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The Logic of Intelligence Analysis

Why Hypothesis Testing Matters

by Karl Spielmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

This book discusses the application of hypothesis testing to the practice of intelligence analysis. By drawing on longstanding procedures of scientific method, particularly hypothesis testing, this book strongly critiques standard intelligence analytic practices. It shows these practices to...
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Transatlantic Relations and Modern Diplomacy

An interdisciplinary examination

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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013

This book explores the transatlantic relationship between the US and Europe from multiple perspectives and disciplines. Since the end of the Cold War, a multi-polar world has replaced the dual power economic and political stranglehold previously shared by the US and Russia. Amid the shift in...
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by Angel Rabasa, Matthew Waxman, Eric V. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004

Momentous events since September 11, 2001-Operation Enduring Freedom, the global war on terrorism, and the war in Iraq-have dramatically altered the political environment of the Muslim world. Many of the forces influencing this environment, however, are the products of trends that have been at work...
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by Nataliya Gudz
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,7 (A-), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, course: Conflict and Mediation, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The post-Cold War change...
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Europe's Role in Nation-Building

From the Balkans to the Congo

by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008

Two previous RAND volumes addressed the roles of the United States and the United Nations in nation-building, defined as the use of armed force in the aftermath of a conflict to promote a durable peace and representative government. This volume presents six case studies of recent European-led nation-building...
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From Insurgency to Stability

Volume I: Key Capabilities and Practices

by Angel Rabasa, John Gordon, IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011

This book identifies the procedures and capabilities that the U.S. Department of Defense, other agencies of the U.S. government, U.S. allies and partners, and international organizations require in order to support the transition from counterinsurgency, when the military takes primary responsibility...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

This book examines the presence of Africa as a significant force in the western Indian Ocean. Africa will increasingly play a pivotal role in the future of the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean region. The book considers the scope for greater African involvement in Indian Ocean region-building activities,...
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Post-Conflict Studies

An Interdisciplinary Approach

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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014

This book examines how the violence of conflict is transformed in the post-conflict period. Post-conflict studies seek to illuminate, theorise, and narrate the processes by which societies transition from periods of overt and violent conflict to periods of relative stability and peace. Most...
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Shadow Government

How the Secret Global Elite Is Using Surveillance Against You

by Grant R. Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

Security cameras, surveillance of your financial transactions, radio frequency spy chips hidden in consumer products, tracking of your Internet searches, and eavesdropping on your e-mail and phone calls. Without your knowledge or consent, every aspect of your life is observed and recorded. But who...
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by David Owen, David Ludlow
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

At a time of alarming global instability, amid shocking terrorist attacks in Europe and mounting tensions between the USA and North Korea, a clear and focused foreign and defence policy is now more critical than ever. Now that departure is under way, what happens next? Against this unpredictable...
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The School of the Americas

Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

by Lesley Gill, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004

Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation...
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by Osamah F. Khalil
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016

As the postwar U.S. national security establishment required Middle Eastern expertise, it cultivated a beneficial relationship with universities. But by the time the Bush administration declared its Global War on Terror, Osamah Khalil shows, think tank agendas aligned with neoconservative goals were the drivers of America’s foreign policy.
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by John G. Horgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014

This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based...
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Framing Terrorism

The News Media, the Government and the Public

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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

Terrorism now dominates the headlines across the world-from New York to Kabul. Framing Terrorism argues that the headlines matter as much as the act, in political terms. Widely publicized terrorist incidents leave an imprint upon public opinion, muzzle the "watchdog" role of journalists and promote a general one-of-us consensus supporting security forces.
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