Agent Storm opens a unique window onto bleak interlocking landscapes the radicalization on European Muslims that has now been energized by the Syrian civil war, the leadership and organization of global jihad, and the twilight struggle waged by western intelligence agencies against an elusive and implacable enemy Steven Simon bestselling co-author of The Age of Scared Terror and The Next Attack.
This book how the USA secretly trained Spanish Communists to engage in a guerrilla war* how a brutal crime was covered up for more than 50 years. Spain's Civil War did not end in 1939. Guerrillas determined to oust Franco's ruthless military dictatorship fought on in the mountains in a war that went virtually unreported. In Andalusia a legendary chieftain named Roberto led the "people of the…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world has plunged into crisis. What began as an attack on the West by Osama bin Laden has become a wrenching confrontation between Europe and America. Britain has found itself painfully split, because it stands with one foot across the Atlantic and the other across the Channel. The English, in particular, are divided politically between a Rig…
Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so, and suggests how the risk of conflicts brought on by domestic upheaval might be reduced in the future. In doing so, he explores one of the basic questions of international relations: What are the connections between d…
"The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. That spring, child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches for desegregation. A few months later, Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, journalist and daughter of …
Exploring the challenge of rehabilitating countries after civil wars, this study finds that attempting to transform war-shattered states into liberal democracies with market economies can backfire badly. Roland Paris contends that the rapid introduction of democracy and capitalism in the absence of effective institutions can increase rather than decrease the danger of renewed fighting. A more e…
Part 1: Zones Of Conflict Part 2: The Revivalist Revolution Part 3: Cultural Wars
For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucial nodes in the al-Qaeda network since long before the strikes on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, but when the allies overran Afghanistan,…
Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific provides the analytical frameworks needed to make sense of this complex but exciting strategic universe. Offering a unique mix of global strategic thinking and Asia-Pacific security analysis, this book is for readers from Sydney to Seoul who want to put their own local security challenges in a wider regional and global context. It is also for North Amer…
Terrorists and Terrorism in the Contemporary World surveys this topical and complex subject. The book concentrates on the terrorists themselves and on their psychology in an historical context. Focusing on a variety of both prominent and less notorious terrorist groups the author encourages readers to think about the mindset, motivation and tactics of terrorists. He also discusses the lines of …