National Security

In Onward Muslim Soldiers, the author of Islam Unveiled reveals why the threat of violent jihad is growing daily....

The 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai offer a rare picture of the ties between Pakistan’s intelligence service and the militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba....

An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump’s border wall in San Diego - and the impact on the lives of local residents....

It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or bad planning....

General Richard B. Myers has unique insight into how the American national-security system works....

Can harsh interrogation techniques and torture ever be morally justified for a nation at war or under the threat of imminent attack? Learn more about this vigorous debate....

Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but global surveillance and warning systems were not enough to avert the Covid-19 disaster....

J. D. has walked the border and seen firsthand the devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans....

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics" - disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements....

Diplomacy is one thing. But giving aid and comfort to the enemy is quite another....

Cyber Blockades is the first book to examine the phenomena of blockade operations in cyberspace, large-scale attacks on infrastructure or systems that aim to prevent an entire state from sending or receiving electronic data....

In this bracing book, Michael Chertoff makes clear that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be completely overhauled in the Internet era....

Who’s really to blame for America’s catastrophic financial meltdown and devastating national recession? Contrary to what the “Occupy Movement” might tell you, it’s not greedy Wall Street executives....

The definitive account of how America's war on terror sparked a decade-long assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security....

By laying bare the tactics used by ISIS to deceive and exploit new recruits and exposing the veneer these extremists operate under, Dr. Mehlman-Orozco hopes to empower listeners with the knowledge needed to prevent future recruitment and thereby preventing acts of terrorism....

The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which President Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to the warzone in a bid to save Iraq from collapse....

If there was one technological group that has been in the news a relentless amount of times, it could be identified as the group dubbed the N.S.A....

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, has carried out many of the biggest terrorist plots of the past 20 years....

Americans have been shocked in the past few years to discover how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack or act of God. But it doesn't have to be this way....

Black Gold and Blackmail seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated disruptions....