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  • Spies, Culture, and Society

    Coming in from the Cold

    by Simon Willmetts, Constant Hijzen, Timothy Melley, Tricia Jenkins, Kathryn Olmsted, Richard J. Aldrich, Hugh Wilford, Jonathan Nashel, Pauline Blistène0 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
    A revealing look at the interrelationship between secret intelligence agencies and the wider societies and cultures they inhabitIntelligence agencies are traditionally understood as cloistered entities. Hidden behind a veil of secrecy, they conduct their activities relatively free from public scrutiny, and their assessments are ideally detached from the cultural and political biases that pervade ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Roots of Counterterrorism

    Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence

    by Constant Willem Hijzen ...
    Series series Causes and Consequences of Terrorism
    The dominant narrative in intelligence studies portrays the evolution of intelligence from Cold War times to the present as one of increasing complexity. But Western intelligence and security services have countered terrorism before: terrorism became an important threat from the end of the 1960s onwards. Counterterrorism efforts before 9/11, however, differed from those employed post-9/11, not ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Historical Perspectives on Democracies and their Adversaries

    Edited by Joost Augusteijn, Constant Hijzen, Mark Leon de Vries ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book historicizes the debate over how democratic regimes deal with anti-democratic groupings in society. Democracies across the world increasingly find themselves under threat from enemies, ranging from terrorists to parties and movements that undermine democratic institutions from within. This compilation of essays provides the first historical exploration of how democracies have dealt with ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • Torture and Democracy

    by Darius Rejali ...
    This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish ... Read more

    $69.29 CAD

  • A Question of Torture

    CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

    by Alfred McCoy ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    "An indispensable and riveting account" of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation).In this revelatory account of the CIA's fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy locates the deep roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in a long-standing, covert program of interrogation. A ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Why Intelligence Fails

    Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War

    by Robert Jervis ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures.In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more spectacular intelligence failures in recent memory: the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • How To Stage A Coup

    And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft

    by Rory Cormac ...
    'A compelling history of the dark arts of statecraft... Fascinating' Jonathan Rugman 'Rich in anecdote and detail.' The Times Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning to secret statecraft and the hidden hand to navigate these uncertain waters. From poisonings to electoral interference, subversion to cyber ... Read more

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  • Challenges in Intelligence Analysis

    Lessons from 1300 BCE to the Present

    by Timothy Walton ...
    In Challenges in Intelligence Analysis, Timothy Walton offers concrete, reality-based ways to improve intelligence analysis. After a brief introduction to the main concepts of analysis, he provides more than forty historical and contemporary examples that demonstrate what has, and what has not, been effective when grappling with difficult problems. The examples cover a wide span of time, going ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Fair Play

    by James M. Olson ...
    Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of AmericaÆs first spies, said, ôAny kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.ö A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and is it really true that any kind of service is ... Read more

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  • Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

    Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

    by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, Alex Danchev, David Elliott, Elizabeth L. Hillman, Gabriel Kolko, Walter LaFeber, Wilfried Mausbach, Alfred W. McCoy, Gareth Porter, John Prados ...
    Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer "history at its best, meaning, at its most useful." —Howard ZinnFrom the launch of the "Shock and Awe" invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" two months later, the war in Iraq was meant to demonstrate definitively that the United States had learned the lessons of ... Read more

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  • The Counterrevolution

    How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens

    by Bernard E. Harcourt ...
    A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern AmericansMilitarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States -- one rooted in the modes ... Read more

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