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“wilhelm agrell”

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  • National Intelligence and Science

    Beyond the Great Divide in Analysis and Policy

    by Wilhelm Agrell, Gregory F. Treverton ...
    Intelligence is currently facing increasingly challenging cross-pressures from both a need for accurate and timely assessments of potential or imminent security threats and the unpredictability of many of these emerging threats. We are living in a social environment of growing security and intelligence challenges, yet the traditional, narrow intelligence process is becoming increasingly ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Intelligence Elsewhere

    Spies and Espionage Outside the Anglosphere

    by Philip H. J. Davies, Kristian C. Gustafson, Stephen Welch, Ralph D. Sawyer, Abdulaziz A. Al-Asmari, Robert Johnson, Carl Anthony Wege, Peter Gill, Lee Wilson0, Ken Kotani1, Emmanuel Kwesi Aning2, Emma Birikorang3, Ernest Ansah Lartey4, Eduardo E. Estévez5, Wilhelm Agrell6, Lauri Holmström7 ...
    Spying, the “world’s second oldest profession,” is hardly limited to the traditional great power countries. Intelligence Elsewhere, nevertheless, is the first scholarly volume to deal exclusively with the comparative study of national intelligence outside of the anglosphere and European mainstream. Past studies of intelligence and counterintelligence have tended to focus on countries such as the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mrs Petrova's Shoe

    The True Story of a KGB Defection

    by Wilhelm Agrell ...
    Translated by Simon Moores ...
    Two men are holding a woman between them in a firm grip. In one hand she is carrying her handbag; the other she places on her heart. The man on her right stares into the camera, his colleague stares resolutely ahead. But there is something else, something missing. The despairing woman is wearing only one shoe.On 19 April 1954 the world was gripped by an unfolding drama at Sydney Airport. A small, ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The shadows around Wallenberg

    by Wilhelm Agrell ...
    Translated by Simon Moores ...
    Was Raoul Wallenberg actually a secret agent whose cover was rescuing Jews? What connections were there between Allied intelligence and the humanitarian actions during the war years 1943-1945?Raoul Wallenberg is one of the most famous Swedes internationally. In 1944 he travelled to Budapest with a mission to save the hungarian Jews. The following year, the Red Army took the city and Wallenberg was ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • National Intelligence Systems

    Current Research and Future Prospects

    Edited by Gregory F. Treverton, Wilhelm Agrell ...
    A series of investigations, especially in Great Britain and the United States, have focused attention on the performance of national intelligence services. At the same time, terrorism and a broad span of trans-national security challenges has highlighted the crucial role of intelligence. This book takes stock of the underlying intellectual sub-structure of intelligence. For intelligence, as for ... Read more

    $133.69 USD

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    A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms

    by Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones ...
    **“Fascinating.” —Jill Lepore, The New YorkerA sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.**From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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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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  • The Virtual Weapon and International Order

    by Lucas Kello ...
    An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes new modes of political interaction, but it also disrupts interstate dealings and empowers non ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Russian Way of Deterrence

    Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War

    by Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky ...
    Selected among Foreign Affairs's "Best of Books 2024"From a globally renowned expert on Russian military strategy and national security, The Russian Way of Deterrence investigates Russia's approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence), comparing and contrasting it with the Western conceptualization of this strategy. Strategic deterrence, or what Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky calls deterrence à la ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • 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

  • Understanding the Intelligence Cycle

    Edited by Mark Phythian ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process.The concept of the intelligence cycle has been central to the study of intelligence. As Intelligence Studies has established itself as a distinctive branch of Political Science, it has generated its own ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Future of Intelligence

    Challenges in the 21st century

    Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Ben de Jong, Joop Reijn ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This volume discusses the challenges the future holds for different aspects of the intelligence process and for organisations working in the field.The main focus of Western intelligence services is no longer on the intentions and capabilities of the Soviet Union and its allies. Instead, at present, there is a plethora of threats and problems that deserve attention. Some of these problems are short ... Read more

    $70.99 USD