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'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. _________A farmer’s son from a provincial grammar school who found himself accidentally...
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Transworld Digital
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2016-09-01
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A decade and a half of exhausting wars, punishing economic setbacks, and fast-rising rivals has called into question America's fundamental position and purpose in world politics. Will the US continue to be the only superpower in the international system? Should it...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-26
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The Ukrainian conflict has come to be considered as the most serious geopolitical crisis in Central and Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. Its implications extend well beyond the borders of Ukraine, and its impact on the security of the wider Black Sea region...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-06-15
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Traditional analyses of global security cannot explain the degree to which there is "governance" of important security issues -- from combatting piracy to curtailing nuclear proliferation to reducing the contributions of extractive industries to violence and conflict....
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-02
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Mit seinem hochaktuellen Thema richtet sich Karl Edlinger an militärische Kommandanten, aber auch an politische Entscheidungsträger und weltpolitisch interessierte Leser. Im Buch wird der Rechtsrahmen für moderne Konfliktsituationen abgeleitet und die Konsequenzen für...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-11
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With the end of the Cold War, threats to national security have become increasingly non-military in nature. Issues such as climate change, resource scarcity, infectious diseases, natural disasters, irregular migration, drug trafficking, information security and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-11-30
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Critical energy infrastructure such as oil and gas pipelines, storage facilities and electricity grids are increasingly becoming the target of criminal and terrorist attacks.
This book contains the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) ‘The...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-10-15
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When the Senate released its so-called "Torture Report" in December 2014 the world would learn that, for years, the CIA had used unimaginably brutal methods to interrogate its prisoners - often without yielding any useful or truthful information. The agency had long and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-01
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Evolving threats of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) attack make it imperative to find ways to support global efforts against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and terrorism.
This book contains papers presented at the NATO...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-09-15
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In 2011, the United States government declared a cyber attack as equal to an act of war, punishable with conventional military means. Cyber operations, cyber crime, and other forms of cyber activities directed by one state against another are now considered part of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-27
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This book contributes to a better understanding of what makes people and communities resilient in the face of disasters, violence and terrorism.This resilience is understood as a resource that facilitates recovery, effective functioning and positive outcomes in the wake...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-04-08
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Vor dem Hintergrund der in der Bundesrepublik anhaltenden Unrechtsdebatte diskutieren die Beiträge des Sammelbandes die völkerrechtliche Zulässigkeit und die historischen Auswirkungen der Beschlüsse des Potsdamer Abkommens vom 2.8.1945. Darin wurde die Aussiedlung der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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China's emergence as a great power in the twenty-first century is strongly enabled by cyberspace. Leveraged information technology integrates Chinese firms into the global economy, modernizes infrastructure, and increases internet penetration which helps boost...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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They Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking expos' of how government agencies and tech corporations monitor virtually every aspect of our lives, and a fierce defense of privacy and democracy. The revelation that the government has access to a vast trove of...
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Bold Type Books
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2015-02-24
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This book provides an introduction to political and strategic aspects of nuclear weaponry. It offers an accessible overview of the concept of nuclear weapons, outlines how thinking about these weapons has developed and considers how nuclear threats can continue to be...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-02-18
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Why Spy? is the result of Brian Stewart's seventy years of working in, and studying the uses and abuses of, intelligence in the real world. Few books currently available to those involved either as professionals or students in this area have been written by someone like...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2015-01-09
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In the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system. Much of Asia and Africa fell to the armies of the European great powers, and by World War I, those armies controlled 40 percent of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-15
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The Beijing-Islamabad axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipelines. China is Pakistan's great economic...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-15
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A generation ago, "cyberspace" was just a term from science fiction, used to describe the nascent network of computers linking a few university labs. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet....
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-04
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The subject of international security is never out of the headlines.The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-24
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