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Terror and Consent

von Philip Bobbitt

Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West's struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam but the...

Is America Safe?: Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Emergency Preparedness

von Robert T. Jordan

This new book empowers Americans by providing them with the knowledge and skills needed to understand terrorist strategies, which, in turn, allow each of us to contribute to disrupting the terrorists' intended...

Still Life with Bombers: Israel in the Age of Terrorism

von David Horovitz

When peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders collapsed at Camp David in 2000, a conflict as bloody as any that had ever occurred between the two peoples began. Now David Horovitz—editor of The...

Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves

von Michael A. Sheehan

Written by a man who is arguably the country’s most authoritative voice on counterterrorism, Crush the Cell demolishes, with simple logic, the edifice of false “terror punditry” that has been laid, brick...

Icons of War and Terror: Media Images in an Age of International Risk

von John Tulloch & R. Warwick Warwick Blood

This book explores the ideas of key thinkers and media practitioners who have examined images and icons of war and terror.

Icons of War and Terror explores theories of iconic images of war and terror, not as...

Learning from the Cold War: Rebuilding America's Strategic Vision in the 21st Century

von Jonathan Stevenson

An ingenious look at the Cold War?and how it can help America move forward

Adding a fresh perspective to the debate about America?s options in the ?war on terror,? this lucid retrospective by one of the most...

9/11 and the Design of Counterterrorism Institutions

von Michael Karlsson

Karlsson argues that 9/11 led to a considerable pressure to strengthen rules and practices for counterterrorism and security, but that this pressure was mediated by several other conditions. The reforms were...

The Al Qaeda Reader: The Essential Texts of Osama Bin Laden's Terrorist Organization

von Raymond Ibrahim

The global war on terror is not just a military conflict but a war of ideas. Indeed it is in some respects primarily an ideological struggle.  Yet it is a war we cannot win without a broader understanding of...

Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets--and How We Let It Happen

von Bill Gertz

It’s the great untold story of the war on terror.

Taking advantage of gaping holes in America’s defenses, terrorist organizations and enemy nations like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, and Cuba—not...

Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror

von Jonathan Stevenson

A top strategic analyst explains what the Cold War can teach us about the War on Terror

September 11 was a product of bad intelligence and wrongheaded expectations about al-Qaeda's motivations, intentions, resourcefulness,...

Licensed to Kill: Privatizing the War on Terror

von Robert Young Pelton

Robert Young Pelton first became aware of the phenomenon of hired guns in the War on Terror when he met a covert team of contractors on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in the fall of 2003. Pelton soon embarked...

Treachery: How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies

von Bill Gertz

In the stunning New York Times bestseller Treachery, Bill Gertz blows the lid off the dirty dealings of our so-called allies. Gertz’s groundbreaking reporting exposes how France, Germany, Russia, and other...

The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack

von Ronald Kessler

“You make a mistake, there are dead people.”

—FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations

Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives,...

Waiving Our Rights: The Personal Data Collection Complex and Its Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties

von Orlan Lee

The purpose of Waiving Our Rights: The Personal Data Collection Complex and its Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties is to alert Americans to the erosion of our fundamental rights, and what to do about that....

Iran: the Untold Story

von M Blake

Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world. However, the United States of America vigorously condemns terrorism. America's armed forces are stronger and better trained than Iran's, and the Iranian...

Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat

von Richard H. Shultz & Andrea J. Dew

By focusing on four specific hotbeds of instability-Somalia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq-Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea J. Dew carefully analyze tribal culture and clan associations, examine why "traditional"...

Between War and Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq

von Victor Hanson

In his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in these...

Failure of European Multiculturalism: The Islamist Crusade

von Gennaro Buonocore & Christian Von Rosen-Kreutz

Failure of European Multiculturalism: The Islamic Crusade is an up-to-date look, from two insiders, at the clear failure of European member nations' policies with regards to the integration of the last wave...

Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence: The 'war on terror' as terror

von Scott Poynting & David Whyte

This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state 'counter-terrorism' strategies.

The book examines how state counter-terrorism...

Pirate State: Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea

von Peter Eichstaedt

Providing a timely and never-before-seen perspective on the ever-increasing menace of Somali pirates, this account shows how the cargo ship and oil tanker hijackings and ransoms in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian...