Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War
12,933円 From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services. They were amateurs and the reason for their success is intriguing. Using Soviet archives, this work explores these successes.
11 September 2001
11,772円 In a comprehensive study of the world since September 11th, 2001, the contributors to this volume offer a series of perspectives on current security trends. The scholars who participated in this study are from Europe, North America and Asia.
The South African Intelligence Services
12,933円 This book is the first full history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa’s intelligence organizations and structures. Covering the apartheid period of 1948-90, the transition from apartheid to democracy of 1990-94...
Military Legitimacy
5,305円 Focusing on the challenges faced by the US military in responding to "operations other than war" in the post-Cold War era, Rudolph Barnes makes a plea for the US government to address the "organizational bias for combat" and "narrow traditionalist view of military professionalism" within the Pent...
War, Strategy and Intelligence
11,772円 Investigating the logic, conduct and nature of war on the highest political and strategic levels, these essays put less emphasis on operational and tactical aspects. They look at the impact of technology on warfare, the political nature of war and the limits of rational analysis in studying war.
European Security in a Global Context
10,943円 This new edited volume examines contemporary European security from three different standpoints. It explores security dynamics, first, within Europe; second, the interaction patterns between Europe and other parts of the world (the United States, Africa, the Middle East, China and India); and, fi...
MI6 and the Machinery of Spying
11,275円 This book examines the structural development of the Secret Intelligence Service from its inception to the end of the Cold War.
Britain, NATO and the Lessons of the Balk...
11,772円 This publication considers the lessons to be gained for Britain, the British armed forces, and for NATO as a whole, from the Yugoslav wars of dissolution (1991-1999), with particular emphasis on the Kosovo crisis. The papers come from a diverse and high quality mixture of analysts, practitioners ...
A World Restored
3,317円 Few periods illustrate so well the dilemma posed by the appearance of a revolutionary power; and the problems of organizing a legitimate order, as the decade after the Napoleonic Wars. Revolutionary France had refused to accept the legitimacy of the existing European balance of power, which had o...
Reconceptualizing Deterrence
10,446円 This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to enduring rivalries in the Middle East. The work argues that many of the problems encountered in the development of deterrence theory lay in the fact that it was developed during the Cold War, when the imme...
L'arte della guerra
627円 L'arte della guerra (Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ, 孫子兵法) è un trattato di strategia militare attribuito, a seguito di una tradizione orale lunga almeno due secoli, al generale Sunzi (in cinese: 孫子; pinyin: Sūnzǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu), vissuto in Cina probabilmente fra il VI e il V secolo a.C. Importante è ...
Social Capital and Peace-Building
8,622円 This new edited collection illustrates the paradoxical power of social capital in creating and resolving conflict. This is the first book to bring the two faces of social capital together in a single volume, and includes previously unpublished case studies, statistical analyses, and theoretical e...
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