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Book SynopsisOffers a sweeping overview of political insurgency in the United States from the 1880s onwards. This book ranges over diverse individuals and groups that have attacked the established order, from the left and the right, from the Populists of the 1890s to Ross Perot and the religious right of our times.Trade Review"As a study of modern American political culture, Beyond Left and Right gets high marks. This is an extremely readable book. It should quickly become a basic source, especially beneficial to scholars who are researching modern American political history. Lay readers with an interest in American politics should find it informative and accessible. Horowitz explains his ideas in clear direct prose, free of jargon." -- LeRoy Ashby, author of William Jennings Bryan: Champion of DemocracyTable of ContentsPreface xi Producer Values, Corporate Culture, and Progressive Politics 1 The Campaign against Internationalism, 1914-29 19 Anticorporate Progressives and the New Era, 1920-1929 43 Two Nations: The Cultural Contradictions of the Jazz Age 68 Farmers, the Money Power, and Depression Radicals, 1929-36 91 "Natural Man vs Corporate Man": Battling for Small Business in the 1930s 115 The Last Progressives: Breaking with New Deal Liberalism, 1936-40 138 The Noninterventionist Insurgency, 1935-41 162 Democratic Nationalism and the Assault on Collectivism, 1941-46 188 Crisis of the Old Order: The Revolt against Liberal Elites, 1945-50 214 The Nationalist Critique of Bipartisan Foreign Policy, 1949-55 239 On the Edge: Confronting Communist Conspiracy, Corporate Consolidation, and Civil Rights, 1953-63 261 The Populist Challenge to the Established Order, 1964-92 284 Conclusion 309 Notes 315 Bibliography 397 Index 423

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Book SynopsisTrade Review...A valuable resource for citizens concerned about data collection by government and commercial entities and its impact on privacy. * Booklist *An intense examination of whistleblower Edward Snowden that successfully wades through both partisan rhetoric and ideological constraints . . . Fidler's work is significant because, while events are still playing out, it is actively helping to make sense of this pressing particular American crisis a lot more quickly. An indispensable resource for understanding the Snowden leaks. * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword Sumit GangulyAcknowledgmentsEditor's NoteAbbreviationsIntroduction David P. FidlerPart I. Perspectives on the Snowden Disclosures1. Security and Liberty: The Imaginary Balance Nick Cullather2. Edward Snowden and the NSA: Law, Policy, and Politics Fred H. Cate3. From Passivity to Eternal Vigilance: NSA Surveillance and Effective Oversight of Government Power Lee H. Hamilton4. U.S. Foreign Policy and the Snowden Leaks David P. Fidler5. Taking Snowden Seriously: Civil Disobedience for an Age of Total Surveillance William E. ScheuermanPart II. The Snowden Saga in Primary DocumentsA. Revelations and ReactionsUnconstitutional Abuse of Power or Legitimate and Necessary Security Measures?NSA Programs under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act1. The Verizon Order2. NSA PRISM and UPSTREAM Briefing Slides3. Robert S. Litt, Director of National Intelligence, Speech at Brookings Institution4. Amash-Conyers Amendment Debate, U.S. House of RepresentativesHero or Villain? Persecuting a Defender of Human Rights v. Prosecuting a Criminal Suspect5. Edward Snowden, Statement at the Moscow Airport6. Attorney General Eric Holder, Letter to Russian Minister of JusticeRubber Stamp or Robust Tribunal? The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court7. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Order 2009Made in the USA? NSA Surveillance and U.S. Technology Companies8. NSA MUSCULAR Program Briefing Slide9. Statement by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer10. Reform Government Surveillance: Open Letter from U.S. Technology CompaniesFriend and Foe? U.S. Espionage against Other Countries11. NSA Briefing Slides on Brazilian President Dilma Roussef and Petrobas Oil Company12. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Statement on Economic Espionage and Foreign Intelligence13. Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, Statement to United Nations General Assembly14. NSA Document on Cell Phone Surveillance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel15. Wanted by the FBI16. Chinese National Ministry of Defense Statement on U.S. Indictment of Chinese Military OfficersA Secure and Reliable Cyberspace? The NSA, Encryption, and Exploits17. NSA Classification Guide for Project BULLRUN on Defeating Encryption18. NSA SIGINT Strategy, 2012-201619. James R. Clapper, Statements on NSA Cryptological Capabilities20. NSA Briefing Slides on the QUANTUM Project21. NSA Public Affairs Office Statement in Response to Press AllegationsNorms of Responsible Behavior in Cyberspace? U.S. Cyber Operations22. Presidential Policy Directive 20 on U.S. Cyber Operations Policy"Worse than the U.S."? Surveillance by the UK's Government Communications Headquarters23. British Government Communications Headquarters TEMPORA Program24. NSA Memo on the TEMPORA Program: "'The World's Largest XKEYSCORE'—Is Now Available to Qualified NSA Users"25. British Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee Statement on the U.S. PRISM Program26. European Court of Human Rights, Big Brother Watch and Others v. United KingdomB. Reviews and RecommendationsU.S. Federal Court Decisions on NSA Programs27. Klayman v. Obama: U.S. Federal Court Decision on the Telephone Metadata Program 28. ACLU v. Clapper: U.S. Federal Court Decision on the Telephone Metadata Program29. United States v. Mohamud: U.S. Federal Court Decision on Section 702 of FISAReports from U.S. Advisory Bodies30. Executive Summary, Report of the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies31. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Report on Telephone Metadata Program and FISC32. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Report on Section 702 of FISAStatements from International Institutions33. Edward Snowden, Testimony to the European Parliament34. European Parliament Resolution on US NSA Surveillance Program35. United Nations Resolution on the Right to Privacy in the Digital AgeC. Reforms and a Reflection36. President Barack Obama, Remarks on Review of Signals Intelligence37. U.S. House of Representatives, USA FREEDOM Act38. Edward Snowden, One Year Later

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Book SynopsisTrade Review...A valuable resource for citizens concerned about data collection by government and commercial entities and its impact on privacy. * Booklist *An intense examination of whistleblower Edward Snowden that successfully wades through both partisan rhetoric and ideological constraints . . . Fidler's work is significant because, while events are still playing out, it is actively helping to make sense of this pressing particular American crisis a lot more quickly. An indispensable resource for understanding the Snowden leaks. * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword Sumit GangulyAcknowledgmentsEditor's NoteAbbreviationsIntroduction David P. FidlerPart I. Perspectives on the Snowden Disclosures1. Security and Liberty: The Imaginary Balance Nick Cullather2. Edward Snowden and the NSA: Law, Policy, and Politics Fred H. Cate3. From Passivity to Eternal Vigilance: NSA Surveillance and Effective Oversight of Government Power Lee H. Hamilton4. U.S. Foreign Policy and the Snowden Leaks David P. Fidler5. Taking Snowden Seriously: Civil Disobedience for an Age of Total Surveillance William E. ScheuermanPart II. The Snowden Saga in Primary DocumentsA. Revelations and ReactionsUnconstitutional Abuse of Power or Legitimate and Necessary Security Measures?NSA Programs under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act1. The Verizon Order2. NSA PRISM and UPSTREAM Briefing Slides3. Robert S. Litt, Director of National Intelligence, Speech at Brookings Institution4. Amash-Conyers Amendment Debate, U.S. House of RepresentativesHero or Villain? Persecuting a Defender of Human Rights v. Prosecuting a Criminal Suspect5. Edward Snowden, Statement at the Moscow Airport6. Attorney General Eric Holder, Letter to Russian Minister of JusticeRubber Stamp or Robust Tribunal? The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court7. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Order 2009Made in the USA? NSA Surveillance and U.S. Technology Companies8. NSA MUSCULAR Program Briefing Slide9. Statement by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer10. Reform Government Surveillance: Open Letter from U.S. Technology CompaniesFriend and Foe? U.S. Espionage against Other Countries11. NSA Briefing Slides on Brazilian President Dilma Roussef and Petrobas Oil Company12. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Statement on Economic Espionage and Foreign Intelligence13. Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, Statement to United Nations General Assembly14. NSA Document on Cell Phone Surveillance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel15. Wanted by the FBI16. Chinese National Ministry of Defense Statement on U.S. Indictment of Chinese Military OfficersA Secure and Reliable Cyberspace? The NSA, Encryption, and Exploits17. NSA Classification Guide for Project BULLRUN on Defeating Encryption18. NSA SIGINT Strategy, 2012-201619. James R. Clapper, Statements on NSA Cryptological Capabilities20. NSA Briefing Slides on the QUANTUM Project21. NSA Public Affairs Office Statement in Response to Press AllegationsNorms of Responsible Behavior in Cyberspace? U.S. Cyber Operations22. Presidential Policy Directive 20 on U.S. Cyber Operations Policy"Worse than the U.S."? Surveillance by the UK's Government Communications Headquarters23. British Government Communications Headquarters TEMPORA Program24. NSA Memo on the TEMPORA Program: "'The World's Largest XKEYSCORE'—Is Now Available to Qualified NSA Users"25. British Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee Statement on the U.S. PRISM Program26. European Court of Human Rights, Big Brother Watch and Others v. United KingdomB. Reviews and RecommendationsU.S. Federal Court Decisions on NSA Programs27. Klayman v. Obama: U.S. Federal Court Decision on the Telephone Metadata Program 28. ACLU v. Clapper: U.S. Federal Court Decision on the Telephone Metadata Program29. United States v. Mohamud: U.S. Federal Court Decision on Section 702 of FISAReports from U.S. Advisory Bodies30. Executive Summary, Report of the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies31. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Report on Telephone Metadata Program and FISC32. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Report on Section 702 of FISAStatements from International Institutions33. Edward Snowden, Testimony to the European Parliament34. European Parliament Resolution on US NSA Surveillance Program35. United Nations Resolution on the Right to Privacy in the Digital AgeC. Reforms and a Reflection36. President Barack Obama, Remarks on Review of Signals Intelligence37. U.S. House of Representatives, USA FREEDOM Act38. Edward Snowden, One Year Later

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Book SynopsisIn the 16th century, Elizabethan London was uneasy: would France side with Protestant England or with Catholic Europe? This volume describes the espionage operation that was devised to find the answer, and speculates on the identity of the mole in the French ambassador's household.Trade Review"A gripping story of Elizabethan realpolitik revealed in step-by-step detail. Bossy knows more about this intriguing chapter in Elizabethan politics than anyone else and is still finding new and surprising things in it. The book is written with characteristic gusto... One talks of 'close readings' of history, but few get closer than Bossy's." Charles Nicholl, Sunday Times "Bossy's case is most persuasive and his sleuthing is meticulous and exhaustive. He is also a witty writer." Frank McLynn, Literary Review "Bossy tells the story with all his familiar narrative flair." Ralph Houlbrooke, Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisDelving into a netherworld of treachery and intrigue in Elizabethan London, John Bossy attempts to solve a centuries-old mystery: who was "Fagot", the spy working within the French embassy in London to subvert Catholic attempts to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and her government?Trade Review"This book is a detective story told by a masterly historian." Diarmaid MacCulloch, New Statesman & Society "Read the book. It is, quite simply, brilliant." Susan Brigden, Country Life "Bossy's creative, thoroughly researched and engaging work emulates the investigative style of the best detective fiction." Deborah E. Harkness, Sixteenth Century Journal "Mr. Bossy's erudition is so great, his virtuosity in handling it so enviable, the story he tells so fascinating, and he tells it so well, with such verve and subtlety and wit... This is a marvellous book." H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Review of Books "Bossy combines meticulous research with a lively style and guides the reader along the alleys of Elizabethan espionage to some startling conclusions." Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph "A very real tour de force by a very clever historian." Simon Adams, Times Literary Supplement "Bossy opens up a startling new angle on certain secret operations of the mid-1580s... A triumph of close historical focus." Charles Nicholl, London Review of Books

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Book SynopsisFaced with relentless technological aggression that imperils democracy, how can Western nations fight back?Trade Review“Kello suggests that collective responses, ideally through Nato or coalitions of the capable, will be more effective than a single country acting alone.”—Edward Lucas, Times (UK)“In a work that is sure to be closely studied in western capitals, Kello makes proposals to increase the west’s deterrence power and restore ‘peace in cyber space.’”—Gideon Rachman, Financial Times“Kello concentrates on the failure of Western governments to respond to cyberattacks . . . [and] clearly intends Striking Back to be a wake-up call.” —Richard Norton-Taylor, Times Literary Supplement“A major work as well as a wake-up call for the West. . . . A very valuable book.”—Christopher Coker, author of Future War“We can rely on Lucas Kello to provoke when it comes to recognising the impact of technology. In Striking Back he peels away layers of Western complacency and doctrinal failure masking our present dangerous situation of unpeace in cyberspace. He logically arrives at a disturbing conclusion, that we need to shed many of our inhibitions and our cyber legalism and adopt a punctuated deterrence strategy to prevent Russia and China from subverting our internal political and economic affairs.”—Professor Sir David Omand, former director of GCHQ and UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator“The United States and Western allies may have better weapons, but adversaries like Russia and China have better strategies in cyberspace, Lucas Kello argues. Those interested in defending democracies now, before it’s too late, should read this book.”—Audrey Kurth Cronin, author of How Terrorism Ends“It is clear that traditional ideas about deterrence are not working in cyberspace; it’s not so clear what to do about it. In this wide-ranging and deeply researched book, Lucas Kello presents some serious and credible proposals that need to be read by policy-makers and scholars alike.”—Mark Galeotti, author of The Weaponisation of Everything“It is clear that cyber warfare is rapidly becoming the battlefield of the present and the future. Lucas Kello’s book is an excellent summary of both the dangers, challenges and vulnerabilities of the cyber threat. While it is clear that there are no easy answers, this book also makes an important point that to deliver a stable future, we cannot afford to surrender to the threat.”—Leon E. Panetta, former director of the CIA, former Secretary of Defense“It is clear that cyber warfare is rapidly becoming the battlefield of the present and the future. Lucas Kello’s book is an excellent summary of both the dangers, challenges and vulnerabilities of the cyber threat. While it is clear that there are no easy answers, this book also makes an important point that to deliver a stable future, we cannot afford to surrender to the threat.”—Leon E. Panetta, former director of the CIA, former Secretary of Defense -- Leon E. Panetta

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Book SynopsisSpying on the Bomb is an "engrossing" (Wall Street Journal) global history of the American-led effort to spy on every nation with nuclear ambitions.Trade Review"Richelson’s exhaustive research has uncovered the fascinating stories of how American intelligence spied on our enemies and our allies over the past six decades in an effort to discover their nuclear secrets. The mixed record of success and failure provides important lessons for today as we try to learn what the North Koreans are up to." -- Robert S. Norris, author of Racing for the Bomb"Richelson writes with admirable clarity." -- New York Times Book Review"Full of tense and suspenseful turns." -- Kirkus Reviews"Spying on the Bomb…is especially damning in demonstrating how this costly array of gadgetry in the air, on land and beneath the sea still leaves us guessing about different nations’ nuclear capabilities." -- Los Angeles Times"Searching and informed analysis of our nation’s nuclear espionage." -- Booklist"A magisterial history of the U.S. nuclear intelligence effort." -- Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

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Book SynopsisThis is a critical, learned edition of the General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (aka The Newmanry Report), prepared in 1945 and declassified in 2000. The Report was a technical account of what the team of cryptanalysts did in their work at Bletchley Park during WWII.Table of ContentsPreface xiii Editorial Notes xiv Notes on Vocabulary xiv List of Abbreviations xv Cryptanalytic Significance of the Analysis of Tunny, by Whitfield Diffie xvii Editors’ Introduction, by Whitfield Diffie and J. V. Field xxv Statistics at Bletchley Park, by S. L. Zabell lxxv Biographies of Authors ciii Notes on the Editors of the Present Volume cvii List of Figures cix General Report on Tunny, with emphasis on statistical methods 1 Part 0: Preface Chapter 01: Preface 3 Part 1: Introduction Chapter 11: German Tunny 6 Chapter 12: Cryptographic Aspects 22 Chapter 13: Machines 32 Chapter 14: Organisation 35 Chapter 15: Some Historical Notes 39 Part 2: Methods of Solution Chapter 21: Some Probability Techniques 43 Chapter 22: Statistical Foundations 50 Chapter 23: Machine Setting 80 Chapter 24: Rectangling 110 Chapter 25: Chi-Breaking from Cipher 139 Chapter 26: Wheel-Breaking from Key 185 Chapter 27: Cribs 219 Chapter 28: Language Methods 237 Part 3: Organisation Chapter 31: Mr Newman’s Section 262 Chapter 32: Organisation of the Testery 267 Chapter 33: Knockholt 268 Chapter 34: Registration and Circulation 269 Chapter 35: Tapemaking and Checking 271 Chapter 36: Chi-Breaking from Cipher 275 Chapter 37: Machine Setting Organisation 277 Chapter 38: Wheel-Breaking from Key, Organisation 280 Chapter 39: Language Methods 282 Part 4: Early Methods and History Chapter 41: The First Break 284 Chapter 42: Early Hand Methods 290 Chapter 43: Testery Methods 1942–44 298 Chapter 44: Hand Statistical Methods 305 Part 5: Machines Chapter 51: Introductory 309 Chapter 52: Development of Robinson and Colossus 312 Chapter 53: Colossus 316 Chapter 54: Robinson 336 Chapter 55: Specialized Counting Machines 346 Chapter 56: Copying Machines 350 Chapter 57: Simple machines 361 Chapter 58: Photographs 362 Part 6: Raw Materials Chapter 61: Raw Materials — Production, with Plans of Tunny Links 381 Part 7: References Chapter 71: Glossary and Index 387 Chapter 72: Notation 435 Chapter 73: Bibliography 441 Chapter 74: Chronology 444 Part 8: Conclusions Chapter 81: Conclusions 452 Part 9: Appendices Chapter 91: The 5202 Machine 456 Chapter 92: Recovery of Motor Patterns from De-chi 471 Chapter 93: Thrasher 482 Chapter 94: Research into the QEP System 484 Chapter 95: Mechanical Flags 488 Appendix A: Transmission of Teleprinter Signals, by J. A. Reeds 495 Appendix B: Activities at Knockholt, by J. A. Reeds 503 Appendix C: The 5202 Machine, by J. A. Reeds 530 Appendix D: Initial Conception of Colossus, by J. A. Reeds 535 Appendix E: List of Scanned Exhibits 540 Supplementary Glossary 542 Biographical Notes 547 Notes 561 Bibliography 624 Index 645

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Book SynopsisThis is a history of the secret activities of the British government in response to threats to the nation''s well-being and stability during the twentieth century. It is based on intensive and widespread research in private and public archives and on documents many of which have only recently come to light or been made available. The dangers perceived by the state have been manifold and various, coming from within and from abroad. Anarchists, fascists, socialists, communists, the IRA, trades-unionists and animal activists as well as spies, terrorists and saboteurs have been the subject of undercover investigation, along with almost every large-scale movement from suffragettes to campaigners for peace and nuclear disarmament. The author describes the methods and people employed, and the mixed nature of their results. The British state has always seen itself as civil and liberal, but as Dr Thurlow shows it has sometimes been far from open. The government has had many weapons aTrade Review"The range of studies is quite breathtaking .... The whole book is a fascinating read, despite Thurlow's liberal politics and the fact that most of the relevant files are still unreleased." Socialist Review "An important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between the traditions of individual freedom and the internal security needs of the state in modern Britain." American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Strange Death of Liberal England (1900-1914). 2. The First World War (1914-1918). 3. John Bull's Other Island (1910-1923). 4. Reds in the Bed (1917-1939). 5. The March of the Blackshirts (1923-1939). 6. The Second World War (1939-1945). 7. The Cold War (1945-1989). 8. Pushing and Shoving (1958-1993). 9. The Orange and the Green (1968-1993). Conclusion. Index.

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Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School--Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer--worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book brings together their most important intelligence reports on Nazi Germany, most of them published hereTrade Review"[F]ascinating... [T]his new volume ... conveniently collects a substantial chunk of the original documents penned by Neumann and his research team."--William E. Scheuerman, Foreign Affairs "[A] fascinating collection... The history of wartime intelligence is a developing field, and this material is a welcome addition."--Library Journal "[S]ome of the most brilliant analysis of Nazi Germany ever written and a valuable lesson in postwar planning... [A] rich and multi-layered collection of political essays that will be of enduring interest to students of military intelligence, Marxism, Nazi Germany and the Allied effort in the Second World War."--John Bew, New Statesman "Editor Laudani laces the reports throughout the forward, introduction, and short biographies, placing them in the larger context of critical theory and as tools for assessing postwar liberal democracy. Overall, the reports offer highly readable, objective assessments and possible reforms."--Choice "[A] highly valuable source for anyone interested in intellectual history, the history of ideas, the history of the Second World War, Nazi Germany or wartime intelligence... The texts presented within this volume will most certainly remain essential reading material for anyone dealing with the so-called Frankfurt School, as well as for those scholars and students dealing with wartime intelligence structures, Nazi Germany and the Second World War."--Goran Miljan, European Review of History "Secret Reports on Nazi Germany is a work of immense scholarly value that can serve as an important resource for scholars and students interested in the Second World War, U.S. postwar policy, the origins of the Cold War, critical theory, and the politics of exile. Most important, the reports in this collection provide a critical starting point for tracing the historiography on Nazism in the United States."--Anne Berg, H-Net Reviews "Secret Reports On Nazi Germany is a whole different, yet substantially significant, eye opening, scholarly saga, that simply needs to be read by all those who are remotely interested in what actually took place in wartime Nazi Germany. In other words, it's the real deal... Secret Reports on Nazi Germany is an exceptionally well put together account of a country simply gone mad. More importantly, it's fresh and it's incisive."--David Marx, David Marx: Book ReviewsTable of ContentsForeword, by Raymond Geuss ix Acknowledgments xv Notes on the Texts xvii On the Authors xxi Introduction 1 Part I THE ANALYSIS OF THE ENEMY 1Franz Neumann - Anti-Semitism: Spearhead of Universal Terror 27 2Herbert Marcuse - Possible Political Changes in Nazi Germany in the Near Future 31 3Herbert Marcuse - Changes in the Reich Government 38 4Franz Neumann and Paul Sweezy - Speer's Appointment as Dictator of the German Economy 48 5Herbert Marcuse and Felix Gilbert - The Significance of Prussian Militarism for Nazi Imperialism: Potential Tensions in United Nations Psychological Warfare 61 6Herbert Marcuse - German Social Stratification 74 Part II PATTERNS OF COLLAPSE 7Franz Neumann - German Morale after Tunisia 95 8Herbert Marcuse (assisted by Franz Neumann and Hans Meyerhoff) - Morale in Germany 100 9Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Felix Gilbert - Possible Patterns of German Collapse 106 10Franz Neumann - The Social and Political Effects of Air Raids on the German People: A Preliminary Survey 118 11Franz Neumann - The Attempt on Hitler's Life and Its Consequences 133 Part III POLITICAL OPPOSITION 12Franz Neumann - The Free Germany Manifesto and the German People 149 13Herbert Marcuse - The German Communist Party 167 14Herbert Marcuse - The Social Democratic Party of Germany 199 Part IV DENAZIFICATION AND MILITARY GOVERNMENT 15Otto Kirchheimer - The Abrogation of Nazi Laws in the Early Period of MG 229 16Herbert Marcuse - Dissolution of the Nazi Party and Its Affiliated Organizations 253 17Franz Neumann - German Cartels and Cartel-Like Organizations 264 18Herbert Marcuse - Policy toward Revival of Old Parties and Establishment of New Parties in Germany 285 19Otto Kirchheimer - General Principles of Administration and Civil Service in Germany 301 20Otto Kirchheimer - Administration of German Criminal Justice under Military Government 318 21Franz Neumann - The Problem of Inflation in Germany 345 Part V A NEW GERMANY IN A NEW EUROPE 22Franz Neumann and Paul Sweezy - The Adaptation of Centralized European Controls of Raw Materials, Industry, and Transport 397 23Franz Neumann - The Revival of German Political and Constitutional Life under Military Government 412 24Franz Neumann - The Treatment of Germany 436 Part VI TOWARD NUREMBERG 25Otto Kirchheimer and John Herz - The "Statement on Atrocities" of the Moscow Tripartite Conference 451 26Franz Neumann - Problems Concerning the Treatment of War Criminals 457 27Otto Kirchheimer and John Herz - Leadership Principle and Criminal Responsibility 464 28Herbert Marcuse - Nazi Plans for Dominating Germany and Europe: The Nazi Master Plan 475 29Otto Kirchheimer - Nazi Plans for Dominating Germany and Europe: Domestic Crimes 522 Part VII A NEW ENEMY 30Herbert Marcuse - Status and Prospects of German Trade-Unions and Works Councils 557 31Herbert Marcuse - The Potentials of World Communism 591 Notes 611 Index 659

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Book SynopsisOffering a balance between analysis, personal memoir, and foreign policy remedies, this book injects much-needed wisdom into the public discussion of long-term US-Muslim relations. This title argues that an engagement with the Muslim world benefits the national interest of the United States.Trade Review"[A] thoughtful book... Nakhleh makes a strong case for the importance of constructive engagement with all Islamists except the global jihadists."--Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement "Nakhleh, former director of the CIA's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, draws on nearly three decades of experience, current research and extensive polling to argue that the majority of Muslims strongly oppose terrorism and want good governance and a functional relationship with the U.S."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "In an informative and revealing book, A Necessary Engagement, Emile Nakhleh, a former director of Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence, says that although midlevel U.S. officials knew better than to frame the war in black-and-white terms, ever-expanding the territory of the enemy, they had little say and input in decision-making... Nakhleh paints a grim and stark portrait of the failures of U.S. policy makers to understand the most basic attitudes that Muslims have of themselves, each other and the West."--Fawaz A. Gerges, The National Interest "This book should be required reading for the non-expert who wants a real understanding of militant Islam and how the United States should deal with it. Even experts in Islam, foreign policy and public diplomacy would find it worth reading. The author has marshaled persuasive arguments and presented a systematic analysis that is carefully grounded in fact and sensible conclusions... Nakhleh's years of careful study have been distilled into a highly readable 146 pages. Because of the nature of the issues he discussed, this book will be relevant to understanding our world for some time to come."--William A. Rugh, Middle East Policy "Nakhleh draws extensively on his government background in this slim, must-read volume, which combines cogent and balanced analysis with well-reasoned policy recommendations culminating in a useful 'blueprint' for US public diplomacy that offers some novel suggestions."--Mona Yacoubian, Middle East Journal "In this slender volume, Nakhleh examines the relationship between the U.S. and the Muslim world, presents cogent criticisms of U.S. assumptions and policies, and extends sound advice on how to undo what has been done through mistake, ignorance, or arrogance... The book is optimistic, succinct, and timely."--A. Ahmad, Choice "[A]nyone reflecting on how the US policy towards the Muslim world should be developed would be well advised to read it."--Harold Walker, Journal of Islamic StudiesTable of ContentsAuthor's Note ix Introduction xi Chapter 1: Political Islam and Islamization 1 Islamization and Islamic Activism 4 Stages of Islamization 8 Islamic Activism and Radicalization 12 Islamic Radicals and WMD 14 Manifestations of Islamization 17 Factors Contributing to Islamization 20 Education and Islamization 23 Shia Activism 26 Islamic Political Party Politics 30 Islamic Activism, CIA Briefings, and U.S. Policy Responses 33 Chapter 2: Intelligence, Political Islam, and Policymakers 37 Intelligence and Policy: Roots of Tension 38 Politics Trumps National Security 40 Building Expertise 41 Academic Outreach 43 Training of Analysts 46 Cultural Expertise and Intelligence Analysis 47 Open-Source Data Mining 50 Visiting Muslim Countries 51 Analytic Products, Briefings, and Policymakers' Response 53 Iraq: Critical Briefings before and aft er the Invasion 54 Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the American Response 61 Authoritarian Regimes and Political Reform 64 Bureaucratic Impediments 66 Collecting Data on Political Islam 68 Chapter 3: Public Diplomacy: Issues and Attitudes 71 Polls and Attitudes 73 Global War on Terror 80 Invading Muslim Countries 84 Democratization 90 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An "Honest Broker" Role? 94 Unilateralism Resonates Poorly 98 Chapter 4: Public Diplomacy: A Blueprint 101 Caveats and Challenges 105 Secularists and Modernists 107 Traditionalists and Radical Salafis 112 Core Themes 120 A Blueprint 125 Conclusion Looking Ahead 140 Acknowledgments 145 Glossary 147 Sources Cited 151 Index 155

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Book SynopsisProvides an examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. This work shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. It argues that after the Cold War ended, the CIA and FBI failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2008 Louis Brownlow Award, National Academy of Public Administration "Ever since the end of the cold war, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, and more than a dozen other intelligence organizations that answer to the president had been struggling to adapt their sources and methods to the new menace. As Amy B. Zegart argues in Spying Blind, they just weren't up to the job... Zegart, blaming institutional inertia more than individuals, counts more than 20 specific instances where the CIA or the FBI missed chances to stop the 9/11 attacks."--Christopher Dickey, Newsweek "Don't be fooled by the title of this book. It sounds as if the author is going to tread the same turf as Richard Clarke, Tim Weiner, Bob Woodward and a host of others, including the 9/11 Commission Report, but Amy Zegart in Spying Blind goes several steps beyond her predecessors... Zegart presents the facts behind this state of affairs in a more scholarly way than we've previously seen, by examining over 300 intelligence reform recommendations and by tracing the history of CIA and FBI counter-terrorism efforts from 1991 to 2001. ... Spying Blind provides a clear and comprehensive overview of a dire situation -- the kind of knowledge that comes in handy when you call or write your congressman or, for that matter, when you vote."--Mary Welp, The Courier-Journal "Zegart argues that any meaningful improvement in U.S. intelligence coordination and effectiveness will require the president and Congress to take on the Defense Department... Spying Blind is a thorough examination of those reform failures. In it, Zegart sifts through hundreds of intelligence recommendations...and findings by the 9/11 Commission and congressional committees."--David J. Garrow, Wilson Quarterly "One of the many strengths of Zegart's book is that she examines not only current problems in the intelligence services but past efforts to correct them."--Simon Chesterman, Survival "Amy B. Zegart is one of the most talented young scholars in the field of intelligence studies. She has a flair for empirical research... [T]his highly readable and well-documented book is commendable for its exhaustive research and lucid writing style."--Loch K. Johnson, Political Science Quarterly "This is a well-written and informed book that should become part of the post-9/11 debate on intelligence agencies and their adaptation to the new world that opened up on that day... This is all excellent book, with detailed research, and a highly readable presentation of absorbing analysis."--Alan Warburton, International History Review "Spying Blind adds a valuable empirical study to the literature on understanding culture and bureaucratic processes in foreign policy decision-making."--Peter Hough, European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii CHAPTER ONE: An Organizational View of 9/11 1 CHAPTER TWO: Canaries in the Coal Mine: The Case for Failed Adaptation 15 CHAPTER THREE: Crossing an Academic No-Man's Land: Explaining Failed Adaptation 43 CHAPTER FOUR: Fighting Osama One Bureaucrat at a Time: Adaptation Failure in the CIA 61 CHAPTER FIVE: Signals Found and Lost: The CIA and 9/11 101 CHAPTER SIX: Real Men Don't Type: Adaptation Failure in the FBI 120 CHAPTER SEVEN: Evidence Teams at the Ready: The FBI and 9/11 156 CHAPTER EIGHT: The More Things Change ... 169 APPENDIX: Intelligence Reform Catalog Methodology 199 Notes 203 References 273 Index 309

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Longlisted for the Airey Neave Book Prize, Airey Neave Trust""Zegart provides not just a sweeping history of the U.S. intelligence community but also nuggets that help place events in a new context. . . . A perfect primer for anyone trying to understand how the intelligence community is meeting the challenges of the digital age."---Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post"A lucid and sobering account of how digital and other technological breakthroughs are ‘generating new uncertainties and empowering new adversaries’ for the United States at a time when its intelligence agencies are uniquely stressed. . . . Zegart offers no easy solutions but warns that the world of cyberwarfare requires both a ‘paradigm shift’ and ‘mobilization in milliseconds.’ In the new world, national security must take precedence over intelligence gathering, enabling decision makers to respond forcefully and quickly to cyberattacks. The divide between Washington and tech giants must be bridged or a day of reckoning will surely come."---Harvey Klehr, Wall Street Journal"In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart of Stanford University looks at how technology is transforming cloak-and-dagger work." * The Economist *"This book cements Zegart's reputation as a leading historian and analyst of American foreign intelligence. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Astute. . . . Brilliant. . . . In the wireless 21st-century world, espionage, sabotage, and brainwashing are no longer the province of government agencies; nearly anyone with an internet connection can do it. Disturbing but superbly insightful." * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"This is a comprehensive and much needed study on the impact of technology on intelligence by a leading scholar in the field. Clear in argument, the book is meticulously researched and highly readable."---Dan Lomas, International Affairs

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Book SynopsisJohn Sullivan was one of the CIA's top polygraph examiners during the final four years of the war in Vietnam. In this book he tells what it was like to be an agency officer working in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during those chaotic years, putting a human face on covert operations.Trade ReviewA highly readable account that is a must for historians looking for lessons derived from the Vietnam conflict. And as a polygrapher who was obsessed with unveiling the truth, Sullivan makes every effort to give an accurate portrayal of the CIA and its key personnel in Vietnam-warts and all. KENNETH CONBOY, COAUTHOR OF SPIES AND COMMANDOS: HOW AMERICA LOST THE SECRET WAR IN NORTH VIETNAM. ""Provides a unique and interesting glimpse into a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War."" DALE ANDRADE, AUTHOR OF AMERICA'S LAST VIETNAM BATTLE: HALTING HANOI'S 1972 EASTER OFFENSIVE ""A vivid and often insightful account of the CIA's role in Vietnam."" TIMOTHY LOMPERIS, AUTHOR OF FROM PEOPLE'S WAR TO PEOPLE'S RULE: INSURGENCY, INTERVENTION, AND THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM

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Book SynopsisChronicles the efforts of a historic joint House-Senate inquiry to get to the bottom of our intelligence failures on 9/11 in 2001. This study provides a grim reminder of the challenges that remain in the war on terror.

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Book SynopsisWilliam E Colby was one of the most enigmatic figures of the Cold War and a central player in the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency. This title tracks Colby's life and career from early years in the OSS to his tumultuous tenure as Director of Central Intelligence in the 1970s. It also offers a history of the inner workings of the CIA.Trade ReviewThis highly detailed look at one of the major spymasters of the post-WWII era is another intriguing work by the prolific Prados.... An essential and provocative addition to works on the CIA. Publishers Weekly ""Prados is correct in suggesting that his life of Colby is 'a parable for today, when the CIA and U.S. intelligence in general again stand in need of visionary leadership.'"" Denver Post ""An important contribution to intelligence literature."" Washington Post Book World ""A deeply researched and well-written account that should stand the test of time."" Library Journal ""Gripping, revealing, and timely."" Kai Bird, author of The Color of Truth

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Book SynopsisFrom its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress–or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency's first fifteen years, Congress often monitored the CIA's actions and plans, sometimes aggressively.Trade ReviewA truly groundbreaking, eye-opening descent into secret budgeting, espionage, and covert actions."" - Louis Fisher, author of Military Tribunals and Presidential Power""Barrett reveals a CIA that made its own rules, wrote its own budget, classified its own secrets, and persuaded the Congress to like it. A rich and fabulous story that sheds new light on just about every significant episode in the first decades of the Cold War and confirms what many have long suspected—secrecy is the great enemy of democracy, and vice versa."" - Thomas Powers, author of Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda""A riveting story that helps to untangle one of the Cold War’s most tangled webs."" - Richard H. Immerman, author of The CIA in GuatemalaTable of Contents List of Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction: First Hidden, Then Lost Part 1. The Truman Era, 1947-1952 No ""American Gestapo, "" But ""No More Pearl Harbors"" Initial Oversight: Budgets and Covert Action ""A South American Pearl Harbor"" The Soviet A-Bomb: ""We Apparently Don't Have the Remotest Idea"" Communists and ""Perverts"" in the CIA Korea: ""No Better Today Than on December 7, 1941"" A New DCI The ""Dirty Business"" Portraits CIA Subcommittees, Intelligence Roles, and Budgets ""We Don't Let Just Anybody Look at Our Files"" ""There Will Be No Changes"" Part 2. The Eisenhower Era, 1953-1960 Meddling? Getting ""Taberized"" Guatemala: ""Sterilizing the Red Infection"" Mr. Mansfield Goes to the Senate Joseph McCarthy: The CIA's Other Would-Be Overseer ""You, Who Championed Our Cause"" Barons Restored ""Dodging Dead Cats"" ""They Have to Have a Building"" The New Mansfield Resolution: Two Surprises ""We Have a History of Underestimation"" Hungary and the Suez: ""We Had a Very Good Idea, Senator"" Sputnik An Early ""Year of Intelligence""? ""I Cannot Always Predict When There Is Going to Be a Riot"" Iraq: ""Our Intelligence Was Just Plain Lousy"" Return to the Missile Gap From the Pforzheimer Era to the Warner Era Subordinating Intelligence? In and Out of Hearing Rooms ""Who Are Our Liquidators?"" ""I'd Like to Tell Him to His Face What I Think about Him"" U-2: ""We Have Felt These Operations Were Appropriate"" Pouring Oil on Fire ""Their Answer to That Demand"": Congressional Paternity? ""My Opinion of the CIA Went Skyrocketing"" Part 3. Cuba, the CIA, and Congress: 1960-1961 Castro: ""This Fellow Is Bad and Ought to Go"" ""What is the Rationale behind That?"" ""I Agree That You Had to Replace Dulles"" Afterword: Alarms Notes Selected Bibilography Index

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Book SynopsisEstablishes that World War I led to the realization that intelligence was indispensable in both wartime and peacetime. Mark Stout examines the breadth of American intelligence in the war, not just in France, not just at home, but around the world and across the army, navy, and State Department.Trade ReviewEntire libraries have been written about the Central Intelligence Agency and to a lesser extent the Office of Strategic Services. This has resulted in a lopsided and incomplete picture of the history of American intelligence. Transforming the intellectual landscape, Mark Stout delivers a magnificent historical narrative that charts the birth and development of modern American intelligence from the late nineteenth century through World War I. Stout provides a fascinating story packed not only with colorful characters and exciting escapades, but with careful scholarly assessments of subjects including intelligence collection, intelligence analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action. All future histories of American intelligence will need to reference this pioneering work." - Christopher R. Moran, professor of US national security at the University of Warwick, UK, and coeditor in chief of the Journal of Intelligence HistoryTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beginnings 2. Intelligence in War: The Caribbean and the Philippines, 1898–1902 3. Departmental Organization and Military Doctrine 4. Mexican Rehearsal 5. Mobilizing Intelligence for War in Europe, 1914–1918 6. “Secret Service”: Espionage and Covert Action 7. Aerial Reconnaissance 8. Radio Intelligence 9. Modern War and Counterintelligence 10. Counterintelligence in Depths 11. Intelligence in Combat, 1918 12. Legacies Notes Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFew 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 regimes, to the all-encompassing power of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.Trade Review�Gareth Stansfield�s Iraq is a unique piece of research, meticulous, profound and, more importantly, timely and cool. Such multidimensional examination from objective scholars is a must.� Faleh A. Jabar, Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies �An essential reference, providing the most up-to-date account of the political history of Iraq from Saddam Hussein�s dictatorship to the emergence of ISIS. An outstanding analysis of contemporary Iraq and the forces leading to its fragmentation.� Eugene Rogan, Oxford University, and author of The Arabs: A History and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle EastTable of ContentsIntroduction: Artificiality, Identity, Dictatorship, and State-Building Chapter 1: Legacies of Civilizations and Empires Chapter 2: State Formation, Monarchy, and Mandate, 1918-1932 Chapter 3: Conceptualizing Iraqi Society Chapter 4: From Authoritarian to Totalitarian State, 1933-1979 Chapter 5: Iraq at War, 1979-1989 Chapter 6: The Pariah State, 1989-2003 Chapter 7: Regime Change, 2003- Chapter 8: From the Brink, to the Brink Chapter 9: The Disintegration of Iraq Chapter 10: The Rise of the Islamic State Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA trenchant exploration of how security and counter-terrorism practices are not only eroding civil liberties, but reshaping the very nature of our political freedom.Trade Review[Bell] pursues her thinking uncompromisingly and shares her research with an eloquence rare in academic treatises ... she invites us to think anew about an important aspect of contemporary political life. Security practices are now so imbedded in our ideas of freedom that we are unable to disengage from them. We are no longer able to fully appreciate how security intrudes in our lives as we travel, play, work or participate in the political process ... by forcing us to confront these unattractive facts and to recognize just how insidious security has become, Bell does her readers a considerable service. -- Nathalie Des Rosiers * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Relations of Freedom, Relations of Security1 Opting In: Precautionary Engagement as National Security Strategy2 The Socio-Legal Paradox of Freedom: Security Certificates and the Politics of Exception3 Interventionary Designs: The Liberal Way of War in Afghanistan4 Sovereignty and Refusal: The Violent Limits of Liberal RightsConclusion: Freedom beyond SecurityNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining how since 1947 a regime of psychological operations and covert action has made the conflation of reality and fiction a central feature of both U.S. foreign policy and American culture.Trade Review"His study impressively documents how state secrecy became a privileged topos for reflecting on power and knowledge in late twentieth century American literature and cutlure." —Alexander Dunst,Journal of American StudiesIn his exploration of the national security state and the fiction it inspires, Melley engages in a spirited and cerebral examination of certain cultural and political tropes of the Cold Warand beyond, illustrating how often they have been rearticulated in a twenty-first-centurycontext as the War on Terror gathered pace in the wake of 9/11. -- Sam Goodman * Literature & History *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Postmodern Public Sphere Cold War Redux We Now Know Public Secrets Mere Entertainment Strategic Irrationalism Representations of the Covert State1. Brainwashed! The Faisalabad Candidate Brain Warfare Little Shop of Horrors Softening Up Our Boys Renditions2. Spectacles of Secrecy Trial by Simulation Political Theater Recovered (National) Memory The State's Two Faces Fakery in Allegiance to the Truth The Fabulist Spy3. False Documents True Lies Enemies of the State Psy Ops The Epistemology of Vietnam4. The Work of Art in the Age of Plausible Deniability Narrative Dysfunction Calculated Ellipsis The Feminization of the Public Sphere The Journalist as Patsy Metafiction in Wartime5. Postmodern Amnesia Assassins of Memory The Dialectics of Spectacle and Secrecy Secret History The Magic Show6. The Geopolitical Melodrama Ground Zero Enemies, Foreign and Domestic Whatever It Takes Demonology Melodrama as PolicyNotes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisChronicles an early example of "regime change" that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a success even as its mistakes were becoming clear. Here, the author has selected and annotated twenty documents for a documentary Appendix, culminating with President Clinton's apology to the people of Guatemala.Trade Review"Nick Cullather sheds new light on an old regime change, assissted by documents initially made public during the tenure of former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (and current Secretary of Defense) Robert Gates. Cullather's work is concise, detailed, and eminantly readable...In summary, Cullather provides a realistic and nuanced view of an otherwise well-covered operation, see through the eyes of the agency that led PBSUCCESS...For students of Latin America and U.S. national security policymaking in the region, Cullather has done a great service." -- Mark Montesclaros, Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations * U.S. Army Command and General Staff College *Table of ContentsContents Preface to the Second Edition vii Introduction: A Culture of Destruction ix Foreword to the CIA Edition 5 Chapter 1: America's Backyard 7 Chapter 2: Reversing the Trend 38 Chapter 3: Sufficient Means 74 Chapter 4: The Sweet Smell of Success 105 Appendix A: PBSUCCESS Timeline 127 Appendix B: Bibliography 133 Appendix C: A Study of Assassination 137 Afterword: The Culture of Fear, by Piero Gleijeses xxiii Index xxxix

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A compelling account of the geopolitics of the drone as it haunts ‘policing, predation, and planet.’ Ian G. R. Shaw's book is as attentive to the historical and cultural geographies of the unmanned aerial vehicle as it is to the preemptive foreclosure of political futures."—Louise Amoore, author of The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability"Predator Empire is an impressive and very timely text. This is a book that everybody concerned with the relationship between technology and security should take the opportunity to read."—LSE Review of Books"Predator Empire is a provocative analysis of the outreach of technology, specifically drones, as new tools to entrench U.S. power globally."—Science"In this timely and historically-engaged text, Shaw offers a distinct approach to the study of the drone in which the technology is apprehended as a more-than-human geopolitical actor, both the product and productive of practices of enclosure, atmospheric security, and policing. The result is a conceptually and contextually rich interrogation of the US drone programme, one yielding insights and analytic frameworks of utility beyond this focus."—Antipode "What sets Shaw’s book apart, and one of its major contributions to the study of the drone, is its emphasis on the human condition."—Society & Space "Predator Empire is one of the most interesting books on drones and drone warfare to date. Its broader (theoretical) claims might require further elaboration, but its value as a theoretically and empirically rigorous book on drones remains evident." —AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Understanding Empire1. The Long March to Human Enclosure2. The Rise of the Predator Empire in the Vietnam War3. Full Spectrum Global Dominance4. The Rule by Nobody 5. Policing EverythingConclusion: The War of All against All NotesIndex

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Book Synopsis"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal"--Trade Review"In this clear and compelling account, Alison Mountz draws on a range of conceptual tools and original research in island detention sites around the world to map the death of asylum. While much of the news is bad, the final chapters suggest ways forward, reminding us of the possibility and impact of resistance. This is urgent and necessary reading for everyone concerned with contemporary politics and practices of migration control."—Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, The Death of Asylum is informed by a single cohesive current of groundbreaking theoretical analysis. One of the most important and urgent books about forced migration ever written."—Michael Collyer, University of Sussex"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."—LSE Review of Books"In its rich blend of empirical data, historical and contemporary detail, and insightful analysis, this is an essential book which deserves to become a classic of migration studies."—Race & ClassTable of ContentsContentsAsylum: An ObituaryPreface: On DeathAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement ArchipelagoAcronymsI. State Mobilities, Physical Death1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy2. The Border Becomes the IslandII. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death3. The Island within the Archipelago4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and ConfinementIII. Hidden Geographies, Political Death5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of ActivismConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal"--Trade Review"In this clear and compelling account, Alison Mountz draws on a range of conceptual tools and original research in island detention sites around the world to map the death of asylum. While much of the news is bad, the final chapters suggest ways forward, reminding us of the possibility and impact of resistance. This is urgent and necessary reading for everyone concerned with contemporary politics and practices of migration control."—Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, The Death of Asylum is informed by a single cohesive current of groundbreaking theoretical analysis. One of the most important and urgent books about forced migration ever written."—Michael Collyer, University of Sussex"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."—LSE Review of Books"In its rich blend of empirical data, historical and contemporary detail, and insightful analysis, this is an essential book which deserves to become a classic of migration studies."—Race & ClassTable of ContentsContentsAsylum: An ObituaryPreface: On DeathAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement ArchipelagoAcronymsI. State Mobilities, Physical Death1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy2. The Border Becomes the IslandII. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death3. The Island within the Archipelago4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and ConfinementIII. Hidden Geographies, Political Death5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of ActivismConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSurveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society.Trade Review“Built on impressive research, Stephen Towne’s Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War reveals the very real danger posed by pro-Confederate Copperheads and other disloyal secret societies in the Old Northwest during the Civil War. In a fascinating and in-depth look at antiwar subversion in the Midwest, he painstakingly illustrates how the government, specifically the U.S. Army, monitored treasonous activities and prevented outbreaks of violence aimed at subverting the Union war effort and sowing political dissent against the Lincoln administration. Towne’s study convincingly argues that Copperheads and other subversive factions were not merely impotent fringe groups but truly dangerous provocateurs whose threat to Northern internal security was more real than imagined.”“Towne … has done extensive research in the National Archives, as well as in local archives, in order to shine a welcome light on a previously little-known, still imperfectly understood set of events. The book is dense with detail and evidence but generally accessibly written. The endnotes are a veritable treasure trove of citations and thoughtful reflection on the often fascinating and previously obscure sources.” * American Historical Review *“Towne has produced a well-researched monograph that provides a much-needed reexamination of military intelligence during the Civil War in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois…. Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War makes a significant contribution to home-front, political, and military historiography and is therefore a valuable source for both nineteenth-century historians and students in graduate-level courses.” * Ohio History *“Stephen E. Towne’s impressively researched study on Union army intelligence activities in the old Northwest—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan—has one principal aim: to rescue anti-Lincoln conspiracies in the North from the historiographical grasp of Frank L. Klement, who dismissed them as ‘excursion[s] into the world of make-believe.’ … Any historian conducting research on law, civil-military relations, and the rights of citizens during wartime will want to pay careful attention to Towne’s work.” * Journal of Southern History *“Towne’s narrative is a fascinating whodunit, with its vivid portrayal of Union commanders hiring questionable detectives in an effort to stymie the Knights of the Golden Circle, a loose collection of Confederate sympathizers in the Old Northwest. A valuable addition to any library seeking to upgrade its collection with a regional slant to the US Civil War. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *“The great strength of Towne’s work is his unwavering attention to the military perspective and records. The book gives us the fullest understanding to date of the varied means by which the army gathered information on civilians away from the front.” * The Journal of the Civil War Era *“Stephen E. Towne’s Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War: Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland convincingly revises one long held view of anti-war dissent in the North and contains much of interest to today’s intelligence officer. * Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 59, No. 4, December 2015 *“A welcome addition to the relatively scarce literature on subversion and espionage … Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War is a valuable book, certain to be of interest to scholars and general readers alike who seek to understand the history of government domestic surveillance in the United States.” * H-Net December 2015 *

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Book SynopsisSurveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society.Trade Review“Built on impressive research, Stephen Towne’s Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War reveals the very real danger posed by pro-Confederate Copperheads and other disloyal secret societies in the Old Northwest during the Civil War. In a fascinating and in-depth look at antiwar subversion in the Midwest, he painstakingly illustrates how the government, specifically the U.S. Army, monitored treasonous activities and prevented outbreaks of violence aimed at subverting the Union war effort and sowing political dissent against the Lincoln administration. Towne’s study convincingly argues that Copperheads and other subversive factions were not merely impotent fringe groups but truly dangerous provocateurs whose threat to Northern internal security was more real than imagined.”“Towne … has done extensive research in the National Archives, as well as in local archives, in order to shine a welcome light on a previously little-known, still imperfectly understood set of events. The book is dense with detail and evidence but generally accessibly written. The endnotes are a veritable treasure trove of citations and thoughtful reflection on the often fascinating and previously obscure sources.” * American Historical Review *“Towne has produced a well-researched monograph that provides a much-needed reexamination of military intelligence during the Civil War in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois…. Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War makes a significant contribution to home-front, political, and military historiography and is therefore a valuable source for both nineteenth-century historians and students in graduate-level courses.” * Ohio History *“Stephen E. Towne’s impressively researched study on Union army intelligence activities in the old Northwest—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan—has one principal aim: to rescue anti-Lincoln conspiracies in the North from the historiographical grasp of Frank L. Klement, who dismissed them as ‘excursion[s] into the world of make-believe.’ … Any historian conducting research on law, civil-military relations, and the rights of citizens during wartime will want to pay careful attention to Towne’s work.” * Journal of Southern History *“Towne’s narrative is a fascinating whodunit, with its vivid portrayal of Union commanders hiring questionable detectives in an effort to stymie the Knights of the Golden Circle, a loose collection of Confederate sympathizers in the Old Northwest. A valuable addition to any library seeking to upgrade its collection with a regional slant to the US Civil War. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *“The great strength of Towne’s work is his unwavering attention to the military perspective and records. The book gives us the fullest understanding to date of the varied means by which the army gathered information on civilians away from the front.” * The Journal of the Civil War Era *“Stephen E. Towne’s Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War: Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland convincingly revises one long held view of anti-war dissent in the North and contains much of interest to today’s intelligence officer. * Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 59, No. 4, December 2015 *“A welcome addition to the relatively scarce literature on subversion and espionage … Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War is a valuable book, certain to be of interest to scholars and general readers alike who seek to understand the history of government domestic surveillance in the United States.” * H-Net December 2015 *

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Book SynopsisThe largely unknown story of the FBI’s surveillance operations in Latin America during the 1940s provides new insights into leftist organizations and the nature of the U.S.’s imperial ambitions in the western hemisphere.Trade Review"Becker’s fine study fills a void in the historical record of US-Latin American relations. . . . Highly recommended." -- A. J. Dunar * Choice *"Becker has done extensive research for this book, and his close examination and analysis of the documentary record left behind by FBI, CIA and State Department surveillance of Ecuador are both apparent and appreciated. . . . This is an interesting, well-researched text." -- Courteney J. O'Connor * LSE Review of Books *"An exciting and ambitious effort. Students of Ecuador (and Latin America, more broadly) and US foreign policy, as well as policing and intelligence, will learn a great deal from this book." -- Stuart Schrader * Radical Americas *"Sourcing is excellent...this book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *"Highly original and well-researched account . . . An interesting and detailed history of the mid-century Ecuadorian left." -- Max Paul Friedman * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *"A model for the innovative use of primary sources to explore multiple perspectives in history. . . . Becker deftly balances background information with detail and analysis, making the work useful and readable for scholars from many different fields. . . . Essential reading for scholars interested in twentieth-century Ecuadorian history, the history of the Latin American left, or the history of US surveillance in Latin America." -- Erin E. O'Connor * The Americas *"Marc Becker's The FBI in Latin America adds an important dimension to our understanding of U.S. interventions in Latin America . . . .Becker’s work is an important contribution to the historiography of U.S.-Latin American relations, groundbreaking in the sense that it puts the FBI (not the CIA) at the heart of the earliest intelligence gathering by an agency of the U.S. government." -- Kenneth Kincaid * Against the Current *"The FBI in Latin America is a compelling history that will no doubt spawn similar studies on other countries in the region. Through the use of a fascinating and revealing set of sources, Becker is able to capture a particularly important moment in the emergence of the US as a post-WWII imperial power while simultaneously enriching our understanding of the Latin American left on the eve of its Cold War demise. This well-written book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of Latin America, US foreign policy, the Cold War, and the political left." -- Steve Striffler * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction. FBI 1 1. SIS 17 2. Communism 53 3. Labor 95 4. La Gloriosa 125 5. Constitution 157 6. Coup 193 7. Departures 223 Conclusion. Cold War 249 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 311

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Book SynopsisThe largely unknown story of the FBI’s surveillance operations in Latin America during the 1940s provides new insights into leftist organizations and the nature of the U.S.’s imperial ambitions in the western hemisphere.Trade Review"Becker’s fine study fills a void in the historical record of US-Latin American relations. . . . Highly recommended." -- A. J. Dunar * Choice *"Becker has done extensive research for this book, and his close examination and analysis of the documentary record left behind by FBI, CIA and State Department surveillance of Ecuador are both apparent and appreciated. . . . This is an interesting, well-researched text." -- Courteney J. O'Connor * LSE Review of Books *"An exciting and ambitious effort. Students of Ecuador (and Latin America, more broadly) and US foreign policy, as well as policing and intelligence, will learn a great deal from this book." -- Stuart Schrader * Radical Americas *"Sourcing is excellent...this book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *"Highly original and well-researched account . . . An interesting and detailed history of the mid-century Ecuadorian left." -- Max Paul Friedman * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This book stands as an excellent example of how historians can mine FBI files for information beyond the bureau." -- Douglas M. Charles * Journal of American History *"A model for the innovative use of primary sources to explore multiple perspectives in history. . . . Becker deftly balances background information with detail and analysis, making the work useful and readable for scholars from many different fields. . . . Essential reading for scholars interested in twentieth-century Ecuadorian history, the history of the Latin American left, or the history of US surveillance in Latin America." -- Erin E. O'Connor * The Americas *"Marc Becker's The FBI in Latin America adds an important dimension to our understanding of U.S. interventions in Latin America . . . .Becker’s work is an important contribution to the historiography of U.S.-Latin American relations, groundbreaking in the sense that it puts the FBI (not the CIA) at the heart of the earliest intelligence gathering by an agency of the U.S. government." -- Kenneth Kincaid * Against the Current *"The FBI in Latin America is a compelling history that will no doubt spawn similar studies on other countries in the region. Through the use of a fascinating and revealing set of sources, Becker is able to capture a particularly important moment in the emergence of the US as a post-WWII imperial power while simultaneously enriching our understanding of the Latin American left on the eve of its Cold War demise. This well-written book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of Latin America, US foreign policy, the Cold War, and the political left." -- Steve Striffler * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction. FBI 1 1. SIS 17 2. Communism 53 3. Labor 95 4. La Gloriosa 125 5. Constitution 157 6. Coup 193 7. Departures 223 Conclusion. Cold War 249 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 311

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Book SynopsisKatherine Verdery analyzes the 2,781 page surveillance file the Romanian secret police compiled on her during her research trips to Transylvania in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading it led her to question her identity and also revealed how deeply the secret police was embedded in everyday life.Trade Review"A memoir with the exciting elements of an espionage thriller. . . . This work of anthropological intrigue shows the author’s academic coming-of-age." -- Karl Helicher * Foreword Reviews *"Fascinating, thoughtful and occasionally riveting." -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *"Coming from such a distinguished academic, Verdery’s brutally honest description of herself, including as a naive and careless young scholar, is stunning. Few books reflect so frankly and so powerfully on the nature and complications of an academic career." * Foreign Affairs *"This book raises provocative points about the effect of surveillance that will appeal to most readers." -- Laurie Unger Skinner * Library Journal *"To read one’s police file is—suddenly—to have the curtain pulled open. The self you think you know becomes a mask, concealing a devious somebody else whose relationships are mere espionage fakes. . . . [An] unforgettable book." -- Neal Ascherson * London Review of Books *"This book constitutes an excellent, detailed foray into the workings of a surveillance state in the Soviet bloc. But ultimately, this book’s strength emerges from its transparency concerning anthropological methodologies, an openness that comprises a foundational read for not only anthropology students but also for any social scientist working in post-socialist states." -- Sabrina Papazian * EuropeNow *"Surely one of the finest and most thoughtful accounts of modern surveillance that we possess." -- Mark Mazower * TLS *"Joining a growing body of literature based on secret police archival documents, Verdery’s book stands out as she deploys her craft of anthropologist to examine the unexpected material. . . . By investigating one of its most elusive yet powerful apparatuses, the Securitate, Verdery creates an enthralling ethnography of the Communist state. . . . My Life as a Spy will teach anthropology, sociology, and history students much about methodology, and it is exemplary in exposing the dilemmas inherent in that methodology." -- Irina Culic * American Ethnologist *"My Life as a Spy is Verdery’s masterpiece. . . . This is a book that should be read by all anthropologists and taught across the globe – a beautifully written, deeply engaged and engaging text that shows just what a wonderful and revelatory discipline anthropology can be when in the hands of committed and resourceful scholars." -- Michael Stewart * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"This captivating memoir is like none I have read before. . . . A masterpiece." -- Kate Brown * Slavic Review *"Every anthropologist should read this book." -- Steven Sampson * PoLAR *Table of ContentsPreface xi A Note of Fonts, Pseudonyms, and Pronunciation xiii Acknowledgments xv Prologue 1 Part I. Research under Surveillance 1. The 1970s: "The Folklorist" as Military Spy 33 2. The 1980s: The Enemy's Many Masks 111 Excursus. Reflections on Reading One's File 181 Part II. Inside the Mechanisms of Surveillance 3. Revelations 195 4. Ruminations 277 Epilogue 295 Notes 299 Bibliography 309 Index 315

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘It’s no secret organizational scholars have not paid enough attention to the more hidden organizations in our world, but Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations blows the cover (in a good way) of the people at the heart of these clandestine agencies. The authors not-so-covertly apply their tradecraft about personnel management to undercover workers like spies, intelligence officers/analysts, and secret agents. The result is a fascinating and insightful intelligence report about these unique occupations and their historical/contemporary relevance.’ -- Craig R. Scott, The University of Texas at Austin, US‘This book provides a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain into the secret world of spies, viewed through the lens of personnel management. Based mainly on the biographies or autobiographies of former intelligence workers in a wide variety of agencies, it provides a valuable addition to the intelligence studies literature whilst opening up new vistas in management and organization studies. A highly readable, innovative and informative study which will appeal to a wide audience of academics and non-academics alike.’ -- Christopher Grey, Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: List of intelligence officers and agents List of secret service organizations 1. The study 2. Getting selected 3. Recruitment processes 4. The Office 5. Training 6. Line management 7. Rewards and sanctions 8. Termination 9. Personnel management in secret service organizations (compared with standard organizations) References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘It’s no secret organizational scholars have not paid enough attention to the more hidden organizations in our world, but Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations blows the cover (in a good way) of the people at the heart of these clandestine agencies. The authors not-so-covertly apply their tradecraft about personnel management to undercover workers like spies, intelligence officers/analysts, and secret agents. The result is a fascinating and insightful intelligence report about these unique occupations and their historical/contemporary relevance.’ -- Craig R. Scott, The University of Texas at Austin, US‘This book provides a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain into the secret world of spies, viewed through the lens of personnel management. Based mainly on the biographies or autobiographies of former intelligence workers in a wide variety of agencies, it provides a valuable addition to the intelligence studies literature whilst opening up new vistas in management and organization studies. A highly readable, innovative and informative study which will appeal to a wide audience of academics and non-academics alike.’ -- Christopher Grey, Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: List of intelligence officers and agents List of secret service organizations 1. The study 2. Getting selected 3. Recruitment processes 4. The Office 5. Training 6. Line management 7. Rewards and sanctions 8. Termination 9. Personnel management in secret service organizations (compared with standard organizations) References Index

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Book SynopsisA two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist's investigation of the deep state.Trade Review"Pulitzer-winner David Rohde dismisses the Deep State theory–but also shows government does pursue entrenched interests… Under the subtitle “The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth About America’s ‘Deep State’”, the two-time Pulitzer-winner rejects the nomenclature of conspiracy theorists." -- The Guardian"…when the author gets to Trump… the two disparate threads of his narrative come neatly together. Here Rohde skilfully makes clear that it is precisely by pedalling the myth of the Deep State that the President has been able to undermine efforts at oversight." -- Lawrence Douglas - TLS"… a tour of the decades-long effort to square that most unsquareable of democratic challenges: how to run clandestine intelligence and security agencies in a system that is ostensibly accountable to the people." -- Peter Spiegel - Financial Times"David Rohde’s In Deep demolished the theory of the “deep state”." -- 2020 in US politics books - The Guardian"In Deepis a compassionate critique of the simmering grievance that has now found its way to the White House, where it threatens to upend the tenets of American democracy: truth, justice, and, above all, the rule of law. Reported in stunning and tenacious detail, In Deep is a wholly satisfying read—and a necessary one for anyone wanting to understand the forces at play in our government today." -- Andrea Bernstein, Peabody Award–winning co-host of the WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc. and author of American Oligarchs ."David Rohde has written a remarkable book that is both urgent reporting and sweeping history. He brings the same vitality and precision that animated his storied reporting on war zones to this portrait of the decades-long battle over the powers of the intelligence community, and the erosion—under recent administrations of both parties—of rules put in place to protect American citizens’ rights. And he brings fresh insight to the phrase ‘deep state,’ and the role it may play in the future of American politics." -- Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill

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Book SynopsisIntriguing, real-life espionage stories bring to life a comparative history of the Allies' efforts to seize, control, and exploit German science and technology after the Second World War. During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming wonder-weapons that would turn the war decisively in favor of the Axis. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize intellectual reparations from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied Germany. It was likely the largest-scale technology transfer in history. In Taking Nazi Technology, Douglas M. O'Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. Swarms of investigatoTrade ReviewTaking Nazi Technology details what the Americans found when they began looting Nazi Germany. At a time when the United States has become deeply insecure about its technological leadership, the story has important lessons for policymakers.—National InterestO'Reagan's masterful study of the Allies' technology transfer in all four zones and in all of its many facets, successes, and shortcomings is a most welcome contribution to Allied occupation history and to the history of technology in general.—Physics Today[Taking Nazi Technology] provides a wide-ranging view of the scientific and technological exploitation carried out by all four of the powers that occupied Germany in 1945, without losing depth, nuance, or historical context. This is a story that has not been widely told before, and where it has been, its telling has generally been uneven, speculative, sensationalized, or all three. O'Reagan explains the policies and plans that underpinned these dramatic tales and fits them into the broader historical concepts to which they relate.—ScienceO'Reagan has done an important service to move the literature beyond the narratives surrounding individual programs and toward new and bigger themes.—Historical Studies in the Natural SciencesA very interesting new book.—Lawyers, Guns & MoneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. American Exploitation Programs: High Hopes, Narrow Gains, and Long-Term LessonsChapter 2. British Scientific Exploitation and the Allure of German Know-HowChapter 3. French Planning for German Science: Student Spies and Exploitation in PlaceChapter 4. Soviet Reparations and the Seizure of German Science and TechnologyChapter 5. Academic Science and the Reconstruction of GermanyChapter 6. Documentation and Information Technology: Dealing with Information OverloadChapter 7. Legacies of Intellectual Reparations Programs: Industrial Know-How in the Postwar WorldConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIntriguing, real-life espionage stories bring to life a comparative history of the Allies' efforts to seize, control, and exploit German science and technology after the Second World War. During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming wonder-weapons that would turn the war decisively in favor of the Axis. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize intellectual reparations from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied Germany. It was likely the largest-scale technology transfer in history. In Taking Nazi Technology, Douglas M. O'Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. Swarms of investigatoTrade ReviewTaking Nazi Technology details what the Americans found when they began looting Nazi Germany. At a time when the United States has become deeply insecure about its technological leadership, the story has important lessons for policymakers.—National InterestO'Reagan's masterful study of the Allies' technology transfer in all four zones and in all of its many facets, successes, and shortcomings is a most welcome contribution to Allied occupation history and to the history of technology in general.—Physics Today[Taking Nazi Technology] provides a wide-ranging view of the scientific and technological exploitation carried out by all four of the powers that occupied Germany in 1945, without losing depth, nuance, or historical context. This is a story that has not been widely told before, and where it has been, its telling has generally been uneven, speculative, sensationalized, or all three. O'Reagan explains the policies and plans that underpinned these dramatic tales and fits them into the broader historical concepts to which they relate.—ScienceO'Reagan has done an important service to move the literature beyond the narratives surrounding individual programs and toward new and bigger themes.—Historical Studies in the Natural SciencesA very interesting new book.—Lawyers, Guns & MoneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. American Exploitation Programs: High Hopes, Narrow Gains, and Long-Term LessonsChapter 2. British Scientific Exploitation and the Allure of German Know-HowChapter 3. French Planning for German Science: Student Spies and Exploitation in PlaceChapter 4. Soviet Reparations and the Seizure of German Science and TechnologyChapter 5. Academic Science and the Reconstruction of GermanyChapter 6. Documentation and Information Technology: Dealing with Information OverloadChapter 7. Legacies of Intellectual Reparations Programs: Industrial Know-How in the Postwar WorldConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisO''Rourke''s book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreignimposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics.? Political Science QuarterlyStates seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d''état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O''Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O''Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. PreventTrade ReviewAny debate over the relative merits and demerits of regime change as a legitimate tool of foreign-policy needs to begin with Lindsey A. O'Rourke's fantastic book. It's a well-written, important work that should productively inform foreign-policy debates going forward. Essential reading. * The National Interest *This is a book for scholars and policy makers; the footnotes are copious and extensive. * Choice *Covert Regime Change is a valuable book that sheds light on an important issue. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *Unlike many other books built around accounts of CIA plots, Covert Regime Change takes a scholarly and quantitative approach. It provides charts, graphs, and data sets. Meticulous analysis makes this not the quickest read of any book on the subject, but certainly one of the best informed. O'Rourke injects a dose of rigorous analysis into a debate that is often based on emotion. * Global Research *O'Rourke's work provides ample evidence that attempts at forcible regime-change are unlikely to achieve desired ends at a reasonable cost. * Christopher Preble, War on the Rocks *Well researched and argued, it places the initial debate over covert action within the national security decisionmaking process during the first years of the Cold War. * International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence *In this well-researched and clearly written book, Lindsay A. O'Rourke vigorously argues that during the Cold War U.S. officials repeatedly launched covert interventions in foreign countries, even though most of the operations failed to effect regime changes, because the officials saw them as cheap ways to enhance U.S. security and power.... A well-executed, valuable study. * Journal of American History *O'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreignimposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics. * Political Science Quarterly *O'Rourke's contribution to the history of US foreign relations, intelligence history, and international relations theory is not just valuable but also original. O'Rourke's dataset identifies more than 60 covert efforts to bring about regime change... pursued by the United States between 1947 and 1989. Few authors have sought to chronicle and analyze them as comprehensively and systematically as O'Rourke, and no one has succeeded as she has. We owe her a great debt. * Parameters *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1. The False Promise of Covert Regime Change 2. Causes: Why Do States Launch Regime Changes? 3. Conduct: Why Do States Intervene Covertly versus Overtly? 4. Consequences: How Effective Are Covert Regime Changes? 5. Overview of U.S.-backed Regime Changes during the Cold War 6. Rolling Back the Iron Curtain 7. Containment, Coup d'état and the Covert War in Vietnam 8. Dictators and Democrats in the Dominican Republic 9. Covert Regime Change after the Cold War Notes Index

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Book SynopsisCanada 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 intelligence analysts support policy makers, who rely on timely, forward-thinking insights to shape high-level foreign, national security, and defense policy. Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making provides the first in-depth look at the relationship between intelligence and policy in Canada. Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin, both former analysts in the Canadian national security sector, conducted seventy in-depth interviews with serving and retired policy and intelligence practitioners, at a time when Canada's intelligence community underwent sweeping institutional changes. Juneau and Carvin provide critical recommendations for improving intelligence performance in supporting policy—with implications for other countries that, like Canada, are not superpowers but small or mid-sized countries in need of intelligence that supports their unique interests. Trade Review"Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making is much more than a wire diagram of Canadian intelligence organizations. Carvin and Juneau reveal what analysts think about their work and how they interact with policy makers. Their answers are fascinating for students of intelligence, international relations, and Canadian national security policy."—Joshua Rovner, American University"Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin offer an excellent and comprehensive assessment of the intelligence function in Canada and how it can continue to mature to guide sound policy making. A much-needed publication at a time when intelligence is at a premium to help guide the country in a challenging world."—Daniel Jean, former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada

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Book SynopsisIn From Mandate to Blueprint, Thomas Fingar offers a guide for new federal government appointees faced with the complex task of rebuilding institutions and transitioning to a new administration. Synthesizing his own experience implementing the most comprehensive reforms to the national security establishment since 1947, Fingar provides crucial guidance to newly appointed officials. When Fingar was appointed the first Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis in 2005, he discovered the challenges of establishing a new federal agency and implementing sweeping reforms of intelligence procedure and performance. The mandate required prompt action but provided no guidance on how to achieve required and desirable changes. Fingar describes how he defined and prioritized the tasks involved in building and staffing a new organization, integrating and improving the work of sixteen agencies, and contending with pressure from powerful players. For appointees without the luxury of taking command of fully staffed and well-functioning federal agencies, From Mandate to Blueprint is an informed and practical guide for the challenges ahead.Trade Review"From Mandate to Blueprint should be required reading for all policy makers. The thought process and attention to detail that Tom Fingar provides are directly applicable to all aspects of policy making, not just intelligence reform. The tools are the same: people, mission, priorities, and end state. A must-read."—Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State"There is no better time for this thoughtful, essential book to instruct government servants on what to know and do, through Tom Fingar's trenchant examples from fixing US intelligence. From Mandate to Blueprint is a must-read for old hands and newbies in public service."—Thomas R. Pickering, former Under Secretary of State and Ambassador to the UN, Russia, India and Israel"From Mandate to Blueprint provides timely insight into the challenges facing new federal appointees. Drawing on decades of experience in bureaucratic structures, Tom Fingar shares lessons learned in the aftermath of 9/11. This book should become a valuable reference work for the intelligence community."—Charles S. Robb, co-chair of the WMD Commission"The smooth running of government has been under siege for some time. A new team gives us the opportunity to halt and change direction. With From Mandate to Blueprint, Tom Fingar takes lessons he learned from intelligence reform and broadens them for today."—General Michael V. Hayden (Ret.), former Director, CIA and NSATable of ContentsIntroduction: From Mandate to Blueprint Intelligence Reform: Unique Opportunity or Fool's Errand? Sliding Toward an Offer I Couldn't Refuse Blank White Board and Ticking Clock Building a Team and Building Support Translating Ideas into Actions Organizing Themes and Goals Think Big, Start Small, Fail Cheap, Fix Fast Taking Stock Training and Tradecraft Transforming the PDB into a Community Product Management of the Analysis Mission Transforming Analysis Roads Not Taken Reflections and Lessons Lessons for New Appointees

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Book SynopsisCanada 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 intelligence analysts support policy makers, who rely on timely, forward-thinking insights to shape high-level foreign, national security, and defense policy. Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making provides the first in-depth look at the relationship between intelligence and policy in Canada. Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin, both former analysts in the Canadian national security sector, conducted seventy in-depth interviews with serving and retired policy and intelligence practitioners, at a time when Canada's intelligence community underwent sweeping institutional changes. Juneau and Carvin provide critical recommendations for improving intelligence performance in supporting policy—with implications for other countries that, like Canada, are not superpowers but small or mid-sized countries in need of intelligence that supports their unique interests. Trade Review"Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making is much more than a wire diagram of Canadian intelligence organizations. Carvin and Juneau reveal what analysts think about their work and how they interact with policy makers. Their answers are fascinating for students of intelligence, international relations, and Canadian national security policy."—Joshua Rovner, American University"Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin offer an excellent and comprehensive assessment of the intelligence function in Canada and how it can continue to mature to guide sound policy making. A much-needed publication at a time when intelligence is at a premium to help guide the country in a challenging world."—Daniel Jean, former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada

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Book SynopsisSecurity intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable intelligence in order to increase their sense of security. But what exactly is intelligence? Who seeks to develop it and to what ends? How can we ensure that intelligence is not abused? In this third edition of their classic text, Peter Gill and Mark Phythian set out a comprehensive framework for the study of intelligence, discussing how states organize the collection and analysis of information in order to produce intelligence, how it is acted upon, why it may fail and how the process should be governed in order to uphold democratic rights. Fully revised and updated throughout, the book covers recent developments, including the impact of the Snowden leaks on the role of intelligence agencies in Internet and social media surveillance and in defensive and offensive cyber operations, and the legal and political arrangements for democratic control. The role of intelligence as part of ‘hybrid’ warfare in the case of Russia and Ukraine is also explored, and the problems facing intelligence in the realm of counterterrorism is considered in the context of the recent wave of attacks in Western Europe. Intelligence in an Insecure World is an authoritative and accessible guide to a rapidly expanding area of inquiry – one that everyone has an interest in understanding.Trade Review"This excellent survey by two leaders in the field is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand intelligence, secrecy and surveillance, together with its linkage to issues of democratic rights and civil liberties."—Richard J. Aldrich, University of Warwick "Peter Gill and Mark Phythian capture an increasingly vibrant field in way that is both sophisticated and accessible. This third edition engages with the latest theoretical and policy debates on intelligence based on contemporary and diverse cases."—Damien Van Puyvelde, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsList of Figures, Tables and Boxes Preface Abbreviations 1. What is Intelligence? 2. How Do We Understand Intelligence? 3. Who does Intelligence? 4. How do they gather information? 5. How is information turned into intelligence? 6. What do they do with intelligence? 7 Why Does Intelligence Fail? 8 How democratic can intelligence be? 9 Intelligence for a more secure world? Notes Selected Further Reading

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Book SynopsisA rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their overwhelming concern for what they consume often hinders their engagement with social justice more broadly. Food Justice Now! charts a path from food activism to social justice activism that integrates the two. It calls on the food-focused to broaden and deepen their commitment to the struggle against structural inequalities both within and beyond the food system. In an engrossing, historically grounded, and ethnographically rich narrative, Joshua Sbicca argues that food justice is more than just a myopic focus on food, allowing scholars and activists alike to investigate the causes behind inequities and evaluate and implement political strategies to overcome them. Focusing on carceral, labor, and immigration crises, Sbicca tells the stories of three California-based food movement organizations, showing that when activists use food to confront neoliberal capitalism and institutional racism, they can creatively expand how to practice and achieve food justice.Sbicca sets his central argument in opposition to apolitical and individual solutions, discussing national food movement campaigns and the need for economically and racially just food policies—a matter of vital public concern with deep implications for building collective power across a diversity of interests.Trade Review"By highlighting sites where justice, rather than food, is the primary motivator of social action, Joshua Sbicca’s timely and important book takes the conversation about food justice exactly where it needs to go."—Julie Guthman, co-editor of The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action"Can a food justice dialectics with a ‘radical imagination’ and strategies for change ameliorate economic and ethnoracial inequities? Joshua Sbicca’s searching analysis broadens food politics to new terrains of social movement building and struggle essential given today’s revanchist politics."—Julian Agyeman, Tufts University"Sbicca sees food justice as a universal cause that can unite and inspire broader social change, and his book provides a blueprint for activists who agree."—Civil Eats"This is an academic book but well worth reading for anyone who cares about building a movement with power to change food systems."—Food Politics"Sbicca challenges scholars and activists to locate the true causes of inequities and develop political strategies or social actions to overcome these causes."—Food Tank"Joshua Sbicca’s Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle calls for a radical new food politics led by social justice, which focuses its attention broadly on the roots of structural inequalities in the food system and beyond."—Antipode"Sbicca’s book stands out for its challenge to us to change both the way we think about food politics and about what counts as justice. We each came away from this book with a profound feeling that this work is fresh, necessary, and a long time coming."—Agriculture and Human Values"Food Justice Now! should be on every planner’s list to read this year. The book serves as a primer on food justice and its far-reaching effects to all parts of our society in the United States."—Carolina Planning Journal"Sbicca pushes the boundaries of the food justice movement forward in arguing for reformative modes of social relationships and organization to address institutional racism and neoliberal capitalism."—Food, Culture & SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Food as Social Justice Politics1. Inequality and Resistance: The Legacy of Food and Justice Movements2. Opposing the Carceral State: Food-Based Prisoner Reentry Activism3. Taking Back the Economy: Fair Labor Relations and Food Worker Advocacy4. Immigration Food Fights: Challenging Borders and Bridging Social Boundaries5. Radicalizing Food Politics: Collective Power, Diversity, and SolidarityConclusion: Notes on the Future of Food JusticeAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Approach and DataNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOn 9/11 the CIA changed. Once a organisation focused on information gathering, it became a militarised force. As Philip Mudd explains, at that time, came a different breed of prisoner, one who wanted to die but held information that could save thousands of lives. Out of this emerged what was referred to internally as “The Program”: a world web of secret detention centres that used “enhanced interrogation tactics”. A 2014 US Senate report exposed horrifying details from this “Program” but there were no details as to how officials came to their decisions, what happened daily at these “Black Sites” and how the officers felt about what they were doing. Mudd weaves stunning research, new interviews and his own account to illuminate the CIA at this most difficult time.

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Book SynopsisThis book breaks new ground in two important areas that have yet to be linked and explored by any JFK-assassination historian. John Koerner argues that the CIA's secret drug trade in Laos, and the president's effort to end it, provided the primary motive that the CIA needed to assassinate the president. A lot of effort has been made to examine the president's Vietnam policy, but precious little attention has been paid to the opium trade in Laos that was making the CIA wealthy and powerful beyond its wildest dreams. This book chronicles the president's secret war with the CIA over Laos, a high-stakes game that cost him his life. Koerner also links the JFK assassination and the drug trade with the other three major assassinations of the 1960s: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy. We will see that all four of the assassinations are linked together, all funded and executed by the CIA to silence the four most vocal leaders who were opposed to the agency's pro-war and pro-drug policy in Laos and Vietnam. Finally, Koerner examines the impact this has had on the course of history, and imagines a world where these men had lived.

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This Research Agenda explores the academic field of intelligence studies and how it is developing into an increasingly international and diverse area of study.As more governments release records, and as new generations of scholars engage with the topic from a range of perspectives, the book considers how the field is becoming richer, wider, and more global in scope. Featuring contributions by a diverse range of leading intelligence scholars, it surveys a variety of core areas in, and approaches to, the study of intelligence - including technological perspectives, gender, deception, and the ‘deep state’ - highlighting how intelligence will become a greater feature of government and security in the future. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores not only the established elements of intelligence studies, but analyses the cutting edge of intelligence research and proposes an agenda for the continued development of the field.Offering concise and accessible discussions of developing topics in intelligence studies, this Research Agenda will be a useful guide for scholars and students of public policy, international relations and security. It will also be of interest to professionals engaged in research into security and intelligence matters.Trade Review‘Intelligence studies now expands well beyond the realm of traditional espionage into international affairs, digital media, AI and big data, private sector analysis and many other areas. Dover, Dylan and Goodman, experienced scholars, have given us the essential guide we need to the state of modern intelligence studies and its future direction.’ -- Sir David Omand, King's College London and former Director GCHQ, UK‘Intelligence studies now expands well beyond the realm of traditional espionage into international affairs, digital media, AI and big data, private sector analysis and many other areas. Dover, Dylan and Goodman, experienced scholars, have given us the essential guide we need to the state of modern intelligence studies and its future direction.’ -- Sir David Omand, King's College London and former Director GCHQ, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government 1 Robert Dover, Huw Dylan and Michael S. Goodman PART I EMERGING RESEARCH TRENDS IN INTELLIGENCE STUDIES 2 Critical Security and Intelligence Studies 9 Claudia Aradau and Emma McCluskey 3 Culture in Intelligence Studies 21 Simon Willmetts 4 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Intelligence Studies 35 Huw Bennett and Claudia Hillebrand 5 AI and Ethics in Intelligence 49 Sarah Mainwaring 6 Intelligence Leadership 63 Patrick F. Walsh PART II THE GAPS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING 7 Intelligence and Biosecurity 79 Filippa Lentzos 8 Global Intelligence Studies 93 Daniela Richterova 9 Private Sector Intelligence 103 Damien Van Puyvelde and Sonia Sangiovanni 10 The Impact of Technology on Intelligence Analysis 113 Kathleen M. Vogel PART III REFRAMING INTELLIGENCE STUDIES 11 Why Intelligence Analysts Need to Write Long Papers 127 Tim Dickens 12 Deception and Intelligence in Peace and War 141 Gary Buck and Huw Dylan 13 The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts 155 Robert Dover 14 Teaching Intelligence: Decolonisation, (Distance) Education and the Global Student 167 Helen Dexter 15 Post-Modern Archival Research 181 Berenice Burnett Bibliography 193 Index

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