Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict—including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns—require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink twenty-first-century warfare. Yet because cyber capabilities are so new and continually developing, there is little agreement about how they will be deployed, how effective they can be, and how they can be managed.Written by leading scholars, ...

Many military analysts believe or fear that the wars of the 1990s will be akin to the wars in the former Yugoslavia: small-scale but long-lasting and recurrent ethnic wars that also elude easy international resolution. There are consequently well-founded concerns about prospects for deployment of U.S. forces there in a unilateral or U.N. capacity. Some of the lessons of this kind of war were already apparent in the wars of the 1980s. They were known then as low-intensity conflicts and now ...

Le premier livre tant attendu d’un leader communautaire biracial et d’un activiste citoyen. Stephen Dorsey explore ici son expérience vécue du racisme systémique en Amérique du Nord et les meilleures voies à suivre pour le combattre. Ma dualité raciale me donne une perspective unique à la fois sur l’expérience des personnes noires et des personnes blanches au Canada… Ce qui m’est apparu le plus évident, et le plus universel, c’est le besoin pressant de construire des ponts de compréhension...

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 1979 was, in many respects, a milestone in Soviet history. On the one hand it represented the high-water mark of Soviet intervention in Third World states and thus served as the archetypical example and justification for the intensification of the cold war in the early 1980s. On the other hand, the ultimate defeat and poor performance by this military in Afghanistan was one of the key forces that triggered the drive for a comprehensive refor...

Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish imagination. The chapters in this collection cover speculative works by Jewish artists and about Jewish characters from a broad range of national contexts, including post-Holocaust Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel, South America, French Canada, and the Middle East. The contributors consider various media including novels, short stories, film, YouTub...

This collection of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars is the first to analyze current Russian policies in China, Japan, and the two Koreas. Although Russia was a rising power in Asia a century ago, historical and political events since then have diverted attention from this potential site of development.The essays in Imperial Decline describe the major changes that have occurred in Russia’s relations with China, Japan, and South Korea under Boris Yelt...

A chance meeting at a dinner party in Paris turns the life of Philip Reid, an aging and cynical American diplomat, upside down, sending him back more than twenty years to when he had been a younger and better man. In those days, for a brief moment, Bandula, scion of the island's most powerful family, had been Philip's closest friend. Now, he finds his onetime companion bitter and humbled by life. In a tale marked by terrorist bombings, political assassination, romance, and intrigue, we fol...

Stephen Davis retrace en détail l’histoire palpitante de ce groupe qui, des trottoirs de Sunset Strip, s’est hissé jusqu’au sommet, et est devenu le groupe le plus grand et le plus polémique de la planète. On apprend tout de la naissance de Guns N’Roses jusqu’à leur entrée dans le panthéon des dieux du rock, et ce en dépit des accusations de viol, de la drogue, et de leur appétit de destruction plus général, grâce à leur puissance brute. Avec un grand luxe de détails, Davis se penche sur Axl ...

An American diplomat--reformed alcoholic, unreformed gambler, and inveterate smart-ass-- finds himself under threat of disgrace and murder even as he seeks love and redemption on the strange and spirit-ridden island of Madagascar. Author Steve Holgate brings the mystery and mysticism of Madagascar to life in his haunting and exciting second novel.

Depuis ses enregistrements légendaires chez Sun Records dans les années 1950 jusqu'à ses derniers albums devenus des classiques, Johnny Cash a toujours été LA voix country du rock.L'histoire fascinante de cette icône américaine commence avec Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis et Elvis Presley, pour aboutir à des collaborations avec Bob Dylan, Nick Cave et Kris Kristofferson, pour ne citer qu'eux. En passant par les cases drogue, prison, cinéma, succès écrasant et périodes de ténèbres.Stephen M...

A LETTER FROM THE PAST FORCES A DISGRACED BUREAUCRAT TO CONFRONT HIS FUTURETANGIER tells two parallel stories: one, a mystery, and the other a spy story set fifty years apart and told in a series of alternating sections. In the first, we follow Christopher Chaffee, a disgraced Washington power broker whose father, a French diplomat, died in a Vichy prison in 1944—or so he had always believed until a letter, received decades after it was posted, upends his life. Soon...

Michael Moynihan, auteur entre autres ouvrages de "Black metal satanique Les Seigneurs du chaos", et Stephen Flowers présentent et étudient avec "Le Roi secret" une personnalité à part dans l’histoire de l’occultisme de la première moitié du XXe siècle : Karl Maria Wiligut, surnommé "le Raspoutine de Himmler". Auteur de poésie cosmique, de cérémonies et d’essais où se mêlaient recherches traditionnelles, symboliques et divines, Wiligut, par sa proximité avec Himmler, était au cœur de l’un de...