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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,...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-02-24
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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,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-02-24
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Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe. It guides readers through...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-02-15
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The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies.The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-02-09
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Following 9/11, Americans were swept up in a near hysteria-level fear of terrorists, especially of Islamic extremists working domestically. The government and media reports stoked fears that people living in the US have the desire and means to wreak extreme havoc and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-11-05
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This book provides seven studies that address major issues such as the human rights and human security nexus, gender aspects of human security, ethical and environmental challenges, human security as a basic element for a policy framework, the human security agenda...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-22
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The book reflects the author's experience across more than forty years in assessing and forming policy about nuclear weapons, mostly at senior levels close to the centre both of British governmental decision-making and of NATO's development of plans and deployments,...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-02-12
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This book examines the practices enacted by three key institutions of the transatlantic security community-the EU, NATO and the OSCE--in the name of combating international terrorism, and analyzes the ways in which those practices have both been affected by and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-08-07
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U.S. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of democracy by force has proven disastrous. The United States now finds itself vilified abroad, weakened at home, and bogged...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-07-21
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The French White Paper on Defence and National Security sets forth a detailed roadmap for defending the nation’s territory and security interests in a globalised world. It also describes how France can contribute to a wider and more effective role for Europe on the...
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Odile Jacob
Parution :
2008-07-15
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The book's main focus is on extremist ideologies and structural capabilities of violent non-state actors that employ terrorist means. Ideologies and organizational patterns are seen as the main comparative advantages of such groups in an asymmetrical confrontation at...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-03-13
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The book's main focus is on extremist ideologies and structural capabilities of violent non-state actors that employ terrorist means. Ideologies and organizational patterns are seen as the main comparative advantages of such groups in an asymmetrical confrontation at...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-03-13
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A Chronology of European Security and Defence 1945-2006 is a unique and authoritative source of reference for all those with an interest in European defence and security over the last 60 years. An extensively annotated chronology, the book offers a blow-by-blow account...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-11-08
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The dramatic declaration by U.S. President George W. Bush that, in light of the attacks on 9/11, the United States would henceforth be engaging in "preemption" against such enemies as terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction forced a wide-open debate about...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-11-01
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The main aim of this book is to argue that the use of private force by states has been restricted by a norm against mercenary use.The book traces the evolution of this norm, from mercenaries in medieval Europe through to private security companies in modern day Iraq,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-10-11
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The main aim of this book is to argue that the use of private force by states has been restricted by a norm against mercenary use.The book traces the evolution of this norm, from mercenaries in medieval Europe through to private security companies in modern day Iraq,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-10-11
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As correspondent for Newsweek, Michael Hirsh has traveled to every continent, reporting on American foreign policy. Now he draws on his experience to offer an original explanation of America's role in the world and the problems facing the nation today and in the future....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-06-05
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As correspondent for Newsweek, Michael Hirsh has traveled to every continent, reporting on American foreign policy. Now he draws on his experience to offer an original explanation of America's role in the world and the problems facing the nation today and in the future....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-06-05
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The advent of hyperterrorism on “9/11” and subsequent military operations have marked the return of strategic affairs as a core concern of the citizens of our countries. This French Strategic and Military Yearbook analyses from a European vantage point the major themes...
Editeur :
Odile Jacob
Parution :
2003-03-19
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The Third World Beyond the Cold War presents an overview of the changes brought about in Third World countries since the end of the cold war.The book does so in two ways: by highlighting major areas of change in the Third World, and using regional case-studies as a meas...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1999-04-01
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