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About the Publisher
A major educational, professional, and reference publisher since 1967, continues
to grow and evolve. Greenwood Press, Praeger, Libraries Unlimited, and Heinemann
continue to enrich and expand a catalog of 18,000 award-winning titles in
the humanities, social sciences, education, and business. Whatever the imprint,
the mission remains the same: to bring the best in print and electronic material
to school, public, and academic libraries.
Praeger Security International
Building on Praeger Publishers long and distinguished backlist of security
studies titles and Greenwood Press's award-winning references, PSI will publish
50 original titles each year on all aspects of international security. This
list will include both reference and narrative titles, in single volume formats
and in multivolume sets. Highlights of the fall 2005 inaugural list included: Iraqi
Security Forces: A Strategy for Success , by Anthony Cordesman; Securing
America's Future , by Daniel Gerstein; and Political Violence and
Terror in Modern America: A Chronology , by Christopher Hewitt. Spring
2006 titles include Homeland Security: Protecting America's Targets by
James J. F. Forest; The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: Illegal Immigration,
Drugs, and Homeland Security , by Tony Payan; Syria, the United
States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East , by Robert G. Rabil;
and Understanding China and India: Security Implications for the United
States and the World , by Rollie Lal. In consultation with
our advisory board and librarians at all levels, the PSI editorial team will
pursue important new titles in five core areas:
Defense and National Security
Includes titles on all aspects of Homeland Security (Homeland
Resilience), defense policy, and decision making. Also covers individual
intelligence agencies, intelligence reform in the U.S., analysis, cooperation
with intelligence organizations of other nations, intelligence networks
of foreign nations, and covert operations.
Terrorism and Nontraditional Threats
Includes counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, irregular war,
guerilla warfare, sociological aspects of terrorism, fundamentalism,
and political violence. Also includes transnational threats such as
international crime; trafficking of guns, drugs, or humans; energy
and environmental security; and globalization and economic security.
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Proliferation
Covers issues of arms control, disarmament, counter-proliferation, and non-proliferation.
Humanitarian and Peace Operations
Includes collective security, peacekeeping, nation-building, stability operations,
international law, conflict resolution, genocide, crimes against humanity,
and peace studies.
Strategic Studies
Covers alliance politics, force projection, deterrence, strategy of individual
nations, and war plans.
Military History
Encompasses the diplomatic and operational history of individual conflicts,
including the Cold War; Non-Western Warfare; Civil Wars and Revolutions;
evolution of technology; evolution of strategy, operations, and tactics.
While the bulk of historical material will focus on the 20 th century,
where relevant, historical content will go back as far as is necessary
to support current event topics.
Regional Security
In keeping with the PSI emphasis on international security, this
area will include titles on Europe/EU/NATO; Balkans; Caucasus; Russia/Ukraine;
Central Asia; North East Asia; South East Asia; South Asia; Australasia and
the Pacific; The Gulf; The Near and Middle East; North Africa; Sub-Saharan
Africa; North America; Central America/Caribbean; South America; and Antarctica.
It also includes foreign military affairs and bi-lateral relations.
To provide added value and further information for its
customers, PSI has commissioned bibliographic essays on important topic
areas and plans to update them regularly. These "suggestions for further
reading" will assist users in processing what is available in the rapidly
changing field of international security. Planned essay writer include:
Colin Gray (Strategy), Loch Johnson (Intelligence), and Lawrence S.
Kaplan (NATO).
Armed Forces
Covers issues of relevance to individual services, joint and combined warfare,
transformation, civil-military relations, procurement, logistics, defense
spending, and defense industries.
Military Affair
This topic covers military sociology, military family, veteran's affairs,
foreign military issues, personnel policy and recruitment, women in the
military, minorities and the military, and military psychology.
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