Thomas has drawn on his original research in CIA archives and interviews with scores of old agency hands to evoke the urgency and uncertainty, as well as the giddiness, of the shadow wars of the 1950s and early 1960s when the country, with reason, felt itself in danger from Soviet-led Communist aggression. Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald embodied the confiden…
A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare
Dinas intelijen terbesar di dunia ini melakukan blunder paling parah dalam sejarah panjang spionase berbohong tentang eksistensi senjata nuklir Irak, yang menjadi basis pengambilan keputusan politik paling keliru dalam sejarah kepresidenan AS, yakni menyerbu Irak sekaligus menumbangkan Presiden Saddam Hussein. Setelah pendudukan di Irak, terbongkar lagi skandal-skandal yang mencoreng wajah AS s…
Willem Oltmans menulis bahwa CIA memerankan bagian yang dominan dalam tragedi Gestapu 1965, dengan menggunakan tangan (Angkatan Darat/Bersenjata) militer Indonesia sendiri. Untuk itu, kehadiran buku ini merupakan sumber informasi terbaru yang selama ini tidak pernah disebutkan dalam penulisan buku sejarah Indonesia, dan diharapkan dapat menguak tabir yang selama ini dibungkam atau sengaja dipen…
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
James Jesus Angleton's involvement with some of the most notorious counterespionage events
This book explains how the war on terrorism povides a wholly new context for the murky world that secret services and intelligence agencies operate in. This book describes in detail how ultra-modern new technologies have vastly increased their power to spy abroad and eavesdrop at home.
The contents of this book: Part 1: Historical, Philosophical and Theoretical Issues in International Relations Part 2: Concepts and Context in International Relations Globalization Part 3: Substantive Issues in International Relations
Divine Violence is a major contribution to our understanding of the process by which the State's discourses can elaborate the enemy and thus 'reason' a practice of torture and ritualized destruction of the 'other.' Graziano explains how and why denial underlines this nexus of religious, sexual, and violent impulses in the politics of atrocity. A chilling account.
How do a few Third World political movements become global causes célèbres, while most remain isolated? This book rejects dominant views that needy groups readily gain help from selfless nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Instead, they face a Darwinian struggle for scarce resources where support goes to the savviest, not the neediest. Examining Mexico's Zapatista rebels and Nigeria's Ogoni…