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Lives in Peace Research = The Oslo Stories
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…
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- 9789811647178
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- XX, 508 ill; lamp
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- 3
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Rational Cybersecurity for Business = The Security Leaders' Guide to Business…
Use the guidance in this comprehensive field guide to gain the support of your top executives for aligning a rational cybersecurity plan with your business. You will learn how to improve working relationships with stakeholders in complex digital businesses, IT, and development environments. You will know how to prioritize your security program, and motivate and retain your team. Misalignment b…
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- 9781484259528
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- XXVI, 333 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro = Cosmologies of War and The Far-Right
This book offers a unique look into the world of policing and the frontline of Brazil’s war on drugs. It analyzes the tensions produced by attempts to modernize Rio de Janeiro’s public security policies. Since the return of democracy in 1985, Rio's police forces have waged war against armed drug gangs based in the city’s favelas, casting the people who live in these communities as interna…
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- 9783031490279
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- XXI, 330 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Transformation and Development = Studies in the Organization for Security and…
This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and beyond. Written by experts and academics in the fields of human rights, security, transformation and development, particularly in post-soviet and communist countries, i…
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- 9783030427757
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- VI, 154 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance : Studies on Transformat…
This open-access book explores the security dynamics amid the polarization, shifting borders, and liquid governance that define the Zeitenwende era in Europe's eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia. Presenting various case studies, the volume unveils the intricate web of border dynamics and practices, including the nuanced interplay of border disputes within the Organization for Security and C…
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- 978-3-031-44584-2
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- XVII, 427
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Russia-China Relations : Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals?
This open access book examines Russia-China relations across a variety of civilian and military areas of cooperation. Leading experts in the field present empirical case studies covering a wide range of strategic cooperation areas between Russia and China, such as technological, military, economic and political cooperation. The contributing authors shed new light on Chinese and Russian strategi…
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- 978-3-030-97012-3
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- XXI, 315
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- Global Power Shift (GLOBAL)
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Police Code of Silence in Times of Change
This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules. …
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- 978-3-030-96844-1
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- XII, 122
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Vor der Revolution : Die Vereinigten Staaten und die Permanente Intervention …
Dieses Open-Access-Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, eingebettet in historische Kontexte paralleler Kalter Kriege im globalen und regionalen Rahmen die historische Genese der amerikanisch-iranischen Sonderbeziehungen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und deren Transformation in den drei anschließenden Jahrzehnten zu analysieren. In der Geschichte der Staatenwelt nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gibt es wohl kaum e…
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- 978-3-658-33888-6
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- IX, 726
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- Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen (GGIB)
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Preparing for Digital Disruption
This open access book offers an analysis of why preparations for digital disruption should become a stated goal of security policy and policies that aim to safeguard the continuity of critical infrastructure. The increasing use of digital technology implies new and significant vulnerabilities for our society. However, it is striking that almost all cyber-security measures taken by governments, …
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- 9783030778385
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- XIV, 74 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Security in an Interconnected World : A Strategic Vision for Defence Policy
This open access book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed forces can subsequently be determined on the grounds of said analysis. More than ever, internal and external security, and developments both in the Netherlands and abroad are interconnected. The world order is shifting, the cooperation within NATO and the EU …
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- 9783030376062
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- X, 183 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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