Intelligence Analysis: New Books 2018-19

The autobiographical story of a U.S. border patrol officer and the conflicts he experiences while enforcing immigration laws.

Spotlights how the agency's success in outmaneuvering Congress and avoiding public scrutiny stands as a direct threat to American democracy.

Identifies plots to carry out terrorist attacks and actual attacks since 9/11 on the U.S. Homeland

Ground-breaking study explains different types of cyber threats and how cyber capabilities will impact strategic thinking, nuclear balances, deterrence thinking, and crisis management.

Provides insights into the operation, missions, and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process.

Provides a vision of human rights as a tool for individuals to work on, improve, and transform themselves for their own sake.

Surveys how non-Western states have responded tol terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions.

Provides a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa, its purposes, and its consequences.

Saiya makes the case that the suppression and not the expression of religion leads to violence and extremism and that safeguarding religious freedom is both a moral and strategic imperative.

Provides new insights on the Middle East conflict, political violence, radicalism, victimhood, ritual, and death and unveils a suicide terrorism scene far different from what is conventionally pictured.

Discusses religious concepts that have been manipulated by violent Islamists as a background to understanding religiously or ideologically motivated terrorism and the avenues open for countering it.

Examines how different states in different regions view strategic stability, the use or non-use of nuclear weapons, and whether or not strategic stability is still a prevailing concept.

Discusses the key social, policy and privacy perspectives and explains how industry, academia and the government are developing solutions that address the critical security issues.

The most extensive account yet of the lives of cybercriminals and the vast international industry they have created, deeply sourced and based on field research in the world's technology-crime hotspots.

Fazal provides a lively and intriguing account of the implications of the laws of war.

Offers new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare.

Analyzes key institutions and processes that promote the peace and prosperity of the United States and, by extension, its allies and other partners.

The most extensive account yet of the lives of cybercriminals and the vast international industry they have created, deeply sourced and based on field research in the world's technology-crime hotspots.

The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day

Advances our understanding of the motivations of terrorist alliances and offers insights useful to counterterrorism efforts to disrupt these dangerous relationships.

Explores U.S. efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services.

Pprovides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West.

This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker--a woman known only as Alien.

Explores how to strike a balance between necessary intelligence activities and protecting democratic values by developing a new framework of ethics.

How professionalization and scholarly "rigor" made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy

Sweeping in its historical coverage and highly accessible, this will be the go-to reference for anyone interested in the history of warfare in the Middle East since 1945.

Outlines three types of motives underlying cyberattacks--financial gain, espionage, and public humiliation of the victims-- and analyzes the emergence of different attack patterns.

Explores the ethical, legal, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: Should governments pay ransom to terrorists?

This book explores different aspects of the regulation of private security contractors working for governments.

Offers a highly original look at the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living with surveillance in America since 9/11.

Explores the challenge of domestic preparedness and security principles and measures that can be implemented.

Examines the presence of military-trained, often veteran, gang members in the communities

Traces the evolution of global news networks from the twentieth century to now, revealing today's drastically altered news business model that places precedence on networks leveraging global power.

Addresses the organizational and strategic changes in terrorism in Europe as a result of urban jihadism and the influx of foreign fighters of European nationality or residence.

Explores human factors and organizational perspectives and emphasizes why asset identification should be the cornerstone of any information security strategy.

Documents and analyzes the build-up and modernization of Russia’s biodefense establishment under the Putin administration.