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This book offers distinct insights into the sources of state legitimacy in Africa by incorporating an analysis of non-state actors’ role in service delivery. The author examines how citizens’ reliance on non-governmental security actors such as street committees,...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-12
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This book reveals how the idea of human security, combined with other human-centric norms, has been embraced, criticized, modified and diffused in East Asia (ASEAN Plus Three). Once we zoom in to the regional space of East Asia, we can see a kaleidoscopic diversity of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-06
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A thorough explanation of the mathematical theories, philosophies, and economics of catastrophes with a view to how humanity should be prepared for events with catastrophic consequences This book presents a holistic view of natural and man-made catastrophes, from...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-10-09
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Im zweiten Band „Politisches Krisenmanagement“ geht es primär darum, wie wir uns derzeit auf Krisen vorbereiten, die wir nicht zu verhindern imstande waren. Dieses Problem wird seit einiger Zeit unter dem Begriff der Resilienz diskutiert. Sie ist ein relativ...
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Springer VS
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2018-10-08
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‘In this comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis, McConnon demonstrates the extent to which security concerns have come to pervade the development policies of the three major donor countries.’—Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa, Canada ‘An original and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-03
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China's problem with terrorism has historically been considered an outgrowth of Beijing's efforts to integrate the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region into the People's Republic of China. Since the end of the Cold War, however, this internal dynamic has converged with an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-01
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This book explores how potential bio-threats and risks may evolve post 9/11 given the rapid changes in biotechnology and synthetic biology. It also explores what role intelligence communities can play in understanding threats and risks. It argues that although...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-18
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Paragraph 10 of the Security Environment section of the NATO Strategic Concept adopted in 2010 clearly defines terrorism as ‘a direct threat to the security of the citizens of NATO countries, and to international stability and prosperity more broadly’. Terrorist attacks...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-09-15
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In diesem Sammelband untersuchen Wissenschaftler und Praktiker aus dem Politikfeld Innere Sicherheit die asymmetrische Bedrohung durch den islamistischen Terrorismus in Deutschland und leiten daraus eine dringend erforderliche Anpassung der deutschen...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-04
Collection :
Sicherheit – interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
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Terrorism is one of the driving geopolitical trends of our era. Spectacular events are recognized by their dates--for example, the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington and the 7/7 London bombings. It was a terrorist attack that drew the United States into a war in...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-08-13
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Popular protest in China has been widespread and prevalent. Why do people protest and how are such demonstrations handled by the authorities? Could they ultimately imperil China’s political system? In this book, Teresa Wright analyzes the array of protests that have...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-07-26
Collection :
China Today
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Who are the Taliban? Are they a militant movement? Are they religious scholars? The fact that these and other questions are still raised with frequency is testimony to the way the movement has been studied, often at arm's length and with scant use of primary sources.
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-01
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Since 2012, hundreds of men and women have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, many have been killed, but some have chosen to return to their countries of origin. French Journalist David Thomson met some of those who...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-06-22
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Never before has such damning evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity been revealed in the midst of a conflict. As civil war raged in Syria, we owe the disclosure of this evidence to one man. He goes under the codename of Caesar. This military police...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-05-17
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No single nation, culture or religion can achieve peace and security at home while ignoring the terrorist threats posed to others globally.
This book presents lectures and a keynote speech delivered as part of the NATO Advanced Training Course (ATC) Countering ISIS...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2018-05-15
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In the years since the September 11th 2001 attacks, the al-Qaeda phenomenon has become one of the most written about, yet crucially misunderstood, threats of the 21st century. But despite the sheer volume of literature produced during the ‘war on terror’ period, few...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-21
Collection :
New Security Challenges
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe gripping true story of the undercover agent risking his life to fight terrorismTheir aim was to kill as many people as possible.His mission was to stop them.A terrorist plot to kill hundreds of innocent people. An undercover agent posing...
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Transworld Digital
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2018-04-18
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This book seeks to answer the “why” and “how” questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey’s Kurds, in Turkey. The PKK has been inter-locked in an intermittent war against Turkey since 1984 in the name of Kurdish nationalism. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
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2018-04-04
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Boko Haram's appetite for violence and kidnapping women has thrust them to the top of the global news agenda. In a few years they all but severed parts of Nigeria-Africa's most populous state and largest economy-from the hands of the government. WhenBoko Haram speaks,...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2018-04-01
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This book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arab world and beyond, to the borders and coasts of Europe. Celebrated author Navid Kermani reports from a region which is our...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-03-16
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