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Book Synopsis“A lively account . . . combines the derring-do of old-fashioned spycraft with thoughtful meditations on the future of warfare and intelligence work. It deserves to be read.” —The Washington Post“Offer[s] an exceptionally deep glimpse into the CIA’s counterterrorism operations in the last decade of the twentieth century.” —Harper’sA legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed careerRevelatory and groundbreaking, The Art of Intelligence will change the way people view the CIA, domestic and foreign intelligence, and international terrorism. Henry A. “Hank” Crumpton, a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA’s Clandestine Service, offers a thrilling account that delivers profound lessons about what it means to serve as an honorable spy. From CIA recruiting missions in Africa to pioneerin

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of China's cyberspace threats and policies, emphasizing the vantage points of China and U.S. on cyber exploitation and the possibilities for more positive coordination.Trade Review"Given the high stakes and enormous gaps between Chinese and American understandings and agendas on cybersecurity, and with the above two chapters as examples, Lindsay and Reveron are certainly justified in concluding that the book "exemplifies" cooperation to improve understanding. It will be worthwhile reading not only for China scholars and cyber-security experts, but also for international relations and communications scholars." --Pacific Affairs "This book's contributors argue that China is not the electronic supervillain it is often thought to be. Despite the regime's hefty investment in digital espionage and cyberwar capabilities, its networks are less secure than those in the United States, the Chinese agencies that make cybersecurity policy are more fragmented than their U.S. counterparts, and the country suffers losses worth close to $1 billion a year because of weak policing of online theft and fraud. China conducts a great deal of industrial espionage, but its enterprises have a hard time filtering and applying the vast amount of data their hackers steal. Looking only at the Chinese side of the relationship, the book does not detail the digital threats that the United States poses to China. But Chinese thinkers believe they are significant, and given China's strategic doctrine of striking first and massively, this creates the risk that in a crisis, Beijing might launch a preemptive cyberattack. The fact that Chinese and Western experts cooperated in this pathbreaking book shows that there is a potential for working together. But there are many obstacles, including the inherent secrecy of the field." -- Foreign Affairs "The US-China relationship is probably the most important in determining the future of cyberspace. Yet despite all the media reporting about Chinese hacking and cyber espionage, we lack a comprehensive picture of what it is China hopes to accomplish in cyberspace and how it copes with its own vulnerability. This is an extremely useful study not only because it brings international relations, intelligence, military, computer science, and China experts together, but also is one of the rare works that includes the contributions of Chinese academics, analysts, and practioners. This book should be read by all who want a greater understanding of China's cybersecurity situation." -- Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations "The 13 articles by 18 Canadian, US, and Chinese specialists ponder much... Every form of contestation, from crime to espionage, is instantly modernized with the preface cyber... Recommended." -- CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction ; China and Cybersecurity: Controversy and Context ; Jon R. Lindsay ; I. ESPIONAGE AND CYBERCRIME ; 1. The Chinese Intelligence Services: Evolution and Empowerment in Cyberspace ; Nigel Inkster ; 2. From Exploitation to Innovation: Acquisition, Absorption, and Application ; Jon R. Lindsay and Tai Ming Cheung ; 3. Investigating the Chinese Online Underground Economy ; Zhuge Jianwei, Gu Lion, Duan Haixin, and Taylor Roberts ; II. MILITARY STRATEGY AND INSTITUTIONS ; 4. From Cyberwarfare to Cybersecurity in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond ; Ye Zheng ; 5. Chinese Writings on Cyber Warfare and Coercion ; Kevin Pollpeter ; 6. The Chinese People's Liberation Army Computer Network Operations Infrastructure ; Mark A. Stokes ; 7. Civil-Military Integration in Cybersecurity: A Study of Chinese Information Warfare Militias ; Robert Sheldon and Joe McReynolds ; III. NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY POLICY ; 8. China's Cybersecurity Situation and the Potential for International Cooperation ; Li Yuxiao and Xu Lu ; 9. Evolving Legal Frameworks for Protecting Internet Privacy in China ; Xu Jinghong ; 10. <"Foreign Hostile Forces>": The Human Rights Dimension of China's Cyber Campaigns ; Sarah McKune ; IV. PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS ; 11. China and Information Security Threats: Policy Responses in the United States ; Fred H. Cate ; Conclusion ; The Rise of China and the Future of Cybersecurity ; Jon R. Lindsay and Derek S. Reveron ; Index

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Book SynopsisIn addition to being a major area of research within International Relations, peacebuilding and statebuilding is a major policy area within the UN and other international and regional organizations. It is also a concern of international financial institutions, including the World Bank, and a significant factor in the foreign and security policies of many established and emerging democracies. Peacebuilding and statebuilding are among the main approaches for preventing, managing, and mitigating global insecurities; dealing with the humanitarian consequences of civil wars; and expanding democracy and neoliberal economic regimes. Peace formation is a relatively new concept, addressing how local actors work in parallel to international and national projects, and helps shape the legitimacy of peace processes and state reform. The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation serves as an essential guide to this vast intellectual and policy landscape. It offers a systemTrade ReviewThe scholarly ambition, conceptual innovation, and intellectual energy of this Handbook make it a helpful tool on which to ride the vast expanses of knowledge on peacebuilding and statebuilding...this open-ended...finale is an apt reminder that peacebuilding's greatest strength-namely, its heterogeneity and the variety of approaches it generates-can also be its biggest weakness. * Herman Salton, ICU University, Tokyo, Japan, International Peacekeeping *Table of Contents1. Introduction: International, State, and Local Dynamics of Peace in the Twenty-First Century OLIVER P. RICHMOND AND GËZIM VISOKA PART I: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 2. Liberal Internationalism BEATE JAHN 3. The Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding KRISTOFFER LIDÉN 4. The International Law of Peace CECILIA MARCELA BAILLIET 5. The Social Construction of Peace JOANNE WALLIS 6. Critical Theory and the Politics of Peace VIVIENNE JABRI and OLIVER P. RICHMOND 7. Pacifism in International Relations RICHARD JACKSON 8. The International Political Sociology of Peacebuilding CATHERINE GOETZE AND BERIT BLIESEMANN DE GUEVARA 9. Spaces of Peace ANNIKA BJÖRKDAHL AND STEFANIE KAPPLER 10. Peace Methods and Methodologies PAMINA FIRCHOW 11. Ethnographic Peace Research GEAROID MILLAR 12. Visuality of Peace and Conflict EMMA HUTCHISON AND ROLAND BLEIKER 13. Peace in Non-Western Theory NECATI POLAT 14. Gender, Security, and Peacebuilding SARAH SMITH 15. Peace Psychology DANIEL J. CHRISTIE PART II: PEACEBUILDING AND STATEBUILDING IN GLOBAL POLITICS 16. International interventions AIDAN HEHIR 17. Peacekeeping MICHAEL PUGH 18. Protection of Civilians WALT KILROY 19. The United Nations and the Responsibility to Rebuild ALEX J. BELLAMY 20. The European Union and Peacebuilding NATHALIE TOCCI 21. Emerging Powers and Peacebuilding KAI MICHAEL KENKEL 22. Globalisation of Peace JACKIE SMITH 23. Global Civil Society, Peacebuilding, and Statebuilding MARY KALDOR AND DENISA KOSTOVICOVA 24. Networks of Peace NAJI BSISU AND AMANDA MURDIE 25. Peace, Intervention, and State Fragility NICOLAS LEMAY-HÉBERT 26. Terrorism and Peacebuilding IOANNIS TELLIDIS 27. Peace After Revolutions SANDRA POGODDA 28. Peace and Security in the Age of Hybrid Wars MARIA RAQUEL FREIRE AND LICINIA SIMÃO 29. Technologies of Peace ALLARD DUURSMA AND JOHN KARLSRUD PART III: DISAGGREGATING PEACEBUILDING AND STATEBUILDING 30. Statebuilding DAVID CHANDLER 31. Democratisation and Peacebuilding CHRISTOPH ZÜRCHER 32. Power-sharing in Divided Societies JOHN DOYLE 33. Statebuilding, Security Sector Reform, and the Rule of Law PAUL JACKSON 34. Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding CATHERINE TURNER 35. Reconciliation and Peacebuilding GRÁINNE KELLY 36. Religion and Peacebuilding JOHN D. BREWER 37. Foreign Aid and Peacebuilding RACHEL M. GISSELQUIST 38. Local Ownership, Legitimacy, and Peacebuilding TIMOTHY DONAIS 39. Environmental Peacebuilding FLORIAN KRAMPE AND ASHOK SWAIN PART IV: POST-LIBERAL PEACE AND PEACE FORMATION 40. Peace Formation and the Reshaping of International Peacebuilding OLIVER P. RICHMOND 41. Local Resistance and Hybrid Peace SUNGYONG LEE 42. Hybrid Political Orders and Customary Peace VOLKER BOEGE 43. Local Infrastructures for Peace ANDRIES ODENDAAL 44. Emancipatory Peace GËZIM VISOKA

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Book SynopsisCompromised Campus looks at role of the FBI in dealing with universities in regard to loyalty matters. As a participant in these events (Diamond was fired from Harvard in the 1950s), the author brings a special immediacy to these questions, and uses the Freedom of Information Act to ferret out instances of FBI illegal activity which has long been covered up.Trade ReviewDiamond is an indefatigable researcher. His zeal to expose the intrusion of our intelligence agencies on our campuses is a wonder to behold. And Compromised Campus, once and for all, should end the image of the post-war campus as an ivory tower. * Victor Navasky, Editor, The Nation *

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Book SynopsisWhen considering strategies to address violent conflict, scholars and policymakers debate the wisdom of recognizing versus avoiding reference to ethnic identities in government institutions. In Diversity, Violence, and Recognition, Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii examine the reasons that governments choose to recognize ethnic identities and the consequences of such choices for peace. The authors introduce a theory on the merits and risks of recognizing ethnic groups in state institutions, pointing to the crucial role of ethnic demographics. Through a global quantitative analysis and in-depth case studies of Burundi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia, they find promise in recognition. Countries that adopt recognition go on to experience less violence, more economic vitality, and more democratic politics, but these effects depend on which ethnic group is in power. King and Samii''s findings are important for scholars studying peace, democracy, and development, and practically relevant to policymakers attempting to make these concepts a reality.Trade ReviewThis is a well-researched study with findings that are valuable for anyone interested in the development of peace and democracy. Recommended. All levels. * T. Davis, Lake Erie College, CHOICE *This is an incredibly important book. Scholars will find a novel theory of the reasons for ethnic recognition, as well as a convincing and sophisticated argument drawing on a wealth of original material. As for policy-makers, they will find guidance on how to make the 'right' choice when faced with the dilemma of ethnic recognition. Therefore, King & Samii's advice may impact millions of lives for the better." -Séverine Autesserre, author of Trouble with the Congo, Peaceland, and The Frontlines of PeaceOne of the most fateful decisions facing peace-makers and state-builders in ethnically divided societies is whether to formally recognize the rights and powers of cultural groups, or whether individual rights approaches offer a better way to simultaneously prevent ethnic discrimination and demobilize invidious ethnic rivalries. Grounded in deep theoretical and empirical work, King and Samii convincingly explain the conditions under which ethnic group recognition or non-recognition is likely to produce the better outcome." -Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of illustrations List of Abbreviations Part 1 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Theory of Recognition Part 2 Chapter 3: Trends in Ethnic Recognition Chapter 4: Under what conditions is recognition adopted? Chapter 5: What are the effects of ethnic recognition on peace? Part 3 Chapter 6: Recognition under Plurality Rule and the Paradox of Recognition in Burundi Chapter 7: Non-Recognition under Minority Rule and the Paradox of Non-Recognition in Rwanda Chapter 8: Ethnic Recognition under Minority Rule in Ethiopia Part 4 Chapter 9: Conclusion Appendix: Statistical Tables References Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a brief history of the creation and development of the intelligence services in the United States. This book centres on the conflict between the development of ways of gathering, processing, analysing, and using intelligence, and the concern for the impact of secret activities on democratic government.Trade ReviewThis work is recommended for libraries desirous of having strong intelligence and national security collections. * American Reference Books Annual *[P]rovides college-level and military collections with an excellent survey and analysis of what intelligence is and how it functions under the umbrella of American national security. From the initial creation of intelligence services and divisions within the U.S. to ways the information is gathered and analyzed, Intelligence and National Security packs a blend of history and military and social analysis, making it an excellent starting point for any discussion on the topic. * The Bookwatch *Clark, who is retired from the Central Intelligence Agency, discusses the intelligence field, beginning with the development of American intelligence since the Revolutionary War up to how things have changed since 9/11, in addition to the process of obtaining intelligence, analysis, security, covert action, and the continuing need for intelligence since the terrorist attacks. Biographies of key individuals and some documents, such as the National Security Act of 1947, are presented in the appendices. The volume is aimed at a general audience. * Reference and Research Book News *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Chapter 1. What Are We Talking About? Chapter 2. How Do We Get Intelligence? Chapter 3. What Does It Mean? Chapter 4. How Do We Protect Ourselves? Chapter 5. What If We Don't Want to Be Seen? Chapter 6. Where Do We Go from Here? Appendix I: Biographies Appendix II: Key Documents Chronology of Events Glossary Annotated Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a vast conceptual and theoretical exploration of the ways intelligence analysis must change in order to succeed against today's most dangerous combatants and most complex irregular theatres of conflict.Table of ContentsForeword by Patrick M. Hughes, Lieutenant General (Retired), U.S. Army Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Continuous War of Wits 1. The Operational Environment 2. The Problem 3. Solutions 4. Setting the Stage for Advanced Analysis Part II: Advanced Analysis-In Detail 5. Decomposition 6. Critical Thinking 7. Link Analysis 8. Pattern Analysis 9. Trend Analysis 10. Anticipatory Analysis 11. Technical Analysis 12. Tendency Analysis 13. Anomaly Analysis 14. Cultural Analysis 15. Semiotics Analysis 16. Aggregation Analysis 17. Recomposition 18. Synthesis 19. Technology for Advanced Analysis Part III: System of Thought 20. On a System of Thought 21. Closing Thoughts Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis One of the Best Books of the Year Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal In this newly updated edition of the meticulous and devastating (Associated Press) account of violence and espionage that spent months on the New York Times Bestsellers list, Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost - from Hollywood to Washington and beyond. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood''s most powerful producers was a predat

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story of intrigue in the final years of the Cold War.   It was the height of the Cold War, and a dangerous time to be stationed in the Soviet Union. One evening, while the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station was filling his gas tank, a stranger approached and dropped a note into the car. The chief, suspicious of a KGB trap, ignored the overture. But the man had made up his mind. His attempts to establish contact with the CIA would be rebuffed four times before he thrust upon them an envelope whose contents would stun U.S. intelligence. In the years that followed, that man, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the most valuable spies ever for the U.S. But these activities posed an enorm

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Book SynopsisRemote Viewers is a tale of the Pentagon''s attempts to develop the perfect tool for espionage: psychic spies. These psychic spies, or 'remote viewers,' were able to infiltrate any target, elude any form of security, and never risk scratch. For twenty years, the government selected civilian and military personnel for psychic ability, trained them, and put them to work, full-time, at taxpayers'' expense, against real intelligence targets. The results were so astonishing that the program soon involved more than a dozen separate agencies, including the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Secret Service, the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the US Customs Service, the US Special Forces Command, and at least one Pentagon drug-interaction task force. Most of this material is still officially classified. After three years of research, with ac

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Book SynopsisIn his four decades as a KGB officer, Victor Cherkashin was a central player in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage. From his rigorous training in Soviet intelligence in the early 1950s to his prime spot as the KGB''s head of counterintelligence at the Soviet embassy in Washington, Cherkashin''s career was rich in episode and drama. In a riveting memoir, Cherkashin provides a remarkable insider''s view of the KGB''s prolonged conflict with the CIA. Playing a major role in global espionage for most of the Cold War, Cherkashin was posted to stations in the United States, Australia, India, and Lebanon. He tracked down U.S. and British spies around the world. But it was in 1985 that Cherkashin scored two of the KGB''s biggest-ever coups. In April of that year, he recruited disgruntled CIA officer Aldrich Ames and became his principal handler. Six months later, FBI special agent Robert Hanssen contacted Cherkashin directly, eventually becoming an even bigger asset than Ames. In Spy Han

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War’s most intrepid spies.“[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account.”—The Washington Post ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Foreign Affairs, Kirkus Reviews, Library JournalIn 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her.They didn’t know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn’t know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb.This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named “Sonya.” Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI—and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century—between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy—and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times.With unparalleled access to Sonya’s diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe foreword provides interesting background on the hurtles to getting the still-relevant handbook declassified. * Book News, Inc. *

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.“The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold Wa

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