NATO's New Strategic Concept. A Comprehensive Assessment
Author : Sten Rynning
Publisher : DIIS - Copenhagen
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Defence policy
ISBN : 8776054322
French Interventions in Africa
Author : Stefano Recchia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1000223817
Book Description
This book explores France’s African intervention policy and related legitimation strategies through the United Nations, the European Union, and various ad hoc multilateral frameworks. France’s enduring ability to project military power on the African continent and influence political events there has been central to its self-perception as a major power. However, since the end of the cold war, France’s paternalistic interference has been increasingly questioned, not least by African audiences. This has produced a gradual and somewhat reluctant turn to multilateralism on the part of French leaders. Drawing on in-depth case studies of recent French intervention policy, this edited volume critically assesses France’s efforts to reassure critics by securing multilateral endorsements; share burdens and liabilities through collective implementation; and re-affirm its status as a major power by spearheading complex missions. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.
Partnership for the Americas: Western Hemisphere Strategy and U.S. Southern Command
Author : James G. Stavridis
Publisher : NDU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2014-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
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.
Urban Stormwater Management in the United States
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0309125391
Book Description
The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
The EU and NATO
Author : Gustav Lindström
Publisher :
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2019
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9789291988372
Book Description
The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Former Soviet republics
ISBN :
Book Description
Political Warfare
Author : Kerry K. Gershaneck
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2020
Category : China
ISBN :
Book Description
"Political Warfare provides a well-researched and wide-ranging overview of the nature of the People's Republic of China (PRC) threat and the political warfare strategies, doctrines, and operational practices used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The author offers detailed and illuminating case studies of PRC political warfare operations designed to undermine Thailand, a U.S. treaty ally, and Taiwan, a close friend"--
Avoiding the ‘Thucydides Trap’
Author : Dong Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351206656
Book Description
As the relationship between China and the United States becomes increasingly complex and interdependent, leaders in Beijing and Washington are struggling to establish a solid common foundation on which to expand and deepen bilateral relations. In order to examine the challenges facing U.S.-China relations, the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding (iGCU) at Peking University brought together a group of leading experts from China and the United States in Beijing and Honolulu to develop a conceptual foundation for U.S.-China relations into the future, tackling the issues in innovative ways under the banner of U.S.-China Relations in Strategic Domains. The resulting chapters assess U.S.-China relations in the maritime and nuclear sectors as well as in cyberspace and space and through the lens of P2P and mil-to-mil exchanges. Scholars and students in political science and international relations are thus presented with a diagnosis and prognosis of the relations between the two superpowers.
Strategic Choices for a Turbulent World
Author : Andrew R. Hoehn
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0833096931
Book Description
This report is the last of a six-volume series in which RAND explores the elements of a national strategy for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. It analyzes U.S. strengths and weaknesses, and suggests adaptations for this new era of turbulence and uncertainty. The report offers three alternative strategic concepts and evaluates their underlying assumptions, costs, risks, and constraints.
Forward Resilience
Author : Daniel S. Hamilton
Publisher : Center for Transatlantic Relations Sais
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : 9780990772156
Book Description
The notion of 'resilience' is gaining currency in European and transatlantic security policy discussions. The EU and NATO are each building the capacity of their member states to anticipate, preempt and resolve disruptive challenges to vital societal functions. The EU and NATO are also exploring ways to work more effectively together in this area. But is resilience enough to deal with disruptive threats in a deeply interconnected world? In this new study, authors and experts argue that while state-by-state approaches to resilience are important, they are likely to be insufficient in a world where few critical infrastructures are limited to national borders, and where robust resilience efforts by one country may mean little if its neighbor's systems are weak. They argue not only that resilience must be shared, it must be projected forward, and that traditional notions of territorial security must be supplemented with actions to address flow security - protecting critical links that bind societies to one another.
