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Security strategy and transatlantic relations
Tackles key questions such as: how much do security strategies signal convergence or divergence in US and EU foreign and security policy doctrine? What tangible political and policy impacts can be attributed to security strategies? What are the implications for US and EU policies towards specific regions?
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- 0415401909
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- xii, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-46]
Security communities
The contributors to this study argue that community can exist at the international level within the field of security. They suggest that security politics is profoundly shaped by a need to forge community links both contemporaneously and historically.
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- 0521630517
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- xiii, 462 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Cambridge studies in international relations, 62
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- [POL-SSS-44]
Security communities and their neighbours : regional fortresses or global int…
There are two types of security community: those that create a political community between themselves by institution building (such as the EU); and those that are pluralistic and are aligned through shared values, responsiveness to each others needs and policy goals by their political elites (such as the UK and Ireland or the USA and Canada). Bellamy seeks to examine the impact of the developme…
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- 140390622X
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- x, 221 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Security communities and their neighbors
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- [POL-SSS-43]
Security by other means : foreign assistance, global poverty, and American le…
"Assesses the current structures of foreign assistance and makes recommendations for efficient coordination. Drawing on expertise from the full range of foreign aid agencies, examines foreign assistance across four categories: security, economic, humanitarian, and political"--Provided by publisher.
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- 9780815713623
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- 1 online resource (xi, 364 p.) : ill., map.
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- [POL-SSS-42]
Security and strategy in the new Europe
The thawing of the Cold War has brought new concerns over the nature of European security to the fore and uncovered major differences in the approaches of individual states to changed circumstances. This book clarifies the options for a new European security order and contribute to the growing debate. It adopts a medium-term analytical approach and uses a three-tier format, covering the nature…
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- 0415071208
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- xv, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-41]
Security and post-conflict reconstruction : dealing with fighters in the afte…
This book provides a critical analysis of the changing discourse and practice of post-conflict security-promoting interventions since the Cold War.
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- 0415460549
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- xx, 291 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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- Routledge global security studies, 8.
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- [POL-SSS-40]
Security and international relations
Security studies as a branch of international relations theory is evaluated from the perspective of the main rival theories - realism, neorealism, liberal institutionalism, classic economic liberalism, and Marxism - to explain why international figures choose or eschew force and coercive threats in order to elicit favourable outcomes.
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- 9780521806435
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- xi, 349 p. ; 23 cm.
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- Themes in international relations
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- [POL-SSS-39]
Science, strategy and war : the strategic theory of John Boyd
By highlighting diverse sources that shaped Boyd?s thinking, and by offering a comprehensive overview of his work, this volume demonstrates that the common interpretation of the meaning of Boyd?s OODA loop concept is incomplete.
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- 0415371031
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- 1 online resource (x, 313 p.) : ill.
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- Cass series--strategy and history, 18.
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- [POL-SSS-37]
Ontological security in international relations : self-identity and the IR state
Asserts that states pursue social actions to serve self-identity needs, even when these actions compromise their physical existence. This book analyzes three forms of social action, sometimes referred to as 'motives' of state behavior (moral, humanitarian, and honor-driven) through an ontological security approach.
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- 9780415772761
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- xiv, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
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- New international relations
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- [POL-SSS-36]
New threats and new actors in international security
"Statistics show that today many more people are killed by ethnic conflicts, HIV/AIDS, or the proliferation of small arms than by international war. Moreover, non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations, private military companies, and international regimes, are progressively complementing or even replacing states in the provision of security. Suggesting that such developments can …
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- 1403966974
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- xii, 230 p. ; 25 cm.
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- -
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- [POL-SSS-35]
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