Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy PanelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Reykjavik and American Security
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy PanelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
American Foreign Policy, Current Documents
Author: Selected Tax Provisions in the Administration's Health Security Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Select Revenue MeasuresPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Regional Overview of Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251324468
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Latin America and the Caribbean managed to reduce the number of undernourished by 20 million compared to the year 2000. However, 2018 marks the fourth consecutive year in which hunger shows a continuous increases. Moderate or severe food insecurity in Latin America increased considerably. This increase caused more than 32 million people to join the almost 155 million who lived in food insecurity in the Region in 2014-2016. The Region has shown significant progress in reducing child malnutrition and it is significantly distant and below the global prevalence of malnutrition in girls and boys. However, malnutrition due to excessive weight in the Region is one of the highest in the world and it continues to increase. This year, the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean focuses on food environments and describes some of the main policies that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are developing to face the different forms of malnutrition.
American National Security
Author: Amos A. JordanPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080189154X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The sixth edition of American National Security has been extensively rewritten to take into account the significant changes in national security policy in the past decade. Thorough revisions reflect a new strategic context and the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the early twenty-first century. Highlights include: • An examination of the current international environment and new factors affecting U.S. national security policy making• A discussion of the Department of Homeland Security and changes in the intelligence community• A survey of intelligence and national security, with special focus on security needs post-9/11• A review of economic security, diplomacy, terrorism, conventional warfare, counterinsurgency, military intervention, and nuclear deterrence in the changed international setting• An update of security issues in East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean• New material on globalization, transnational actors, and human security Previous editions have been widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses. -- James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense, from the foreword
American Biodefense
Author: Frank L. Smith IIIPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455154
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending billions of dollars per year on medical countermeasures and biological detection systems. But most of this funding now comes from the Department of Health and Human Services rather than the Department of Defense. Why has the U.S. military neglected biodefense and allowed civilian organizations to take the lead in defending the country against biological attacks? In American Biodefense, Frank L. Smith III addresses this puzzling and largely untold story about science, technology, and national security.Smith argues that organizational frames and stereotypes have caused both military neglect and the rise of civilian biodefense. In the armed services, influential ideas about kinetic warfare have undermined defense against biological warfare. The influence of these ideas on science and technology challenges the conventional wisdom that national security policy is driven by threats or bureaucratic interests. Given the ideas at work inside the U.S. military, Smith explains how the lessons learned from biodefense can help solve other important problems that range from radiation weapons to cyber attacks.
Bioterrorism: The History of a Crisis in American Society
Author: David McBridePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000806766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Although at the start of the 21st century bioterrorism was newly feared by the public at large, it is one threat that institutions have attempted to anticipate for years. Originally published in 2003, and now with a new introduction, this unique 2-volume collection provides a multi-disciplinary resource on the challenges bioterrorism poses for American society and institutions, from both legal and political institutions, on one hand, to public health and medical institutions on the other. Volume one documents and analyses the challenge bioterrorism poses to these political, economic and legal institutions, putting bioterrorism into its historical context as a problem discussed and anticipated by government for decades. Volume two documents the challenges bioterrorism poses to public health and public policy as a weapon of disease and fear. The materials in these volumes provide case histories and discourse by specialists relating to the ways that the bioterrorism threat has been perceived and approached by US health and law institutions.
The American Exchange and Review
Author: Overview of U.S. Arms Control Policy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Encyclopedia of United States National Security
Author: Richard J. SamuelsPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761929274
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
Covers the origin, development, and results of all major national security policies over the last seven decades. A thoroughly interdisciplinary work, the encyclopedia views national security from a historical, economic, political, and technological perspective.