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This book is a discussion of key documents that explain the development, current status, and relevance of the international law governing the initiation of military hostilities.

Authored by an individual with 30 years of experience studying terrorism as well as access to the most senior counter-terrorist army and police officers combating the IRA, this book provides the first complete analysis of the world's premier terrorist group to explain them in ideological as well as operational terms.

This book provides a comprehensive yet concise narrative of the history of the Khmer Rouge, from its inception during the 1950s through its eventual reintegration into Cambodian society in 1998.

This timely and compelling book presents a broad study of all key cyber security issues of the highest interest to government and business as well as their implications.This comprehensive work focuses on the current state of play regarding cyber security threats to government and business, which are imposing unprecedented costs and disruption. At the same time, it aggressively takes a forward-looking approach to such emerging industries as automobiles and appliances, the operations of which are becoming more closely tied to the internet. Revolutionary developments will have security implications unforeseen by manufacturers, and the authors explore these in detail, drawing on lessons from overseas as well as the United States to show how nations and businesses can combat these threats.The book's first section describes existing threats and their consequences. The second section identifies newer cyber challenges across an even broader spectrum, including the internet of things. The concluding section looks at policies and practices in the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere that offer ways to mitigate threats to cyber security. Written in a nontechnical, accessible manner, the book will appeal to a diverse audience of policymakers, business leaders, cyber security experts, and interested general readers.

Argues that regional demographic and cultural trends, coinciding with an increasingly hostile attitude in the larger Muslim world over Western military actions, indicate that the lawless Balkans will become increasingly valuable as a strategic base for Islamic radicals.

Missing from many contemporary analyses of the causes of terrorism is any mention of the role of U.S. foreign policy, an examination of which is seen by some critics as inherently unpatriotic.

Two international policy analysts scrutinize the increasingly important operative and support roles women play in various terrorist organizations around the world.

During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time.

Compiles over 3,100 bombings, shootings, kidnappings, and robberies carried out for political or social objectives between 1954 and 2005. American terrorism-terrorism that occurs within the United States and Puerto Rico-has been remarkably diverse in terms of the causes and ideologies of the terrorists.

Providing an unbiased analysis of the past, present, and future of the hostile relationship between Iran, Israel, and the United States, this book presents an up-to-date discussion of the security implications for each of the two states as well as the entire region.

A highly valuable resource for students of intelligence studies, strategy and security, and foreign policy, this volume provides readers with an accessible and comprehensive exploration of U.S. espionage activities that addresses both the practical and ethical implications that attend the art and science of spying.

A highly valuable resource for students of intelligence studies, strategy and security, and foreign policy, this volume provides readers with an accessible and comprehensive exploration of U.S. espionage activities that addresses both the practical and ethical implications that attend the art and science of spying.

?A ten-year history of U.S. nuclear defense policy. Author Moulton, in his first book, is well qualified by experience with the Strategic Air Command, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and as Director of Research and Arms Control Studies at the National War College. His study of nuclear strategy is authoritative....Excellent bibliography.?-Choice

Dr. Page tells the full story of the discovery and development of radar, the most valuable weapon of World War Two and one of the marvels of our technological age.

This authoritative volume analyzes decision-making in American foreign policy using Eastern Europe as a case study.

This highly specialized volume examines the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) for the first time, with critical emphasis on the impact SDI will have on technologically based industries.

Policy makers, policy analysts, and other actors both in the U.S. government and policy community concerned with what is going on inside South Africa today will find South Africa to be provocative reading.

Speak No Evil begins with a discussion of issues surrounding risk communication, then describes how the narrative of the promotional history of nuclear power developed and eventually contaminated modern nuclear risk communication messages.

Giovanni Graziani examines Gorbachev's reforms in terms of economic relations with the Third World and presents a detailed and sophisticated statistical analysis of Soviet economic assistance and trade.

This work offers a broad interpretation of the extraordinary changes that have taken place in Soviet arms control policy since Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet head of state in March of 1985.

Under the aegis of the two grandes dames of international studies in psychology, 23 experts examine violence in all of its multivarious forms around the world. The second group of essays discuss violence involving children-incest, trauma, delinquency, school violence, and the death penalty for youths.

?Stephanie Neuman has established herself as one of the most respected experts in the field of Third World military capabilities and planning. Here she has assembled an impressive array of documentation on the important issue of military assistance--its use by the superpowers in conditions of war and peace; its role in shaping the relations between Third World states and the superpowers; the search for alternative sources of supply by Third World states; and the effects (or lack of effects) of military assistance on a series of contemporary conflicts. The study is notable for its use of comparative methodology, drawing on a wide variety of case studies, and for its critical examination of the conventional wisdom. Any student of international conflict will find in this study a wealth of data, presented in an orderly and economical manner, and a sophisticated analysis of a set of complex and important questions.?-Gary G. Sick, Program Officer, U.S. Foreign Policy, The Ford Foundation

Lethal Frontiers is one of the first samples of Soviet scholarship on nuclear strategy readily available to Western readers.

This text is an analysis of President Bush's regional defence strategy first unveiled in Aspen, Colorado, on August 2 1990. This strategy involves a mix of active, reserve and reconstitutable forces, and General Colin Powell's Base Force.

Offers analysis into political, economic and business mistakes and solutions within fragile states. This title argues that to avoid revisiting the carnage and catastrophes seen in places like Iraq, Bosnia, and the Congo, the West needs to rethink its ideas on fragile states and start helping their peoples build governments that fit the landscape.

?[Murray's] chapters on the United Nations are valuable contributions to an understanding of the giant tasks, the obstacles and the possibilities inherent in this second effort to build world peace.?-Nation

Several factors impact a developing nation's ability to manage its political and related security affairs. The author relates the state to the international environment as well as to substate elements, and analyzes the role of intra-country conflict in explaining the state's vulnerability to external intervention.