with Ukraine and why Western opprobrium and sanctions have not deterred...
Routledge, 2009 . — 297 p. — (Politics in Asia). — ISBN10: 0415449413; ISBN13: 9780415449410. This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of Chinese policy elites on the major powers in East Asia in relation to China's self-perception as a rising power. It is the first book-length study that utilizes International Relations theories...
Routledge, 2006. — 280 p. This volume highlights the gap between the new security environment and the notion of state-centred national security favoured by Washington, showing how a Cold War phenomenon known as the national security state, in which defence and foreign policy interests essentially converge, remains largely intact. The conventional wisdom since the suicide...
Article. The SAIS Review of International Affairs, Fall 2010. - 15 p. Eneken Tikk is the legal adviser of the Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCD COE). This paper examines developments in the legal and policy framework for international cyber security. It elaborates on major international organizations’ stakes in global cyber security efforts and indicates the...
Под ред. Д. Кириллова. — М.: Издатель Воробьев А.В., 2017. — 88 с. — ISBN: 978–5–93883–355–5. Книга «На руинах Югославии» создана из цикла статей, вышедших на сайте «Самовар» (www.samovar-news.com) под редакцией Дениса Кириллова. В этой книге описывается процесс разложения государственных органов власти бывшей Югославии путем коррупции и криминала, что в итоге подчинило эти...
Сборник. — Москва: Российский совет по международным делам, 2019. — 268 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6041888-6-6. В сборник включены статьи экспертов РСМД, в которых затрагиваются различные аспекты странового, регионального и глобального развития в краткосрочной и среднесрочной перспективах. В своих прогнозах на 2019 и 2024 гг. авторы формулируют ключевые тенденции в международных...
Екатеринбург : Изд-во Урал. ун-та, 2017. — 432 с. ISBN: 978-5-7996-2225-1 Монография посвящена вызовам режиму ядерного нераспространения. Освещается деятельность его глобальных и региональных институтов. Анализируется роль государств, регионов, негосударственных акторов в его поддержании. Показано, что современный режим ядерного нераспространения сталкивается с новыми вызовами...
М.: Комсомольская правда, 2023. — 512 с. Книга-сенсация американского журналиста Скотта Риттера рассказывает историю заключения и исполнения обязательств по Договору о ликвидации ракет средней и малой дальности (РСМД). Многолетняя борьба за мир и разоружение достигла своего апогея в конце 1980-х и совпала со временем глобальных перемен в СССР – Перестройкой. Скотт Риттер...
Routledge, 2016. — 296 p. This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of current research on private security and military companies, comprising essays by leading scholars from around the world. The increasing privatization of security across the globe has been the subject of much debate and controversy, inciting fears of private warfare and even the collapse of the...
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 138 p.
Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of Formations of the Secular and Genealogies of Religion.
Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 359 p. Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of...
New York: Palgrave macmillan, 2012. - 245 p.
A comparative analysis of an old and new EU Member State's perceptions of and contributions to EU security and defense. This book focuses on change and continuity in both countries' defense policies and where convergence and divergence has occurred. This has important implications for the EU's effectiveness as an international security...
Routledge, 2018. — 221 p. This collection of essays situates the study and practice of international mediation and peaceful settlement of disputes within a changing global context. The book is organized around issues of concern to practitioners, including the broader regional, global, and institutional context of mediation and how this broader environment shapes the...
Internationas studies quarterly (1990) №34, 295-310
James Der Derian’s merging of media theories with theories of international relations provides a prescient analysis to situations on the global scene today. Although Der Derian wrote The (S)pace of International Relations: Simulation, Surveillance and Speed in 1990, his thoughts are eerily relevant to the present War on...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 257 p. Hostile relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are a major contributing factor to political instability in the Middle East. This book argues that rapprochement between Tehran and Riyadh is possible and delves into the complexities of managing their long-standing conflict. By interviewing scholars and former policy makers from the Gulf...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 241 p. — ISBN: 0190938021, 9780190938024. Uncertainty surrounds every major decision in international politics. Yet there is almost always room for reasonable people to disagree about what that uncertainty entails. No one can reliably predict the outbreak of armed conflict, forecast economic recessions, anticipate terrorist attacks, or estimate...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 429 p. For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers...
Routledge, 2019. — 372 p. Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security provides the first comprehensive look at Middle East security issues that includes both traditional and emerging security threats. Taking a broad perspective on security, the volume offers both analysis grounded in the ‘hard’ military and state security discourse but also delves into the ‘soft’ aspects of...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 337 p. Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly-appointed CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had "slain a large dragon" by defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, they now...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 904 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0197582671. Space security is a complex assemblage of societal risks and benefits that result from space-based capabilities and is currently in a period of transformation as innovative processes are rapidly changing the underlying assumptions about stability in the space domain. New space-based...
3rd ed. — Routledge, 2021. — 294 p. This textbook introduces students to the sub-field of critical security studies through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. This third edition contains two new chapters – on ‘Ontological security’ and ‘(In)Security and the everyday’ – and has been fully revised and updated. Written in an accessible and clear...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 320 p. An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil war. Most accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence. Christopher Phillips...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 704 p. In addition to being a major area of research within International Relations, peacebuilding and statebuilding is a major policy area within the UN and other international and regional organizations. It is also a concern of international financial institutions, including the World Bank, and a significant factor in the foreign and security...
Routledge, 2013. — 290 p. This Handbook breaks new ground by addressing global security through the lens of religion and examining the role religion plays in both war and peace. In recent years there has been a considerable upsurge of public concern about the role of religion in contemporary violence. However, other than historical materials, there has been a relative neglect...
М.: Языки славянской культуры: Знак, 2015. — 520 с. — ISBN: 985-5-9551-0737-8 Стержневая проблематика книги – вопрос о жизнеспособном цивилизационном пространстве и принципах его построения с учетом культурного многообразия и культурной динамики в современном мире. Он исследован прежде всего применительно к России в аспекте ее исторического опыта. Особое внимание уделено...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2023. — 198 с. — ISBN 978-5-9535-0620-5. Вооруженное насилие не прекращается с началом переговоров о мирном урегулировании конфликта. Как правило, насилие в разных формах и разной степени интенсивности продолжается на фоне мирного процесса и во взаимосвязи с ним. В книге изучаются взаимосвязь и взаимовлияние мирных процессов и насилия в современных вооруженных...
Навчальний посібник. — Львів: Видавництво Львівської політехніки, 2011. — 224 с. — ISBN: 978-617-607-043-6. На прикладі Республіки Польщі проаналізовано особливості політики національної безпеки держави з урахуванням геополітичної ситуації, зростання впливу на безпеку невійськового фактора, загроз і викликів нового типу та їх щораз більшої взаємозалежності. відтворено цілісну...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 319 p. The Hezbollah movement is a product of the environment in which it operates and of the interactions as well as of the reciprocal relations between the players surrounding it. Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shiite movement with an affinity and a deep correlation with the Iranian system, yet it’s foundation stemmed from the development of social and...
4th ed. — Pearson, 2016. — 686 p. Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts' Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security. Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader help students engage key...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. — 336 p. The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons...
Published 2003 by RAND
This paper assesses current trends in terrorism and future potentialities. It examines
first the presumed state of al Qaeda today with particular reference to its likely agenda in
a post–Iraq war world. It then more broadly focuses on some key current terrorism trends
in order to understand better both how terrorism is changing and what the implications...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. — 261 p. Provides compelling information as to the significance of the Arctic and Antarctica as areas requiring a renewed security focus for the US and other key international actors. A must-read for anyone interested in the polar regions. Once impassable and inhospitable, both the Arctic region and Antarctica are rapidly emerging as...
OR Books, 2010. — 209 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9842950-4-3. "Better than any other book, 'This Time We Went Too Far' shows how the massive destruction visited on Gaza was not an accidental byproduct of the Israeli invasion but its barely concealed objective." -Raja Shehadeh, author, Palestinian Walks. For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the Israeli...
Routledge, 2019. — 232 p. Contemporary European Security explores the complex European security architecture and introduces students to the empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying the subject. Written by experts in each subfield, it addresses key topics within the wider strategic context of international security. Presenting traditional and critical debates...
Orell Fuessli, 2008. — 446 S. Dieses Buch zeichnet ein erschreckendes Bild: Ein durch die NATO und die militärischen Geheimdienste koordiniertes Netzwerk von Geheimarmeen war bis zum Auseinanderfall der Sowjetunion in mehreren westeuropäischen Ländern in schwere Verbrechen verwickelt, darunter Mord, Folter, Staatsstreich und Terror. Daniele Ganser ist in seiner mehrjährigen...
Routledge, 2020. — 462 p. The Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security offers a comprehensive examination of security in the region, encompassing both state-based and militarized notions of security, as well as broader security perspectives reflecting debates about changes in climate, environment, economies, and societies. Since the turn of the century, the Arctic has increasingly...
JTB Publications, 2005. 191 pages. This is Mark Glenn's controversial book No Beauty In The Beast - Israel Without Her Mascara (2005) where this Lebanese-born author reveals that the modern day Judeo-ethnocentrism is the main culprit responsible for the bulk of mankinds present troubles and exposes Zionism for the bloodthirsty animal that it is as well as debunking the lies...
RAND Corp., 2016. — 116 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8330-9155-0. Premeditated war between the United States and China is very unlikely, but the danger that a mishandled crisis could trigger hostilities cannot be ignored. Thus, while neither state wants war, both states' militaries have plans to fight one. As Chinese anti-access and area-denial (A2AD) capabilities improve, the United...
Stanford University Press, 2017. — 343 p. Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute "hard targets." Yet authoritarian regimes may also be immune―and even hostile―to economic inducements if such inducements imply reform and opening. This book captures the effects of sanctions and inducements on...
Routledge, 2014. — 384 p. This new Handbook examines the issues, challenges, and debates surrounding the problem of security in Africa. Africa is home to most of the world's current conflicts, and security is a key issue. However, African security can only be understood by employing different levels of analysis: the individual (human security), the state (national/state...
Routledge, 2011. — 462 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-415-32600-1 This reader brings together key contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, offering students an informed overview of the most significant work in security studies. The editors chart the development of the key theoretical and empirical debates in security studies in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods,...
Springer, 2021. — 311 p. — ISBN-10 3030691616; ISBN-13 978-3030691615. This book discusses multiple aspects of radiological and nuclear terrorism. Do you know what to do if there is a radiological or nuclear emergency in your city? These accidents are not common, but they have happened – and even though we have not seen an attack using these weapons, governments around the...
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Just war theorists have had diffi culty assessing the moral character of occupations, since
they often fail to engage with the broader mechanisms and ethical issues of control and
power inherent to that state of confl ict. These challenges, however, cut to the heart of many
of the just war...
Analytical report. — Jamestown Foundation, 2010. — 41 p. This Jamestown Foundation Report on the Crimea is divided into nine sections. The first and second sections present the Executive Summary and Key Findings in the report. The third section explores the Crimean conundrum. The fourth analyzes the Ukrainian-Georgian relationship, Ukraine’s response to the 2008 Russian...
Springer, 2022. — 1192 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-91874-7. This handbook offers insights into how science (physical, natural and social) and technology can support new developments to manage the complexity resident within the threat and risk landscape.The security landscape can be described as dynamic and complex stemming from the emerging threats and risks that are both persistent...
Routledge, 2021. — 240 p. This book looks at conflict zones in the Asia Pacific with a special focus on secessionist groups/movements in the Indian Northeast, Tibet, Chinese Xinjiang, the Burmese borderlands, Kashmir in South Asia, CHT in Bangladesh, South Thailand, and Aceh in Indonesia. These conflict zones are predominantly ethnic minority provinces, which by and large do...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 248 p. Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country's past and present instability and how this impacts and is conceptualised by its neighbours as well as by international heavyweights such as Russia, China and the United States. Given Afghanistan's extensive cross-border ethnic,...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2014. — 316 p. Experts consider how the lessons of World War I can help prevent U.S.-China conflict. A century ago, Europe's diplomats mismanaged the crisis triggered by the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the continent plunged into World War I, which killed millions, toppled dynasties, and destroyed empires. Today, as the hundredth...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. — 170 p. — (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) Introduction. Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and Britain, and France, 1877–1913...
Монография. Н. Новгород: Издательство Нижегородского государственного лингвистического университета, 2011, 162 с. ISBN 978-5-85839-253-8
Изучаются отношения ЕС и России в области международной безопасности. Рассматривается их взаимодействие в таких сферах, как координация деятельности в рамках международных организаций, контроль над вооружениями, борьба с международным...
Oxford: SIPRI, 2021. — 80 p. SIPRI Yearbook 2021 presents a combination of original data in areas such as world military expenditure, international arms transfers, arms production, nuclear forces, armed conflicts and multilateral peace operations with state-of-the-art analysis of important aspects of arms control, peace and international security.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 370 p. This book examines novel and non-mainstream aspects of international terrorism in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. It explores issues that are not really explored in the mainstream literature such as the environmental message of terror groups, the issue of female jihadists and the social media strategy of terror groups. Whilst old issues...
Oxford University Press, 2025. — 1004 p. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has since its foundation in 1949 been the principal body of the Western security order, and remains as important in the 2020s as it was in the 1950s. This Handbook offers the most extensive treatment of the Alliance published in the last two decades, providing detailed coverage of NATO...
Routledge, 2021. — 244 p. This book explores the evolution and future relevance of NATO from the perspective of the member-states. Addressing the overarching question of the relevance of transatlantic relations in the 21st century, the volume has three core objectives. The first is to reinforce the view that international alliances serve not only an external-oriented goal, but...
Routledge, 2020. — 424 p. The Routledge Handbook of International Cybersecurity examines the development and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) from the perspective of international peace and security. Acknowledging that the very notion of peace and security has become more complex, the volume seeks to determine which questions of cybersecurity are indeed...
Routledge, 2019. — 288 p. This edited volume examines deterrence and the defense efforts of European states neighboring Russia, following the Crimean intervention. Deterrence, after being largely absent from debates among academics and policy-makers for almost a quarter of a century, has made a comeback in Europe. Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the start of the...
Пер. с англ. — ИМЭМО им. Е. М. Примакова РАН. — М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 1998 – 2017. – 2020. — 893 с. — ISBN 978-5-9535-0577-2. В этом году русское издание Ежегодника СИПРИ посвящается памяти выдающегося советского ученого А.Д. Сахарова, столетие со дня рождения которого будет отмечаться в 2021 г. Академик А.Д. Сахаров находился у ис-токов создания ядерного оружия, и он же являлся одним...
М.: Спец книга, 2015. — 28 с. ISBN: 978-5-91891-450-2 В 2015 г. Россия и Южная Корея отмечают 25-летний юбилей установления дипломатических отношений. За этот срок двум странам удалось достигнуть значимых результатов. Однако остается нереализованным существенный потенциал взаимодействия в Северо-Восточной Азии для сдерживания традиционных и новых вызовов и угроз. В данном...
Москва; Ленинград: Госиздат, 1929. — 178 с. С предисловием Тома Белла. Книга состоит из двух частей, из коих первая посвящена выяснению вопроса об опасности войн между империалистами, и вторая — опасности войны против СССР. В первой части дается анализ экономических предпосылок империалистических войн (борьба за рынки сбыта, за источники и рынки сырья, за сферы вложения...
СПб.: Восточный факультет Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, 2013. — 778 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91542-209-3. В коллективной монографии подвергнуты анализу актуальные проблемы безопасности Азии и Африки на современном этапе. При подготовке данного проекта важное внимание уделялось соблюдению баланса между рассмотрением проблем регионального и глобального характера....
Монография. — М.: Мир науки, 2021. — 197 с. — ISBN 978-5-6045645-2-3. Книга представляет интерес для широкого круга читателей: научных работников и специалистов в области международного права, политологов, сотрудников дипломатических ведомств, а также исследователей, интересующихся проблемами коллективных механизмов обеспечения безопасности в Европе. Исследование может быть...
М.: Институт Китая и современной Азии РАН, 2022. — 544 с. — ISBN 978-5-8381-0443-4. В монографии представлено системное изложение роли и места “стратегического треугольника” Россия—США—Китай” в структуре международных отношений. В ней рассмотрены международно-правовые аспекты деятельности акторов этого “треугольника” в регионах мира и в сферах их противоборства на глобальном и...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. — 392 p. On September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden declared "global jihad" on the West. In response to the day's attacks, the United States has waged its own global war on terrorism, which the Pentagon has described as a generational conflict similar to the Cold War. In The Islamic Challenge and the United States, Ehsan Ahrari takes a close...
The University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 218 p. — ISBN 978-0-226-03907-7. In 2006, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations counted 850 million hungry people worldwide, but as food prices soared, an additional 100 million or more who were vulnerable succumbed to food insecurity. If hunger were simply a matter of food production, no one would go without....
Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. — 265 p. The identity of any nation-state is inextricably linked with its borders and frontiers. Borders connect nations and sustain notions of social cohesion. Yet they are also the sites of division, fragmentation and political conflict. This ambitious study encompasses North Africa, the Middle East, and South and South East Europe to examine...
Ithaca Press, 2007. — XVIII, 362 p. This book traces the evolution of the Palestinian police and security forces, beginning with its historical antecedents in Lebanon and the Occupied Territories, and the formation of formal police organizations after the Oslo Accords until the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000. The history of the Palestinian police revolves...
Routledge, 2010. — 328 p. This Handbook gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research by a group of leading international scholars relating to recent transformations in the field of security studies. In today’s globalized setting, the challenge of maintaining security is no longer limited to the traditional foreign-policy and military tools of...
3 vol. set. — Praeger, 2014. — 880 p. As China continues to develop the strategic means to advance its national interests in Asia and around the world, assessing its role in international security is the greatest strategic challenge now faced by the United States and its allies. China and International Security facilitates this critically important understanding, analyzing...
Routledge, 2017. — 365 p. This edited volume offers a thorough review of peacekeeping theory and reality in contemporary contexts, and aligns the two to help inform practice. Recent UN peacekeeping operations have challenged the traditional peacekeeping principles of consent, impartiality and the minimum use of force. The pace and scope of these changes have now reached a...
Routledge, 2019. — 254 p. Little is known about how far-reaching decisions in UN Security Council sanctions committees are made. Developing a novel committee governance concept and using examples drawn from sanctions imposed on Iraq, Al-Qaida, Congo, Sudan and Iran, this book shows that Council members tend to follow the will of the powerful, whereas sanctions committee members...
University of California Press, 2019. — 259 p. How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia in the twenty-first...
Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 109, No.
5. (Winter, 1994-1995), pp. 763-787.
NATO Functions After the Cold War by John S. Duffield
When the cold war ended in Europe, many observers expected
that NATO's demise would soon follow. Even if the alliance
did not disappear altogether, it would become an empty shell, no
longer performing any useful functions. In its place...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 497 p. National security has been at the forefront of the Israeli experience for seven decades, with threats ranging from terrorism, to vast rocket and missile arsenals, and even existential nuclear dangers. Yet, despite its overwhelming preoccupation with foreign and defense affairs, Israel does not have a formal national security strategy. In...
Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — 148 p. This book assesses the Sino-Japanese strategic competition in the context of the South China Sea (SCS) territorial disputes. The South China Sea territorial disputes are quickly becoming the most significant security problem in East and Southeast Asia. Two major powers, China and Japan, have interests in the region and are pursuing different...
IOS Press, 2011. — 196 p. — (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series). — ISBN: 978-1-607507-59-5. The approach to research in global security from the perspective of the human sciences presents a number of challenges. NATO and ESF, aware of the importance of this endeavor, have commissioned lInstitut Francais dAnalyse Strategique (IFAS) to organize a number of activities...
Cornell University Press, 2010. — 356 p. At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common. Yet each of these seemingly...
Routledge, 2020. — 374 p. The Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement offers an overview of the historical settings, theoretical debates, national approaches and practical strategies to deradicalisation and disengagement. Radicalisation and violent extremism are major global challenges, and as new and violent extremist groups and environments emerge, there is...
Open Book Publishers, 2015. — 472 p. Peter Hayes and Kiho Yi. Peter Hayes, Kiho Yi, and Joan Diamond. Global Problems, Complexity, and Civil Society in East Asia. Peter Hayes and Richard Tanter. Energy Security and the Role of Green Economies in East Asia. David von Hippel with Yi Wang, Kae Takase, Tetsunari Iida, Myungrae Cho, and Sun-Jin Yun. Urban Security and Complexity in...
Routledge, 2012. — 180 p. Haynes looks at religious transnational actors in the context of international relations, with a focus on both security and order. With renewed scholarly interest in the involvement of religion in international relations, many observers and scholars have found this move unexpected because it challenges conventional wisdom about the nature and long-term...
Routledge, 2021. — 322 p. This book provides a rich analysis of the actors and organizations to reflect on the antecedents and trajectories of terrorism and insurgency in South Asia, and the different countermeasures adopted by the countries to deal with the security and developmental challenges. South Asia is a complex geography that has been both a victim and a playing field...
Manchester University Press, 2005. — 241 p. Writing the war on terrorism' examines the public language of the war on terrorism, and the way that rhetoric has been used to justify the global counter-terrorism offensive as a response to 9/11. It discusses how language has been used to deliberately manipulate public anxiety about terrorist threats to gain support for military...
Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 147 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-93045-9, 978-3-319-93046-6. With a Foreword by the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani. This book sheds light on the political dynamics within the EU member states and contributes to the discussions about Europe. Authors from all member states as well as Iceland, Norway,...
Routledge, 2018. — 247 p. This volume examines the EU’s Global Strategy in relation to human security approaches to conflict. Contemporary conflicts are best understood as a social condition in which armed groups mobilise sectarian and fundamentalist sentiments and construct a predatory economy through which they enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary citizens. This...
Princeton University Press, 2015 - 351 p. The Berlin crisis, the Suez intervention, the Cyprus problem, and other differences among the NATO powers have tended to weaken the alliance in the face of constant Soviet pressure. Emphasizing the 1960's, a group of experts here examines the future of NATO and American security: military strategy for limited and large scale war, the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 944 p. The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations provides an innovative, authoritative, and accessible examination and critique of all 67 United Nations peacekeeping operations launched between 1948 and 2013. Since the late 1940s, but particularly since the end of the cold war, peacekeeping has been the most visible and one...
Ibidem Press, 2024. — 350 p. — ISBN 978-3838217918, 3838217918. This book details how Russia’s February 2022 open invasion of Ukraine has led to the biggest military conflagration and refugee crisis in Europe since World War II―a development with global ramifications. Co-written by a leading Western political expert, with three decades of research on contemporary Ukraine, and a...
Routledge, 2020. — 300 p. Exploring NATO’s post-Cold War determination to support democracy abroad, this book addresses the alliance’s adaptation to the new illiberal backlashes in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Afghanistan after the alleged ‘return of history’. The book engages the question of what has driven NATO to pursue democratisation in face of the significant...
The UN has been accused of hypocrisy — failing to act in accordance
with the ideals it espouses — in post-Cold War peacekeeping missions.
This article argues that such inconsistency can arise from ‘organized
hypocrisy’, a phenomenon identified by organization theorists in which
organizations respond to conflicting pressures in external environments
through contradictory...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 340 p. This collection is the first book-length study of NATO's bureaucracy and decision-making after the Cold War and its analytical framework of 'internationalization' draws largely on neo-institutionalist insights. This volume offers an innovative analytical perspective on NATO. Taking the Alliance seriously as a complex institution and...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 192 pages. ISBN: 052173536X, 0521514193
This book asks and answers a number of key questions. Why were the atomic bombs used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945? What role did they play in Japan's surrender? The book also explores the morality of the bombs' use and asks if it was right for the United States to use these powerful...
Amsterdam University Press, 2011. — 244 p. — ISBN: 9789089641632. Olena Mykal is deputy head of the Department of Foreign Policy Strategies at the National Institute of Strategic Studies of Ukraine and assistant professor of political science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyyla and the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine. She received her PhD from the Waseda University in...
Routledge, 2018. — 340 p. This edited volume provides a detailed and nuanced analysis of UN peacekeeping and the use of force, to inform a better understanding of the complex and interconnected issues at stake for the UN community. Peacekeeping is traditionally viewed as a largely passive military activity, governed by the principles of impartiality, consent, and the minimum...
Routledge, 2007. — 184 p.
The legitimacy of global institutions which address security challenges is in question. The manner in which they make decisions and the interests they reflect often fall short of twenty-first century expectations and norms of good governance. In addition, their performance has raised doubts about their ability to address contemporary challenges such as...
Washington: The Jamestown Foundation, 2019. — 228 s. — ISBN: 978-0-9986660-5-1 The Baltic Security Strategy Report provides an in-depth security review of the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. As highlighted in this important work, the Baltic States’ various national and collective strategies to address recurring regional threats since achieving statehood over...
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. — 293 p. In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front lines,...
City Lights Books, 1995. — 217 p. Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy. As much of...
Routledge, 2019. — 98 p. The main objectives of this book are to analyse the risks and dangers NATO faces in the current strategic environment and to discuss how the alliance can readjust to those challenges. How can NATO adapt to the dangerous combination of a revisionist Russia, a reluctant United States, and a Europe in crisis? NATO’s relevance and ability to survive have...
Garmisch-Partenkirchen: The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, 2007. - 49 p.
In one of the great examples of the re-convergence of thinking on security issues following the end of the Cold War, it is now the widely held belief of the UN Security Council, NATO, the EU, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and others that the two leading security problems...
Sectarianism in Syria’s Civil War. A Geopolitical Study Featuring 70 Original Maps, by Fabrice Balanche & Mary Horan Kalbach, The Washington Institute For Near East Policy. This book is excellent study of Syria’s religious (especially Islamic) sectarianism during the contemporary civil war. Syria's sectarian fragmentation was not created when the war began in 2011; it had its...
The Armed Conflict Survey provides in-depth analysis of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all major armed conflicts, as well as data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced persons. Compiled by the IISS, publisher of The Military Balance, it is the standard reference work on contemporary conflict. The book assesses key developments in 37 high-,...
Routledge, 2013. — 370 p. Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or stateless peoples. This is the first book to attempt to explore the causes of genocide and other mass killing by a detailed exploration of UN archives covering the...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 412 p. Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity. Oil is also the root source of global conflict, toxicity and economic disparity. When did oil become such a powerful commodity--during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the First World War. In his groundbreaking book The First World Oil War, Timothy C. Winegard argues that...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 315 с. В монографии, подготовленной военными историками СССР, ГДР и ПНР, рассматривается проблема военных конфликтов в политике империалистических держав, прежде всего в глобальной стратегии США. Основное внимание уделено исследованию роли государств НАТО и блока в целом в развязывании конфликтов, анализу воздействия их результатов на политическую и военную...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2010. — 290 с. Введение Новая роль государства Инновационный аспект глобального влияния США Американский бизнес в контексте мирового развития Социально-ответственное поведение американских компаний: национальное и глобальное измерение США в международных потоках прямых инвестиций Место и роль США в международной финансовой системе Новая структура и роль финансового...
СПб.: Питер, 2011. — 337 с. — ISBN 978-5-459-00308-6. На протяжении первого десятилетия XXI века США, Россия, Китай и другие мировые державы развивают новый тип оружия, основанный на новейших технологиях и использовании информационных технологий и Интернета. Специальные подразделения готовят кибернетическое поле битвы с помощью так называемых логических бомб и лазеек, в мирное...
Москва; Ленинград: Государственное издательство, 1930. — 448 с. Проблема разоружения в международном праве : Лига наций в фактах и документах (1920-1929).
Бишкек: КРСУ, 2012. — 116 с. — ISBN: 978-9967-05-876-7. Настоящая работа знакомит читателя с одной из таких актуальных проблем, как международный терроризм (МТ), с причинами его возникновения и политическими целями. В работе рассматриваются понятие, виды МТ, его особенности в современных условиях. Особое внимание авторы обращают на проблему выработки единых подходов в...
Ред. Е.Г. Чобанян. М.: ПИР-Пресс, 2022. — 21 с. – (Индекс Безопасности – Научные записки №2 (28)) — ISBN 978-5-6047005-5-6 Начало политики реформ и открытости в КНР в конце 1970-х гг. привело в том числе к включению китайских специалистов в международный диалог по вопросам ядерного оружия. Однако следует заметить, что диалог китайских экспертов и их коллег из стран Запада...
Монография. — Бишкек: КРСУ, 2014. — 644 с. — ISBN: 978-9967-19-042-9. Резюмирован опыт новых независимых государств Центральной Евразии в XXI в. в сфере развития политической системы, международных отношений и безопасности. Особое внимание уделено современному состоянию и проблемам региональной интеграции. Определены приоритеты современной политики РФ, США и КНР и их...
Ред. Е.Г. Чобанян. — М.: ПИР-Пресс, 2022. — 39 с. — (Индекс Безопасности – Научные записки №17 (43)) — ISBN 978-5-6048679-2-1 Одной из ключевых угроз для безопасности России по-прежнему остаётся международный терроризм. Однако, по мере продолжающейся цифровизации мира, вместе с традиционными формами распространение получает кибертерроризм, который может нанести гораздо больший...
Routledge, 2022. — 255 p. This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states. The work explores the interplay between violence and power by examining the micro-dynamics inherent in the process of escalation between separatists and central governments. These dynamics affect not...
Routledge, 2016. — 195 p. Given the importance of violent non-state actors (VNSA) and their evolving role in global politics, dynamic frameworks of analysis are needed both to trace historical trajectories in the evolution of violent non-state actorness and to identify emerging patterns by examining modern day cases. This book examines the defining characteristics and...
Berghahn Books, 2022. — 364 p. The legacy of World War II and the division of Eastern and Western Europe produced a radical asymmetry, and a variety of misgivings and misunderstandings, in French and German experiences of the nuclear age. At the same time, however, political actors in both nations continually labored to reconcile their differences and engage in productive...
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2016. — 286 p. Chinese and U.S. nuclear experts communicate regularly, but these exchanges often remain difficult and inefficient. Critical differences between Chinese and U.S. thinking about nuclear weapons and deterrence result not merely from differing security environments and levels of military strength; they also exist because...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 364 p. This provides the first comprehensive analysis of the concept of the 'security dilemma'. By exploring the theory and practice of the security dilemma through the prisms of fear, cooperation and trust, it considers whether the security dilemma can be mitigated or even transcended analysing a wide range of historical and contemporary cases.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 214 p. This book explores how BRICS countries respond to, and get involved in, large scale armed conflict. It argues that through responding to armed conflict and deviating from the preferred Western foreign policy, BRICS countries are actively involved in building a multi-polar and post-western world order. The author develops a concise typology of...
Ashgate, 2011. — 290 p. Although there is a vast body of literature covering the ongoing debates concerning the novelty and gravity of the contemporary terrorist threat, as well as the most appropriate response to it, few authors have thus far analysed the complex set of counterterrorism measures that both the individual Member States and the European Union (EU) have attempted to...
Автор неизвестен. Великобритания, 2009. - 62 с.
Аннотация: В данном исследовании дается анализ экономики,вооруженных сил, внешней и внутренней политики Исламской Республики Иран на основе методики SWOT (Strengths - сильные стороны, Weaknesses - слабые стороны, Opportunities - возможности, Threats - угрозы). В работе представлено большое количество эмпирических данных, позволяющих...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 287 p. This book analyzes the justification of preventive war in contemporary asymmetrical international relations. It focuses on the most crucial aspect of prevention: uncertainty. It builds a new framework where the role of luck―whether military, political, moral, or normative―is a corrective to the traditional approaches of the just war tradition....
Routledge, 2021. — 352 p. This book examines the relationship between terrorism and counterterrorism and how it operates within the broader context of communication, control, power, and democratic governance at the national, international, and transnational level. A culmination of decades of research on the challenges that liberal democracies face in dealing with terrorism,...
Anadolu University, 2019. — 256 p. International security is one of the major subjects of the study of International Relationsfor the obvious reasons. As we cannot imagine a society without some form of order and security, we cannot come to understand the workings of international politics without assuming that there exist, to some extent at least, order and stability as well...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 514 p. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack political stakes are high: legislators fear being seen as lenient or indifferent and often grant the executive broader authorities without thorough debate. The judiciary's role, too, is restricted: constitutional structure and cultural norms narrow the courts' ability to check the executive at all...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 265 p. Strategy is a central concept in international security, and one that travels across the academic disciplines of politics, international relations and history. By why is it so important? Aaron Edwards unpacks key strategic episodes from world history and politics to help readers to understand the role of strategy and the scholarly and...
The MIT Press, 2014. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 0262529726, 13 978-0262529723. Achieving nuclear disarmament, stopping nuclear proliferation, and preventing nuclear terrorism are among the most critical challenges facing the world today. Unmaking the Bomb proposes a new approach to reaching these long-held goals. Rather than considering them as separate issues, the authors physicists...
2nd ed. — Polity Press, 2015. — 320 p. During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of East and West hostilities, however, brought ‘critical’ perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the emergence of new challenges to international stability, such as environmental...
4th ed. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 785 p. — ISBN 978-1-137-57349-0 ISBN 978-1-137-57350-6. Originally published in 1981, the leading text on nuclear strategy has been updated and completely revised for its fourth edition. The new edition benefits greatly from important contemporary scholarship and newly-available archival material on the history of nuclear strategy. A new...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 316 p. This book deals with the evolution, current status and potential of U.S.–India strategic cooperation. From very modest beginnings, the U.S.–India strategic partnership has developed significantly over the decade 2010–20. In considerable part this growth has stemmed from overlapping concerns about the rise and assertiveness of the...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 231 p. We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our contemporary nuclear world are deeply consequential for contemporary policy, but it...
Routledge, 1991. — 270 p. International terrorism : image and reality / Noam Chomsky. "Terrorism" as ideology and cultural industry / Edward S. Herman, Gerry O'Sullivan. The discipline of terrorology / Alexander George. The terrorist foundations of recent US foreign policy / Richard Falk. American doctrine and counterinsurgent state terror / Michael McClintock. Containment and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 228 p. In an age of uncertainties influenced by information technologies and the networking of societies, the maritime domain remains the main global lane of communication, vital for trade and security. The European Union has become a maritime actor, carrying out counter-piracy and maritime capacity-building operations and actively dealing with maritime...
Routledge, 2022. — 216 p. UN peace operations are increasingly asked to pursue stabilization mandates with lofty expectations of being able to stabilize conflict zones, achieve national reconciliation, and rebuild state legitimacy. This book investigates the relationship between UN stabilization mandates and the concept of ‘human security’. The book is divided into three parts....
Routledge, 2013. — 403 p. This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term ‘peacebuilding’, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term ‘peacebuilding’ has had remarkable staying power. Other terms, such as ‘conflict resolution’ have waned in popularity,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2019. — 287 p. On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily Telegraph in London published one of the memos with an article headlined 'Secret US Backing for Egyptian rebels'. The effect of the revelation was immediate, helping set in motion an aggressive...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 328 p. Why do the armed forces sometimes intervene in politics via short-lived coups d’état, at other times establish or support authoritarian regimes, or in some cases come under the democratic control of civilians? To find answers, Yaprak Gürsoy examines four episodes of authoritarianism, six periods of democracy, and ten short-lived...
Cambria Press, 2019. — 292 p. The fourth industrial revolution—a convergence of breakthroughs in bioscience, nanotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomy, 3D printing, clean energy, and materials science—is transforming all aspects of society. However, unlike the previous industrial revolutions that increased globalization (the global integration of trade,...
The role of UN peacekeeping missions has expanded beyond the traditional tasks of peacekeeping
to include a wide range of political, economic, and humanitarian activities. While
such expansion indicates an improved understanding of the complexities and challenges of
post-conflict contexts, it also raises questions about whether UN peacekeeping missions are
equipped to handle...
Routledge, 2019. — 314 p. This book offers a sober, contemplative and comprehensive coverage of Greek-Turkish relations, covering in depth the current political climate, with due regard to the historical dimension. The book includes up-to-date accounts of the traditional areas of unresolved discord (Aegean, minorities, Cyprus, the Patriarchate), with emphasis on why they remain...
Routledge, 2013. — 287 p. Understanding NATO in the 21st Century enhances existing strategic debates and clarifies thinking as to the direction and scope of NATO’s potential evolution in the 21st century. The book seeks to identify the possible contours and trade-offs embedded within a potential third "Transatlantic Bargain" in the context of a U.S. strategic pivot in a...
Routledge, 2022. — 285 p. This book examines the phenomenon of paramilitarism across Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, offering a nuanced perspective while identifying key patterns in the way paramilitary violence is implicated in processes of capital accumulation, state-building, and the reproduction of social power. Paramilitary violence, a...
Harvard University Press, 2002. — 464 p. The late twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an unexpected and extraordinary phenomenon: Islamist political movements. Beginning in the early 1970s, militants revolted against the regimes in power throughout the Muslim world and exacerbated political conflicts everywhere. Their jihad, or "Holy Struggle," aimed to establish a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 292 p. This book discusses the various critical dimensions of the Qatar Crisis as a development that has fundamentally reshaped the nature of regional integration for the near future. It represents the first academic attempt to challenge the commonly propagated binary view of this conflict. Further, the book explains the Gulf Crisis in the context of...
Routledge, 2023. — 252 p. — eBook ISBN: 978- 1- 003- 21957- 6. This book explores the changing tactics, technologies and terrains of twenty-first century war. It argues that the world in 2049 is unlikely to look like the climate change/artificial intelligence (AI) dystopia depicted in Blade Runner 2049, but nor will it be a world where conflict and war has been transformed by a...
Routledge, 2019. — 282 p. In the aftermath of the Ukraine crises, borders within the wider post-Cold War and post-Soviet context have become a key issue for international relations and public political debate. These borders are frequently viewed in terms of military preparedness and confrontation, but behind armed territorial conflicts there has been a broader shift in the...
Routledge, 1999. — 547 p. The Beast Reawakens is a book by investigative journalist Martin A. Lee. It tells the story of old-guard fascists' strategy for survival and the revival of fascism. Special attention is given to ODESSA actions during the Cold War, international fascist networks, and political inroads to the right-wing mainstream.
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 310 p. In the twenty-first century, the Indo-Pacific, which spans from the western Pacific Ocean to the western Indian Ocean along the eastern coast of Africa, has emerged as a crucial geostrategic region for trade, investment, energy supplies, cooperation, and competition. It presents complex maritime security challenges and...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 528 p. As long as there have been wars, there have been peace processes to settle them. In the 12th century BC, the Egyptians and Hittites concluded one of the earliest peace treaties still in existence. Peacekeeping as understood as a modern concept emerged out of the League of Nations after World War I. The League fielded many international military...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 325 p. What does it take for warnings about violent conflict and war to be listened to, believed and acted upon? Why are warnings from some sources noticed and largely accepted, while others are ignored or disbelieved? These questions are central to considering the feasibility of preventing harm to the economic and security interests of...
Routledge, 2018. — 200 p. The conflict in the South China Sea, especially the sovereignty over Paracel and Spratly Islands, is of international interest and significance. Territorial claims from various countries impact on maritime freedom and result in the exploitation of natural resources in either international waters or other claimant countries’ exclusive economic zones....
Routledge, 2020. — 293 p. This book examines the gender dimensions of a wide array of national and international security challenges. The volume examines gender dynamics in ten issue areas in both the traditional and human security sub-fields: armed conflict, post-conflict, terrorism, military organizations, movement of people, development, environment, humanitarian...
Routledge, 2020. — 217 p. This book delves into the theory and praxis of human security in South Asia. Home to almost a quarter of the world’s population and fast emerging markets, South Asia holds social, geopolitical and economic significance in the current global context.
2006, PRAEGER SECURITY INTERNATIONAL, Westport, Connecticut; London This book makes an important contribution to understanding preventive war. The major contribution is the author’s emphasis on the critical importance of a top leader’s role in considering preventive war. A basic distinction is made between preventive war and preventive action. Five detailed case studies are...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 327 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-11128-7 A Region in Turmoil The ‘War of Liberation’ Massacre of the Rwandan Refugees The Fall of the Mobutist State Congo: Waiting for Another War Impasse in Rwanda and Burundi ‘The First African World War’ Negotiating the Transition
Routledge, 2019. — 292 p. — (Contemporary Terrorism Studies). — ISBN10: 1138604429, 13 978-1138604421. Jihadism, Foreign Fighters and Radicalization in the EU addresses the organizational and strategic changes in terrorism in Europe as a result of urban jihadism and the influx of foreign fighters of European nationality or residence. Examining the different types of responses...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 240 p. While American leaders wage war on extremists in the Middle East, they are dangerously detached from a potentially greater threat closer to home. In Breeding Bin Ladens, Zachary Shore asserts that the growing ambivalence of Europe's Muslims poses risks to national identities, international security, and the transatlantic...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 205 p. Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending billions of dollars per year on medical...
Springer, 2018. — 403 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-73808-6 With warm and cordial greetings to each of you, on behalf of the Regional Centre for Multidisciplinary Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (CRIM-UNAM), and in my capacity as director of the same as well as in my personal one, I am pleased to express to you a very attentive and sincere welcome. This is our...
University of California Press, 2017. — 256 p. Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective responses aimed at the prevention...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. — 495 p. As a conflict ends and the parties begin working towards a durable peace, practitioners and peacebuilders are faced with the possibilities and challenges of building new or reformed political, security, judicial, social, and economic structures. This Handbook analyzes these elements of post-conflict state building through the lens of...
Routledge, 2022. — 452 p. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the long-running dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian-majority region of Azerbaijan. It outlines the historical development of the dispute, explores the political and social aspects of the conflict, examines the wars over the territory including the war of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 227 p. This book focuses on Post-Soviet ethnic conflicts and Russia's involvement in them. In light of its significant importance for general ethnic conflict, specifically the post-Soviet Caucasus, along with the most recent war just fought over the area from September-November 2020, this book appropriately argues that it is time to reconsider...
Routledge, 2021. — 232 p. This book presents insightful perspectives on the invocation, implementation and application of UN-approved financial sanctions and related issues. With contributions from academics, diplomats and UN panel experts, Yoshimura offers an analysis of how the UN financial sanctions have evolved, the different roles of various major international actors in...
Монография. — М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН); ПИР–Центр, 2012. — 245 с. В монографии на основе глубокого анализа рассматривается эволюция подходов к режиму контроля над вооружениями, его современное состояние и ближайшие перспективы. Используя уникальный опыт работы в Министерстве иностранных дел и Министерстве обороны России, автор рассматривает...
М.: РГГУ, 2024. — 648 с. В научном труде всесторонне и комплексно проанализированы состояние и характерные особенности современной системы международных отношений, рассмотрена внешнеполитическая деятельность ведущих мировых субъектов в условиях глобализации, обоснованы роль и место Российской Федерации в развитии человечества, определены основные причины и предпосылки...
Ярославль: Ярославский государственный университет им. П. Г. Демидова, 2005. — 115 с. Учебное пособие «Проблема безопасности в современных международных отношениях» содержит материалы, посвященные рассмотрению трансформаций в сфере безопасности, оценки угроз и сотрудничества государств в современном мире. Обсуждаются основные подходы к определению понятия безопасности. Особое...
Ред. Е.Г. Чобанян. — М.: ПИР-Пресс, 2022. — 57 с. — (Индекс Безопасности – Научные записки №07 (33)). — ISBN 978-5-6047811-0-4. Персидский залив на протяжении длительного периода времени считается одним из наиболее нестабильных регионов мира, где переплетены интересы как местных, так глобальных игроков. На данный момент в регионе отсутствует всеобъемлющая система безопасности:...
М.: Центр анализа стратегий и технологий, 2020. — 176 с. В книге проведен комплексный анализ военного, экономического, демографического и природного потенциала союзников России по Организации Договора о коллективной безопасности – Армении, Белоруссии, Казахстана, Киргизии и Таджикистана. Рассмотрена их внешняя политика и отношения с Россией. Сформулированы гипотезы относительно...
Учебное пособие. — Чита: ЗабГУ, 2020. — 147 с. Данное пособие представляет собой курс лекций по международной безопасности. В книге рассмотрены теоретические основы международной безопасности, описаны угрозы международной безопасности в XXI в., определены роль современного международного права и его потенциал в поддержании мира и всеобщей безопасности. Учебное издание...
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 361 p. After two decades and trillions of dollars, the United States’ fight against terrorism has achieved mixed results. Despite the vast resources and attention expended since 9/11, terrorism has increased in many societies that have been caught up in the war on terror. Why have U.S. policies been unable to stem the tide of violence?...
Routledge, 2018. — 254 p. This volume examines the dynamics of socio-political order in post-colonial states across the Pacific Islands region and West Africa in order to elaborate on the processes and practices of peace formation. Drawing on field research and engaging with post-liberal conceptualisations of peacebuilding, this book investigates the interaction of a variety of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 352 p. Terrorist groups with a shared enemy or ideology have ample reason to work together, even if they are primarily pursuing different causes. Although partnering with another terrorist organization has the potential to bolster operational effectiveness, efficiency, and prestige, international alliances may expose partners to...
Routledge, 2018. — 155 p. Many contemporary surveillance practices take place in information infrastructures which are from the public domain. Although they have far reaching consequences for both citizens and their rights, they are not always subject to regulatory demands and oversight. This being said, democratic fora where citizens and institutions may question such...
Central European University Press, 2000. — 268 p. A new globally significant relationship arising after the break-up of the Soviet Union is the main topic of this unparalleled volume the geopolitical link between Russia, Ukraine and the three bordering 'Central European' states, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. On the Edge is a path-breaking analysis of this triangular...
Routledge, 2022. — 234 p. — ISBN 978-1-032-00715-1. This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger. Institutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organisational changes, and this book presents a novel approach for how to study and politically...
Pluto Press, 2021. — 160 p. We are in a moment of profound overlapping crises. The landscape of politics and entitlement is being rapidly and unpredictably remade. As movements against colonial legacies and state violence coincide with the rise of new authoritarian regimes, it is the analytical lens of racism, and the politics of race, that offers the sharpest focus. In...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2004. — 194 p. The second edition of Jeremy Black's War has been completely revised in the light of recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jeremy Black's book prophetically explores the realities of war in a globalized world where growing prosperity can increase the likelihood of conflict and American power is likely to be increasingly challenged. In his...
University of Michigan Press, 2014. — 160 p. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Western nations have increasingly recognized religion as a consideration in domestic and foreign policy. In this empirical comparison of the securitization of Islam in Britain, France, and the United States, Robert M. Bosco argues that religion is a category of phenomena defined by...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 307 p. This book studies recent attempts to restructure maritime security sectors through capacity building. It innovates both theoretically and empirically. It proposes a new framework for understanding maritime capacity building, drawing on work in peacebuilding and security sector reform. The framework is then applied across empirical case studies...
SUNY Press, 2018. — 296 p. Examines how NATO has adapted and endured after the end of the Cold War, transforming itself to deal with a host of new security challenges. Why is it that despite the end of the Cold War and the almost constant controversies surrounding the alliance’s role in the world, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still a prominent and vital...
Автор неизвестен. Великобритания, 2009. - 53 с.Including 5-year industry forecasts by BMI Аннотация: В данном исследовании дается анализ экономики,вооруженных сил, внешней и внутренней политики Саудовской Аравии на основе методики SWOT (Strengths - сильные стороны, Weaknesses - слабые стороны, Opportunities - возможности, Threats - угрозы). В работе представлено большое...
Routledge, 2019. — 247 p. This book seeks to interrogate how contemporary policy issues become ‘securitized’ and, furthermore, what the implications of this process are. A generation after the introduction of the concept of securitization to the security studies field, this book engages with how securitization and desecuritization ‘works’ within and across a wide range of...
Lexington Books, 2019. — 160 p. This book represents a different approach in the study of the Sahel region in North Africa. Due to the hybrid security threats sweeping across the area, the whole region becomes a new security complex different from Middle East and more related to Western and Central Africa developments, including the impact of drug-trafficking coming from Latin...
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002. — 224 p. In the turbulent decade since the ending of the Cold War in Europe, a new element of the international relations of Asia and the Pacific has been the emergence of multilateral security dialogues. Both in governmental arenas such as the ASEAN Regional Forum and numerous "track two" channels including the Council for Security...
Praeger, 2011. — 228 p. Shortly after World War II, the Middle East became a locus for nations seeking to acquire nuclear missiles and the means to deliver them to their enemies. Israel was the first; Libya and Iraq followed suit. Pakistan now possesses a substantial number of nuclear weapons, to which longtime rival India will no doubt respond. The implications of the...
Routledge, 2022. — 272 p. This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation. Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the...
Pluto Press, 2006. — 231 p. David Chandler argues that state-building, as it is currently conceived, does not work. In the 1990s, interventionist policies challenged the rights of individual states to self-governance. Today, non-Western states are more likely to be feted by international institutions offering programmes of poverty-reduction, democratisation and good governance....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 243 p. This book is the first to chart the rise and fall of peacebuilding. Charting its beginnings, as an ad-hoc extension of peacekeeping responsibilities, and formalisation, as a UN-supported international project of building liberal states. Twenty years later, the grounding policy assumptions of peacebuilding - that democracy, the rule of law and...
Routledge, 2011. — 248 p. This book examines the application of the UN Security Council's mandatory sanctions since 1946, and, in particular, the regimes adopted for specific types of conflict. Beginning in the Cold War period with South Africa and Southern Rhodesia and continuing today, following the post-9/11 experience with Al Qaeda and the Taliban, sanctions are a key tool...
Greenwood Group, 2008. — 304 p. Israel and Syria: The Military Balance and Prospects of War provides a detailed and current picture of the military capabilities of Israel and Syria, reflecting the changes and lessons of the Israel-Hezbollah War in 2006 and other recent conflicts. It offers extensive analysis, supported by tables and charts, on the trends in military spending,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 245 p. This book provides the first detailed comparative analysis of the unusual partnership between the main European neutral states and NATO. Neutrality and alliance membership are fundamentally incompatible, but through the vehicle of NATO’s post-Cold War partnerships the European neutral states and NATO have found a way to bridge this gap and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 920 p. Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is a significant international normative and policy framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on women and girls, including protection against sexual and...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 302 p. Aside from large-scale civic mobilisations, no force was more critical to the outcomes of the 2011 Arab uprisings than the armed forces. Nearly a decade after these events, we see militaries across the region in power, once again performing critical roles in state politics. Taking as a point of reference five case studies where...
Polity, 2007. — 272 p. According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability even in the most distant places the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and developing the unstable regions of the world are now imperative. In what has become a truism of the post-Cold War...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 234 p. Despite efforts to normalize its post-colonial relationship and the downsizing of its permanent military presence, France remains a sought-after security provider in Africa. This book uncovers individual and collective motivations that drive French foreign and security policy in Africa. It explains French interventionism by drawing on actors’...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 312 p. This edited book addresses the issues of gun trafficking and gun violence across different regions of the world, including the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania. It seeks to identify global key trends on gun trafficking and related violence and discuss different enforcement measures. Each chapter is written by teams of distinguished...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 297 p. This book explores the intersection of the study of transatlantic relationships and the study of public support for the use of force in foreign policy. It contributes to two important debates: one about the nature of transatlantic partnership, and another about the determinants of support for the use of military force in a comparative perspective.
Routledge, 2021. — 221 p. This book examines the development of cooperation between the EU and NATO, two key non-state actors in the European security architecture. The work examines the relationship between the EU and NATO by focusing on the perspective of member states. Highlighting the relevance of member states’ role in shaping EU-NATO relations, it conceptualises...
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.5. - Sciences Po, Winter 2007. - p.38-49.
The article compares the Copenhagen School’s securitization approach to the human security approach, both in terms of analytical utility and normative utility. It states that human security lacks any analytical utility, while having the upper hand on the securitization approach in...
Routledge, 2019. — 187 p. This book examines and compares the diverging security approaches of the UK, China and India in peacebuilding settings, with a specific focus on the case of Nepal. Rising powers such as China and India dissent from traditional templates of peacebuilding and apply their own methods to respond to security issues. This book fills a gap in the literature...
Routledge, 2021. — 232 p. India-South Asia Interface raises the fundamental question: How does one make sense of South Asia? Conventional wisdom defines it primarily in terms of regional and international politics. The failures of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) are emblematic of that wisdom. Marking a departure from such approaches, Partha Ghosh...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 191 p. The book attempts to understand the myriad roles of ballistic and cruise missiles in international security. They are for combat purpose, deterrence, coercive diplomacy and power and prestige of a state. The book also studies missile developments across the world. The book also aims to fathom the various possibilities to reduce the threat from...
Regnery Publishing, 2016. — 257 p.
Since September 11, 2001, America has been at war. And that's about all anyone can say with certainty about a conflict that has cost 7,000 American lives and almost $2 trillion. As long as the most basic strategic questions—Who is the enemy? Why are we fighting?—remain unanswered, victory is impossible.
Yet this war is eminently winnable if...
Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2019. — 377 p. The rise of the People‘s Republic of China represents a major challenge for global politics at large and regional stability in Southeast Asia in specific. This book reveals that growing negative sentiment and disrespect experiences perceived by the Chinese side over time have contributed to Beijing‘s increasingly bold and proactive stance...
Palgrave Pivot, 2014. — 141 p. This book analyses the Russian opposition to the 2010 Barents Sea delimitation agreement in light of both the Law of the Sea and Russian identity, arguing that the agreement's critics and proponents inscribe themselves into different Russian narratives about Russia's rightful place in the world. Geir Hønneland once again shows in this book his...
Routledge, 2006. — 320 p. Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making. Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 288 p. In the wake of its "Caliphate" declaration in 2014, the self-described Islamic State has been the focus of countless academic papers, government studies, media commentaries and documentaries. Despite all this attention, persistent myths continue to shape--and misdirect--public understanding and strategic policy decisions. A significant...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 356 p. How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? Why, for instance, was the Mayaguez Incident in May 1975--where 41 U.S. soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in a botched hostage rescue mission--perceived as a triumph and the 1992-94 U.S. humanitarian intervention in Somalia, which saved thousands of lives,...
Zed Books, 2012. — 224 p. Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing total of 5,700 kilometers of security barriers. In this...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 311 p. One of the most striking developments in international politics today is the significant increase in security cooperation among European Union states. Seth Jones argues that this increase in cooperation, in areas such as economic sanctions, weapons production and collaboration among military forces, has occurred because of the changing...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 185 p. Islamist militants based in Pakistan have played a major role in terrorism around the world and pose a significant threat to regional and international security. Although the Pakistan-militant connection has received widespread attention only in recent years, it is not a new phenomenon. Pakistan has, since its inception in the wake of...
Springer-Verlag, 2014. — 112 p. This book reviews the global dilemma and tensions over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts which test the validity of the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P. It particularly assesses R2P’s relevance for Asia, which is defined broadly in this book to include West Asia or the Middle East and the region’s...
Beacon Press, 2013. — 194 p. Brokers of Deceit - How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi is a brilliant examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments. For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 307 p. In Blood Year, David Kilcullen provides a wide-angle view of the current situation in the Middle East and analyzes how America and the West ended up in such dire circumstances. Focusing on the events of 2014--a year of massacres and beheadings, fallen cities and collapsing states--as a potential turning point in modern world history, this is...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 618 p. This handbook takes stock of the African Union’s Vision 2020 to rid the African continent of wars, civil conflicts, human rights violations, and humanitarian disasters – including violent conflicts and genocide – and provides recommendations on how to address contemporary threats to peace and security in Africa. It explores the continent’s...
Routledge, 2016. — 217 p. Through a multidisciplinary approach, African Frontiers counters the superficial, Eurocentric and gender insensitive dominant discursive representation of Africa within the discourse of war and conflict management, and security and peace/nation-building. The chapters historicize and theorize the realities in postcolonial African states, and the...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 320 p. An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder—told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle Usama Bin Laden’s greatest fear was not capture or death, but the exposure of al-Qaeda’s secrets. At great risk to themselves and the entire mission, the U.S. Special Operations Forces, who carried out the Abbottabad...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 254 p. In this contribution to the literature on the causes of war, Douglas Lemke asks whether the same factors affect minor powers as affect major ones. He investigates whether power parity and dissatisfaction with the status quo have an impact within Africa, the Far East, the Middle East, and South America. Lemke argues that there are...
Routledge, 2020. — 246 p. This book explains cooperative and confrontational regional orders in the post-Cold War era. Applying a push-and-pull framework to the evolution of regional orders, the book’s theoretical section compares regional dynamics and studies the transformation and authority of governing arrangements among key regional actors who manage security and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 314 p. African states have become testing grounds for Western conflict-resolution experiments, particularly power-sharing agreements, supposedly intended to end deadly conflict, secure peace, and build democracy in divided societies. This volume examines the legal and political efficacy of transitional political power-sharing between...
Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2011. — XXI, 111 p. — ISBN: 978-0-89206-660-5
The U.S.-Israel partnership is under unprecedented strain. The relationship is deep and cooperation remains robust, but the challenges to it now are more profound than ever. Growing differences could undermine the national security of both the United States and Israel,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 252 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-13426-6 & ISBN 978-3-030-13427-3. Defines pacifism’s appeal, its claim to attention and its claim to authority. Presents a global intellectual history of pacifism, supplementing traditional Euro-American articulations of pacifism with a survey of its articulation in Orthodox-Christian, Hinduist, Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish...
Routledge, 2021. — 254 p. This book highlights the conflict between jihadist militants and the West as essentially ideological in character. It has serious implications internalized by Muslim societies, with the boundaries of faith changed by the interplay of socio-political variables. Violence emerged in Muslim societies as a means of emancipation or identity when the state...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 293 p. Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the 'thugs', 'pirates', and 'fanatics' of the nineteenth century, McQuade traces the emerging and novel legal category of 'the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 345 p. This edited book examines the different forms of human trafficking that manifest in conflict and post-conflict settings and considers how the military may help to address or even facilitate it. It explores how conflict can facilitate human trafficking, how it can manifest through a variety of case studies, followed by a discussion of the...
Routledge, 2016. — 370 p. This volume examines the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies. The real-world importance of nuclear weapons has led to the production of a voluminous scholarly literature on the causes and consequences of nuclear weapons proliferation. Missing from this literature, however, is a more nuanced analysis that moves...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 380 p. Retrieving the older but surprisingly neglected language of household governance, Economy of Force offers a radical new account of the historical rise of the social realm and distinctly social theory as modern forms of oikonomikos - the art and science of household rule. The techniques and domestic ideologies of household...
Brill, 2020. — 237 p. — (Brill's Asian Law 9). National Security of India and International Law is a pioneering inter-disciplinary scholarly exercise in the context of India. It offers first-of-its kind perspective on interplay between the needs, concerns and interests of the national security actors, means and institutions and inherent limitations and prospects of...
Springer Singapore, 2022. — 164 p. This book analyzes two main trends of prevailing populism and nationalism in China and Southeast Asian nations and rising tensions in the South China Sea (SCS) by experts from China and Southeast Asia. The book involves the most recent developments and indicates future trends. This is the first book which goes deeply into the SCS dispute from...
Springer, 2020. — 288 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-43252-2 & ISBN 978-3-030-43253-9. Offers the newest points of views by a unique mix of international experts from a multifaceted scientific background. Focuses especially on Europe's interests. Discusses some of the strategic lines in front of the trends related to the new challenges of global security in this new century.
Springer-Verlag/Wien, 2010, XII, 206 p. — ISBN: 978-3-211-99652-2 (SpringerWien New York). Formulates principles and recommendations for global action Based on a conference organized at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in November 2008 in Vienna As space applications become central to modern interaction, more and more entities are becoming involved in space...
Praeger, 2018. — 701 p. National security is a key concern for individual nations, regions, and the global community, yet globalism has led to the perfusion of transnational crime such that it now poses a serious threat to the national security of governments around the world. Whether attention is concentrated on a particular type of transnational crime or on broader concerns...
Brookings Institution Press, 2017. — 269 p. Saudi Arabia and the United States have been partners since 1943, when President Roosevelt met with two future Saudi monarchs. Subsequent U.S. presidents have had direct relationships with those kings and their successors--setting the tone for a special partnership between an absolute monarchy with a unique Islamic identity and the...
Praeger, 2022. — 228 p. America and Europe Adrift highlights the background of the German unification and the reaffirmation of NATO as the framework of U.S. presence in Europe after the end of the Cold War; the NATO enlargement; the Transatlantic Rift in the context of the Iraq War; the economic aspects of transatlantic relations, specifically the rise of Germany's weight in...
Praeger, 2011. — 186 p. Ongoing tensions between Iran and Israel are highly dangerous for the Middle East and have the potential to spark another major war in the region, perhaps on a much larger scale than prior conflicts. Such a confrontation between the two nations would jeopardize regional and international security, and is of immediate concern for the United States. In...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 323 p. During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently. Today's international system...
Routledge, 2020. — 230 p. This book revealingly traces the ways in which third-party perceptions of an international actor affect its agency in global affairs by using the example of the European Union’s engagement in Southeast Asian non-traditional security. Utilizing an innovative analytical framework emphasising the intersubjective nature of international actorness, it...
Schmitt Burkard, Delpech Thérèse, Freedman Lawrence, Shen Dingli, Camille Grand, Robert A. Manning, Harald Muller, Brad Roberts, Dmitri Trenin. — Institute for Security Studies, Western European Union. — Paris, 2001. — 186 p. — (Chaillot paper 48). — ISSN: 1017-7566. Nuclear weapons – less central, more dangerous? Dynamic strategic context Strategic stability in a second...
University of New York Press, 2006. — 228 p. Examines the battle to develop the oil resources of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.This book makes a major contribution to one of the great moral and political debates of our time, highlighting aspects that are not well known or appreciated in more general accounts available in the mass media. Especially significant is its...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 257 p. Case studies include: Occupier/Occupied: United States and the Mexican Territory (1846 to 1848); Confederate states during the Civil War; Germany and France from 1870 to 1871; Egypt from 1882 to 1954; Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century; Haiti and the Philippines in the twentieth century; Rhineland after World War I; Italy,...
Routledge, 2019. — 256 p. In the context of the end of the Cold War and the spread of globalism, sub-regions are attracting attention as new social units of international society never before observed. In the "second wave" of regionalism that became active in the 1980s, a new regionalism, which differed qualitatively from the old regionalism, expanded globally. This "new...
ABC-CLIO, 2019. — 257 p. This compelling book serves as a comprehensive resource for readers interested in contemporary security issues in Africa. It details the impact of complex challenges in Africa and explains why addressing them grows increasingly important.Presenting both general overviews and specific case studies, this book provides an excellent introduction to...
University of Westminster Press, 2017. — 207 p. The United States presents the greatest source of global geo-political violence and instability. Guided by the radical political economy tradition, this book offers an analysis of the USA's historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies. Scott Timcke explores the foundations of this impulse and how the militarization...
Ohio University Press, 2014. — 192 p. Since the end of the Cold War, a new dynamic has arisen within the international system, one that does not conform to established notions of the stateOCOs monopoly on war. In this changing environment, the global community must decide how to respond to the challenges posed to the state by military threats, political and economic decline,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 340 p. This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states. Each chapter tackles a unique angle on violent organizations on the continent with the view of highlighting the conditions that lead to the rise and radicalization of these groups....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 296 p. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the securitisation of climate change in the US, Germany and Mexico and offers a rethinking of securitisation theory. Resting on a Foucauldian governmentality approach, it discusses how different climate security discourses have transformed the political handling of climate change and affected...
Princeton University Press, 2002. — 216 p. Why do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish? Numerous competing theories address this question. Yet not until now has a study combined the historical sweep, empirical richness, and conceptual rigor necessary to put them thoroughly to the test and draw lessons invaluable...
Routledge, 2008. — 275 p. This edited volume explores the significance of the early ‘Helsinki process’ as a means of redefining and broadening the concept of security during the latter half of the Cold War. The early Helsinki process introduced innovative confidence-building measures, and made human rights a requirement of a legitimate and well-functioning international system,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 317 p. This book is the first to comprehensively explore the origins and reasons behind the Sino-Indian border dispute’s intractability. Utilising an array of accurate maps, tables, archival and scholarly research, this book shows how an ambiguous frontier became a contested border and how it has become relatively pacified yet remaining unresolved....
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 380 p. The Asia-Pacific region is characterized not only by unprecedented economic growth, but also as being one of the last bastions of authoritarianism. As such, deep political tensions persist in the region, and many questions remain surrounding the uncertainty of the Asia-Pacific’s geopolitical future. In The Politics of the...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2012. — 657 p. Security Studies is the most comprehensive textbook available on security studies. Comprehensively revised for the new edition including new chapters on Polarity, Culture, Intelligence, and the Academic and Policy Worlds, it continues to give students a detailed overview of the major theoretical approaches, key themes and most...
Georgetown University Press, 2012. — 257 p. A "second nuclear age" has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North Korea, and the potential for more...
SIPRI, 2013. — 25 p. When in early 2012 Pakistan touted a major shift in its Afghan policy, the move was cautiously welcomed given the influence—and spoiling power—Pakistan has displayed in Afghanistan in the past. This paper asks exactly what Pakistan's 'strategic shift' entails, what are the motives behind it, and whether it opens any new opportunities for peace in...
М. : Политическая энциклопедия, 2017. — 222 с. — ISBN 978-5-8243-2139-5. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей коллективная монография, подготовленная российскими и зарубежными экспертами под эгидой Московского Центра Карнеги, посвящена проблемам и тенденциям наступающей новой ядерной эпохи, которая будет во многом отличаться от знакомого нам прошлого. Еще пять лет назад мало кто мог...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2016. — 183 с. Монография посвящена современным проблемам информационной безопасности. Проводится системный анализ инициатив России в области международной информационной безопасности. Исследуются различные аспекты использования информационно-телекоммуникационных технологий в военно-политических целях. Анализируются вопросы использования информационных систем в...
Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2017. — 175 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7996-2072-1. В учебном пособии рассматривается развитие политических режимов, показаны особенности социальной и культурной политики и экономики государств Центральной Азии после распада СССР, их взаимоотношения с Россией в области безопасности. Анализируется дискурс экспертных оценок по основным...
М.: ПИР-Пресс, 2021. — 29 с. — (Индекс Безопасности – Научные записки №1 (27)). — ISBN 978-5-6047005-4-9. «Китайский фактор» играет все большую роль в обеспечении региональной и международной безопасности. На данный момент нет разумных доводов в пользу участия КНР в контроле над вооружениями на равных с Россией и США, однако существует тенденция к исправлению данного перекоса...
И. Адами, Т. В. Вербицкая, П. Л. Гилева, К. К. Гусейнов, Н. С. Дегтярев, Ф. Е. Золотарев, А. Д. Казанцева, Е. А. Лапанович, В. И. Михайленко, Е. Б. Михайленко, К. Г. Муратшина, Е. С. Порядина. Екатеринбург : Издательство Уральского университета, 2020. 180 с. Монография посвящена Договору о запрещении ядерного оружия (ДЗЯО) и его роли в глобальном процессе ядерного разоружения....
М.: Издательские решения, 2018. — 202 с. В книге рассматривается роль ШОС в обеспечении безопасности стран Центральной Азии. На широком фактическом материале осуществляется анализ истории развития организации ШОС на фоне трансформации системы международных отношений в условиях формирования новых вызовов и угроз в Центральной Азии. Изучаются основные основные направления...
М.: Ленанд, 2006. — 56 с. В кратком очерке российского политолога Э.Г. Соловьева рассматривается феномен современных террористических организаций в контексте процесса глобализации, новейших тенденций и явлений в мирополитической системе. Работа выполнена в рамках проекта «Новые тенденции и явления в мировой политике» (руководитель проекта — чл.-корр. РАН А.А. Кокошин)....
М.: АИРО-XXI, 2012. — 328 с. — ISBN 978-5-91022-186-8. В предлагаемой книге дается комплексный анализ военно-политических аспектов постсоветский истории Российской армии. Автор книги не только свидетель, но и активный участник описываемых событий (путч 1991 года, создание Российской Гвардии в 1991 году, введение чрезвычайной ситуации и война в Чечне, создание Министерство...
Lexington Books, 2014. — 275 p. This book examines the role of the emerging African nations in the new international order of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, little significance has been placed on the African continent in the security and political considerations of the Western world. However, post-9/11 international security has been redefined, and new...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 375 p. This edited volume focuses on the development and conflict prevention mechanism of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. The contributors discuss complex socio-political and economic issues and use a cross disciplinary approach to treat most of the dominant research questions in the field. The chapters come nicely together in...
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019. — 264 p. From purchasing pay-per-view pornography to smoking pot, many so-called Muslim terrorists prove by their actions that they aren't motivated by devotion to religion, Leena Al Olaimy argues. So why do they really turn to violence, and what does that tell us about the most effective way to combat terrorism? Al Olaimy sets the stage by...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 340 p. This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates’ social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of...
I.B. Tauris, 2005. — 256 p. Directly relates to current Ukraine crisis. Russia's Black Sea fleet is based in Ukrainian port of Sevastopol (Crimea). This work brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines on a region vitally important in current international relations for Europe, Russia and the Near East, offering fresh perspective combining regional 'insiders' and...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 338 p. There is no one-size-fits-all decentralized fix to deeply divided and conflict-ridden states. One of the hotly debated policy prescriptions for states facing self-determination demands is some form of decentralized governance - including regional autonomy arrangements and federalism - which grants minority groups a degree of self-rule....
Routledge, 2022. — 202 p. The Caspian Sea region has hitherto largely been investigated from a `New Great Game' perspective that depicts the region as a geopolitical battle-ground between regional and external great powers, where tensions have been exacerbated by the sea's rich natural resources, strategic location, and legal disagreements over its status. This book, by...
Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1972. — 311 p. Mr. Beilenson was an adviser to Mr. Reagan in his early political career and wrote three books, ''The Treaty Trap,'' ''Power Through Subversion'' and ''Survival and Peace in the Nuclear Age.''. Here for the first time is an authoritative history of the role subversion has played in shaping the destinies of nations. In these pages...
San Diego: University of California Press, 2019. — 243 p. Tens of thousands of Eritreans make perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea every year. Why do they risk their lives to reach European countries where so many more hardships await them? By visiting family homes in Eritrea and living with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan, and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 241 p. In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents. Why would these countries gamble with their own national security by outsourcing violence - arming nonstate actors inside their...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 301 p. This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN’s politics of selective humanitarian intervention. Over the past 20 years the United Nations has imposed economic sanctions, deployed peacekeeping operations, and even conducted or authorized military intervention in Somalia, Bosnia, or Libya. Yet no such measures were taken in other...
Routledge, 2016. — 208 p. The post-World War II emergence of a full-blown state of perpetual war is arguably the most important feature of contemporary American politics. This book examines the "warfare state" in terms of a broad ensemble of structures, policies, and ideologies: permanent war economy, national security-state, global expansion of military bases, merger of state,...
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2017. — 295 p. Critical security studies have emphasized that the identification of security threats paves the way for international and domestic interventions. Over the last three decades, statebuilding has developed into a powerful global practice of intervention in domestic affairs - not only with respect to failed states, but more broadly as a...
Routledge, 2009. — 269 p. — (Routledge Critical Security Studies). — ISBN: 978-0415460569. The challenges that space poses for political theory are profound. Yet until now, the exploration and utilization of space has generally reflected – but not challenged – the political patterns and impulses which characterized twentieth-century politics and International Relations. This...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 289 p. Many authoritarian leaders want nuclear weapons, but few manage to acquire them. Autocrats seeking nuclear weapons fail in different ways and to varying degrees―Iraq almost managed it; Libya did not come close. In Unclear Physics, Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer compares the two failed nuclear weapons programs, showing that state capacity...
Routledge, 2019. — 248 p. Is religion a factor in initiating interstate armed conflict, and do different religions have different effects? Breaking new ground in political science, this book explores these questions both qualitatively and quantitatively, concluding that the answer is yes. Previous studies have focused on conflict within states or interstate aggression with...
Springer, 2019. — 378 p. — (Yearbook on Space Policy). — ISBN10: 3030054160, 13 978-3030054168. The book describes the recent trends in space policy and the space sector overall. While maintaining a global scope with a European perspective, it links space policy with other policy areas, highlights major events, and provides insights on the latest data. The Yearbook includes the...
Routledge, 2006. — 270 p. — ISBN 0-7546-4701-3 The security issues confronting Asia are both complex and diverse. Given the increasing trend towards an expanding security agenda beyond the military dimension of inter-state relations, this volume provides an extensive study of emerging non-traditional challenges to this region. New realities and new challenges have come to the...
Collective authors. — Cham: Palgrave Pivot, 2017. — 276 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-60620-0 (Print); 978-3-319-60621-7 (eBook). — (Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies). This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. It analyzes how and why their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and multilateral institutions. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 259 p. This book argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order. Cameron develops an original framework which inverts the traditional analysis of foreign policy in order to interpret its impact upon subject formation through everyday practises of security and social regulation.
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 170 p. How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once. Meanwhile the international community expends billions of dollars and deploys tens of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 289 p. The domestic phase of Washington's war on drugs has received considerable criticism over the years from a variety of individuals. Until recently, however, most critics have not stressed the damage that the international phase of the drug war has done to our Latin American neighbors. That lack of attention has begun to change and Ted Carpenter...
Routledge, 2017. — 421 p. Resilience is increasingly discussed as a key concept across many fields of international policymaking from sustainable development and climate change, insecurity, conflict and terrorism to urban and rural planning, international aid provision and the prevention of and responses to natural and man-made disasters. Edited by leading academic authorities...
Springer, 2012. — 258 p. Human security is becoming increasingly pronounced in recent years due to changes in the security landscape of world politics. Yet, inter-state relations have continued to dominate security concerns in East Asia. This has, unfortunately, eluded the broader understanding of issues and challenges facing the peoples of East Asia. Home to nations with rapid...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 310 p. What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the interests of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject to various forms of legal and political...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 260 p. The book contains contributions of scholars from Canada, Greece, Israel, Italy, and the United States. Section 1 consists of studies on historical and security issues, with contributions on the historical background of Greco-Turkish relations, British perspectives on these relations after World War II, the role of NATO, Greece's defense...
ITexLi, 2023. — 168 p. — ISBN 1837682518 9781837682515 183768250X 9781837682508 1837682526 9781837682522. This book is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the social sciences. It is written by various researchers and edited by an expert active in global peace and security research. All chapters are...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 263 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-38087-8 & ISBN 978-3-030-38088-5. Analyzes the United States and Russia’s nuclear peace politics. Examines the needed U.S.-Russian collaboration on technology and politics. Includes suggestions for both analysis and policy in order to prevent the renewed U.S.-Russian nuclear arms race.
Frank Cass, 2005. — 201 p. This study establishes that the political, economic and military-technological changes that transform the international system also alter the way in which a state views its and others' responsibilities and burdens for responding to international crises. It assesses the distribution of the costs of raising and supporting arms of service, the risks of...
Routledge, 2006. — 214 p. The American-led "war on terror" has arguably brought about the most significant shift in the contours of the international system since the end of the Cold War. A new "imperial moment" is discernible in US foreign policy in the wake of the neo-conservative rise to power in the USA, marked by the development of a fresh strategic doctrine based on the...
USAF Institute for National Security Studies, 2001. — 165 p. This work analyzes the history of Indo-Russian military and nuclear cooperation. The "special" Moscow-New Delhi relationship during the Cold War, the thesis concludes, was based upon Indian needs, American ambivalence and Soviet opportunism. In the post-Cold War era this relationship has persisted due to continued...
Praeger, 2002. — 328 p. The Maghreb--Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia--is a region overburdened by unnecessary military expenditures. Despite persistent civil conflicts and militarized regimes in a number of countries in the region, there are actually few genuine external threats, and the armed forces are now largely used to maintain internal security. A detailed...
Routledge, 2004. — 120 p. Analyses changing patterns of international military cooperation and assistance and shows that Western defence diplomacy is increasingly being directed towards new goals. The new defence diplomacy runs alongside the old and there are tensions between the two, in particular between the new goal of promoting democracy and the old imperative of supporting...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 248 p. In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe. They attempt to conceptualize and realize security as a cooperative endeavour for collective good, in contrast to security narratives driven by power and national egotism....
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 182 p. This book is about security challenges in the Baltic Sea region caused by Russia's resurgence. NATO and neutral states in the region are now concerned about an external threat for the first time since the demise of the Soviet Union. Russia has been probing air space, maritime boundaries, and even land borders from the Baltic republics...
Springer, 2023. — 344 p. — (Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict). — ISBN 978 -3-031-18218-1. Адаптивное миростроительство This book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 654 p. When do states acquire nuclear weapons? Overturning a decade of scholarship focusing on other factors, Debs and Monteiro show in Nuclear Politics that proliferation is driven by security concerns. Proliferation occurs only when a state has both the willingness and opportunity to build the bomb. A state has the willingness to nuclearize...
Routledge, 2015. — 239 p. Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory. Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the course of the 17th century, the problematisation of government...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. — 422 p. Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction: War-Making, Peacebuilding, and the United Nations Theoretical Perspectives Testing Peacebuilding Strategies Making War Making Peace: Successes Making Peace: Failures Transitional Strategies Conclusions Bibliography Index
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 237 p. This is a first book-long analysis showing how the notion of ‘hybrid warfare’ was used to transform security policies and discourses in an EU/NATO country. Building on current debates in International Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, and Critical Geopolitics, it provides a novel account of how crisis, geopolitics, uncertainty,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 304 p. Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states. This multifaceted book provides a new approach to evaluate Counter-de-Rad Programmes and develops a holistic framework which will allow policy-makers and practitioners to design and effectively implement and assess such programmes in the future.
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 345 p. 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 Service of the Netherlands (AIVD) after the 9/11 and Pentagon attacks, an origin that is rarely...
University of Georgia Press, 2014. — 255 p. This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime—even as they formally support it. Anchored by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime is the constellation of agreements, initiatives, and norms...
New York University Press, 2017. — 377 p. More so than in the past, the US is now embracing the logic of preventive force: using military force to counter potential threats around the globe before they have fully materialized. While popular with individuals who seek to avoid too many “boots on the ground,” preventive force is controversial because of its potential for...
Physica-Verlag, 2005. — 275 p. It is notorious that the evolution of civil-military relations and the security sector reform in South East Europe has to deal with post-totalitarian and post-conflict challenges. The book treats these issues also in the context of the adaptation to fighting terrorism and the need to be effective in this struggle while continuing the democratic...
Routledge, 2020. — 200 p. This book examines military and civilian actors in international interventions and offers a new analytical framework to apply on such interventions. While it is frequently claimed that success in international interventions hinges largely on military–civilian coherence, cooperation has proven challenging to achieve in practice. This book examines why...
Routledge, 2012. — 200 p. At the turn of the century the regional-global security partnership became a key element of peace and security policy-making. This book investigates the impact of the joint effort made by the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) to keep the peace and protect civilians in Darfur. This book focuses on the collaboration that takes place in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 107 p. — ISBN: 0–415–21579–x. This edited volume examines the implications for international development actors of new kinds of terrorism taking place in civil conflicts. The threat from terrorism and violent extremism has never been greater – at least in the global South where the vast majority of violent extremist attacks take place. Some of the...
Routledge, 2021. — 334 p. This book contends that modern concerns surrounding the UK State’s investigation of communications (and, more recently, data), whether at rest or in transit, are in fact nothing new. It evidences how, whether using common law, the Royal Prerogative, or statutes to provide a lawful basis for a state practice traceable to at least 1324, the underlying...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 375 p. In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after...
Telepolis, 2019. — 101 S. Vor 70 Jahren, am 4. April 1949, wurde die Nato als Verteidigungsbündnis gegründet, der Gegner hieß damals Sowjetunion. Im selben Jahr, am 29. August, wurde die erste sowjetische Atombombe erfolgreich gezündet. Stalin hatte das sowjetische Atomwaffenprogramm nach dem Abwurf amerikanischer Atombomben auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki beschleunigt. Mit der Nato...
Routledge, 2006. — 264 p. This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere. This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the...
Routledge, 2012. — 368 p. The Antarctic Treaty (1959) was adopted for the purpose of bringing peace and stability to Antarctica and to facilitate cooperation in scientific research conducted on and around the continent. It has now been over fifty years since the signing of the treaty, nevertheless security continues to drive and shape the laws and policy regime which governs...
Routledge, 2020. — 375 p. This book examines the security dynamics of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific, concentrating upon an analysis and evaluation of the air power capabilities of the various powers active in the two regions. The volume is designed to help improve understanding of the heritage and contemporary challenges confronting the global community in the Indian...
Routledge, 2017. — 304 p. The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria. Boko Haram's goal of an Islamic Caliphate, starting in the Borno State in the North East that will eventually cover the areas of the former Kanem-Borno Empire, is a rejection of the modern state system forced on it by the West. The central...
The withdrawal of most international troops by 2014 will have a profound and lasting impact on the country's economic and development fabric. This book explores some of these ramifications. Development progress since 2001 has been mixed. The country has recorded some major achievements such as rapid economic growth, relatively low inflation, better public financial management, and...
Stanford University Press, 2022. — 522 p. Understanding Global Migration offers scholars a groundbreaking account of emerging migration states around the globe, especially in the Global South. Leading scholars of migration have collaborated to provide a birds-eye view of migration interdependence. Understanding Global Migration proposes a new typology of migration states,...
Routledge, 2014. — 280 p. This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in ‘rogue’ states, ‘outsourcing’ of state militancy and the mutable state of armed conflict required to wage a ‘hybrid war’ have...
Routledge, 2008. — 304 p. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of Israel's security challenges since the 1973 October War. Efraim Inbar takes the reader on a historical journey through Israel's relations in the Middle East that begins with an analysis of Israel's strategic thinking after 1973 and ends with an important look at the recent Second Lebanese War and the...
Praeger, 2016. — 209 p. Structured around key elements at the regional, political, institutional, and personal levels of analysis, this is a complete and forward-leaning view of Hamas that provides a deep and detailed examination of the history, ideology, political prospects, and regional opportunities of an often poorly understood organization that is redefining 21st-century...
Rand Corporation, 2011. — 221 p. This book provides an array of answers to the question, In the ten years since the 9/11 attacks, how has America responded? In a series of essays, RAND authors lend a farsighted perspective to the national dialogue on 9/11's legacy; assess the military, political, fiscal, social, cultural, psychological, and moral implications of U.S....
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 216 p. As the ice around the Arctic landmass recedes progressively further each year, the territory has become a flashpoint in world affairs. New and lucrative trade routes from East to West are now becoming accessible for shipping lanes and military deployment, and the Arctic is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves. Yet the territorial boundaries...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 354 p. Seventeen million people have died in civil wars and rebel violence has disrupted the lives of millions more. In a fascinating contribution to the active literature on civil wars, this book finds that some contemporary rebel groups actually comply with international law amid the brutality of civil conflicts around the world. Rather...
Routledge, 2021. — 154 p. This book examines whether partition is an effective means to resolve ethnic and sectarian civil wars. It argues that partition is unlikely to end ongoing ethnosectarian civil wars, but it can increase the likelihood of preventing civil war recurrence, as long as the partition separates civilians and militaries. The book presents in-depth case studies...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 504 p. This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa’s regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role of external actors, including the United Nations,...
Routledge, 2016. — 208 p. How did the North European states react to the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001? Michael Karlsson argues that 9/11 led to a considerable pressure to strengthen rules and practices for counterterrorism and security, but that this pressure was mediated by several other conditions. The reforms were also affected by, among other...
Routledge, 2013. — 174 p. Specialists from Israel, Europe and the US examine the implications of peace for Israel. How would it affect the country's political and economic systems and its national security, and what would peace mean for its regional and international standing and its relations with world Jewry?
Routledge, 2013. — 264 p. This volume is the first English-language work to focus specifically on South America in the context of peace operations. The region of South America has been undergoing significant changes recently with regard to its attitudes towards participation in peace operations. Leaving behind a strong reluctance with regard to intervention, the states have...
Routledge, 2011. — 208 p. This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies: the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The author undertakes an examination of presidential speeches and public documents from this period to determine the focal points on which the respective presidents based their rhetoric for...
Stanford University Press, 2016. — 256 p. The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services. At the international level, the market for these contracts is shaped by how many countries can supply security. Tongfi Kim identifies the supply of policy concessions and military commitments as the main factors that explain the...
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010. — 312 p. Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia aims to fill some of the historical gaps in the coverage of maritime piracy and armed robbery in Asia. The authors highlight a variety of activities ranging from raiding, destroying and pillaging coastal villages and capturing inhabitants to attacking and taking over vessels, robbing and...
E-International Relations, 2019. — 292 p. Employing the comprehensive approach to security, Regional Security in the Middle East: Sectors, Variables and Issues provides an insightful and up to date analysis of security issues in a region that continues to be conflict prone and challenged by factors both regional and global. In this volume, the contributors not only explore...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. — 245 p. The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these new nation-building processes. In this comparative study, Kudaibergenova takes the new states and nations of Eurasia that emerged in 1991, Latvia and Kazakhstan, and seeks to better...
Routledge, 2021. — 362 p. This volume brings together established and emerging scholars from academia and think tanks to reflect on important, conceptual, strategic and developmental issues in India’s national security. It provides a comprehensive understanding of national security through a more open approach, covering both traditional and non-traditional concerns that have a...
Routledge, 2009. — 232 p. This book seeks to demonstrate how rules not only guide a variety of practices within international politics but also contribute to the chaos and tension on the part of agents in light of the structures they sustain. Four central themes- practice, legitimacy, regulation, and responsibility- reflect different dimensions of a rule governed political...
RAND Corporation, 1998. — 132 p. Since 1989, NATO has concentrated most of its energy on enlargement to Eastern Europe and internal adaptation; the Mediterranean has received only sporadic attention. However, in the coming decades, the Mediterranean region is likely to become more important — real security problems may be on the Alliance's Southern periphery — in the Balkans,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 272 p. This book explores the development of transatlantic policy on international terrorism and assesses the situation today. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to terrorism and transatlantic relations, bringing together experts from contemporary history, political science, military strategy, psychology, law and security. Looking back to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 200 p. How and why do rebel groups initially form? Prevailing scholarship has attributed the emergence of armed rebellion to the explosion of pre-mobilized political or ethnic hostilities. However, this book finds both uncertainty and secrecy shrouding the start of insurgency in weak states. Examining why only some incipient armed rebellions...
Springer International Publishing, 2019. — 205 p. This volume provides an introduction to the Eastern Mediterranean region and introduces the concept of the Eastern Mediterranean as a new regional subsystem. Due to recent events in contemporary international politics, the Eastern Mediterranean can be seen as a laboratory where the balance of power among Great Powers and...
Praeger Security International, 2009. — 250 p. Despite the growth of interest in the study of terrorism since 9/11, terrorism analysts rarely take a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. This leaves a number of terrorism's characteristics to be explored in new and unique ways. Terrorism's Unanswered Questions brings together scholars from the fields of criminology,...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 241 p. This book blends analysis of Eastern European security needs, foreign threats, political explosions, and aroused publics in theoretical ways that pave the way to stable future defense postures and commitments for each of them. How has NATO and EU membership improved their overall defense protection, and what ingredients are still...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 248 p. The rapid expansion of ISIS and its swathe of territorial gains across the Middle East have been headline news since 2013. Yet much media attention and analysis has been focussed upon the military exploits, brutal tactics and radicalisation methods employed by the group. While ISIS remains a relatively new phenomenon, it is important to consider the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 650 р. This fully updated third-edition of Contemporary Peacemaking is a state of the art overview of peacemaking in relation to contemporary civil wars. It examines best (and worst) practice in relation to peace processes and peace accords. The contributing authors are a mix of leading academics and practitioners with expert knowledge of a wide...
Potomac Books, 2018. — 278 p. As a scholar of terrorism, John Maszka has examined how politics, the media, and the War on Terror play off one another. His most startling claim is that the War on Terror is a war for natural resources—and that terrorism has little to do with it. Once the military became mechanized, oil quickly became the most sought-after commodity on the planet,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 270 p. Under which conditions do democracies participate in war, and when do they abstain? Providing a unique theoretical framework, Mello identifies pathways of war involvement and abstention across thirty democracies, investigating the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. This timely study advances the debate about democracies and war. Mello...
Springer, 2020. — 287 p. This book describes the past, present and future of East Asian order, and analyzes how China, Japan, the U.S and ASEAN play important roles in the transformation of East Asian order, and discusses the new logic of regional order formation in the era of globalization and regional integration. The book analyzes China’s relationship with East Asian order,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 210 p. In the post-Cold War period new security threats have arisen in Western Europe. Among these, organized crime and illegal immigration are acknowledged to represent significant security challenges. The EU and Internal Security analyzes the nature of these challenges and investigates how the EU has been evolving to counter them. Written by...
Routledge, 2021. — 181 p. This important new book explores contemporary concerns about the protection of national security. It examines the role, influence, and impact of Big Tech on politics, power, and individual rights. The volume considers the manner in which digital technology and its business models have shaped public policy and charts its future course. In this vital...
University of Georgia Press, 2013. — 400 p. This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological,and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of the key established and rising state...
Routledge, 2010. — 195 p. This book is an analysis and critique of the concepts of ‘exception’ and ‘exceptionalism’ in the context of the politics of liberty and security in the so-called ‘War on Terror’. Since the destruction of the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001, a notable transformation has occurred in political discourse and practice. Politicians and commentators...
Routledge, 2020. — 268 p. Regionalism is under stress. The European Union has been challenged by the Eurozone crisis, refugee flows, terrorist attacks, Euroscepticism, and Brexit. In Latin America, regional cooperation has been stagnating. Studying Europe and Latin America within a broader comparative perspective, this volume provides an analytical framework to assess stress...
Routledge, 2018. — 202 p. The Caucasus, including the South Caucasus states and Russia’s North Caucasus, continues to be an area of instability and conflict. This book, based on extensive original research, explores in detail at both the local and regional level the interaction between state and society and the impact of external actors' engagement in the region within a...
Routledge, 2013. — 255 p. This edited volume explores human security challenges in the context of Turkey. Turkey occupies a critical geopolitical position between Europe, the Middle East and the Caucasus. It is an important peace-broker in regional conflicts and a leading country in peacekeeping operations, and has been a generous donor for disaster response around the world....
ABC-CLIO, 2010. — 205 p. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book argues, it was not the 9/11 attacks that transformed the international security environment. Instead, it was "Somali Syndrome," an aversion to intervening in failed states that began in the wake of the1993 U.S./UN action in Somalia. The botched raid precipitated America's strategic retreat from its post-Cold...
Routledge, 2013. — 241 p. The dynamics of Northeast Asia have traditionally been considered primarily in military and hard security terms or alternatively along their economic dimensions. This book argues that relations among the states of Northeast Asia are far more comprehensible when the mutually shaping interactions between economics and security are considered...
Potomac Books, 2012. — 280 p. The War of All the People elucidates the ideological and political war against the United States, capitalism, and the widely accepted tenets of modernity. Spearheading this war are Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, two “revolutionary” leaders who have forged an active alliance hell-bent on destroying the established order in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 400 p. This book examines our contemporary preoccupation with risk and how criminal law and punishment have been transformed as a result of these anxieties. It adopts an historical approach to examine the development of risk control measures used across the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada - particularly since the 1980’s - with the rise of...
IOS Press, 2008. — 236 p. Terrorism is not the only threat that causes the emergence of crises. The so-called crisisfication of our security environment also seems to be rising due to many other factors. Such an environment is generating many crises related to politico-military conflicts, natural disasters, infectious diseases, information disruptions, ethnic or religious...
Routledge, 2022. — 195 p. This book examines how states justify the domestic use of military force to foreign audiences. By deploying a sociological approach to legitimacy and drawing on conceptual tools which deal directly with the dynamics of justification, it offers a novel framework for understanding the politics of international legitimacy and domestic armed action. The...
Routledge, 2021. — 254 p. This book examines the multifaceted nature of conflict and the importance of the socio-economic and political contexts of conflict and violence and shows how to support ongoing initiatives and programs to build sustainable peace on the African continent. Drawing on a range of conceptual framings in the study of peace and conflict, from gender...
Brookings Institution Press, 2011. — 200 p. Pakistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive American presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in the South Asian nation, and many of the resulting policies proved counterproductive in the long term, contributing to political instability and a radicalized...
Routledge, 2022. — 242 p. This book is a collection of essays exploring various aspects of the changing security paradigm in West Asia and the regional and international responses. The states of West Asia continue to grapple with dramatic changes taking place in the domestic and regional environment. Security has emerged as a significant concern for them. Political upheavals,...
Routledge Group, 2005. — 213 p. This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as ballistic missile delivery systems in the Greater Middle East. It examines the uses and limitations of chemical weapons in regional combat, ballistic missile warfare and defenses, as well as Iran's drive for nuclear...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 328 p. America's war on terror is widely defined by the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts. Yet, as this book demonstrates, both the international campaign and the new ways of fighting that grew out of it played out across multiple fronts beyond the Middle East. Maria Ryan explores how secondary fronts in the Philippines, sub-Saharan Africa, Georgia,...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 216 p. Rebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a matter of domestic politics and analysts generally focus their attention on local causes. Yet fighting between governments and opposition groups is rarely confined to the domestic arena. "Internal" wars often spill across national boundaries, rebel...
RUSI Press, 2009. — 158 p. Dr. Alex Schmid dissects the nature of Al Qaeda’s propaganda strategy by looking how it incorporates in its ideological narrative Islam’s sacred texts and traditions and how it manages to link these to widespread contemporary grievances in the Muslim world. Al Qaeda’s survival is tied to the credibility of its narrative “story” rather than the...
Moscow: Institute for African Studies; Haifa: University of Haifa, 2021. — 196 p. — ISBN 979-8-48152-268-5. This book illustrates how Africa has become an incubator for Islamic extremism, and how global and local actors and factors interweave to form a unique – 'glocalized' – form of terrorism on the continent. The contributions of authors reflect the spatial continuity of...
Routledge, 2022. — 286 p. This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions, actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation. Rather than dealing with the substance of defence policy, this study focuses upon the institutional actors involved in this process. This is a subject...
Springer, 2021. — 216 p. — (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications). — ISBN 978-3-030-72570-9. Точки срабатывания защиты на дорогах, чтобы перехитрить террор This book assesses potential developments of terrorism and ways to prevent it-the growing threats as new technologies become available - and how the same new technologies may help trap those with...
Stanford Security Studies, 2016. — 344 p. Global Responses to Maritime Violence is a full discussion of maritime security short of war that goes beyond the current literature in both scope and perspective. The chapters in this volume examine terrorism, piracy, armed robbery at sea, illegal maritime trafficking, illegal fishing, and other maritime crimes. Contributors uncover...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 255 p. The state bounds politics: it constructs and enforces boundaries that separate what it controls from what lies outside its domain. However, states face a variety of threats that cross and challenge their geographical and conceptual boundaries. Transnational violent actors that transcend these boundaries also defy the state’s claims to...
Routledge, 2014. — 279 p. Across the world states are seeking out new and secure supplies of energy but this search is manifesting itself most visibly in Asia where rapid industrialisation in states such as China and India is fomenting a frantic scramble for energy resources. Due to entrenched societal inequities and widespread authoritarian governance, however, the pursuit of...
London: Macmillan Press, 1999. — 237 p. Contemprorary Security and Strategy. The Evolution of Strategic Thought. Realism and Security Studies. Beyond Stategy: Critical Thinking and The New Security Studies. Regional Security Structures. Rattionality and Detterence in Theory and Practice.
Regnery Publishing, 2003. — 196 p. I have read all of Robert Spencer's books and they are all right on as to documented facts. He is on the hit list of most major Islamic organizations because they know he speaks the truth and his facts and sources are on record. I didn't have a clue as to the dangers to the civilized world of Islam until 9/11. After 9/11 I did extensive research...
Routledge, 2013. — 320 p. This book seeks to refine our understanding of transitional justice and peacebuilding, and long-term security and reintegration challenges after violent conflicts. As recent events following political change during the so-called 'Arab Spring' demonstrate, demands for accountability often follow or attend conflict and political transition. While...
Springer International Publishing, 2019. — 149 p. This book sheds light on the process in which the sub-state actor of Greenland has expanded its autonomy and strengthened its de jure participation in the national security of Denmark. By focusing on the case of the US Thule Air Base in Greenland, the largest military base in the Arctic, the authors endeavor to show that in the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 410 p. What Do We Know about War? reviews the research on causes of war and the conditions of peace over the past forty-five years. Leading scholars explore the critical roles of territorial disputes, alliances, arms races, rivalry, and nuclear weapons in bringing about war as well as the factors promoting peace, including democracy,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 309 p. In the twenty-first century, political conflict and militarization have come to constitute a global social condition rather than a political exception. Military occupation increasingly informs the politics of both democracies and dictatorships, capitalist and formerly socialist regimes, raising questions about its relationship to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 227 p. Rogue states' have been high on the policy agenda for many years but their theoretical significance for international relations has remained poorly understood. In contrast to the bulk of writings on 'rogue states' that address them merely as a policy challenge, this book studies what we can learn from deviance about international politics.
Praeger, 2007. — 172 p. Addressing the range of nation-building experiences and concerns in the United States and its allies, Watson opens with a discussion of Somalia, Haiti, and Southeastern European experiences during the 1990s. She then shifts to a discussion of the more recent lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning of the Global War on Terrorism. An...
Routledge, 2019. — 187 p. This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures. Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO’s long-established engagement with gender issues. These documents bring to the fore the stories of the NATO women and ‘gendermen’ who have organised within...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 257 p. In The Petroleum Triangle, Steve A. Yetiv tells the interconnected story of oil, globalization, and terrorism. Yetiv asks how Al-Qaeda, a small band of terrorists, became such a real and perceived threat to American and global security, a threat viewed as profound enough to motivate the strongest power in world history to undertake...
Москва; Вологда: Инфра-Инженерия, 2021. — 112 c. — ISBN 978-5-9729-0724-3. Представлены результаты поиска нового класса относительно гуманного оружия, которое может представлять альтернативу ядерному оружию. Дистанционно-кибернетическое оружие основано на использовании новых научных подходов и технологий, при этом в качестве боевых зарядов средств поражения должны применяться...
Пер. с англ. — ИМЭМО им. Е. М. Примакова РАН. — М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 1998 – 2018. – 2019. — 744 с. — ISBN 978-5-9535-0557-4. Это 49-е издание Ежегодника СИПРИ было завершено на фоне ощутимого углубления конфронтации между Россией и Соединенными Штатами и соответствующего роста международной напряженности. Эти события произошли в контексте, сформированном более общими тенденциями,...
Переклад: О. В. Черевко; художник оформлювач: М. С. Мендор. — Харків: Фоліо, 2022. — 540 с. — (Великий науковий проєкт). — ISBN 978-966-03-8087-4. Протягом багатьох десятиліть Друга радянсько-фінська війна була (і досі ще залишається) «невідомою» та «загубленою» війною. Радінформбюро не повідомив ані про початок (25 червня 1941 року), ані про завершення (19 вересня 1944 року)...
Ред. С.Д. Семёнов. — М.: ПИР-Пресс, 2021. — 15 с. — (Индекс Безопасности – Научные записки №11 (25)). Данная работа продолжает цикл публикаций ПИР-Центра, посвящённый элементам «стратегического уравнения», предложенного Россией в качестве основы для новой архитектуры стратегической стабильности. Цель проекта – найти способы «коррелировать» различные системы вооружений в рамках...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 484 p. — (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 62). — ISBN-10 0521639530; ISBN-13 978-0521639538. This book argues that community can exist at the international level, and that security politics is profoundly shaped by it, with states dwelling within an international community having the capacity to develop a pacific...
London: Routledge, 2022. - 284 p. This book examines how African states can build the institutional capacity to better prevent, manage and cope with the new security challenges posed by violent religious extremism. Despite the evidence that violent religious extremism is exacerbated by underlying social, political, economic and governance factors, many states have focused their...
Routledge, 2015. — 179 p. This book explores the reverberating impacts between historical and contemporary imperial laboratories and their metropolis through three case studies concerning violence, surveillance and political economy. The invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 forced the United States to experiment and innovate in considerable ways. Faced with growing...
Routledge, 2009. — 272 p. This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries both with naval force development and operations. As part of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 274 p. A study of the major U.S. military interventions in unconventional war, this book looks at four wars that occurred while the U.S. was a superpower in the post-war World War II period and one in the Philippines in 1898.
Routledge, 2022. — 423 p. The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies presents emerging critical knowledge frameworks and perspectives that foreground situated histories and resistance practices to challenge colonial and postcolonial forms of governance and state building. It politicizes discourses of nationalism, patriotism, democracy, and liberalism, and it questions...
Routledge, 2014. — 255 p. The first and only book that focuses on the intersections of performance, terror and terrorism as played out beyond a Euro-American context post-9/11. It is an important work, both substantively and methodologically. A profound and tightly bound sequence of reflections, a rigorously provocative book. In this exceptional investigation Rustom Bharucha...
Routledge, 2021. — 229 p. — ISBN 978-0-429-35250-8. This book addresses the recent evolution of borderlines around the world as an attempt to control transnational movements with a view to securitization of borders rooted in the need to control mobility and preserve national identities. This book moves beyond physical borders and studies new manifestations of borders such as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 216 p. The concept of 'othering' which can be understood as the process of differentiation from the Self has been a basic tenet of the war story since war stories were first told. This practise of deliberate differentiation is indicative of the fact that war stories are essentially about the production of identity. The aim of this book, therefore, is...
Routledge, 2021. — 277 p. This book explores the relationship between the developing India–US strategic Partnership and Pakistan’s security. It assesses India and the US's areas of cooperation to show that the partnership will bring drastic changes for India’s military capabilities and modernization of its forces. The book shows that, in addition to enhancing India’s domestic...
Continuum, 2010. — 297 p. Pakistan, thinly country in the Islamic world that was formed in theme of Islam, is a nuclear power. today, Pakistan is struggling for its existence and is at war with itself. Pakistan's Quagmire focuses on the insurgency in Pakistan, a security problem not only for the country, but also for the region and the rest of the world. To foster, a through...
Georgetown University Press, 2012. — 328 p. Why does peace fail? More precisely, why do some countries that show every sign of having successfully emerged from civil war fall once again into armed conflict? What explains why peace' sticks' after some wars but not others? In this illuminating study, Charles T. Call examines the factors behind fifteen cases of civil war...
Routledge, 2009. — 150 p. This volume investigates the relationship between protest, repression and political regimes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.Considering how different political regimes use repression and respond to popular protest, this book analyzes the relationship between protest and repression in Africa and Latin America between the late 1970s and the...
Routledge, 2010. — 202 p. This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding ‘service’ industry will have to be adjusted. In the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan many of those who carry weapons are not legally combatants, nor are they protected civilians. They...
Routledge, 2013. — 175 p. — (Strategic Studies). The end of the Cold War has raised questions about the future of NATO. Now that the threat from the Warsaw Pact has disappeared, there seems little need for a Western military alliance of such magnitude. The contributions here offer various views on NATO's future.
Frank Cass, 2005. — 197 p. NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia highlights the choices and problems confronting the alliance as it approaches the new century. An alliance created to keep Western Europe out of the Soviet orbit during the Cold War has sought to reinvent itself as a "crisis-management" organization to suppress conflicts on Europe's periphery - and perhaps...
Stanford University Press, 2010. — 328 p. Ungoverned spaces" are often cited as key threats to national and international security and are increasingly targeted by the international community for external interventions—both armed and otherwise. This book examines exactly when and how these spaces contribute to global insecurity, and it incorporates the many spaces where state...
OR Books, 2014. — 146 p. How could things have gone so badly wrong? Writing with customary calmness and clarity, and drawing on unrivaled experience as a reporter in the region, Cockburn analyzes the unfolding of one of the West's greatest foreign policy debacles and the rise of the new jihadis. Cockburn explains that the lack of Western knowledge about the rise of ISIS and...
Praeger, 2011. — 192 p. In the more than half-century since NATO was founded, there has been endless debate about its purpose, about whether it is meeting that purpose, and about the strategies it employs to that end. Speculation has also been rife about the organization's "imminent demise." Those questions and more are the subject of NATO: A Guide to the Issues.Covering the...
Palgrave Pivot, 2017. — 201 p. This book assesses President Barack Obama's counterterrorism policy as it evolved throughout his presidency, from the expanded use of drones to the controversial decisions regarding the Syrian conflict.President Obama has achieved the dubious distinction of having been the longest continuous war president in American history, and this title explores...
Routledge, 2010. — 238 p. This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life at a global level. Contemporary literature on war is mainly devoted to recent changes in the theory and practice of warfare, particular those in which terrorists or insurgents are involved (for example, the 'revolution in military affairs', 'small...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 225 p. What were the reasons behind the terrorist attacks of September 11th? Does the cause of Islamist terrorism relate to the lack of democracy in the Middle East? Through detailed research into the activities of both radical and moderate organizations across the Middle East, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hizbullah, and via...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 320 p. Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah? What do the two movements - one Sunni and one Shi'a - have in common? Despite being classified by a number of countries as 'terrorist' organisations, both are in fact serious political players in the states in which they operate - Egypt and Lebanon. Both have, at various points, advocated pan-Islamism:...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 209 p. This unique, historical study explores how states have articulated statements about terrorism since the 1930s and what effect these discourses have had on global politics. Ditrych's analysis challenges established understandings of terrorism, providing a new conceptualization of how terrorism discourse emerged historically.
Routledge, 2008. — 239 p. As counter-profileration is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central element of every major international conflict in the first decades of the 21st century. One of the most important geostrategic phenomena of the past decade has been the extraordinary diffusion of...
Routledge, 2022. — 232 p. This book will be an invaluable resource for academics and security analysts working on cyber conflict, military strategy, Asian small states, and International Relations in general.
Routledge, 2013. — 208 p. This book critiques the conceptualization of security found in mainstream and critical theoretical debates, and applies this to the empirical case of the 2003 Iraq War. The Iraq War represents one of the most puzzling, complex, and controversial events in the post-Cold War era. The manner in which the Bush administration finally decided to hold Saddam...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020. — 340 p. Alan Doss offers a rare window into the real world of UN peacekeeping missions in Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Doss's story is one of presidents and prelates, warlords and warriors, heroes and villains, achievements and disappointments―and innocent people caught in the midst of deadly...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 345 p. This comprehensive text explains the relationship between the Arctic and the wider world through the lenses of international relations, international law, and political economy. It is an essential resource for any student or scholar seeking a clear and succinct account of a region of ever-growing importance to the international...
Routledge, 2004. — 259 p. Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade? Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the 19th century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have received strong criticism. Political explanations have...
SAGE Publications, 2010. — 256 p. An eye-opening case study of the news at war, introducing a critical perspective on our mass media. The Pen and the Sword is the only comprehensive examination of how the media have covered the 21st Century′s news story: terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the full story―from 9/11 to the Obama doctrine, and including: The...
Springer, 2022. — 128 p. This book covers various strategic issues around maritime security in terms of how Indonesia has sought to implement its Global Maritime Fulcrum (GMF) vision, evaluating its regional impact within ASEAN. The Global Maritime Fulcrum’ vision was declared by President Joko Widodo to refocus Indonesia’s development paradigm to prioritize its maritime aspect...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 275 p. The book addresses security threats and challenges to the European Union emanating from its eastern neighbourhood. The volume includes the expertise of policy and scholarly contributors coming from North America, Russia and Central Asia, and from across the EU. Themes and issues include the EU’s capacities and actorness, support from the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1990. — 252 p. — (Studies in International Security). These essays illuminate different aspects of military power and European security. It deals with the practicalities of planning and command within an alliance structure or the problems connected and with distinguishing between offensive and defensive operations for purposes of arms control.
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 129 p. — (Studies in Space Policy 21). — ISBN: 978-3030060251. This book provides a detailed analysis on the history and development of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) and the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and the coordination and cooperation between these two fora. Furthermore, it discusses the future...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 236 p. This edited volume discusses current Euro-Atlantic security issues, examining a wide range of areas including cyber threats, arms control, relations between key countries, existing conflicts and potential future flash points. It looks at both the key security challenges and responses that could be developed to mitigate these. The editor brings...
University of Toronto Press, 2008. — 337 p. Canada has received significant attention of late for initiating a government-sponsored medical marijuana program and for its flirtation with marijuana decriminalization. At best, these initiatives have contributed to Canada being seen as a reluctant ally by Washington, and, at worst, as a potential threat. The result of this...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 196 p. This book addresses multiple aspects of the conflict between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia in August 2008, including the use of force, human rights, transnational litigation and international law 'rhetoric'. The particulars of the conflict are explored alongside their wider implications for international order.
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 432 p. Just war theory focuses primarily on bodily harm, such as killing, maiming, and torture, while other harms are often largely overlooked. At the same time, contemporary international conflicts increasingly involve the use of unarmed tactics, employing 'softer' alternatives or supplements to kinetic power that have not been sufficiently...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 212 p. An exploration of why and how peace has gradually mitigated intense conflict in the Asia-Pacific region, this volume draws on case studies and multivariate quantitative analysis to test theories of peace and conflict regarding the region.
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 352 p. This collection reflects on the significance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks for the transatlantic alliance. Offering an analysis of NATO's evolution since 2001, it examines key topics such as the alliance's wars in Afghanistan, its military operation in Libya, global partnerships, burden-sharing and relations with the US and Russia.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 108 p. NATO is facing a unique crisis questioning its existence and future. This book provides a detailed in-depth economic and critical analysis of the issues. It considers whether NATO has a future and what it might look like 70 years ahead. NATO is undergoing a process of dramatic change, reorganising its functions, funding and strategic...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 209 p. — ISBN 9781784993139. Death is simultaneously silent, and very loud, in political life. Politicians and media scream about potential threats lurking behind every corner, but academic discourse often neglects mortality. Life is everywhere in theorisation of security, but death is nowhere.Making a bold intervention into the Critical...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. — 259 p. The permanent five (P5) members of the United Nations Security Council ? China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA - have a firm duty to prevent genocide in light of the due diligence standard under conventional, customary, and peremptory international law. This perceptive book explores the positive obligations of these states to act...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 257 p. This book uses Securitisation Theory to explore how Muslims have been constructed as a security issue in Africa after the 9/11 attacks in the United States. These attacks became the rationale for the US’s Global War on Terror (GWOT). The centrality of Africa as an arena to execute the GWOT is the focus of this book. This book explores,...
University of Missouri, 2006. — 184 p. NATO is an alliance transformed. Originally created to confront Soviet aggression, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization evolved in the 1990s as a military alliance with a broader agenda. Whether conducting combat operations in the Balkans or defending Turkey from an Iraqi threat in 2003, NATO continues to face new security challenges on...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 320 p. This book takes up a wide variety of human security challenges beyond the dimension of human conflict, and looks at both natural and human disasters that the East Asian region faces or is attempting to resolve. While discussing various human security issues, the case studies offer practical lessons to address serious human security challenges...
Rand Division, 2010. — 203 p. The United States must determine how best to promote long-term security and stability in the Persian Gulf region while seeking to reduce the risks and costs imposed by its role as a permanent regional power. The author analyzes Iraq's future, the role of Iran, asymmetric threats, regional reassurance, regional tensions, and the roles of other external...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 304 p. This collection surveys the three South Caucasian states’ economic, social and political evolution since their independence in 1991. It assesses their successes and failures in these areas, including their attempts to build new national identities and value systems to replace Soviet-era structures. It explains the interplay of domestic and...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 248 p. In 2017, the world watched as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unprecedented shows of military force. Former Pentagon insider and Korean security expert Van Jackson traces the origins of the first American nuclear crisis in the post-Cold War...
Adroit Publishers, 2018. — 195 p. Migration and security has been widely studied in international relations and political science. Migration is often presented as a threat to national sovereignty, state security as well as to the economic, social and cultural well – being. On security, all of the attention has been on national security, terrorism, extremism and crime. Hence,...
Routledge, 2012. — 224 p. The emergence of The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2005 was the culmination of a long and contentious process. In this work Rob Jenkins provides a concise introduction that traces the origins and evolution of peacebuilding as a concept, the creation and functioning of the PBC as an institution, and the complicated relationship...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 230 p. East Asia is richer, more integrated and more stable than ever before, whilst East Asian defense spending is now roughly half of what it was in 1990 and shows no sign of increasing. There is no evidence of any Asian arms race. All countries in the region are seeking diplomatic, not military solutions with each other. Yet this East Asia...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 380 p. This book explores European security and defense R&D policy, unveiling the strategic, industrial, institutional and ideational sources of the European Commission’s military research initiative. Starting from a well-defined empirical epicentre—the rise of non-civilian R&D priorities in the European Union—this book covers...
Rand Corporation, 2011. — 160 p. Security force assistance (SFA) is a central pillar of the counterinsurgency campaign being waged by U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. This monograph analyzes SFA efforts in Afghanistan over time, documents U.S. and international approaches to building the Afghan force from 2001 to 2009, and provides observations and recommendations that...
Springer, 2021. — 155 p. This book analyses the fifteen-year-long strategic partnership between NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The book goes on to address several key questions raised in the year since the inception of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI): Is the initiative a framework for consultation on Gulf and regional security issues? Is it a security...
Rand, 1998. — 336 p. The problem of global, long-range defense planning has changed enormously since the end of the Cold War. The sources and types of conflict for which the military must plan have become more varied and less predictable, the range of potential adversaries is larger, the range of military missions is more diverse, and the nature of security itself is changing on a...
Pluto Press, 2019. — 256 p. Fifty years of the War on Drugs has led to millions of deaths, displacements, and incarcerations. Disproportionately enacted on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the color line across the globe. This collection reveals the racist impact of the war on drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations, from...
Routledge, 2018. — 236 p. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Islamist organizations' conceptions of political order based on a comparative case study of the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah and the Sunni Palestinian Hamas. Connecting Islamism research, Critical Constructivist norm research, and resistance studies from the field of International Relations Theory, it...
Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, 2018. — 122 p. The war on terror, launched by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has been waged inside as well as outside the U.S. borders. Perception of threat and efforts to ensure national security have led the United States to major reforms in its national security policy, involving new military, security and legislative concepts. On...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 232 p. Why does the United States sometimes seek multilateral support for its military interventions? When does it instead sidestep international institutions and intervene unilaterally? In Coalitions of Convenience, a comprehensive study of US military interventions in the post-Cold War era, Sarah Kreps shows that contrary to conventional...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 270 p. This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the international community is increasingly called upon to exercise its responsibility to protect...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 280 p. This book examines the connection between socio-politics and security in the Arab World. In an effort to understand the social and political developments that have been on-going in the Arab World since the 1990s, culminating in the Arab Spring, Krieg moves beyond liberal deterministic assumptions - most notably that the promotion of liberal...
Atlantic Council — April 2018. — 15 p. Executive Summary The Renewed Russian Nuclear Threat The Gaps in US and NATO Nuclear Strategy Weighing Possible Strategic Response Options Toward a Better NATO Deterrence Strategy Possible Objections About the Author
University of Minnesota Press, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN: 9781517900021. What is “brown” in—and beyond—the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination of these questions to date, Kumarini Silva argues that “brown” is no longer conceived of solely as a cultural, ethnic, or political identity. Instead, after 9/11,...
Manchester University Press, 2003. — 241 p. This book looks at the legacy of the 1998-1999 Kosovo crisis for European security affairs. It examines the debates about the nature and justification of intervention in the affairs of sovereign states. It also considers the impact of the crisis on NATO and on relations between western states and Russia both during and since Kosovo....
Routledge, 2007. — 288 p. Violence at Sea is an overview of maritime piracy, examining threats that piracy poses to global security and commerce, as well as measures and policies to mitigate the threat. The essays analyze piracy activities in key shipping lanes (including the African coast, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Straits of Malacca-South China Sea);...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 190 p. This book presents a unique, comprehensive yet accessible look at security in Africa. The author provides a comprehensive review of the key security issues in Africa and offers a contemporary investigation into what security in Africa will mean for the future of Security Studies. It focuses on contemporary yet inherent security challenges...
Lexington Books, 2016. — 221 p. Since the Arab Spring, militaries have received renewed attention regarding their intervention into politics of Middle Eastern and South Asian states. This book examines the factors which influence military intervention and withdrawal from politics—namely, United States and Soviet/Russian economic and military aid—and how this affects democratic...
London: Hurst & Co., 2007. — 510 p. Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. After having participated in the founding of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 1988, al-Suri, whose real name is Mustafa Sethmarian Nasar, trained a whole generation of young jihadis at his camps in Afghanistan....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 264 p. This book offers a prospective analysis of the anticipated security consequences of climate change in relation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Using climate and security literature to complement recent foresight and scenario analysis developed by NATO, the author applies the International Risk Governance Council’s (IRGC) Risk...
Codesria, 2017. — 392 p. The Great Lakes region of Africa is characterized by protest politics, partial democratization, political illegitimacy and unstable economic growth. Many of the countries that are members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) which are: Burundi, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of...
Routledge, 2016. — 320 p. This volume examines mechanisms for regional peacemaking and conflict management in Europe and the Middle East. To date little research has been devoted to uncovering the conditions for peace, and the factors that contribute to stabilizing the state of peace. This volume assesses the factors that contribute to regional pacification, the incentives that...
Brill Academic, 2006. — 219 p. European Security after Iraq examines the impact of the ’second’ Gulf War on European politics. It explores key questions about the impact of the conflict on national, European and transatlantic politics such as the extent to which the war has created new cleavages between the foreign and security policies of European states or merely confirmed...
Routledge, 2006. — 302 p. A wholly comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early/mid-20th century. This is essential reading for all undergraduates on politics, international relations and contemporary history programs, it will also be a significant resource for taught postgraduate courses in these...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 281 p. With the end of the Cold War, the security concerns of the US, the sole superpower in the new international order, became fragmented and proliferated throughout the world. Since September 11, 2001 and the war in Iraq, the US has had to evaluate new global developments in terms of the threats they pose to regional and global stability. The...
Routledge, 2010. — 225 p. This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European. Approaching the study of Europe’s eastern enlargement through a post-colonial critique, author Maria Mälksoo makes a convincing case for a rethinking...
Routledge, 1994. — 176 p. What should military warriors do in peacetime? Such was the theme of an international conference at the Inter-American Defense College in 1992 which brought together diplomats, military officials and distinguished academics to discuss the purpose of military institutions in Latin America in the new world order. The most important message of this book...
Routledge, 2016. — 386 p. This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account that the study of Latin America’s comparative and...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 288 p. Would the Islamic State ever renounce violence? In the current political climate, the question seems preposterous. Yet, at the height of a terrorist campaign against tourists in Egypt during the 1990s, nobody expected that the group behind the attacks would issue and adhere to a nonviolence initiative. What drives groups to shift between...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 244 p. This book shows how France and Britain are leaders in EU security and defense policy, and explains why both states need each other in this policy area. The lack of relevant military capacity in Europe today implies that the US favors a strong EU in this field. Matlary convincingly reaffirms the findings of those who emphasise the paramount...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 319 p. The question of burden sharing has always been important in NATO with an acute relevance today as the US will cut its defence budget over a ten-year period and is no longer automatically willing to lead military operations. This volume considers Europe's role in political force for the future exploring eight European case studies.
Routledge, 2017. — 327 p. This book scrutinises the realm of safety-security involving ‘nuclear power’ within the context of India’s tryst with nuclear energy. Relying on open source information, it examines the efficacy of the safety-security arrangement in and around India’s nuclear installations, keeping in mind the international best practices. As India has embarked on a...
Routledge, 2003. — 229 p. This collection of essays examines the strategic dimensions of contemporary terrorist threats. It evaluates the changing nature of modern terrorism in the light of the events of September 11 2001. The collection argues that terrorism now promises to enter the terrain of global ''grand strategy''.
Stanford Security Studies, 2011 (2nd ed.). — 397 p. — ISBN: 978-0804778589. The past five decades have witnessed often fierce international rivalry in space, but also surprising military restraint. Now, with an increasing number of countries capable of harming U.S. space assets, experts and officials have renewed a long-standing debate over the best route to space security....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 238 p. This book presents an in-depth exploration of the impact of the Arab Uprisings on the relationship between constructions of (in)security, narratives of threat and patterns of socio-political change within the Middle East and North Africa region. It also offers insights into the study of regional security and the operation of threat perceptions.
Routledge, 2014. — 304 p. This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations. The primary focus of so-called stability operations since 9/11 has been Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Covering the wider picture, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the new agenda, including the expansion of efforts in Latin...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 280 p. Why do rising powers sometimes challenge an international order that enables their growth, and at other times support an order that constrains them? Ascending Order offers the first comprehensive study of conflict and cooperation as new powers join the global arena. International institutions shape the choices of rising states as they...
Pluto Press, 2000. — 348 p. This powerful book critiques mercenary involvement in post-Cold War African conflicts. The contributors investigate the links between the rise in internal conflicts and the proliferation of mercenary activities in the 1990s; the distinction in the methods adopted by Cold War mercenaries and their contemporary counterparts; the convoluted network...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 234 p. This book puts the widely-held view that 'arms control in space is not possible' to the test and aims to explore how, and under what conditions, arms control could become a reality. Drawing upon international regimes and IR theory, Mutschler examines the success of space weapons and anti-ballistic missiles. Drawing on international relations...
University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 259 p. While we’ve long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, Selling Fear is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism—and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to maintain a climate of fear. Drawing on in-depth analysis of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 271 p. This book seeks to elucidate the decisions of states that have chosen to acquire nuclear arms or inherited nuclear arsenals, and have either disarmed or elected to retain their warheads. It examines nuclear arms policy via an interconnected framework involving the eclectic use of national security based realism, economic interdependence...
ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2005. — 388 p. This book looks at Islam and its strategic implications for Southeast Asia. Part I outlines Islamic doctrine and traces the history and growth of Islamic economic institutions in the region. In Part II, politics, governance, civil society and gender issues are examined in the context of Southeast Asian Islam. Part III devotes itself...
Clarity Press, 2012. — 414 p. The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. One organization - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - is repeatedly, and very controversially, involved in some form or another in many of these conflicts led by the US and its allies. NATO spawned from the Cold War. This title deals with NATO's globalization.
Nova Science Publishers, 2010. — 134 p. This book explores the increase in pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa which is directly linked to continuing insecurity and the absence of the rule of law in war-torn Somalia. The absence of a functioning government in Somalia remains the single greatest challenge to regional security and provides freedom of action for those engaged in...
Peter Lang, 2015. — 380 p. Since the early 1990s, the southern Caucasus and its larger neighbourhood, the Black Sea region, have experienced deep and sometimes painful transformations, including bloody conflicts. They have also become an arena of geopolitical and geoeconomic competition between great powers. This has attracted growing attention from social scientists. In this...
Rand Publishing Center, 2003. — 407 p. In the region of Central Asia and South Caucasus, what is the potential for armed conflict, and how might such outbreaks escalate to a level that could involve U.S. forces? The authors evaluate the key political, economic, and societal faultlines underlying the likelihood of conflict in the region, assessing their implications for regional...
Routledge, 2020. — 301 p. This book assesses the strategic linkages that the Korean Peninsula shares with the Indo-Pacific and provides a succinct picture of issues which will shape the trajectory of the Korean Peninsula in the future. This book analyses how critical actors such as the United States, China, Russia and Japan are caught in a tightly balanced power struggle...
Library Arthème Fayard, 2010. — 419 p. Il est un conflit majeur qui est passe totalement inapercu depuis pres de vingt ans. Pourtant, il a fait plus de morts que toutes les guerres depuis 1945. Environ six millions de victimes et quatre chefs d'Etat assassines. Son theatre: toute l'Afrique de l'Est et l'immense Congo, au centre du continent, ont ete bouleverses par cette guerre...
Routledge, 2021. — 374 p. A pedagogical approach of the textbook that is appreciated is how the author respectfully engages with the theories of IR and is not pushing an agenda of denouncing some theories and trying to persuade the reader of others. We live in such polarizing times that it is truly refreshing to read scholarly work that avoids sensationalistic attacks on...
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007. — 274 p. A team of leading nonproliferation experts offers a blueprint for rethinking the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. They offer a fresh approach to deal with states and terrorists, nuclear weapons, and fissile materials through a twenty-step, priority action agenda.This is the final version of a report...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 310 p. The Mumbai blasts of 1993, the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mumbai 26/11- cross-border terrorism has continued unabated. What can India do to motivate Pakistan to do more to prevent such attacks? In the nuclear times that we live in, where a military counter-attack could escalate to destruction beyond imagination, overt...
Springer, 1990. — 264 p. There is almost universal support for the view that the world would be an even more dangerous place if there were to be more nuclear-weapon states. There would be more fingers on more triggers and, probably, a greater risk that a trigger might be pulled with incalculable consequences. It is easy to see, therefore, that there is a collective interest in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 348 p. In this collection, leading international scholars examine riots and protest in a range of countries and contexts, exploring the major social transformations of rioting and the changing dynamics, interpretation and potency of unrest in a globalised era.
Rand Publishing, 2004. — 567 p. Examines the major dynamics that drive changes in the religio-political landscape of the Muslim world, the effects of 9/11, the global war on terrorism, and the war in Iraq, and their implications for global security and U.S. and Western interests.
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2010. — ISBN: 978-0-313-36540-9. The ETIM (East Turkestan Islamic Movement): China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat (PSI Guides to Terrorists, Insurgents, and Armed Groups). To effectively engage China on counterterrorism issues, we must understand the capabilities and intentions of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM),...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1996. — 232 p. This book looks at the attitudes and policies of the United States and United Kingdom, in the late 1950s, towards the three major alliances in Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia. Drawing upon a wealth of archival material, it analyses both the military relationship between the US and UK and the extent to which these two countries were...
Georgetown University Press, 2010. — 224 p. Given U.S. focus on the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is easy to miss that the military does much more than engage in combat. On any given day, military engineers dig wells in East Africa, medical personnel provide vaccinations in Latin America, and special forces mentor militaries in southeast Asia. To address today's...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 336 p. The past 18 months have seen a radical increase in incidents of jihadist terrorism within the United Kingdom – from the Manchester Arena attack, to the Houses of Parliament, to London Bridge. As a result, there are renewed calls for a high-level national conversation about the causes of, and the responses to, this particular terrorist problem. This...
Routledge, 2008. — 241 p. As the ‘War on Terror’ evolves into the ‘Long War’ against Islamo-fascism, it demands an enduring commitment to ensuring the security of the United States and its allies. This policy is based on the requirement to maintain control in a fractured and unpredictable global environment, while paying little attention to the underlying issues that lead to...
Brill, 2020. — 295 p. The effective management of differences between groups within democracies means moving beyond the examination of individual rights. In the field of national minorities conflict prevention diplomacy, promoting the effective participation of national minorities in public life is a primary objective. Enhancing participation encourages a sense of belonging,...
Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2016. — 340 p. As Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. In this region former Soviet republics seek to consolidate their position by extending their control over politically problematic borderlands, setting up borders in areas where livelihood connections...
Awakening Publications, 2005. — 262 p. At the time of this writing, a controversy has erupted within the Muslim-American community regarding comments made at a U.S. State Department forum by the leader of an organization known as the “Islamic Supreme Council of America.” The speaker, Mr. Hisham Kabbani, spoke on the issue of extremism and U.S. national security. The core of Mr....
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. — 252 p. The EU's ineffectual actions during the Balkan wars of the 1990s have led to loud calls for this political and economic giant to develop an effective military arm - an integrated force capable of dealing with conflict in Europe's backyard and projecting military power globally. This work provides a comprehensive analysis of this European...
Routledge, 2019. — 152 p. Why do international policing missions often fail to achieve their mandate? Why do United Nations Police officers struggle when serving in foreign peacekeeping missions? United Nations International Police Officers in Peacekeeping Missions: A Phenomenological Exploration of Complex Acculturation unravels these problems to find a causal thread: When...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 340 p. Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? Since 1945, most strategic thinking about nuclear weapons has focused on deterrence - using nuclear threats to prevent attacks against the nation's territory and interests. But an often overlooked question is whether nuclear threats can also coerce adversaries to relinquish possessions...
Springer, 2022. — 174 p. This book examines the recent changes in strategic stability, caused by the collapse of the international security architecture. Against the background of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, international experts discuss topics and critical issues such as the revanchist strategy of Russia and the readiness of the United States (US) and Europe to give an...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 322 p. This book examines the linkage between deviance and norm change in international politics. It draws on an original theoretical perspective grounded in the sociology of deviance to study the violations of norms and rules in the global nuclear non-proliferation regime. As such, this project provides a unique conceptual framework and applies it...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 278 p. This book analyzes the small Baltic States and their integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures from the perspective of the foreign policies of major powers - the United States, Russia, and major European powers and institutions - towards the region, or each of the Baltic States. While focusing primarily on the Post-Cold war period, it will...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 272 p. This book provides an in-depth analysis of border and boundary enactments in post-war and “deeply divided” societies. By exploring everyday places in post-conflict societies, it critically examines official narratives of how ethno-national divisions arise and are sustained. It challenges traditional accounts regarding the role that...
Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2017. — 237 p. North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un's regime now appears to be close, however. Sung Chull Kim, Michael...
Praeger, 2000. — 216 p. A comprehensive account of Israel's doctrine of national security, this study examines to what degree security theories have proven valid and suggests an updated security doctrine for the next century. Beginning with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Israeli defense planners have faced a daunting task. General Tal describes the history of...
Springer, 2023. — 275 p. 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 it created in the last decade. To do so, the book employs a new and innovative framework that allows for a comprehensive, yet nuanced analysis of borders and a more cogent...
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 357 p. This book focuses on oil politics and the development of nuclear technology in Iran, providing a broader historical context to understand Iran’s foreign relations and nuclear policy. The author assesses Iran's encounters with the West in light of major confrontations both in terms of open conflict as well as controversies...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-33765-0 & ISBN 978-3-030-33766-7. Focuses on oil politics and the development of nuclear technology in Iran. Provides a broader historical background against which to understand Iran’s foreign relations and nuclear policy. Assesses Iran's encounters with the West in light of major confrontations with the West both in terms of...
Routledge, 2015. — 202 p. Over the last fifteen years there has been a significant growth in literature dealing with terrorism. Nevertheless, scholars within mainstream criminology have only recently begun to grapple with the problem of terrorism in a sustained fashion. In this provocative book the authors provide both an exposition of the contradictions that have emerged...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 194 p. Securing Europe takes a novel approach to Europeanization among EU member states by employing a sociological institutionalist approach. Watanabe argues that Europeanization as a process of change takes place not as a result of rationally calculating states, but as a result of the reworking of perceptual and normative frameworks.
Routledge, 2023. — 340 p. Contrary to the common belief that peace and democracy go hand in hand after a civil war, Pereira Watts argues they are, in fact, at a crossroads. Offering an innovative framework based on Philosophical, Actors, and Tactical considerations, Pereira Watts identifies 14 dynamic dilemmas in democratic peacebuilding, with respective trade-offs. She focuses...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 272 p. Presenting the reader with provocative articles that critically examine the morality of the war on terrorism as it has evolved over the past eight years, this book consists of articles that effectively address specific aspects of the modern war on terrorism that are missing or underrepresented in ethical discourse since 9/11. This book is so...
Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2009. — 108 p. Excerpted chapters from the ninth edition of White’s book Contemporary Moral Problems are made available here to provide readers with a brief anthology for ethical study of war, terrorism and torture. Supported with problem cases, an illuminating introductory essay, and study questions, this text will engage students in one of the most...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 171 p. The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager with the ethic of liberalism. It raises questions such as why an alliance built upon the territorial defence of Europe ended up in Afghanistan.
Praeger, 2012. — 784 p. Set against a backdrop of terrorism, rogue states, non-conventional warfare, and deteriorating diplomacy, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, up-to-date reference on the recent history and contemporary practice of arms control and nonproliferation. • 30 illustrations and photos • Sidebars including brief biographical profiles and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 212 p. This book is an analysis and a set of tools of analysis to explain and understand why, when, where, and how the United States and its major NATO allies will agree or disagree on a collective policy regarding using military force abroad.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 312 p. Although the West won the Cold War, the continuation of the status quo is not a foregone conclusion. The former Soviet-aligned regions outside of Russia -- Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, and others -- sit atop decaying armed forces while Russian behavior has grown more and more aggressive, as evidenced by its intervention in Ukraine in...
Basic Books, 2010. — 592 p. It has long been a truism that prior to George W. Bush, politics stopped at the water's edge--that is, that partisanship had no place in national security. In Arsenal of Democracy, historian Julian E. Zelizer shows this to be demonstrably false: partisan fighting has always shaped American foreign policy and the issue of national security has always...
Springer, 2023. — 354 p. This book analyzes major contemporary political and security problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Presenting case studies on various CEE countries, it highlights the persistence of non-democratic political trends in the region, with particular emphasis on authoritarianism in Belarus and the illiberal shift in the politics of Hungary and Poland....
Учебное пособие. — Ставрополь: СКФУ, 2012. — 219 с. Пособие подготовлено в рамках реализации инновационного образовательного проекта «Формирование российской идентичности и правовой культуры студенческой молодежи в полиэтничном регионе» по направлению «Безопасность и противодействие терроризму». Данное пособие включает разделы, раскрывающие сущность национальной и региональной...
Ассоциация внешнеполитических исследований им. А.А. Громыко, Институт Европы РАН. — М., 2021. — 38 c. Аналитический доклад подготовлен совместной рабочей группой известных российских и белорусских специалистов по результатам проведения 12 экспертных онлайн-семинаров. Предложены рекомендации относительно будущего российско-белорусских отношений, включая темы внешней и внутренней...
Владивосток: ЦАТИ ИИАЭ ДВО РАН, 2020. — 301 с. — ISBN 978-5-6040735-5-1 Монография представляет методологию, данные и результаты измерения третьего исследования напряженности в регионе Северо-Восточной Азии в 2019 году, а также анализ и оценку возможных перемен в содержании двусторонних и многосторонних региональных взаимоотношениях в краткосрочной перспективе.
Вестник Московского университета. Серия 12: Политические науки. 2012. № 3. С. 41-45.
В статье анализируются тенденции перехода в сфере международных отношений от ценностей выживания к ценностям благосостояния, от приоритета государства как объекта безопасности к приоритету безопасности человека.
Главный вывод состоит в следующем тезисе: изменения ценности безопасности...
Бібліотека журналу “Персонал” К.: МАУП, 2006. — 64 с.
Немає жодного українця, який би звинувачував інші народи в тому, що вони намагаються зберегти чистоту своєї нації, своєї крові. Та варто самим українцям повести мову про українців, про чистоту своєї нації і крові, про свою прадавню віру, про український уряд і українську Верховну Раду, умить здіймається ґвалт: націоналісти,...
Отв. ред. А.А.Кокошин, А.Д. Богатуров. — М.: Эдиториал УРСС, 2008. — 228. Предлагаемая работа посвящена анализу роли России в современной системе глобальной стабильности. Во-первых, в книге рассматриваются политико-психологические составляющие современной международной стабильности. Во-вторых, монография фокусирует внимание на роли России в обеспечении глобальной стабильности....
Prevod Breda Luthar; Tadej Turnšek; spremno besedilo Tomaž Mastnak. — Ljubljana: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti, 2023. — 112 s. — (Pamflet 8). — ISBN 978-961-05-0706-2. Ključno vprašanje je: ali je pripoved Zahoda o ukrajinski vojni pravilna? Če je napačna, Zahod utemeljuje eksistencialne odločitve na lažnih predpostavkah. V tem primeru...
Ashgate Publishing, 2006. — 198 p. Many of the US criticisms of Western European reluctance to engage in the 2004 war in Iraq stem from a perception that these governments are 'weak on defense', or unwilling to 'pull their own weight' in the international system. Secretary Rumsfeld pejoratively designated traditional Atlantic Alliance allies as 'Old Europe', to distinguish them...
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2025. — 31 p. This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds to Section 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act (Pub. L. No. 116-260). This report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed to providing the nuanced, independent,...
I.B. Tauris, 2001. — 224 p. The post-Cold War period has seen the emergence of the Black Sea as a region of key strategic importance. As a conduit point for energy pipelines, the sea and its surrounding states are inextricably linked with the exploitation of energy resources in the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The heightened risk of ethnic conflict, territorial...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 378 p. War Preparation and State Power The Framework Preferences and Constraints State Strategies for War Preparation The Conservation and Transformation of State Power An Excursion on State Power Egypt and Israel in Historical Perspective Egypt Israel Explaining Egyptian War Preparation Strategies Consolidation and Intent, 1952–1956 From the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 224 p. Constructing International Security helps policy makers and students recognize effective third-party strategies for balancing deterrence and restraint in security relationships. Brett V. Benson shows that there are systematic differences among types of security commitments. Understanding these commitments is key, because commitments,...
Routledge, 2022. — 170 p. More and more people are demanding an end to violence as a means of arbitrating international demands and resolving problems between nations. This collection of essays brings social scientific evidence to bear on the question of the "inevitability" of war, and evaluates the potential for managing the international system in the interest of peace...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 241 p. 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 justifications of decisions made by France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and the United...
Rand, 2016. — 63 p. "The United States has been undertaking counterterrorism operations against current threats under authorizations established in 2001 and 2002. Relying on this legislation is far from ideal, however, and it would be better if Congress updated these authorizations to reflect today's terrorism challenge. In early 2015, the Obama administration submitted its own...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 239 p. Civil wars attract much less attention than international wars but they are becoming increasingly common and typically go on for years. Where development succeeds, countries become progressively safer from violent conflict, making subsequent development easier. Where development fails countries can become trapped in a vicious circle: war...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. — 192 p. During the last two decades, the infrastructure of the U.S. economy has undergone a fundamental set of changes. It has steadily increased its reliance on its service sector and high-technology economy. The U.S. has come to depend on computers, electronic data storage and transfers, and highly integrated communications networks. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. — 174 p. Deployment Criteria for Strategic Defences. An Accidental Launch Protection System. A Ground-Based Defence of Military Targets. A Phase-1 Strategic Defence System. Conclusion: Strategic Defence Research in the 1990s.
Ashgate, 2007. — 201 p. Dover deals with a significant theme in an original fashion by providing an innovative and engaging account of the development of British defence policy. With particular reference to the development and negotiation of the European Security and Development Policy, arms trade policy and the decision to go to war in Iraq (2003), this book provides a strong...
Brookings Institution Press, 2017. — 192 p. Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia are examples of nonstate actors...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 224 p. In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all those of Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria, that set out to crush the democratic uprisings of the 'Arab Revolution. In pursuit of these goals they turned to the intelligence agencies and internal...
Routledge, 2011. — 245 p. This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security. In doing so, the book looks at three cases of the development of international norms in this arena. First, it traces how new international normative understandings have shaped the evolution of and support for an Arms Trade Treaty (the supply side of...
Routledge, 1990. — 275 p. This volume originates with a conference at Haverford College, April 28-30, 1989. On that weekend an international group of scholars, inside and outside governments, from Africa and elsewhere, assembled to address the theme, "Toward Peace and Security in Southern Africa." The conference was based on a sense of urgency concerning the continuing plight...
RAND-Corp., 2023. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9774-0764-1 Can the United States find ways to cooperate with China or Russia in the Indo-Pacific, either to temper geopolitical rivalry or as a strategy to use cooperation with one of the two countries as an advantage against the other? Using official U.S., Chinese, and Russian policy documents, leadership statements, and other sources,...
Routledge, 2022. — 252 p. This book examines why the United States has introduced safeguards that are designed to prevent their counterterrorism policies from causing harm to non-US citizens beyond US territory. It investigates what made US policymakers take steps to "put the gloves back on" through five case studies on the emergence of such safeguards related to the right not...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. — 494 p. Hoffman examines the demographics of contemporary terrorist leaders and recruits; the continued use of suicide bombers; and the likelihood of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear terrorist strike. He also considers the resurgence of violent antigovernment militants, including white supremacists and opponents of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 250 p. Over the past century, the United States has created a global network of military bases. While the force structure offers protection to U.S. allies, it maintains the threat of violence toward others, both creating and undermining security. Amy Austin Holmes argues that the relationship between the U.S. military presence and the...
Routledge, 2002. — 270 p. The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 removed a decades-long system of successful control of potential ethnic and regional conflict . The result was the eruption of numerous conflicts over state-building, some of which degenerated into violence and some of which were resolved or prevented by strategies of accommodation. This volume explores the...
Potomac Books, 2011. — 193 p. Since its inception, al Qaeda has aspired to create a safe haven in Yemen,where it has operated against U.S. and Yemeni interests. From 2001 to 2004, when Edmund J. Hull was the American ambassador to Yemen, U.S. and Yemeni counterterrorism efforts successfully seized the initiative against al Qaeda, severely degrading its capabilities. During this...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 202 p. From Family to Police Force illuminates the production and contestation of social, familial, and national order on a South Asian borderland. In the borderland that divides Kutch, a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from Sindh, a southern province in Pakistan, there are many forces at work: civil and border police, the air...
Routledge, 2010. — 352 p. This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, pandemic disease preparedness and remediation,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 214 p. The Globalization of Security is an important rethinking of the connections between globalization and security, focusing on a conceptual examination of the role of the state combined with key case studies. The book provides an analysis of the changing nature of security issues through three interlinking ways of conceptualizing the...
Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019. — 332 p. Captivating, concise, and current, Essentials of Terrorism: Concepts and Controversies introduces readers to the modern landscape of domestic and international terrorism. The Fifth Edition of Gus Martin’s renowned text covers key foundational topics and provides a framework for defining terrorism and exploring its history...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 229 p. How do Europeans engage in military strategy? Through detailed comparisons of operational planning and exploring the framework of the EU, NATO and the UN, this book sheds light on the instrumental nature of military force, the health of civil-military relations in Europe and the difficulty of making effective strategy in a multinational...
Allen and Unwin, 2003. — 300 p. From the trenches in Afghanistan to the Occupied Territories, Israel to Baghdad and beyond, this is a poignant account from one of Australia's most respected foreign correspondents, of the international fallout from September 11th and informative meditation on what our future holds.
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 2002. — 575 p. This UN course bridges a gap in the study of terrorism by presenting an academic text on the subject. The author began investigating global terrorism whilst being involved in UN peacekeeping missions during the 1980s and 1990s. The course covers a range of subjects such as guerrilla warfare,...
McFarland, 2019. — 186 p. This comprehensive worldwide study catalogs terrorist attacks in 2018, during which the Islamic State continued its decline from a quasi-government commanding territory the size of the United Kingdom to a more traditional terrorist network controlling just 1000 square miles. Yet IS still boasts 30,000 adherents in Syria and Iraq, with many others...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 241 p. This book critically engages with NATO’s two main referent objects of security: civilisation and individuals. By rethinking the seemingly natural assumption of these two referent objects, it suggests the epistemological importance of an unconscious dimension to understand meaning formation and behaviour change in international security. The...
Langaa RPCIG, 2016. — 365 p. As Julius Nyerere once noted, Africa has largely been the continent of peace, though this fact has not been widely publicised. In reality, Africa possesses dynamic potentials for resolving contradictions and violent ruptures that colonial authorities, post-colonial states and global actors have failed to capture and capitalise upon. Drawing on the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 309 p. Patchwork States argues that the sub-national politics of conflict and competition in South Asian countries have roots in the history of uneven state formation under colonial rule. Colonial India contained a complex landscape of different governance arrangements and state-society relations. After independence, postcolonial governments...
Rand, 2008. — 78 p. Deterrence of nuclear use through the threat of retaliation could be highly problematic in many plausible conflict scenarios with nuclear-armed regional adversaries. This could compel U.S. leaders to temper their military and political objectives if they come into conflict with these states. This book examines the reasons behind this important shift in the...
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006. — 265 p. Maritime piracy continues to persist as a significant phenomenon manifesting a range of social, historical, geo-political, security and economic issues. Today, the waters of Southeast Asia serve as the dominant region for the occurrence of piracy and the challenges it poses to regional security and Malacca Straits security....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 285 p. This book provides a multi-level analysis of international security in the South Caucasus. Using an expanded and adapted version of Regional Security Complex Theory, it studies both material conditions and discourses of insecurity in its assessment of the region's possible transition towards a more peaceable future.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. — 219 p. NATO and Terrorism focuses on the decades from 1989 until 2009, during which NATO underwent two major transformations. The first was the expansion from sixteen to twenty-six member states. This section traces the evolution of the new member states from communist enemies to democratic partners, looking at their differences and similarities,...
Routledge, 2007. — 248 p. This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transformation. Applicable to all peacebuilders, Elisabeth Porter highlights positive examples of women’s peacebuilding in comparative international contexts. She...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 228 p. Pratt investigates the potential erosion of prohibiting assassination, torture, and mercenarism during the US's War on Terrorism. In examining the emergence and history of the US's targeted killing programme, detention and interrogation programme, and employment of armed contractors in warzones, he proposes that a 'normative...
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 278 p. This book argues that security and defense have never been true priorities in the European Union, and have constantly been marginalized by the elites since the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact disintegrated. Despite the official rhetoric, only a few tangible results can be presented concerning the operational readiness...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 236 p. Technology and Security takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It assesses the challenges posed by emerging scientific and technological developments for security while understanding how perceptions of security threats are themselves formed in relation to conceptions of science and...
Cambridge: World Peace Foundation, 2005. — 210 p. Examines the state of governance in the countries of the greater Horn of Africa region--Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the Sudan, and Yemen--and discusses strategies to combat the transnational threat of terrorism, including suggestions for more effective U.S. engagement in the region. The Horn of Africa and Yemen:...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 412 p. Although Northeast Asia could be on the verge of becoming the world's third great region, expanding economic ties have not been supported by security cooperation and trust. Gilbert Rozman traces the problems in establishing regionalism over 15 years. Relying on many sources in the languages of the region, he offers a detailed picture...
Infobase Publishing, 2008. — 135 p. The war on terror has been in effect since 2002, when United States troops first invaded Afghanistan. War efforts have expanded from military action to legislation such as the Patriot Act and domestic applications. This book examines these issues with statistics, legal opinions, and information about legislation.
Routledge, 2015. — 252 p. Government of Peace addresses a major question in world politics today: how does post-colonial democracy produce a form of governance that copes with conflicts, insurgencies, revolts, and acute dissents? The contributors view social governance as a crucial component in answering this question and their narratives of governance aim to show how certain...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 197 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-26687-5 & ISBN 978-3-030-26688-2. Reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace. Analyses the potential impact of the Humanitarian Initiative and 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty. Explores the practical and institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons.
Air University Press, 2000 - 91 p. ISBN10: 1585660582 ISBN13: 9781585660582 (eng)
Dr. Shultz assesses the December 1989 invasion of Panama and the effectiveness of US foreign policy implemented afterward. He focuses on reconstruction, nation-building, and democratization following Operation Just Cause. He reviews contemporary Panamanian politics and comments on what went wrong...
Routledge, 2022. — 200 p. Gulf stability is coming to play a larger role in the foreign policy calculus of many states, but the evolving role of Asian powers is largely under-represented in the International Relations literature. This volume addresses this gap with a set of empirically rich, theory driven case studies written by academics from or based in the countries in...
Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — 165 p. Offers a South Asian perspective with a focus on Pakistan and India’s security imperatives that continue to shape their nuclear choices. Provides a detailed account of NPT based global nonproliferation regime and identifies contemporary challenges. Explores why global nonproliferation and disarmament efforts have not been able to achieve the...
Information Booklet. — SHAPE: SHAPE Public Information Office, 1996. — 48 p. The SHAPE Information Booklet is published under the authority of SACEUR and is not a formally agreed document. The information contained in this publication does not represent the SHAPE official point of view and should be used as background information only. SHAPE facts NATO’S strategy and Force...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1988. — 194 p. Interesting to see how recent past conflicts- in this case the Falklands- can myopically focus attention on the wrong issues. Essentially the essays all state that by the mid-1980's the Soviets were not capable of launching a serious attack on northern Norway. But then each essay attempts to make a compelling case for even more future...
Potomac Books, 2011. — 256 p. Beginning with the Communist Saur Revolution of 1978 and continuing through Gen. David Petraeus’s 2010 appointment replacing Stanley McChrystal as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, this book is an inside account of one of the most vicious conflicts fought between the two Cold War superpowers: the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989)....
Allen and Unwin, 2000. — 264 p. This volume is the proceedings of a conference held in Canberra in May 1998, hosted in conjunction with the Centre for Maritime Policy (now ANCORS), University of Wollongong; and Tenix Defence Systems. Australia has vested interests in the management of the Indian, Pacific and Southern oceans; not only do they hold the key to our national...
19th ed. — Geneva: Switzerland, World Economic Forum Report, 2024. — 123 p. — ISBN 978-2-940631-64-3. The Report explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade, against a backdrop of rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, a warming planet and conflict. As cooperation comes under pressure, weakened economies and societies may only require the...
Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2023. — 98 p. Preface Overview of Methodology Executive Summary Global Risks 2023: Today’s Crisis Current crises The path to 2025 Cost-of-living crisis Economic downturn Economic warfare Climate action hiatus Societal polarization Looking ahead Endnotes Global Risks 2033: Tomorrow’s Catastrophes The world in 2033 Natural ecosystems: past the point...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 289 p. This book aims to explore how Islamist parties mobilize debates, discourses, and environments in electoral authoritarian systems. Interrelating three theoretical schools, Electoral Authoritarianism Theory, Protest Voting Theory, and Political Process Theory, it adopts and expands on a demand-and-supply framework to approach the subject in a...
Routledge, 2005. — 272 p. Since the 9.11 attacks in North America and the accession of the Schengen Accord in Europe there has been widespread concern with international borders, the passage of people and the flow of information across borders. States have fundamentally changed the ways in which they police and monitor this mobile population and its personal data. This book...
Аналитический доклад. — М.: Центр «Сова», 2020. — 70 с. Защита прав человека часто рассматривается как задача, несовместимая с защитой национальной безопасности, но в действительности соблюдение прав человека необходимо для устойчивой безопасности. Несмотря на это власти по всему региону ОБСЕ все чаще вводят антитеррористические меры, которые нарушают права человека. Такая...
Монография. — Алматы: Казахстанско-немецкий университет, 2006. — 416 с. Книга посвящена теоретическим и методологическим вопросам исследования региональной безопасности. Теоретико-методологическую базу анализа составляют дискурсивный анализ, идеи стуркутрализма и постструктурализма, теория регионального комплекса безопасности, секторальный анализ и концепция секьюритизации....
Аналитический доклад. — Астана; Алматы: Институт мировой экономики и политики (ИМЭП) при Фонде Первого Президента Республики Казахстан, 2015. — 68 с. По мере развития украинского кризиса Россия и страны Запада продолжают взаимный обмен политическими и экономическими ударами. Несмотря на достигнутые в феврале в Минске договоренности по Украине и связанные с ними надежды на...
М.: ПИР-Пресс, 2021. — 52 с. — (Индекс Безопасности – Научные записки №10 (24)). Цель настоящего доклада – проанализировать, насколько расширение БРИКС за счёт одного из шести стран-кандидатов (Аргентина, Мексика, Турция, Иран, Египет и Индонезия) поможет укрепить (или, наоборот, пошатнёт) роль объединения в решении вопросов международной безопасности. Поскольку портфолио...
Москва: Правозащитный центр “Мемориал”, Информационный центр по правам человека в Центральной Азии, 1999. — 21 с. События последних лет в Центральной Азии и на Северном Кавказе вызвали большой поток публикаций, посвященных вопросам т.н. “исламского экстремизма” на территории бывшего СССР. К сожалению, приходится констатировать, что не только журналисты, но и т.н. “эксперты”...
К.: Фонд ім. Г. Бьолля в Україні, 2015. — 40 с. У ситуації, коли конфлікт сягає рівня збройного протистояння, дуже важко зупинитися й почати говорити. Ще важче – почати слухати. Ми пропонуємо послухати звичайних жінок, чий побут було радикально змінено з початком воєнного конфлікту. Як змінилися їхні щоденні негаразди й страхи в цьому новому суспільстві по обидва боки лінії...
Аналітична доповідь. — О. О. Резнікова, А. О. Місюра, С. В. Дрьомов, К. Є. Войтовський. — К. : НІСД, 2016. — 46 с. Досліджено міжнародний досвід застосування силових і ненасильницьких методів врегулювання сепаратистських конфліктів, а також досвід використання міжнародних форматів для врегулювання збройних сепаратистських конфліктів. Проведено аналіз ефективності застосування...
Ред. Н.С. Дегтярёв. — М.: ПИР-Пресс, 2021. — 21 с. — (Индекс Безопасности – Научные записки №8 (22)). Данная научная записка посвящена новой стратегии кибербезопасности США, которая перешла от традиционной политики сдерживания к политике постоянной вовлечённости. Автор обращает внимание на её критику экспертным сообществом ввиду того, что она может привести к милитаризации...
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2021. — 27 p. This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds to Section 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 116-260). This report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent,...
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2022. — 39 p. This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds to Section 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 116-260). This report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent,...
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2023. — 39 p. This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds to Section 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act (Pub. L. No. 116-260). This report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced,...
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2024. — 40 p. This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds Section 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act (Pub. L. No. 116-260). This report reflects collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent,...
Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1971. — 283 p. Бодар Люсьен. Секретные папки Пентагона (на франц. яз.) Rien de ce qui touche a l'lndochine n'est étranger a Lucien Bodard. C'est la raison pour laquelle le grand ecrivain a tenu a présenter et a expliquer les "Dossiers secrets du Pentagone", ce document exceptionnel dont la publication par de grands iournaux americains a crée une...
Primera ediciуn, 2002, Mеxico. Editora Laguna, S.A. de C.V.
Terrorismo y extraterritorialidad
Una nueva cultura de la violencia
Reflexiones en torno a algunos aspectos legales de los ataques del 11 de Septiembre y
sus posibles repercusiones a nivel global
El avasallamiento del Estado-Naciуn por el Estado Global
(Una visiуn dentro de la Teorнa General del Estado)
El mito...
Create Space, 2009. — 188 p. The coming New World Order is an international political and religious system of Satanically-inspired Islamic communism in which America first must be brutally crushed, conquered and enslaved. This very serious book discloses why, how and approximately when that will happen! Indeed, their secret target date for accomplishing this diabolical...
Lexington Books, 2016. — 191 p. How do contemporary cultural and literary texts from the diaspora or from South Asia iterate patterns of racial surveillance and prejudice against South Asians in the United States after 9/11? This collection delves into the underpinnings of American imperialism and identity politics after 9/11.
Bruxelles: Centre d’Etudes de Défense; Institut Royal Supérieur de Défense, 2006. — IX, 104 p. — (Securite et strategie 91). — ISSN: 0770-9005
L’Alliance atlantique est une organisation résolument évolutive. Elle s’est constamment adaptée à l’état des menaces pour lesquelles elle avait été érigée, du temps de la guerre froide comme au lendemain de la disparition de la rivalité...
IOS Press, 2006. — 181 p. The post-Cold War period made a new concept of security imperative: it encompasses environmental, social, economical, political and military issues. Migration as a civilizational phenomenon, albeit transitional, goes across this entire spectrum, particularly in a varied historical milieu as the Euro Mediterranean region is. In turn, reforms and changes...
Potomac Books, 2009. — 208 p. The relationship between drugs and today’s wars has grown more noticeable since the end of the Cold War and will likely gather strength in this era of increased globalization. Many violent groups and governments have recently turned to illicit narcotics in their entrepreneurial quests to stay viable in the post–Cold War world. It is no coincidence...
University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. — 256 р. — ISBN 0 - 824 8 - 2228 - 5 Wars in the Persian Gulf and Yugoslavia have given new impetus to the ongoing debate in Japan concerning its postwar constitution and related issues of national security and world order. Although often overlooked in this debate, Japanese religious groups–especially some of the New Religions–have promoted...
Roman Kuźniar, Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala, Bolesław Balcerowicz, Patrycja Grzebyk, Marek Madej, Kamila Pronińska, Marek Tabor, Anna Wojciuk. — Warszawa: Scholar, 2012. — 478 s. Państwa zachodnie zaczynają wykazywać nadzwyczajną, nieraz graniczącą z nadwrażliwością, troskę o sprawy bezpieczeństwa. Mamy do czynienia z przyspieszoną ewolucją i rozbudową instytucji, a także...
Johns Hopkins University, 2015, 6 pages
The US will remain indispensable to global problem-solving, provided an updated mindset, new institutions, and flexible alliances are in place.
Routledge, 2016. — 267 p. This book investigates, and explains, the extent to which different liberal democracies have resorted to the use of force since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The responses of democratic states throughout the world to the September 2001 terrorist attacks have varied greatly. This book analyses the various factors that had an impact on decisions on the use...
IOS Press, 2006. — 216 p. The papers in this book illustrate the balanced dichotomy between terrorism and counter-terrorism against the background of the liberal state. This is a unique battlefield, where the tactical advantage is seemingly conceded to terrorists, who are free to exploit the liberties of the open society, while the authorities are constrained by those very...
João Pessoa: UFPB, 2019. — 224 p. : il. — ISBN: 978-85-237-1402-4. Artigos diversos de estratégia. Atualmente os Estudos Estratégicos e de Segurança Internacional se fazem extremamente necessários. É urgente uma melhor compreensão de temas como Transformação Militar, Cooperação em Defesa, Novas Tecnologias de uso Militar, Políticas Públicas no setor de Defesa, Geopolítica,...
Routledge, 2020. — 365 p. — ISBN 10 0367541505; ISBN 13 9780367541507. The Armed Conflict Survey is the Institute’s annual review of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all active conflicts, offering in-depth analysis of the drivers and dynamics of current wars. It is an essential resource for those involved in security policymaking, and an indispensable...
Доклад №89 / 2023. — Под ред. Е.О. Карпинской, Т.С. Богдасаровой, С.М. Гавриловой; Российский совет по международным делам (РСМД). — М.: НП РСМД, 2023. — 72 с. В докладе анализируются позиции, подходы и инструментарий западных (ЕС, Германия, Франция, США) и незападных (Китай, Турция, Катар) акторов в отношении проблем безопасности на Африканском континенте. Отдельные разделы...
ИМЭМО РАН. — Москва : Весь мир, 2023. — 658 с. — ISBN 978-5-7777-0928. Монография (авторского коллектива Отдела европейских политических исследований ИМЭМО РАН) посвящена анализу новых вызовов безопасности ЕС со стороны таких нетрадиционных угроз, как пандемия, неконтролируемая миграция, изменение климата, международный терроризм, кибератаки и проблемы энергообеспечения....
Оқу құралы. — Алматы: Қазақ университеті, 2018. — 270 б. Қазіргі уақытта ядролық қару таратпау және қарусыздандыру мәселесі айрықша маңызды болып отыр. Оқу құралында ядролық қаруды таратпау саласындағы саясаттың тарихына шолу жасалып, халықаралық қатынастардағы ядролық қаруды таратпау, қарусыздану және ядролық қарудан азат аймақтар қалыптастыру үдерістерінің өзара...
Оқу құралы. — Алматы: Қазақ университеті, 2010. — 94 б. Бұл оқу құралы бүгінгі күні Таяу Шығыста болып жатқан оқиғаларға жəне АҚШ-тың сыртқы саясатындағы «Үлкен Таяу Шығыс» жоспары мəселелеріне арналады. Еңбекте Палестина аймағындағы соңғы саяси оқиғалар мен араб елдерінің ұстанымдары сипатталған. Оқиғаларды зерделеуде соңғы ғылыми ізденістер де кеңінен қолданылды. Сонымен...
М.: Весь Мир, 2011. — 752 с. — (Старый Свет — новые времена). — ISBN: 9785777705099. Книга представляет собой результат исследования многопланового комплекса проблем безопасности Европы, места и роли России в системе европейской безопасности, проведенного в Институте Европы РАН под руководством академика РАН В.В. Журкина. В этой фундаментальной монографии подробно рассмотрена...
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