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KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation
KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation is a stark, bureaucratically composed manual from the Cold War intelligence state, outlining theories of interrogation, assessment, resistance, and control within counterintelligence work. Its style is clinical, taxonomic, and impersonal, reflecting the procedural language of security institutions rather than literary prose. Read historically, it belongs to the documentary literature of modern surveillance, clandestine power, and state secrecy, revealing how official language can render coercive practices abstract and administrative. The "Various Authors" designation points less to a conventional literary collaboration than to institutional authorship, most closely associated with the Central Intelligence Agency and its mid-twentieth-century operational culture. Shaped by Cold War anxieties, anti-communist strategy, and the expanding psychology of persuasion and behavior, the text reflects the convergence of intelligence practice, military doctrine, and applied social science. Its anonymity is itself significant, emphasizing bureaucracy over individual voice. This book is recommended for mature readers, scholars, historians, legal researchers, and students of political ethics who approach it critically rather than instrumentally. It is valuable not as a neutral handbook, but as a primary document exposing the assumptions, language, and moral hazards of institutionalized interrogation.
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Imagine
Winning the New Cold War€ 64,95 -
Tsur 51.5
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. October - November 2009.
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Survival, 51.6
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. December 2009 - January 2010.
€ 173,50 -
Tsur 51.4
Various authors who are experts in their fields
€ 263,50 -
Tsur 51.1
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. February-March 2009.
€ 180,50 -
TSUR 51.2
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. April - May 2009.
€ 180,50 -
TSUR 50.6
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. December 2008 - January 2009.
€ 180,50 -
Tsur 51.3
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. June-July 2009.
€ 263,50 -
Survival, 51.6
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. December 2009-January 2010.
€ 34,50 -
Tsur 51.1
Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. February-March 2009.
€ 38,95 -
The Geopolitics of East and Southeast Asia
Volume 3Complete set Since 1961 the Adelphi Papers have provided some of the most informed accounts of international and strategic relations. Produced by the world renowned International Institute of Strategic Studies, each paper provides a short account of a subject of topical interest by a leading military figure, policy maker or academic. The project reprints the first forty years of papers, arranged into thematic sets. The collection as a whole provides a rich and insightful account of international affairs during a period which spans the second half of the Cold War, the fall of the communist bloc and the emergence of a new regime with the United States as the sole superpower. There is a wealth of global coverage:Four volumes on east and southeast Asia as well as individual volumes on China, Japan and Korea Particular attention is given to the Middle East, with volumes addressing internal sources of instability; geo-politics and the role of the superpowers; the Israel-Palestine conflict; and the Iran-Iraq War and the first Gulf War. There is also a volume on oil and insecurity There are also two volumes on Africa, the site of most of the world’s wars during the period. The IISS has obviously made a particular contribution to the understanding of military strategy, and this is reflected with material on topics such as urban and guerrilla warfare, nuclear deterrence and the role of information in modern warfare. Volumes on military strategy are complemented by approaches from other disciplines, such as defence economics. Key selling points:Early papers were only distributed by the IISS and will have achieved limited penetration of the academic market A host of major authors on a range of different subjects (eg Gerald Segal on China, Michael Leifer on Southeast Asia, Sir Lawrence Freidman on the revolution in military affairs, Raymond Vernon on multinationals and defence economics) Individual volumes will have a strong appeal to different markets (eg the volume on defence economics for economists, various volumes for Asian Studies etc)
€ 381,50