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The Rise and Fall of Intelligence

An International Security History

by Michael Warner ...

This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond.During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas a century ago, many states could aspire to be competitive at these dark arts. Today, larger ... Read more

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This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond.During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas a century ago, many states could aspire to be competitive at these dark arts. Today, larger
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Analyzing Intelligence

National Security Practitioners' Perspectives, Second Edition

by Roger Z. George, James B. Bruce, John H. Hedley, Richard J. Kerr, Michael Warner, Rebecca Fisher, Peter Clement, Barney (Rob) Johnston, John E. McLaughlin0, James B. Steinberg1, John Kringen2, Jack Davis3, Michael Bennett4, James J. Wirtz5, Randolph H. Pherson6, Richards J. Heuer Jr.7, Drew E. Cukor8, Joseph P. Larson9, Matt Pottinger0, Vincent R. Stewart1, Maureen Baginski2, Thomas Fingar3, Mark M. Lowenthal4, Susan H. Nelson5 ...

Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view. The contributors—most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community—review the evolution of the field, the rise of new challenges, pitfalls in analysis, and the lessons from new training and ... Read more

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Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view. The contributors—most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community—review the evolution of the field, the rise of new challenges, pitfalls in analysis, and the lessons from new training and
... Read more
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive

Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest

by Robert Chesney, Max Smeets, Joshua Rovner, Michael Warner, Jon Lindsay, Lennart Maschmeyer, Michael P. Fischerkeller, Richard J. Harknett0, Steven Loleski1, Lyu Jinghua2, Valeriy Akimenko3, Keir Giles4, Ciaran Martin5, J D. Work6, Nina A. Kollars7 ...

A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domainThe idea of “cyber war” has played a dominant role in both academic and popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber domain. However, this lens of war and its expectations for death and destruction may distort rather than help clarify the nature of cyber competition and conflict. Are cyber activities actually more like an ... Read more

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A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domainThe idea of “cyber war” has played a dominant role in both academic and popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber domain. However, this lens of war and its expectations for death and destruction may distort rather than help clarify the nature of cyber competition and conflict. Are cyber activities actually more like an
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Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks

Rediscovering U.S. Counterintelligence

by Jennifer E. Sims, Burton Gerber, John Fox Jr., Michael Warner, Robert Jervis, Austin K. Yamada, Robert Wallace, Vincent H. Bridgeman, Kathleen L. Kiernan0, James R. Gosler1, Harvey Rishikof2, Rodney Faraon3, Timothy R. Sample4, Richard A. Posner5 ...

Decision makers matching wits with an adversary want intelligence—good, relevant information to help them win. Intelligence can gain these advantages through directed research and analysis, agile collection, and the timely use of guile and theft. Counterintelligence is the art and practice of defeating these endeavors. Its purpose is the same as that of positive intelligence—to gain advantage—but ... Read more

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Decision makers matching wits with an adversary want intelligence—good, relevant information to help them win. Intelligence can gain these advantages through directed research and analysis, agile collection, and the timely use of guile and theft. Counterintelligence is the art and practice of defeating these endeavors. Its purpose is the same as that of positive intelligence—to gain advantage—but
... Read more
Holy Cow

You Were Born For Significance

by Michael Warner, Shelly Warner ...

Authentic, inspiring, and infused with raw vulnerability, Holy Cow is the deeply personal story of one man's incredible struggles through illness and injury and the deep love story which transpires after he meets his wife Shelly. They have created a bond which allows them to face adversity head on with grit, determination, and an extraordinarily positive mindset. They share candidly about the many ... Read more

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Authentic, inspiring, and infused with raw vulnerability, Holy Cow is the deeply personal story of one man's incredible struggles through illness and injury and the deep love story which transpires after he meets his wife Shelly. They have created a bond which allows them to face adversity head on with grit, determination, and an extraordinarily positive mindset. They share candidly about the many
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Publics and Counterpublics

by Michael Warner ...

Publics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? The idea of a public is a cultural form, a kind of practical fiction, present in the modern world in a way that is very different from other or earlier societies. Like the idea of rights, or nations, or markets, it can now seem universal. But it has not always been so. Publics exist only by virtue of their imagining. ... Read more

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Publics and Counterpublics revolves around a central question: What is a public? The idea of a public is a cultural form, a kind of practical fiction, present in the modern world in a way that is very different from other or earlier societies. Like the idea of rights, or nations, or markets, it can now seem universal. But it has not always been so. Publics exist only by virtue of their imagining.
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Understanding Cyber Conflict

Fourteen Analogies

by Ariel E. Levite, George Perkovich, James M. Acton, John Arquilla, Stephen Blank, Dorothy Denning, Bradley J. Strawser, Florian Egloff, Peter D. Feaver0, Kenneth Geers1, Francis J. Gavin2, Emily Goldman3, Michael Warner4, Nicholas Lambert5, Steven E. Miller6, David E. Sanger7, Robert Schmidle Jr.8, Michael Sulmeyer9, Ben Buchanan0 ...

Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict—including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns—require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink twenty-first-century warfare. Yet because cyber capabilities are so new and continually developing, there is little agreement about how they will be deployed ... Read more

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Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict—including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns—require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink twenty-first-century warfare. Yet because cyber capabilities are so new and continually developing, there is little agreement about how they will be deployed
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The Origins of Literary Studies in America

A Documentary Anthology

Edited by Gerald Graff, Michael Warner ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Originally published in 1989, The Origins of Literary Studies in America brings together for the first time hard-to-find speeches, reports, and other writings by the founders of literary studies in the United States: Bliss Perry, Woodrow Wilson, Irving Babbitt, M. Carey Thomas, and many other scholars between 1874 and 1937.The selections—on teaching, the MLA, and the goals of the discipline—are ... Read more

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Originally published in 1989, The Origins of Literary Studies in America brings together for the first time hard-to-find speeches, reports, and other writings by the founders of literary studies in the United States: Bliss Perry, Woodrow Wilson, Irving Babbitt, M. Carey Thomas, and many other scholars between 1874 and 1937.The selections—on teaching, the MLA, and the goals of the discipline—are
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The National Security Enterprise

Navigating the Labyrinth, Second Edition

by Roger Z. George, Harvey Rishikof, Jon J. Rosenwasser, Michael Warner, David P. Auerswald, Gordon Adams, Rodney Bent, Kathy Peroff, Marc Grossman0, Desaix Myers1, Franklin C. Miller2, Joseph McMillan3, Michael J. Meese4, Isaiah Wilson III5, Dina Temple-Raston6, Thomas Fingar7, Brittany Albaugh8, Susan Ginsburg9, Colton C. Campbell0, Gerald Felix Warburg1, Ellen Laipson2, John Diamond3 ...

This second edition of The National Security Enterprise provides practitioners’ insights into the operation, missions, and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process. Unlike some textbooks on American foreign policy, it offers analysis from insiders who have worked at the National Security ... Read more

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This second edition of The National Security Enterprise provides practitioners’ insights into the operation, missions, and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process. Unlike some textbooks on American foreign policy, it offers analysis from insiders who have worked at the National Security
... Read more
The Portable Walt Whitman

by Walt Whitman ...

A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short storiesWhen Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the ... Read more

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A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short storiesWhen Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the
... Read more
On the Grid

Climate Change and the Utopia of Green Energy

by Michael Warner ...

Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
What kind of future would the utopian idea of unlimited green energy bring about? On the Grid, based on Michael Warner's Berkeley Tanner Lectures, raises critical questions about the sharp turn in environmental thought which addresses climate change through the form of a new power grid, driven by renewable energy and the goal to "electrify everything." Environmental thought increasingly centers ... Read more

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What kind of future would the utopian idea of unlimited green energy bring about? On the Grid, based on Michael Warner's Berkeley Tanner Lectures, raises critical questions about the sharp turn in environmental thought which addresses climate change through the form of a new power grid, driven by renewable energy and the goal to "electrify everything." Environmental thought increasingly centers
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Modern Social Imaginaries

by Charles Taylor, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner ...

Series series Public planet books
One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the ... Read more

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One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the
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