- Human Insecurity in a Global World
- Edited by Lincoln C. Chen
- Edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
- Edited by Ellen Seidensticker
- This volume explores the complex challenges that globalization poses for human security. Many of the challenges described are already high on the agenda of the international community. By adding a human security dimension to their analysis, these authors provide new insight into attempts to reduce our vulnerability to the new forces unleashed by global changes.
- Paperback 2004
- Neverending Wars
- Ann Hironaka
- Since 1945, the average length of civil wars has increased three-fold. What can explain this startling fact? Hironaka points to the crucial role of the international community in propping up many new and weak states that resulted from the decolonization movement after World War II. These impoverished states are prone to conflicts and lack the necessary resources to resolve them decisively. This timely book will provide an entirely new way to look at recent, vicious civil wars, failed states, and the terrorist movements that emerge in their wake.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008
- On Nuclear Terrorism
- Michael Levi
- Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would be faced with in pursuing a nuclear plot. Surveying the broad universe of plots and defenses, this accessible account shows how a wide-ranging defense that integrates the tools of weapon and materials security, law enforcement, intelligence, border controls, diplomacy, and the military can multiply, intensify, and compound the possibility that nuclear terrorists will fail.
- Hardcover 2007
- Surprise Attack
- With a New Preface
- Ephraim Kam
- Kam observes surprise attack through the eyes of its victim in order to understand the causes of the victim's failure to anticipate the coming of war. Emphasing the psychological aspect of warfare, Kam traces the behavior of the victim at various functional levels and from several points of view in order to examine the difficulties and mistakes that permit a nation to be taken by surprise. He argues that anticipation and prediction of a coming war are more complicated than any other issue of strategic estimation.
- Paperback 2004
- The War for Muslim Minds
- Gilles Kepel
- Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh
- The events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the complex language of war, propaganda, and terrorism that holds the region in its thrall.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006