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  • The Future of Geography

    How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World – THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* (Tim Marshall on Geopolitics Book 3)

    by Tim Marshall ...
    Series Book 3 - Tim Marshall on Geopolitics
    *READ THIS NOW TO UNDERSTAND WHY NASA IS SENDING HUMANS BACK TO THE MOONOUT NOW! The iconic bestseller Prisoners of Geography, updated with brand new content to reflect the changing global geopolitical landscape since it was first published 10 years ago.THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF 2023A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023Space: the biggest geopolitical ... ... Read more

    Was 10,70 € Now 9,32 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interceptors

    The Untold Fight Against the Mexican Cartels

    by Matthew Thomas ...
    Interceptors is an exhilarating ride and front-row seat into the dangerous and harrowing work of law enforcement on America's southern border.Author Matthew Thomas pulls back the curtain and takes the reader on a rarely seen, eye-witness journey.Spanning over 29 years, Matthew's law enforcement career and immersive life in the Hispanic culture is an eye-opening, honest, and unprecedented look into ... Read more

    1,05 €

  • The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified ... Read more

    5,50 €

  • The Shadow World

    Inside the Global Arms Trade

    by Andrew Feinstein ...
    A gripping and urgent investigation into the secretive world of the global arms trade - from a former member of the African National CongressRevealing the corruption and the cover-ups at the heart of ex-President Jacob Zuma's South AfricaAndrew Feinstein delves behind BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe and the revolving-door relationships that ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • The Devil's Ransom

    by Brad Taylor ...
    Series Book 17 - Taskforce
    Pike Logan races to stop an insidious attack orchestrated by a man who knows America's most treasured secrets.THE WORLD'S SECRETS HAVE FALLEN INTO THE WRONG HANDS . . .Afghanistan has fallen. Taskforce operative Pike Logan's mission is to extract a man who has done more for the US in Afghanistan than perhaps anyone else. But Logan's goal is jeopardised when a ransomware attack hits every entity in ... Read more

    8,79 €

  • Westwind

    The classic lost thriller from the Iconic #1 Bestselling Writer of Channel 4’s MURDER ISLAND

    by Ian Rankin ...
    THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Shockingly good' The Sun'A prescient, high-octane thriller' Daily Express'Totally on the money - and ripe for this republication' i Newspaper* * * * *It always starts with a small lie. That's how you stop noticing the bigger ones.After his friend susp... ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • La machine de guerre saoudienne à l'épreuve de ses ambitions

    by Georges Berghezan ...
    Series series Rapports du Grip
    Ce rapport entend présenter les caractéristiques majeures de l'appareil de défense et de sécurité de l’Arabie saoudite.Un des principaux constats à la base de cette étude est que, particulièrement depuis l’accession du prince Mohammed ben Salmane à la tête du ministère de la Défense en 2015, le royaume ne se contente plus d'être le meilleur client des marchands d’armes de la planète, comme il l’a ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Human Intelligence Collector Operations

    by Department of the Army Headquarters ...
    This is an official work by the US Department of the Army Headquarters. It gives information on what Human Intelligence is and what role the department has in the US army. A reader learns the structure of Human Intelligence and gets an insight into their operations. Mainly, the book presents information about the planning and management of operations, their collection process, analytics, and tools ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications

    A Primer on US Systems and Future Challenges

    by James J. Wirtz, Jeffrey A. Larsen, James Clay Moltz, Matthew R. Crook, Wade L. Huntley, Michael S. Malley, Jon R. Lindsay ...
    A unique overview of the United States’ current nuclear command, control, and communications system and its modernization for the digital ageConcerns about the security of nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems are not new, but they are becoming more urgent. While modernization is crucial to the future success of NC3 systems, the transition from analog to digital technologies ... Read more

    35,18 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fire of the Gods: Oppenheimer's Legacy - The Declassified, Real History of Nuclear Weapons & the Atomic Age - Part II - 1960-1970 - Living Dangerously with Nukes in the Missile & Space Age

    The Fire of the Gods, #2

    by Rajat Narang ...
    Series Book 2 - The Fire of the Gods
    Part 2 of the series analyses as to how; after the transition from nuclear to the thermonuclear weapons for mankind, within less than a decade of the onset of the Atomic Age; the focus across superpowers shifted towards miniaturization of nuclear warheads and development of novel and difficult to detect & track strategic nuclear delivery vehicles (SNDVs), which witnessed the emergence of ICBMs and ... Read more

    7,49 €

  • Arms Control Policy

    A Guide to the Issues

    by Marie Isabelle Chevrier ...
    Series series Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
    In this work, an expert on biological weapons offers a thoughtful examination of the political and technical issues that have affected the implementation of arms control agreements from the 1960s to the present.Arms Control Policy: A Guide to the Issues examines the history of the major arms control treaties since the early 1960s. It offers readers a broad understanding of the ways in which arms ... Read more

    43,13 €

  • The Maritime Dimension

    Edited by Ronald Barston, Patricia Birnie ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    For land-locked and coastal states alike, the maritime dimension of national interests has increased dramatically in importance in recent years. Pressure on food and energy resources have coincided with an increase in the global population and insatiable demands for fish and minerals. Maritime conflict remains an ever-present possibility. Originally published in 1980, this book brings together in ... Read more

    39,07 €

  • Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?

    A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats

    by Kathleen M. Vogel ...
    A call for a new way to assess bioweapon threats—recognizing the importance of the sociopolitical context of technological threats.The horrifying terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax strikes that soon followed gave the United States new reason to fear unconventional enemies and atypical weapons. These fears have prompted extensive research, study, and planning within the U.S. ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Risk and Uncertainty

    Understanding and Dialogue in the 21st Century

    Edited by Olivier Urbain ...
    Series series Peace and Policy
    Conflict transformation requires, at minimum, a capacity to listen and respond constructively to those who are being hurt intentionally or unintentionally by others. This compendium attempts to understand the ways in which borders and boundaries are manifestations of less visible dynamics in individual or collective human consciousness.Nur Yalman asks how certain theories, such as the Huntington ... Read more

    62,27 €

  • Opaque Nuclear Proliferation

    Methodological and Policy Implications

    Edited by Benjamin Frankel ...
    This examination of nuclear arms control addresses the question of what kind of posture do second generation nuclear weapons states adopt in a world in which the presumption of non-proliferation is accepted? ... Read more

    216,16 €

  • Armed Conflict Survey 2019

    Edited by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) ...
    Series series Armed Conflict Survey
    The Armed Conflict Survey provides in-depth analysis of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all major armed conflicts, as well as data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced persons. Compiled by the IISS, publisher of The Military Balance, it is the standard reference work on contemporary conflict.The book assesses key developments in 36 high-, medium- and low ... Read more

    512,95 €

  • I Am Kandaka

    The First Female United Nations Secretary-General

    by Seth Appiah-Mensah ...
    The book I Am Kandaka: The First Female United Nations Secretary-General confronts one of the most enduring contradictions in modern global governance: an institution founded on equality that has never been led by a woman. With clarity, authority, and moral force, it argues that the absence of female leadership at the United Nations is not a historical accident but the product of entrenched ... Read more

    9,11 €

  • Understanding Mackinder's Legacy Today

    by aziz_boltayev ...
    The scientific article about the ideas and theories of H. Mackinder through the prism of todays International Relations. ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy

    Normalisation and Acceptance after the Cold War

    by Andrew Futter ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War.The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and subsequent policy choices would often appear to reflect neither the particular requirements of the ... Read more

    68,38 €

  • Guerra, pace, diritto

    by Gianfranco Miglio ...
    Series Book 70 - Orso Blu
    C’è una regolarità della guerra, intesa come «assenza di limiti circa l’uso dei mezzi atti a distruggere o asservire il nemico»? Un interrogativo che guida Gianfranco Miglio – in questo testo dove emerge la sua lezione di maestro del realismo politico – nella ricostruzione delle forme in cui la guerra è stata pensata e praticata: da quella civile allo scontro tra nazioni e Stati. Conflitti che, ... Read more

    6,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emerging Transnational (In)security Governance

    A Statist-Transnationalist Approach

    Edited by Ersel Aydinli ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers and responding to their first-hand international security cooperation experiences. The resulting chapters provide original theoretical perspectives on evolving international security cooperation practices.Beginning with the premise that ... Read more

    62,27 €

  • First Into Nagasaki

    The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

    by George Weller, Anthony Weller ...
    George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with the press corps in northern Japan, Weller broke away. The intrepid newspaperman reached Nagasaki just ... Read more

    8,58 €

  • Great Power Competition and African Countries Foreign Policies

    by BOBE ENGUELEGUELE STEPHANE ...
    This book examines how African nations navigate intensifying Great Power competition and formulate their foreign policy preferences by balancing external influences. It identifies the key factors driving their often-fluid stances. It portrays African states as active participants in international relations, leveraging their resources and power to balance threats and advance their national ... Read more

    18,49 €

  • On Escalation

    Metaphors and Scenarios

    by Herman Kahn ...
    In this widely discussed and influential book, Herman Kahn probes the dynamics of escalation and demonstrates how the intensification of conflict can be depicted by means of a definite escalation ladder, ascent of which brings opponents closer to all-out war. At each rung of the ladder, before the climb proceeds, decisions must be made based on numerous choices. Some are clear and obvious, others ... Read more

    Was 63,50 € Now 56,17 €