Author: Schmidtz, David / Brennan, Jason Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Through a fusion of philosophical, social scientific, and historical methods, A Brief History of Liberty provides a comprehensive, philosophically-informed portrait of the elusive nature of one of our...
Author: Schmidtz, David / Brennan, Jason Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through a fusion of philosophical, social scientific, and historical methods, A Brief History of Liberty provides a comprehensive, philosophically-informed portrait of the elusive nature of one of our...
Author: Pyles, Raymond A. / Tripp, Robert S. / Lynch, Kristin F. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Describes a potential common operating system (COP) for the Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS). The authors first develop a COP based on the principles of effects-based measures, schwerpunkt ...
Author: Newman, Edward Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The legitimacy of global institutions which address security challenges is in question. The manner in which they make decisions and the interests they reflect often falls short of twenty-first century...
Author: Lynch, David Publisher: NewIsland Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Divided Paradise: An Irishman in the Holy Land is a vivid account of ordinary life in one of the world's most contested and volatile regions. Award winning journalist David Lynch brings to life stor...
Author: Hamit, Francis Publisher: Francis Hamit Electronic Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally a two part column published in Security Technology and Design magazine about the Steve Jackson Games case and other incidents where law enforcement abused the process and the citizens.
Author: Medeiros, Evan S. / Cliff, Roger / Crane, Keith Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As part of a larger RAND Project AIR FORCE study on Chinese military modernization, this document analyzes the individual strengths and weaknesses of four specific defense-industrial sectors--missile,...
Author: Davis, Lynn E. / Sisson, Melanie W. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: While the United States government has historically undertaken strategic reviews and produced numerous strategy documents, these have provided only very general directions for U.S. policymakers. This ...
Author: Robinson, Mary Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mary Robinson was United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002. During those five tumultuous years, which included the tragic events of 9/11, she offered moral leadership and vi...
Author: Theoharis, Athan Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Athan Theoharis, long a respected authority on surveillance and secrecy, established his reputation for meticulous scholarship with his work on the loyalty security program developed under Truman and ...
Author: Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced ...
Author: Falk, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book addresses similar questions as Falk's earlier Human Rights Horizons , extending the exploration of human rights discourse and practice to focus on matters of post-9/11 security issues, devel...
Author: Benson, Ragnar Publisher: Paladin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Forget about using the old "dead-baby's birth-certificate" ruse to get new ID. Everyone's on to that trick. What you need is the know-how to make your own documents on a home computer. And by followin...
Author: Hunsicker, A. Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Any professional actively engaged in the executive protection field, novice or veteran, whether in a team or as team leader, must train for, and be able to pinpoint, even the most unexpected security ...
Author: Randall, Jeff Publisher: Paladin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jeff Randall and Mike Perrin have years of experience leading travelers deep into the wildest cities and most rugged backcountry of the Third World. In this book, they help you recognize and minimize ...
Author: Quataert, Jean Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Advocating Dignity is a detailed historical account of the emergence, development, and impact of the global human rights revolution. Drawing on graphic case studies from various global settings, it na...
Author: Jones, Seth G. / Munoz, Arturo Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Afghanistan, local communities have played a critical role in security, especially in rural areas. Afghan national security forces are important to the top-down strategy, but the Afghan government ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Pambazuka Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, this reflection on its achievements as well as its limitations brings to light the commiss...
Author: Bensahel, Nora / Oliker, Olga / Crane, Keith Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This monograph begins by examining prewar planning efforts for postwar Iraq, in order to establish what U.S. policymakers expected the postwar situation to look like and what their plans were for reco...
Author: Rodogno, Davide Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide...
Author: Kaul, Maharaj Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kashmir has been on the mind of Maharaj Kaul ever since the eruption of the civil war there in 1989, and it has been in his mind since his childhood, as he was born there. For him Kashmir is more than...
Author: Lambeth, Benjamin S. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The terrorist attacks of 9/11 plunged the United States into a determined counteroffensive against Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network. This report details the initial U.S. military res...
Author: Byman, Daniel / McGinn, John G. / Crane, Keith Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Coercion--the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior--is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have recently fought in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, and...
Author: Paul, Christopher / Thie, Harry J. / Webb, Katharine Watkins Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. This has resulted in a number of...
Author: Paul, Christopher / Thie, Harry J. / Webb, Katharine Watkins Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. This has resulted in a number of...
Author: Callihan, Joe Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: America - One Nation Under Tyrants? is a timely book for the days in which we are living. Based upon a comment attributed to early American Colonist, William Penn, who is quoted as saying: "Any people...
Author: Blakely, Curtis R. Publisher: Brown Walker Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This reader introduces the student to prison management. Particular interest is given the increased role of profit in the application of punishment. Profit and prison privatization are viewed within t...
Author: Edmundson, William A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An Introduction to Rights is a readable and accessible introduction to the history, logic, moral implications, and political tendencies of the idea of rights. It is organized chronologically and discu...
Author: Perry, Walter L. / John, Gordon IV, Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown that U.S. forces need more-effective techniques and procedures to conduct counterinsurgency. It is likely that U.S. forces will face similar, irregular wa...
Author: Childers, Sam Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The rise of Sam Childers from violent, drug-addicted biker to a man willing to risk everything to rescue the orphans and child soldiers of Sudan "All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it al...
Author: N/A Publisher: IGI Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A range of threats in the areas of safety and security, from natural disasters to terrorism to conventional warfare, involve complex interactions that are beyond the scope and capabilities of traditio...
Author: Jackson, Brian A. / Baker, John C. / Chalk, Peter Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Better ways are needed to understand how terrorist groups become more effective and dangerous. Learning is the link between what a group wants to do and its ability to actually do it; therefore, a bet...
Author: Jackson, Brian A. / Baker, John C. / Chalk, Peter Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Better ways are needed to understand how terrorist groups increase theireffectiveness and become more dangerous. Learning is the link between what agroup wants to do and its ability to actually do it;...
Author: Pradesh, Devdas Publisher: The Hermit Kingdom Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ARE ENGLISH JEWS RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11? AN EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORY, PROBLEMS, AND CAUSES is a timely book for understanding Global Terrorism. In a daring foray into examining causes for the Sept...
Author: Milton, John Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1644 the English poet and man of letters, John Milton, published the Areopagitica as an appeal to Parliament to rescind their Licensing Order of June 16th, 1643. This order was designed to bring pu...
Author: Hamit, Francis Publisher: Francis Hamit Electronic Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A commentary originally published in 1996, in Security Technology & Design Magazine, about the dangers faced by uniformed security officers when they are mistaken for or used as police officers, with ...
Author: Hamm, Taik-Young Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This brilliantly argued book taps into a great deal of news interest in North Korea at the moment in the wake of recent hostility against Japan.
Author: Webb, Katharine W. / Woodward, John D., Jr. / Newton, Elaine M. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every human possesses more than one virtually infallible form of identification. Known as biometrics, examples include fingerprints, iris and retinal scans, hand geometry, and other measures of physi...
Author: Larson, Eric V. / Eaton, Derek / Nichiporuk, Brian Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The objective of this study was to provide an analytic framework for intelligence analysis of irregular warfare (IW) environments that could be used as the basis for a subsequent IW intelligence analy...
Author: Oliker, Olga / Charlick-Paley, Tanya Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Continuing trends toward military, political, economic, and social decline in Russia threaten the interests of the United States and its allies. Moscow?'s capacity to govern is called into question b...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of new case studies assesses the ability of asymmetrical autonomy agreements to resolve violent struggles between central governments and separatist groups within their borders.
Author: Grayzel, Susan R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first launched air raids on Britain at the end of 1914 and continued them during the First World War. With th...
Author: Komarinski, Peter Publisher: Academic Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An easy-to-understand synopsis of identification systems, presenting in simple language the process of fingerprint identification, from the initial capture of a set of finger images, to the production...
Author: Glenn, Russell W. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: During stability operations, coalitions must incorporate participation by government agencies other than the military, the indigenous government, and its population more than is expected during conven...
Author: Glenn, Russell W. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During stability operations, coalitions must incorporate participation by government agencies other than the military, the indigenous government, and its population more than is expected during conven...
Author: Chon, Gina / Thet, Sambath Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based on exclusive interviews with the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, this book tells the story of a man who began as an idealistic freedom fighter and wound up involved in one of the wo...
Author: Shafir, Gershon / Peled, Yoav Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A timely study by two well-known scholars offers a theoretically informed account of the political sociology of Israel. The analysis is set within its historical context as the authors trace Israel's ...
