American Security

Author : David R. Mares,Arie M. Kacowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317965091

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Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security by David R. Mares,Arie M. Kacowicz Pdf

This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account that the study of Latin America’s comparative and international politics has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War, the return of democracy and the re-legitimization and re-armament of the military against the background of low-level uses of force short of war. Latin America’s security issues have become an important topic in international relations and Latin American studies. This Handbook sets a rigorous agenda for future research and is organised into five key parts: • The Evolution of Security in Latin America • Theoretical Approaches to Security in Latin America • Different 'Securities' • Contemporary Regional Security Challenges • Latin America and Contemporary International Security Challenges With a focus on contemporary challenges and the failures of regional institutions to eliminate the threat of the use of force among Latin Americans, this Handbook will be of great interest to students of Latin American politics, security studies, war and conflict studies and International Relations in general.

Author : United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951002937899C

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Strengthening American Security by United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) Pdf

Author : Henry B. E. Gass
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788148262

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Sino-American Security Relations by Henry B. E. Gass Pdf

Focusing on political, economic, cultural, and security affairs, this essay examines the issue of U.S.-Chinese relations. The author discusses the prospects of a formal security relationship between the U.S. and China, regional and global implications of a militarily stronger China, and the delicate balancing of improved relations with China and concern for the security of Taiwan. Bibliography.

Author : Edwin Daniel Jacob
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000062687

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American Security and the Global War on Terror by Edwin Daniel Jacob Pdf

This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today’s geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices. Edwin Daniel Jacob argues that America’s security practices in the Global War on Terror have been guided by an anachronistic Cold War logic that has subordinated strategy to tactics. Jacob shows that deep-rooted prejudices and presuppositions regarding American exceptionalism have had a disastrous impact on the policies of the United States, not only in dealing with terrorism, but also in seeking to impose American hegemony in the Middle East. Ineffectual security practices of dubious moral character, from rendition and torture to preemptive strikes and nation building to drones and assassinations, privilege exigency over ethics. Yet the result of this “post-strategic” approach to security, where interchangeable tactics, like these, masquerade as strategy, only increases insecurity. Jacob offers a fresh perspective on American foreign policy that links national security with human security in regional terms. This approach highlights the need for order, predictability, and stability—the cornerstone of political realism. Making use of insights derived from Machiavelli, Hobbes, Marx, Weber, Schmitt, and Morgenthau, this interdisciplinary work provides an overview of American foreign policy in the twenty-first century and speaks to crucial themes in the fields of history, political science, and sociology.

Author : John M. Poindexter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Security, International
ISBN : MINN:31951002941474W

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Regional Security, Collective Security, and American Security by John M. Poindexter Pdf

Author : M. Kent Bolton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216140009

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The Rise of the American Security State by M. Kent Bolton Pdf

This book examines the impact of the National Security Act of 1947, the most important foreign policy legislation that many Americans (including policymakers and academics) have never heard of. Since September 11, 2001, the White House-under both Bush and Obama-has pushed the envelope of taking the United States to war (without declarations), interrogating prisoners of war, spying on potential threats, and acting unilaterally. Why have these trends occurred? How has the apex of foreign power shifted, causing a sea change that has fueled a continual turf war between Capitol Hill and the White House? And perhaps most critically, what is America's role in the world now, and what should it be? The Rise of the American Security State: The National Security Act of 1947 and the Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy argues that the National Security Act of 1947 and the early Cold War created a bipartisan consensus among U.S. policymakers that spanned several administrations. The result of this consensus and the National Security Act was the creation of permanent institutions: the permanent Defense Department with a secretary of defense; the intelligence community, which has grown to 17 agencies; and significantly, the National Security Council inside the presidency. Collectively, these three developments have led to the militarization of U.S. foreign policy. Readers will grasp how concepts and strategies that were in their infancy during the Cold War era have persisted and continued to affect today's U.S. foreign policy.

Author : Ekavi Athanassopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136316920

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Turkey - Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945-1952 by Ekavi Athanassopoulou Pdf

This book aims to enhance our understanding of how American presence came to become consolidated - through NATO - in the eastern Mediterranean in the early cold war period by examining how American and British security considerations toward the region evolved between 1947 and 1952 and the impact Turkey's pressure had on American and British security thinking.

Author : American Foreign Policy Council
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0761839887

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Missile Defenses and American Security 2004 by American Foreign Policy Council Pdf

For over two decades, the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) has played an important role in the U.S. foreign policy debate. Founded in 1982, AFPC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing primary source information and policy options to those who make or influence the national security and foreign policy of the United States, facilitating dialogue between American statesmen and their counterparts in other countries, and fostering the acceptance and development of representative institutions, civil societies, and free market economies throughout the world. AFPC is widely recognized as a source of timely, insightful analysis on issues of foreign policy, and works closely with members of Congress, the Executive Branch and the policymaking community. It is staffed by noted specialists in foreign and defense policy, and serves as a valuable resource to officials in the highest levels of government.

Author : Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804784344

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Governing Security by Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar Pdf

Governing Security investigates the surprising history of two major federal agencies that touch the lives of Americans every day: the Roosevelt-era Federal Security Agency––which eventually became today's Department of Health and Human Services––and the more recently created Department of Homeland Security. By describing the legal, political, and institutional history of both organizations, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar offers a compelling account of crucial developments affecting the basic architecture of our nation. He shows how Americans end up choosing security goals not through an elaborate technical process, but in lively and overlapping settings involving conflict over statutory programs, agency autonomy, presidential power, and priorities for domestic and international risk regulation. Ultimately, as Cuéllar shows, ongoing fights about the scope of national security reshape the very structure of government and the intricate process through which statutes and regulations are implemented, particularly during––or in anticipation of––a national crisis.

Author : David R. Mares,Arie M. Kacowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317965084

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Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security by David R. Mares,Arie M. Kacowicz Pdf

This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account that the study of Latin America’s comparative and international politics has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War, the return of democracy and the re-legitimization and re-armament of the military against the background of low-level uses of force short of war. Latin America’s security issues have become an important topic in international relations and Latin American studies. This Handbook sets a rigorous agenda for future research and is organised into five key parts: • The Evolution of Security in Latin America • Theoretical Approaches to Security in Latin America • Different 'Securities' • Contemporary Regional Security Challenges • Latin America and Contemporary International Security Challenges With a focus on contemporary challenges and the failures of regional institutions to eliminate the threat of the use of force among Latin Americans, this Handbook will be of great interest to students of Latin American politics, security studies, war and conflict studies and International Relations in general.

Author : Amos A. Jordan,William Jesse Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081579323

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American National Security by Amos A. Jordan,William Jesse Taylor Pdf

Author : Dana Priest,William M. Arkin
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316194044

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Top Secret America by Dana Priest,William M. Arkin Pdf

The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in greater danger. In Top Secret America, award-winning reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin uncover the enormous size, shape, mission, and consequences of this invisible universe of over 1,300 government facilities in every state in America; nearly 2,000 outside companies used as contractors; and more than 850,000 people granted "Top Secret" security clearance. A landmark exposé of a new, secret "Fourth Branch" of American government, Top Secret America is a tour de force of investigative reporting-and a book sure to spark national and international alarm.

Author : John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0674018362

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Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis Pdf

In this provocative book, a distinguished Cold War historian argues that September 11, 2001, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy.

Author : Dwayne Ryan Menezes,Heather N. Nicol
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787356627

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The North American Arctic by Dwayne Ryan Menezes,Heather N. Nicol Pdf

The North American Arctic addresses the emergence of a new security relationship within the North American North. It focuses on current and emerging security issues that confront the North American Arctic and that shape relationships between and with neighbouring states (Alaska in the US; Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada; Greenland and Russia). Identifying the degree to which ‘domain awareness’ has redefined the traditional military focus, while a new human rights discourse undercuts traditional ways of managing sovereignty and territory, the volume’s contributors question normative security arrangements. Although security itself is not an obsolete concept, our understanding of what constitutes real human-centred security has become outdated. The contributors argue that there are new regionally specific threats originating from a wide range of events and possibilities, and very different subjectivities that can be brought to understand the shape of Arctic security and security relationships in the twenty-first century.

Author : Vincent Boucher,Charles-Philippe David,Karine Prémont
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228004288

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National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy by Vincent Boucher,Charles-Philippe David,Karine Prémont Pdf

Since the advent of the contemporary US national security apparatus in 1947, entrepreneurial public officials have tried to reorient the course of the nation's foreign policy. Acting inside the National Security Council system, some principals and high-ranking officials have worked tirelessly to generate policy change and innovation on the issues they care about. These entrepreneurs attempt to set the foreign policy agenda, frame policy problems and solutions, and orient the decision-making process to convince the president and other decision makers to choose the course they advocate. In National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy Vincent Boucher, Charles-Philippe David, and Karine Prémont develop a new concept to study entrepreneurial behaviour among foreign policy advisers and offer the first comprehensive framework of analysis to answer this crucial question: why do some entrepreneurs succeed in guaranteeing the adoption of novel policies while others fail? They explore case studies of attempts to reorient US foreign policy waged by National Security Council entrepreneurs, examining the key factors enabling success and the main forces preventing the adoption of a preferred option: the entrepreneur's profile, presidential leadership, major players involved in the policy formulation and decision-making processes, the national political context, and the presence or absence of significant opportunities. By carefully analyzing significant diplomatic and military decisions of the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton administrations, and offering a preliminary account of contemporary national security entrepreneurship under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, this book makes the case for an agent-based explanation of foreign policy change and continuity.