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Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from nuclear missile attacks. Columba Peoples shows how, in the face of strong scientific and strategic critique, advocates of missile defence seek to justify its development by reference to broader culturally embedded perceptions of the promises and perils of technological development. Unpacking the assumptions behind the justification of missile defence initiatives, both past and present, this book illustrates how common-sense understandings of technology are combined and used to legitimate this controversial and costly defence programme. In doing so it engages fundamental debates over understandings of technological development, human agency and the relationship between technology and security.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- Ballistic missile defenses --- Strategic culture --- Défense antimissile --- Culture stratégique --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Culture stratégiquePolitical aspects --- 876 Veiligheidspolitiek --- Culture --- Military policy --- National security --- Defenses, Ballistic missile --- Air defenses --- Défense antimissile --- Culture stratégique --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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By exploring the role of both culture and the mass media, this volume fills a gap in the literature on war and peace. Outstanding scholars provide an overview of critical mass media research and open up entirely new perspectives on the ongoing debate over communications issues in war and peace. The contributions bring together common themes including the complex, cultural imperialism and transnational control of communications. Various perspectives are covered, such as gender issues, language study, and bureaucratization.

316.77 --- Communication and culture --- Mass media --- -Peace --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- War --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Culture and communication --- Culture --- Communicatiesociologie --- Social aspects --- Communication and culture. --- Peace. --- Social aspects. --- CultureCommunicatiesociologie --- 316.77 Communicatiesociologie --- Peace

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The United States will confront a series of fundamental challenges through the middle of the twenty-first century. Using a theory of economic systems to gauge present and future global conflicts, Steven Rosefielde and D. Quinn Mills see the challenges as posed sequentially by terrorism, Russia, China, and the European Union. In the cases of terrorism, Russia, and China, Western leaders appreciate aspects of these perils, but they are crafting unduly soft policies to deal with the challenges. The authors believe that 'globalists' notwithstanding, such views are myopic in an era where nuclear proliferation has invalidated the concept of mutually assured destruction. What America requires is a new security concept that the authors call 'strategic independence' to enable keeping the peace in dangerous times and foster new generations of leaders capable of acting sanely despite a current public culture addicted to wishful thinking.

USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS --- USA--NATIONAL SECURITY --- POLITICAL CULTURE--USA --- Government information --- Political culture --- National security --- Homeland defense --- Homeland security --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Government --- History, Political --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics

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During the Soviet era, blat-the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures-was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How Russia Really Works, Alena V. Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s-from the hiring of firms to create negative publicity about one's competitors, to inventing novel schemes of tax evasion and engaging in "alternative" techniques of contract and law enforcement.Ledeneva discovers ingenuity, wit, and vigor in these activities and argues that they simultaneously support and subvert formal institutions. They enable corporations, the media, politicians, and businessmen to operate in the post-Soviet labyrinth of legal and practical constraints but consistently undermine the spirit, if not the letter, of the law. The "know-how" Ledeneva describes in this book continues to operate today and is crucial to understanding contemporary Russia.

Business networks --- Corporate culture --- Corporations --- Political corruption --- Political culture --- Social networks --- Corrupt practices --- Russia (Federation) --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Social networksCorrupt practicesRussia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation)Politics and government --- Government - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Government - Europe --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Culture, Corporate --- Institutional culture --- Organizational culture --- Business corporations --- C corporations --- Corporations, Business --- Corporations, Public --- Limited companies --- Publicly held corporations --- Publicly traded corporations --- Public limited companies --- Stock corporations --- Subchapter C corporations --- Industrial clusters --- Strategic alliances (Business) --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Organizational behavior --- Business anthropology --- Business enterprises --- Corporate power --- Disincorporation --- Stocks --- Trusts, Industrial --- Sociological aspects

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In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewit

Polemology --- World history --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- Strategic planning. --- Strategic culture. --- Military history. --- Strategy --- Planification stratégique --- Histoire militaire --- Stratégie --- History. --- Histoire --- Political science --- History & Theory. --- Political scienceHistory. --- Planification stratégique --- Stratégie --- Goal setting (Strategic planning) --- Planning, Strategic --- Strategic intent (Strategic planning) --- Strategic management --- Planning --- Business planning --- Culture --- Military policy --- National security --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- History --- Naval history