Intelligence & Espionage

Introduction to Intelligence Studies (third edition) provides an overview of the US intelligence community, to include its history, organization, and function.Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States Intelligence Community (IC) has undergone an...

Prominent among the quests for post-9/11 security are developments in surveillance, especially at national borders. These developments are not new, but many of them have been extended and intensified. The result? More and more people and populations are...

This volume draws on Herman's professional experience and personal recollections to examine the past and present of British intelligence. In twenty-one chapters he offers an insider's perspective on the Cold War intelligence contest against the Soviet...

Since the end of the Cold War, religion has become an ever more explicit and systematic focus of US foreign policy across multiple domains. US foreign policymakers, for instance, have been increasingly tasked with monitoring religious freedom and...

This book examines how international organisations (IOs) have struggled to adapt to the digital age, and with social media in particular. The global spread of new digital communication technologies has profoundly transformed the way organisations operate...

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Contrary to popular misconceptions and public branding as "dirty tricks," covert action and counterintelligence can have considerable value. Democracies, while wary of these instruments, have benefited significantly from their use, saving lives,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815730637Author Timothy H. EdgarFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm)...

What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous business of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the 'War on Terrorism'? And how can the United States recruit spies in its struggle against Islamic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523652Author Justin T. McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of understanding its role in shaping foreign policy.Recent events, including covert intelligence gathering operations, accusations of spying, and the leaking of sensitive government documents, have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194191Author KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Scribner Books CoPublisher Scribner Books CoWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm *...

Interrogation, Intelligence and Security examines the origins and effects of a group of interrogation techniques known as the 'five techniques'. Through its in-depth analysis the book reveals how British forces came to use these controversial methods...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907521232Author Richard J HeuerFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKPublisher www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKWeight(grams)...

Researchers in the rapidly growing field of intelligence studies face unique and difficult challenges ranging from finding and accessing data on secret activities, to sorting through the politics of intelligence successes and failures, to making sense of...

With its conceptual innovations and case studies, Whistleblowers clarifies the much-discussed but under-studied phenomena of leaking and whistleblowing, with a particular focus on the collaborative networks that make the extraction and publication of...

During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) projected American military might across distances and with destructive force unimaginable just a decade previously. The B-17s and B-24s of the US Eighth Air Force turned much of Germany's...

This groundbreaking book explores the treatment of the millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies that flooded Germany after World War II. Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Keith R. Allen uncovers long-hidden interrogation systems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288713Author T. J. WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm * 18mm

As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the Greater Middle East and parts of...

This book examines the theoretical and conceptual foundation of effective modern intelligence collection-the strategies required to support intelligence analysis of the modern, complex operational environments of today's military conflicts or competitive...

Jan Karski's Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932367372Author Servando GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Spooks BooksPublisher Spooks BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Dueck explores the past, present, and future of Republican foreign policy nationalism. The rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad. Riding the populist wave, Donald Trump achieved the...

This book discusses the application of hypothesis testing to the practice of intelligence analysis.By drawing on longstanding procedures of scientific method, particularly hypothesis testing, this book strongly critiques standard intelligence analytic...

Everybody spied on everybody else during the Cold War. France had agents in the U.S., China had agents in East Germany, Poland had agents in Great Britain, and the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had agents everywhere-in governments, in industry, in the military,...

A highly valuable resource for students of intelligence studies, strategy and security, and foreign policy, this volume provides readers with an accessible and comprehensive exploration of U.S. espionage activities that addresses both the practical and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648509387Author Henry PrunckunFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Bibliologica PressPublisher Bibliologica PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247182Author Donald Newton WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Stuxnet to Sunburst: 20 Years of Digital Exploitation and Cyberwarfare takes the reader on a journey from the terrorist attacks of 9/11 onwards and the massive insatiable appetite, focus and investment by the Five Eyes agencies, in particular the U.S.,...

How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once...

In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents. Why would these countries gamble with their...

CROSSFIRE HURRICANE DELIVERS THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF HOW WE GOT FROM 2016 TO TODAY, tracing the events that lead this country to a historic impeachment and beyond. "A must-read indictment of the 'mob boss' in the White House." -The Guardian "An...

This volume discusses the challenges the future holds for different aspects of the intelligence process and for organisations working in the field. The main focus of Western intelligence services is no longer on the intentions and capabilities of the...

The 21st century has brought new and challenging dimensions to our understanding of security and migration. The old Cold War framework of security as related to war and peace, international relations and foreign affairs has given way to a multiplicity of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307353412Author Ben MacintyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312319335Author Ronald KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

The disciplines of strategic intelligence at the governmental level and competitive business intelligence constitute accepted methods of decision-supporting to prevent mistakes and strategic surprise. This research discovered that many researchers in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451528206Author StratforFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 8mm

This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States. Much of the canonical literature on civil-military relations was either written during or references the Cold War, while other major research focuses on the post-Cold War era,...