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“milo jones”

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  • Constructing Cassandra

    Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947–2001

    by Milo Jones, Philippe Silberzahn ...
    Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks—surprises still play out today in U.S. policy. Although there has been no shortage of studies exploring how intelligence failures ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Surrender

    Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom

    by Bruce Bawer ...
    WITH A NEW AFTERWORDIn his controversial and critically acclaimed While Europe Slept, Bruce Bawer outlined the danger that Islamic immigration posed to traditional European values. In this provocative follow-up, he takes up the West’s recent trend of silence and appeasement in the face of cultural intimidation by radical Islam.From an examination of coverage of the shocking murder of Dutch ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The People vs. Democracy

    Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter“A trenchant survey from 1989, with its democratic euphoria, to the current map of autocratic striving.”—David Remnick, New YorkerThe world is in turmoil. From Russia and Turkey across Europe to the United States, authoritarian populists ha... ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Dying for Heaven

    Holy Pleasure and Suicide Bombers—Why the Best Qualities of Religion Are Also Its Most Dangerous

    by Ariel Glucklich ...
    In Dying for Heaven, Georgetown scholar and advisor to the defense community Ariel Glucklich explains the religious motivation of terrorism. This provocative work of political science argues that the very best qualities of religion—its ability to make people feel good and bring them together—are in fact its most dangerous. Glucklich, author of Sacred Pain and Climbing Chamundi Hill, offers a new ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The The Western Front

    The Irishmen Who Fought in World War One

    by William Sheehan ...
    'One of our fellows, while a German flare lit up his trench as it shot over it, saw half a dozen of our raw Irishmen on their knees, praying to the Virgin as if their last hour had come.' Captain Gerald Burgoyne, C Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles The Western Front tells the human story at the heart of a war that cost the lives of 35,000 Irishmen. Compiled by one of Ireland's leading ... Read more

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  • Mark Felt

    The Man Who Brought Down the White House

    by Mark Felt, John O'Connor ...
    Mark Felt's role in history was secured when he decided to share his views on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter on the Washington Post named Bob Woodward. He made sure that the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would besmirch an entire administration and bring down a presidency, was revealed in an unchallengeable way.This absorbing account of Felt's FBI career, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Violent Democracies in Latin America

    by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Fighting Fascism

    How to Struggle and How to Win

    by Clara Zetkin ...
    Presented at a time when fascism was a new and little-understood phenomenon, Zetkin’s work proposed a sweeping plan for the unity of all victims of capitalism in an ideological and political campaign against the fascist danger. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Understanding NATO in the 21st Century

    Alliance Strategies, Security and Global Governance

    Edited by Graeme P. Herd, John Kriendler ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    Understanding NATO in the 21st Century enhances existing strategic debates and clarifies thinking as to the direction and scope of NATO’s potential evolution in the 21st century.The book seeks to identify the possible contours and trade-offs embedded within a potential third "Transatlantic Bargain" in the context of a U.S. strategic pivot in a "Pacific Century". To that end, it explores the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution

    Debating Peace in Northern Ireland

    Edited by Katy Hayward, Catherine O'Donnell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process.Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come from a wide range of sources and actors. The book contains in-depth analyses of official discourses used to ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Humanity's Law

    by Ruti Teitel ...
    In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security. As she demonstrates, courts, tribunals, and other international bodies now rely on a humanity-based framework to assess the rights ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Episode Excerpts

    Political Fictions Revealed

    by Daniel Horne ...
    Series series Political Fictions Revealed
    Short Excerpts from all of the Political Fictions Revealed Series ... Read more

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