Intelligence & Espionage

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833039682Author Edward G KeetingFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 249g

An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warning systems...

Canada is a key member of the world's most important international intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Until now, few scholars have looked beyond the US to study how effectively...

The time for serious soul-searching regarding the role of the Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence community in general is long overdue. The recent intelligence failures regarding the unanticipated collapse of the Soviet Union, the terrorist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dafoe Book Prize (United States) and New Brunswick Book Awards, Non-Fiction (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781443466745Author Jason BellFormat HardbackPage...

This book investigates everyday practices of intelligence cooperation in anti-terrorism matters, with a specific focus on the relationship between Europe and Britain.The volume examines the effective involvement of British anti-terrorism efforts in...

This book provides an overview of contemporary issues in Sudan, Africa's largest nation, examining the country's history and current scene to help readers develop a deeper understanding of how much Sudan matters in today's world. With deep connections to...

The first history of invisible ink revealed through thrilling stories about scoundrels and heroes and their ingenious methods for concealing messages. Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is a book about concealing and revealing secret communications. It is the...

This survey of more than fifty years of national security policy juxtaposes declassified U. S. national intelligence estimates with recently released Soviet documents disclosing the views of Soviet leaders and their Communist allies on the same events...

When Joint Special Operations Command deployed Task Force 714 to Iraq in 2003, it faced an adversary unlike any it had previously encountered: al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). AQI's organization into multiple, independent networks and its application of...

Intelligence is, by definition, a shadowy business. Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed and discussed, a trend which has inevitably prompted lively debate about intelligence gathering and analysis: what should be allowed?...

This book provides seven studies that address major issues such as the human rights and human security nexus, gender aspects of human security, ethical and environmental challenges, human security as a basic element for a policy framework, the human...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolize the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided, demarcated, and – quite literally – fortified. We are living in a guarded age. Why and how has this...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolize the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided, demarcated, and – quite literally – fortified. We are living in a guarded age. Why and how has this...

This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.Intelligence agencies are producers and providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the social, cultural and material dimensions of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833040480Author John E. PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 276g

During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastDWest hostilities, however, brought critical perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the...

Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of the First World War, through to the rise of authoritarian military...

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...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers WeeklyA U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the...

This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times.In contrast to Intelligence Studies (IS), whose aim has largely been to improve the performance of national security services and assist in policy making, this book...

This book examines the United States neoconservative movement, arguing that its support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was rooted in an intelligence theory shaped by the policy struggles of the Cold War. The origins of neoconservative engagement with...

Throughout the nuclear age, states have taken many different paths toward or away from nuclear weapons. These paths have been difficult to predict and cannot be explained simply by a stable or changing security environment. We can make sense of these...

The only professional resource of its kind to offer in one volume original simulations, exercises, and games designed by academics and intelligence professionals from several countries. These interactive learning tools add immeasurable value to students'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621068297Author Joe BielFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 150g

This book provides an institutional costs framework for intelligence and security communities to examine the factors that can encourage or obstruct cooperation.The governmental functions of security and intelligence require various organisations to...

This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis.Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data...

Brings to light the long history of spies posing as journalists in Washington. Covert intelligence gathering, propaganda, fake news stories, dirty tricks--these tools of spy craft have been used for seven decades by agents hiding in plain sight in...

Stuxnet to Sunburst 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 US, to build capability of digital eavesdropping and...

This book explores the challenges leaders in intelligence communities face in an increasingly complex security environment and how to develop future leaders to deal with these issues.As the security and policy-making environment becomes increasingly...

While there are books that cover national security, intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, and various intelligence services, U.S. National Security and the Intelligence Services is the first, all-inclusive book to examine intelligence agencies...

While there are books that cover national security, intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, and various intelligence services, U.S. National Security and the Intelligence Services is the first, all-inclusive book to examine intelligence agencies...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482069211Author Joint Military Intelligence CollegeFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463627157Author Varangian PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy. Principled Spying explores how to strike a balance...

Early in the morning of 18 May 1942, three Dutchmen were captured in the North Sea and taken to MI5. It soon became clear that one in particular, Johannes Marinus Dronkers, was no mere refugee escaping the Nazi occupation. He had a hidden agenda: to...

In the last decade, the proliferation of billions of new Internet-enabled devices and users has significantly expanded concerns about cybersecurity. But should we believe the prophets of cyber war or worry about online government surveillance? Are such...

Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Moscow's armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a significant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452295476Author Robert WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm * 34mm