Emerging Threats and Security in the Western Hemisphere
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arie Marcelo Kacowicz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1316518825 |
A rigorous global examination of the links between peaceful borders and illicit transnational flows of crime and terrorism.
Author | : Joseph M. Humire |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2014-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0739182676 |
In recent years, significant attention has focused upon the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the threat they pose to the United States and the West. Far less well understood, however, has been the phenomenon of Iran’s regional advance in America’s own Hemisphere—an intrusion that has both foreign policy and national security implications for the United States and its allies. In this collection, noted specialists and regional experts examine the various facets of Iran’s contemporary presence in Central and South America, and detail what the Islamic Republic’s growing geopolitical footprint south of the U.S. border signifies, both for Iran and for the United States.
Author | : James G. Stavridis |
Publisher | : NDU Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2014-02-23 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Since its creation in 1963, United States Southern Command has been led by 30 senior officers representing all four of the armed forces. None has undertaken his leadership responsibilities with the cultural sensitivity and creativity demonstrated by Admiral Jim Stavridis during his tenure in command. Breaking with tradition, Admiral Stavridis discarded the customary military model as he organized the Southern Command Headquarters. In its place he created an organization designed not to subdue adversaries, but instead to build durable and enduring partnerships with friends. His observation that it is the business of Southern Command to launch "ideas not missiles" into the command's area of responsibility gained strategic resonance throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America, and at the highest levels in Washington, DC.
Author | : National Defense University (U S ) |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2011-12-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.
Author | : Robert Evan Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
"Through exhaustive field research and interviews, Ellis inventories, country by country, China's rapidly expanding commercial and diplomatic presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. The irresistible allure of trade with the Chinese is a mixed blessing for the region: to transport raw materials and agricultural goods, a new East-West infrastructure is expanding Pacific coast ports from Mexico to Chile, once again leaving Latin America overly dependent on the export of low-value-added commodities. And although China's motives may be primarily commercial, the implications of its incursions are geopolitical: visiting Chinese leaders have declared Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela to be "strategic partners." As Ellis documents, China is investing heavily in Venezuelan crude oil, despite worries over Hugo Chávez's volatility and fears of embroiling itself in disputes between Caracas and Washington. China - together with illiberal petrostates - is a vital backstop for Chávez's authoritarian populist project and unrelenting drive to undercut U.S. interests and influence in the region. Inexplicably, Foggy Bottom has seemed largely oblivious to this concerted geopolitical challenge so close to home." -- www.foreignaffairs.com (Oct.15, 2010).
Author | : Barry Buzan |
Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781555877842 |
Sets out a comprehensive framework of analysis for security studies, examining the distinctive character and dynamics of security in five sectors: military, political, economic, environmental, and societal. It rejects traditionalists' case for restricting security in one sector, arguing that security is a particular type of politics applicable to a wide range of issues, and offers a constructivist operational method for distinguishing the process of securitization from that of politicization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : E. Krahmann |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005-01-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1403981663 |
Non-state threats and actors have become key topics in contemporary international security as since the end of the Cold War the notion that state is the primary unit of interest in international security has increasingly been challenged. Statistics show that today many more people are killed by ethnic conflicts, HIV/AIDS or the proliferation of small arms than by international war. Moreover, non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations, private military companies and international regimes, are progressively complementing or even replacing states in the provision of security. Suggesting that such developments can be understood as part of a shift from government to governance in international security, this book examines both how private actors have become one of the main sources of insecurity in the contemporary world and how non-state actors play a growing role in combating these threats.
Author | : Max G. Manwaring |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Electronic government information |
ISBN | : |
The primary thrust of the monograph is to explain the linkage of contemporary criminal street gangs (that is, the gang phenomenon or third generation gangs) to insurgency in terms f the instability it wreaks upon government and the concomitant challenge to state sovereignty. Although there are differences between gangs and insurgents regarding motives and modes of operations, this linkage infers that gang phenomena are mutated forms of urban insurgency. In these terms, these "new" nonstate actors must eventually seize political power in order to guarantee the freedom of action and the commercial environment they want. The common denominator that clearly links the gang phenomenon to insurgency is that the third generation gangs' and insurgents' ultimate objective is to depose or control the governments of targeted countries. As a consequence, the "Duck Analogy" applies. Third generation gangs look like ducks, walk like ducks, and act like ducks - a peculiar breed, but ducks nevertheless! This monograph concludes with recommendations for the United States and other countries to focus security and assistance responses at the strategic level. The intent is to help leaders achieve strategic clarity and operate more effectively in the complex politically dominated, contemporary global security arena.