Author: Craig SnyderPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415924542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Understanding Contemporary Strategy
Author: Thomas M. KanePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136622810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Understanding Contemporary Strategy provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of modern strategy. Covering all the main issues in the field, the book explores the major themes through a combination of classical and modern strategic theory, history and current practice. The book is split into three main sections: Definition and Context : including discussion of the human, technological, intelligence, ethical and grand-strategic dimensions Strategy in the Geographic Environments: land, sea, air and space Contemporary Strategic Challenges: terrorism, insurgency and nuclear strategy. Each chapter presents the reader with a succinct summary of the topic, but also provides a challenging analysis of current issues, supporting students with pedagogical features such as suggested further reading, boxed case studies and study questions. This book will be essential reading for upper-level students of strategic studies, war studies, military history and international security.
Contemporary Security Management
Author: David PattersonPublisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0128092815
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Contemporary Security Management, Fourth Edition, identifies and condenses into clear language the principal functions and responsibilities for security professionals in supervisory and managerial positions. Managers will learn to understand the mission of the corporate security department and how the mission intersects with the missions of other departments. The book assists managers with the critical interactions they will have with decision makers at all levels of an organization, keeping them aware of the many corporate rules, business laws, and protocols of the industry in which the corporation operates. Coverage includes the latest trends in ethics, interviewing, liability, and security-related standards. The book provides concise information on understanding budgeting, acquisition of capital equipment, employee performance rating, delegated authority, project management, counseling, and hiring. Productivity, protection of corporate assets, and monitoring of contract services and guard force operations are also detailed, as well as how to build quality relationships with leaders of external organizations, such as police, fire and emergency response agencies, and the Department of Homeland Security. - Focuses on the evolving characteristics of major security threats confronting any organization - Assists aspirants for senior security positions in matching their personal expertise and interests with particular areas of security management - Includes updated information on the latest trends in ethics, interviewing, liability, and security-related standards
Contemporary Security Studies
Author: Alan CollinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198804105
Category : Security, International
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
'Contemporary Security Studies' introduces students to the broad range of issues that dominate the security agenda in the 21st century and provides up-to-date coverage of traditional and non-traditional threats to survival.
Contemporary Security and Strategy
Author: Craig A. SnyderPublisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This rigorously-edited text brings together a range of specially-commissioned chapters to provide an accessible introduction to Security Studies in the 21st century. The second edition has been expanded to cover developments in global and regional security; nuclear proliferation; terrorism; intervention and peacekeeping and includes 8 entirely new chapters.
Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior
Author: Graeme P. HerdPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429537549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book examines the extent to which Russia’s strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin’s own operational code. The work argues that, by conflating personalistic regime survival with national security, Putin ensures that contemporary Russian national interest, as expressed through strategic behavior, is the synthesis of a peculiar troika: a long-standing imperial strategic culture, rooted in a partially imagined past; the operational code of a counter-intelligence president and decision-making elite; and the realities of Russia as a hybrid state. The book first examines the role of structure and agency in shaping contemporary Russian strategic behavior. It then provides a conceptual understanding of strategic culture, and applies this to Tsarist and Soviet historical developments. The book’s analysis of the operational code, however, demonstrates that Putinism is more than the sum of the past. At the end, the book assesses Putin’s statecraft and stress-tests our assumptions about the exercise of contemporary power in Russia and the structure of Putin’s agency. This book will be of interest to students of Russian politics and foreign policy, strategic studies and international relations.
Contemporary European Security
Author: David J. GalbreathPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351235605
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Contemporary European Security explores the complex European security architecture and introduces students to the empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying the subject. Written by experts in each subfield, it addresses key topics within the wider strategic context of international security. Presenting traditional and critical debates to illuminate this ever-changing field it addresses specifically: European security since 2000 and the end of the Cold War. The evolution of International Relations theories in understanding security in Europe. The role of NATO in the post-war period and its strategy, impact and enlargement. The institutionalisation of the CSCE and the political tensions within the OSCE. The EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy and recent policy initiatives in defence. Feminist conceptions of European security. European military innovation. Security challenges in the post-Soviet space and the growing instability in the Middle East and North Africa. The emergence of human security. Internal and societal security. This essential textbook will be of key interests to students and scholars of European Security, Security and Military studies, Strategic Studies, European Politics and International Relations.
Author: Hew StrachanStrategy in the Contemporary World
Author: John BaylisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199289786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Provides a coverage of issues of war and peace such as terrorism, irregular warfare and weapons of mass destruction. This work contains a set of reflections on the role of military power in the contemporary world. It analyzes conflicts from Afghanistan to the Iraq War and looks at the debates about the lessons that can be learned from these wars.
Military Transformation and Strategy
Author: Bernard LooPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134103425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book explores the idea of arevolution in military affairs (RMA), which underpins the transformational agenda of the US military, and examines its implications for smaller states.The strategic studies literature on the RMA tends to be American-centric and directed towards the strategic problems of the US military. This volume seeks to fill t
