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Serie: New security challenges
gebondenEngels9783319549026
14-8-2017
This book identifies and explains the functional and ideational boundaries regarding what states and Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) both do and possess regarding land power, sea power, and air power. Meer
gebondenEngels9783319439600
7-6-2017
“Over the past dozen years special operations forces (SOF) have been one of the few areas of growth and expansion in a number of militaries. This growth and expansion, however, has not been mirrored by a comparable one in academic inquiries into the subject. Meer
gebondenEngels9781137330291
22-8-2014
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. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230223561
29-10-2009
This book explores the origins, interpretations and meanings of the term 'biosecurity'. It brings together contributors on issues relating to the perceptions of the threat of biological weapons and how states are responding, or not, to the challenges posed by the potential of the products of the life sciences to be used for destructive purposes. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230249615
15-5-2015
Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised 'climate security'. Meer
paperbackEngels9780230249622
15-5-2015
Climate Terror engages with a highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarised 'climate security'. Meer
paperbackEngels9780230285613
31-10-2008
The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace formula. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230224001
21-5-2009
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. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230224087
26-2-2015
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. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230296541
12-7-2011
Baker provides a unique insider perspective on factors affecting British Muslim converts and their susceptibility to violent radicalisation, including firsthand accounts of convicted terrorists Richard Reid (the 'Shoe Bomber'), Zacarius Moussaoui (the 20th 9/11 bomber), and Abdullah el-Faisal who is alleged to have been a radicalising influence. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230273771
19-4-2011
NATO has many European and global partner countries. The political and military utility of all these partnerships is clear; they 'provide' more security than they 'consume'. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230546738
14-11-2008
This book examines the practice of urban resilience past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources and detailed case-studies of contemporary Britain. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230363908
4-10-2013
This book analyses security cooperation in the domain of inter-regionalism, addressing the emergence of the African Union as a regional actor and its impact on EU-Africa relations. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230521889
29-1-2009
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. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230200081
11-12-2008
This book presents an interdisciplinary reassessment of the War on Terror. It examines the development of the conflict since the September 11 attacks, combining a theoretically distinctive perspective with the examination of a diverse body of previously unexplored source material from media coverage, to cinema, photography and contemporary art. Meer
paperbackEngels9780230229020
3-12-2007
The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230239005
17-11-2010
A long-term evaluation and analysis of the UK's involvement in Sierra Leone before and after the conflict which ended in 2002. This book looks at how UK intervention moved from initial involvement through to war fighting and then post-conflict reconstruction, specifically of the security infrastructure. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230252615
10-11-2010
A freshly provocative look at the nexus linking EU security, trans-Turkey energy supply routes to Europe and Turkey's EU membership negotiations, this book argues that Europe's collective energy security prospects have become increasingly tied to Turkey's progress towards joining the EU. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230574496
1-10-2008
The first academic account of the 21st century anti-war and peace movement. Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, Anti-War Activism pays especially close attention to the changed information environment of protest, the complex alliances of activists, the diversity of participants, as well as campaigners' use of new (and old) media. Meer
gebondenEngels9780230579897
20-1-2010
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. Meer