Warfare and defence Books

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 1,0, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Internationale Konfliktanalyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen des Seminars „Sozialisation im interkulturellen Vergleich" möchte ich mich im...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 14 Punkte (1), , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nach der Jasminrevolution und den damit verbundenen gewaltsam verlaufenden Aufständen in Ägypten...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 1,3, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Gesellschaftswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Cultures of War Discourse, Sprache:...

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 1,7, Leiden University (Public Administration), language: English, abstract: The idea of an internal-external security nexus is holding greater sway in...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 1,5, University of St Andrews (Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence), language: English, abstract: Hamas is an acronym that stands...

Dieses essential analysiert die geplante dauerhafte Stationierung einer Brigade der Bundeswehr in Litauen, die vom Verteidigungsministerium als "Leuchtturmprojekt der von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz ausgerufenen sicherheitspolitischen...

In the last decades, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) such as rebel and terrorist organizations have proved their capacity to break international law. The international community, particularly the United Nations (UN), has reacted to this development by...

The question if states should intervene in massive humanitarian emergencies without a legal right to do so, is still object of an important debate in the theory and practice of international relations. This situation has not changed with the emergence of...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 1,0, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (Fakultät für Wirtschafte und Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 1,3, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Institut für Politikwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Friedenspolitik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „In allen...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 2,3, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof ICC arbeitet seit 2002 an der Verfolgung...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Frieden und Konflikte, Sicherheit, Note: 1.7, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn die staatliche Souveränität auf soliden Grundlagen beruht (I),...

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Verification in the Nuclear Arena: Nature, Significance and Practice.- Chapter 2: Verifying Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement.- Chapter 3: Trust, Confidence and the Human Side of Verification.- Chapter 4: Trust...

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

This book focuses on current key issues of international security from an actor-centered approach. The volume is divided into 3 sections: the first part analyses an array of security issues in Europe, the second one explores how those security issues...

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...

There is little doubt that cyber-space has become the battle space for confrontations. However, to conduct cyber operations, a new armory of weapons needs to be employed. No matter how many, or how sophisticated an aggressor's kinetic weapons are, they...

Drawing from military geography's spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and...

This book explores Eurasia's growing embrace of its maritime geography from the Indian Ocean to Pacific Asia and the Arctic. In an age of climate change, the melting of the Arctic will transform Eurasia's importance, in addition to influencing the...

"Undoubtedly the most comprehensive analysis of the role of culture and emergent practices in capacity building currently at hand. d'Estrée and Parsons have produced a commendable amalgamation and scrutiny of local, cultural, and Indigenous mediation...

Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of all states. Great powers seek survival against other great powers seeking to undermine their power and position, determining prestige-seeking behavior as psychotic and destructive. Weak...

This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China's negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria's first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat...

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...

This book analyzes the challenges and ethical dilemmas military physicians and nurses experienced while deployed on military operations-and how they dealt with them. It traces the developments during the deployment of medical personnel within the Dutch...

This book takes a new approach to examining the relationship between China and Russia, departing from the standard debate over whether the relationship is a true strategic partnership or merely an axis of convenience. Instead, the book argues that the...

This edited compilation was written in the latter part of the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, a watershed event in world history that illustrated wide-ranging systems and structural vulnerabilities worldwide. The book provides a framework for thinking...

Much has been written on security in Africa-its democratic deficit, poor civil-military relations, and myriad conflicts-but these are often treated in isolation from one another. This book takes a different approach, as it links all of these issues to...

This book, written in honor of Arno Tausch, presents cutting-edge research on globalization, development, and global values. Internationally renowned authors cover topics such as global economic and political cycles, global values, and support for...

This book uses several fantasy movies or movie series and television series to explain political and international relations (IR) concepts and theories. It begins with an overview of the importance of fantasy in literature, film and television, and its...

This book examines radical Jihad terrorism in contemporary France and sheds light on the vicious circle of violence, based on reciprocity. Building upon the theoretical heritage of Pierre Bourdieu, the book develops a methodology and a concept of the...

Mobilizing an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, this book reviews the history and consequences of NATO's post-Cold War enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe. It offers a nuanced discussion of the merits and drawbacks of...

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

This book examines the functions of conferences within Arctic governance, as a third dimension between sovereign states and formalized cooperative arrangements. It analyzes conferences against the background of three main empirical topics. Firstly, the...

This handbook focuses on new threats to psychological security that are posed by the malicious use of AI and how it can be used to counteract such threats. Studies on the malicious use of AI through deepfakes, agenda setting, sentiment analysis and...

This book investigates the phenomenon of overbalancing through an analysis of Japan's foreign policy during the interbellum. In the mid-1930s, Japan withdrew from a naval arms control framework that had restrained military buildup on both sides of the...

Global security threats have created a complex risk landscape that is challenging and transforming society. These global security issues intersect and influence the political, economic, social, technological, ecological and legal dimensions of the...

This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary analysis of events impacting on North Macedonia since its independence, particularly during the last decade. In the past thirty years, the country has gone through deep political, social and economic...

This book demonstrates that the disciplinary boundaries present within international relations approaches to security studies are redundant when examining social media, and inter- and multi-disciplinary analysis is key. A key result of the analysis...

Der Band befasst sich mit den Grundlagen der gegenwärtigen Beziehungen zwischen zivilen Akteuren und staatlichen Machtstrukturen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Themenfeld der öffentlichen Kontrolle von Streitkräften und der Frage, warum zivile Akteure...

Dieses Buch setzt sich kritisch mit den beiden wichtigsten Sicherheitsreferenzen der NATO auseinander: der Zivilisation und den Menschen. Durch ein Überdenken der scheinbar selbstverständlichen Annahme dieser beiden Referenzobjekte wird die...

This book addresses the pertinent issues that will need to be considered by those interested in physical security problems of the future. Specifically, it examines how changes in the accessibility of technology - data, hardware, software - are likely to...

Rising inequality, the advance of far-right populism, ecological and climatic catastrophe and the scourge of global pandemic disease - these are among the defining crises of our time. Addressing the governing challenges posed by each requires a more...

This book offers a model for understanding securitization in terms of hegemonic discourse formations. It re-thinks the very meaning of security as well as the relationship between the understanding of security in traditional and critical approaches in...