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Peter Bergen
An explosive, news-breaking account of Donald Trump’s collision with the American national security establishment.
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New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen’s definitive account of al Qaeda’s evolution since 9/11 and the US government’s responses.
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A riveting, panoramic look at homegrown Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present
Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans-born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere-have been…
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Paints a multi-dimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the years, as well as the campaign that gradually tightened the noose around him. This book also includes an…
Ken Ballen
Drawing on unprecedented access, a leading terrorism expert profiles six terrorists to offer an astonishing new portrait of our enemies as we have never seen them before. Ballen offers an…
Katherine Tiedemann
Essays by experts exploring the intersection of geography, religion, foreign policy, and terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Peter L. Bergen
The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st…
From the author of Holy War, Inc. –Bergen details the pursuit and killing of bin Laden with a taut yet panoramic account. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden’s…
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Peter A Munch
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
Drone Wars presents a series of essays that is a diverse and comprehensive interdisciplinary perspective on drones. It covers important debates on targeted killing and civilian casualties, presents key data…
Proxy warfare will shape the conflicts of the twenty-first century for the foreseeable future. Yet the popular understanding of proxy wars remains largely shaped by the experience of the Cold…
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A set of highly renowned experts offer diverse new research and a analysis of today's proxy wars, focusing on the Middle East and its neighbors
Michael G Waltz
Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington…
Yvette Peters (University of Bergen, Norway.)
This book examines different forms of political participation in democracies, and in what way the delegation of public responsibilities-or, the diffusion of politics-has affected patterns of participation since the 1980s.
Vigdis Songe-Moller (University of Bergen, Norway)
This volume re-evaluates Greek mythology, throws a harsh new light on the invention of democracy, and exposes Platonic harmony to be an ideal driven by a peculiarly masculine fear of…
