History shows that ‘security, whether defined narrowly or widely, is a scarce commodity’. Therefore, it is generally observed that in face of security threat perceptions, states feel the necessity to combine their efforts to strengthen their own security by acting together. This brings us to the concept of collective security, which has been widely debated in the literature of international rel...

Over the last decade, a number of western government agencies and international organisations have increasingly turned their attention to fragility and failure of state institutions as a major international policy challenge in the fields of security and development assistance. The concepts of “fragile” and “failed states” are now widely used in diplomatic negotiations on global security, peacek...

The 9/11 suicide attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, triggered a number of security responses both in the United States of America and other Countries in the World. Kenya, which is an ally and a close partner to North America and Europe, was not left behind. While many states had been parties to numerous terrorism conventions, their response in implementing them had been sl...

this study was carried out to evaluate the ekiti state social security scheme (essss) in nigeria. specifically, the study estimated the food security status of the beneficiaries and non beneficiaries of the scheme, assessed the effect of the social security scheme on households’ food security status, and identified the constraints to the implementation of the scheme in the state. a three stage ...

This study examined the status and determinants of rural households’ food security in Moyale district of pastoral area, Oromia regional state, in Ethiopia. Both secondary and primary data were used for the study. The study was based on the survey of a total of 100 farmers randomly selected using a three-stage sampling technique. Analytical tools used include descriptive statistics, Foster-Greer...

security building processes after world war ii, were under the influence of realistic thoughts. this was considered a reaction to idealistic and institutional approaches. critical school attempted to criticize classical and structural realism. new security theoreticians emphasize on extended subjects and diverse threats and believe it to be beyond the competition of countries. they believe that...

Presently, the competition of soft power has become an important trend in international competition. The expansion and dissemination of culture soft power has even caused challenges and risks to other countries’ national security. Therefore, by summarizing the characteristics of and the trends of international culture soft power competition, considering the chief impacts on Chinese culture secu...

Dr. Phillip C. Saunders is Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has a doctorate from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and has worked or consulted on Asian security issues for the United States Air Force, the Council on Foreign Relations, and RAND. His articles on China and...

The domain of security standardization within biometrics lacks of a systematical framework approach for evaluation and testing of biometric technology. The international standardization project NP 19792 of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 Information Technology Security Techniques intends to fill this gap for the highly demanded field of IT security biometrics. This paper delivers a first contribution for...