Intelligence Analysis: New Books 2022-23

Argues that space technology was developed and have evolved from the nuclear missile revolution to today’s military satellites to gain military and economic control on Earth.

In 2001, letters containing anthrax killed five people and injured 18 more. This book follows the FBI investigation and their use of advances in the new science of microbial forensics to identify a suspect who possessed the knowledge and skills to unleash a living weapon of mass destruction.

A detailed guide to sophisticated nation state cyber attackers, the techniques they use, and the process of analysing their advanced attacks.

The US, hina and Russia--still maintain sizable arsenals of nuclear weapons, along with the systems for managing them and using the. This book explores how theories and policies are put into practice in managing nuclear forces in the United States.

Argues that conspiracy theories, including those that conflict with official accounts by powerful people in Western democracies, should be taken seriously and judged on on a case-by-case basis.

Draws on surveys and experiments--as well as insights from history, psychology, and political science--to put our present partisan fractiousness in context and to explain broad patterns of political and social change. Argues that ordinary partisanship is far more dangerous than scholars have recognized.

Reveals a new generation of online, Far Right terrorist movements and how theier cultures --far more than their ideologies and leaders--create today's terrorists and shape how they commit "real world" violence.

Examines how both state leaders and 'ethnic entrepreneurs' in post-Soviet states employ nationalist rhetoric and stratagems to further their political agendas on the societal and national levels.

Synthesizing a diverse body of scholarship across many disciplinary fields, this brief evaluates a range of theories and arguments asserting link between immigration and crime, reviews studies examining its nature and predictors, and considers the impacts of immigration policy.

Traces the systematic corruption of US businesspeople and politicians after World War II, documenting the collaboration of Truman, Johnson, and Nixon with powerful mobsters and shows how Trump represents a twisted culmination of earlier corruption.

Examines China's behavior as a rising power in two key Global South regions, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa across a range of functional areas: political, economic, foreign aid, and military.

A compilation of five consensus studies that review available research evidence on police and policing practices, with emphasis on how police reform can promote the rule of law and protect the public.

Evaluates US interests in the world's most complex and dangerous maritime disputes by examining more than a century of American involvement in the South China Sea.

Offers a unique narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process by a senior academic historian who has served as Israel's ambassador to the United States and as a peace negotiator with Syria

Examines how violent non-state actors (VNSAs) finance themselves, how they function, how they erode the rule of law, and what actions might be taken to derail their plans or dismantle their structure.

Presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories--who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them.

Investigates the history of intelligence to show that the competitive pursuit of an advantage in military intelligence has been a measurable, buildable, and consequential form of power that can help competitors win against otherwise stronger opponents.

Traces the evolution of the partnership between the private sector and US intelligence agencies in protecting critical economic and industrial interests from hackers and terrorists.

In 2014, the Islamic State seized Mozul and large swathes of eastern Syria. Obsessed with narrative, image management and branding, the Islamic State used thousands of propaganda photographs to denote policy, to navigate through defeat and to construct an alternate world of Salafi-Jihadist symbols and myths.

Shows how US power, interests, and values were projected into the international arena even as capitalism brought both positive and negative results to the global order.

Tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated--and often brutal--harnessing of data and digital surveillance.

A new history of Putin's recreation and expansion of military power, including adding mercenaries and forging relentless information war against Western powers, and how they have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine.

Argues that national intelligence agencies need a new paradigm to adjust to recent technological developments which are both powerful and affordable to many nongovernmental actors.

The Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 mobilized diaspora communities to organize forcefully against authoritarian regimes. Moss presents a new framework for the transnational dynamics of contention and the social forces that enable or suppress transnational activism.

Digital deception is the new face of information warfare, especially in authoritarian Middle East regimes. Jones' meticulous investigative research uncovers the full gamut of tactics used by Gulf regimes and their allies to deceive domestic and international audiences.

Presents original case studies that survey the state of the international system and look in-depth at current issues. The cases are geopolitically diverse, accessible, and timely with new coverage of the pandemic, election interference, China, cyberwar, and global warming.

Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock investigates how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America's longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban's recapture of Afghanistan.