Intelligence Analysis: New Books 2020-21

Provides a breathtaking tour of the world of blockchain and bitcoin, from their origins in the online scribblings of a shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto, to their furious rise and dramatic crash in the 2010s, to their ignominious connections to the dark web and online crime.

Explores how and why the benefits of communication are a huge boon to jihadist operations, with jihadists communicating their ideological programs to develop a strong base for undertaking terrorist violence

Explores five moments in history when democracy in the U.S. was under siege and four characteristics of disruption. By revisiting how earlier generations of Americans faced threats to the principles enshrined in the Constitution, we can chart a path toward repairing our civic fabric and renewing democracy

Examines the role transnational mafias play in the success and failure of separatist movements, challenging conventional wisdom about the interrelation of organized crime with peacebuilding, nationalism, and state making.

Introduces the complex and evolving field of geospatial intelligence, from its ancient origins to its recent global explosion and its far-reaching implications for the scientific, academic, and commercial communities.

Maraniss tells the 1950s Red Scare story of his father, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company, named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years, yet never lost faith in America.

Introduces the critical role of the US intelligence community within the wider national security decision-making and political process. Examines intelligence support from a variety of perspectives to include providing strategic intelligence, warning, daily tactical support to policy actions as well as covert action.

Using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries, Bevins reveals that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists, including a million innocent civilians in Indonesia, was a fundamental part of Washington's triumph in the Cold War.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the nature and development of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories were largely regarded as a legitimate form of knowledge until after WWII, and their recent renaissance is linked to the Internet, and they are once again being accepted in some sectors.

Explains that negotiation is always, fundamentally, about human interaction and the object of negotiation is to engage with other human beings in a way that leads to better understandings and agreements. The principles and strategies in this book will help you do this more effectively in every situation

Analyzes the lives of more than 100 political assassins and terrorists with a focus on psychological and ideological factors. Examines their criminal trialls and also looks closely at social media’s role in modern political violence.

Argues that, in the war against terror we are not facing a battle of the West against Islam, but a clash of liberalism and its enemies

Introduces a grand theory of homeland security by leveraging the theoretical underpinnings of the disciplines that comprise the strategies, operations and structures of the HLS enterprise.

Explains what each of us should know about modern computing, AI, and machine learning and calls for unified action to protect fundamental human rights and dignities for all.

Provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and analyzes the forces shaping the life cycle of violent political movements.Explains the current global trend of rising tribalism and authoritarianism, which may be exacerbated by climate change.

Examines America's vulnerability to espionage, which has oscillated between peacetime complacency and wartime vigilance, and continues to be shaped by the inherent conflict between our nation's security needs and our commitment to the preservation of civil liberties

Gives clear guidelines on improving the security and the resilience of the commercial services sector, including how to assess risk, identify assets, implement protective programs, create and emergency response plan, and much more.

Each chapter of this book is written by an internationally-renowned expert in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the increasing number of objects that create personalized digital footprints and evidence that can be used to identify individuals and their actions.

A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. Berger offers a nuanced introduction to extremist movements, explaining what extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.

A practical guide to adopting an accurate risk analysis methodology, this book examines including risk assessment and evaluation methods, risk mitigation strategies, common errors in quantitative models, and more

Reveals how the NRA's cultivation of a large, unified, and active base has enabled it to build a resilient alliance with the Republican Party and helped shape the national agenda.

This book describes the sector-wide process required to identify and prioritize assets, assess risk in critical infrastructure, implement protective programs and resilience strategies, and measure their effectiveness

Explores the geopolitical competition of the digital age. Reveals little-known details of how China, Russia, North Korea, Britain, and the United States hack one another in a relentless struggle for dominance. The nation that hacks best will triumph.

Explores how hackers and hacking moved from being a target of the state to a key resource for the expression and deployment of state power.

Features contributions from leading international experts on the field on the prevention of radicalization, preparatory acts, and terrorist attacks, as well as consequence management.

Examines the history of immigration and custom services, shifts in attitudes about immigration, examines developments in immigration policy relating to the border wall, family separation, unaccompanied immigrant minors and DACA.

Dahl argues that the key to avoid a future surprise attack on the scale of 9/11 is better acquisition of precise, tactical-level intelligence combined with the presence of decision makers who are willing to listen to and act on the warnings they receive from their intelligence staff.

DeNardis argues that the diffusion of the Internet into the physical world radically escalates governance concerns around privacy, discrimination, human safety, democracy, and national security, and she offers new cyber-policy solutions.

Provides everything an interviewer needs to know in order to conduct successful interviews professionally, including issues of evidence, rapport, deception, authority and setting. with integrity, and within the law

Provides a practical introduction to the concepts, structure, politics, law, hazards, threats, and practices of homeland security.

Examines Russia’s use of hybrid and information warfare and offers the national security community a robust plan of action critical to effectively mounting a durable defense against Russian cyber campaigns.

Analyzes the usefulness of terrorist profiling utilised by law enforcement officers as a pre-emptive means to assist them in the detection, prevention and deterrence of terrorism and/or its preparatory activities.