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  • Al-Qaeda

    From Global Network to Local Franchise

    Série série Rebels
    Since the attacks of September 11th 2001 and up to and beyond Osama bin Ladin's death, al-Qaeda has come to embody the new enigmatic face of terrorism, dominating discussions of national and international security. Yet in spite of the attention it receives, conflicting assumptions about the group abound. Is al-Qaeda a rigidly structured organization, a global network of semi-independent cells, a ... Přečtěte si více

    2 028,09 Kč

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  • Voices from the Grave

    Two Men's War in Ireland

    podle Ed Moloney ...
    A candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict.After 'the long war' in Ireland came to an end, very few paramilitary leaders on either side spoke openly about their role in that bloody conflict, but in Voices from the Grave, two leading figures from opposing sides reveal their involvement in ... Přečtěte si více

    214,29 Kč

  • Does State Spying Make Us Safer?

    The Munk Debate on Mass Surveillance

    Série série Munk Debates
    Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue of the moment.In a risk-filled world, democracies are increasingly turning to large-scale state ... Přečtěte si více

    180,69 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Believer

    How an Introvert with a Passion for Religion and Soccer Became Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Leader of the Islamic State

    podle William McCants ...
    In The Believer, Will McCants tells the story of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS), a group so brutal and hardline that even al-Qaida deemed them too extreme. Baghdadi, an introverted religious scholar, with a passion for soccer, now controls large swaths of land in Iraq and Syria. McCants shows how Baghdadi became radicalized in the Saddam Hussein era and found ... Přečtěte si více

    59,35 Kč

  • Yemen

    Revolution, Civil War and Unification

    podle Uzi Rabi ...
    Yemen, tucked into the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, has often escaped regional and international attention. And yet its history illuminates some of the most important issues at play in the modern Middle East: from Cold War rivalries to the growth of Islamic extremism in the 1990s, and from the rise of 'Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula' (AQAP) in the post-9/11 period to Obama-era ... Přečtěte si více

    2 535,19 Kč

  • Beyond War

    Reimagining America's Role and Ambitions in a New Middle East

    podle David Rohde ...
    A groundbreaking look at America’s role in the Middle East—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Rope and a PrayerDistilling eleven years of expert reporting for the New York Times, Reuters, and the Atlantic, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Rohde presents an incisive look at the calamitous privatization of the war on terror. Beyond War is a clarion call for change in American policies ... Přečtěte si více

    265,59 Kč

  • Life as a Weapon

    The Global Rise of Suicide Bombings

    podle Riaz Hassan ...
    Suicide bombing has become a weapon of choice among terrorist groups because of its lethality and ability to cause mayhem and fear. But who carries out these acts, and what motivates them? By undertaking analysis of the information in the most comprehensive suicide terrorism database in the world, Life as a Weapon seeks to question and in turn undermine the common perception that the ... Přečtěte si více

    1 736,27 Kč

  • Life is More Beautiful Than Paradise

    A Jihadist's Own Story

    podle Khaled al-Berry ...
    Překlad: Humphrey Davies ...
    In 1986, when this autobiography opens, the author is a typical fourteen-year-old boy in Asyut in Upper Egypt. Attracted at first by the image of a radical Islamist group as "strong Muslims," his involvement develops until he finds himself deeply committed to its beliefs and implicated in its activities. This ends when, as he leaves the university following a demonstration, he is arrested. Prison, ... Přečtěte si více

    256,89 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Unfinished Bombing

    Oklahoma City in American Memory

    On April 19, 1995 the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City shook the nation, destroying our complacent sense of safety and sending a community into a tailspin of shock, grief, and bewilderment. Almost as difficult as the bombing itself has been the aftermath, its legacy for Oklahoma City and for the nation, and the struggle to recover from this unprecedented attack. In ... Přečtěte si více

    638,29 Kč

  • Innovation, Transformation, and War

    Counterinsurgency Operations in Anbar and Ninewa Provinces, Iraq, 2005-2007

    podle James Russell ...
    Within a year of President George W. Bush announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May 2003, dozens of attacks by insurgents had claimed hundreds of civilian and military lives. Through 2004 and 2005, accounts from returning veterans presaged an unfolding strategic debacle—potentially made worse by U.S. tactics being focused on extending conventionally oriented military operations ... Přečtěte si více

    563,39 Kč

  • High-Value Target: Countering al Qaeda in Yemen

    Since its inception, al Qaeda has aspired to create a safe haven in Yemen,where it has operated against U.S. and Yemeni interests. From 2001 to 2004, when Edmund J. Hull was the American ambassador to Yemen, U.S. and Yemeni counterterrorism efforts successfully seized the initiative against al Qaeda, severely degrading its capabilities. During this period, al Qaeda mounted no successful operations ... Přečtěte si více

    335,99 Kč

  • Treading on Hallowed Ground

    Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces

    After America's Iraq adventure devolved into a debacle, a chorus of commentators and analysts noted that the U.S. military had no plan to fight a counterinsurgency campaign. Given the failure of conventional tactics, America in the last two years has redoubled its efforts to develop a new strategy to fight the Iraqi insurgency, and has gone so far to place our leading counterinsurgency expert, ... Přečtěte si více

    396,29 Kč