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The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing: Foresight and Warning Author: Peter Caram Categories: World Trade Center : Terrorism : United States Date: 2001-10-01 Posted By: 
The World Trade Center was both a great engineering feat and a potent symbol. This careful analysis asserts that it was also a security hazard for almost all of its existence. The author, until recently a detective sergeant and antiterrorist officer at the World Trade Center with experience in airport security, voices harsh criticisms of the security lapses that allowed the 1993 bombing to take place, a precursor and unheeded warning of the 2001 disaster. Completed before this cataclysmic event, this book gives an insider 's perspective on Port Authority attitudes and on the mismanagement of security functions at the World Trade Center. It claims that officials did not give serious attention to the resentment of the United States' policy in the Middle East, nor to the mindset of Islamic fundamentalists, or even to expressed threats from dedicated terrorists. The author himself, of Arab-American descent, paints an indignant but well-informed picture of the situation prior to the attack in 1993. He offers chilling evidence that terrorists regarded the 1993 bombing as a bungled job that needed completion.
Comments: About the Author: Peter Caram is a former detective sergeant who was in charge of antiterrorist intelligence at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the organization that owned and ran the World Trade Center, and worked with the FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force, investigating the 1993 bombing. He is currently an international investigator and security consultant. |
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Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.- China Relations, 1989-2000 Author: David M. Lampton Categories: China : United States : Taiwan Date: 0000-00-00 Posted By: 
The title of this unique insider's look at a crucial decade of Sino-American interchange derives from a Chinese expression that describes a relationship of two people whose lives are intimately intertwined but who do not fundamentally communicate with each other. David M. Lampton, former president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, demonstrates that while the United States and China have enormous interests at stake in their bilateral relationship, neither has been particularly deft in dealing with the other. His fascinating account shows how the processes of globalization, along with the development of international regimes and multilateral organizations, have brought America and China increasingly close in the global bed. At the same time, their respective national institutions, interests, popular perceptions, and the very characters of their two peoples, assure that the nations continue to have substantially different dreams. -- Amazon.com Comments: A fascinating insider's account of Sino-US relations, covering everything from Taiwan to Tiananmen Square. |
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Ally to Adversary : An Eyewitness Account of Iraq's Fall from Grace Author: Rick Francona Categories: Iraq : United States : Warfare Date: 1999-04-01 Posted By: 
Francona is a retired United States Air Force officer who served as interpreter to General Schwarzkopf. In 1988, he was in Iraq cooperating with Iraqi forces as part of the American tilt towards Iraq. In Ally to Adversary: An Eyewitness Account of Iraq 's Fall from Grace, he concentrates on describing his own experiences and impressions and does not engage in discussion of high policy. The greatest interest is in what Francona writes about intelligence and rivalries between the services. -- London Times Literary Supplement
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The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America Author: Bill Gertz Categories: China : Espionage Date: 2000-11-01 Posted By: 
Bill Gertz has written a detailed account on the PRC's "real intentions" towards the United States. He goes into fascinating detail regarding PRC espionage and financial activities in the United States.The China Threat has been called an "indictment" of the Clinton administration, and one can certainly see the reasoning behind such a statement. Gertz repeatedly cites Clinton administration actions towards China, and why they weren't necessarily in the best interest of the United States. Everything from the Panama Canal to technology transfers to Taiwan are covered in detail by Gertz.
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A History of the Pakistan Army : Wars and Insurrections Author: Brian Cloughley Categories: Pakistan : Warfare : India Date: 2000-02-01 Posted By: The author gives a candid, no-holds-barred account of the Pakistan army. He describes its evolution, its brutal suppression of the former East Wing (now Bangladesh), the events leading to the overthrow of Prime Minister Bhutto in 1977, and other dramatic episodes. This new edition contains an additional chapter which describes the dramatic resignation of the Army Chief in 1998 (giving his hitherto unpublished reasons), and the intrusion into Indian-administered territory in Kashmir by Pakistan-backed militants in 1999. The author makes use of information provided by senior foreign officials as well as highly-placed Indian and Pakistani sources. |
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China's Future Author: Ted Galen Carpenter Categories: China : International Relations : Communism Date: 2000-06-15 Posted By: 
This book examines the status of our current relationship with the People's Republic of China and its prospect for the future.
"Whether China will be a constructive partner or an emerging threat will depend, to a very great extent, on the fate of liberalism in China: a liberal China will be a constructive partner; a nationalistic and authoritarian China will be an emerging threat." |
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Strategic Choice and International Relations Author: David A. Lake Categories: International Relations : Negotiation Date: 1999-07-15 Posted By: 
The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. With the contributors to this volume, they offer a unifying perspective, which begins with a simple insight: students of international relations want to explain the choices actors make--whether these actors be states, parties, ethnic groups, companies, leaders, or individuals.
Comments: "Elegant and groundbreaking . . . a useful and insightful framework to guide debates over American foreign policy." |
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Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo Author: Ivo H. Daalder, Michael E. O'Hanlon Categories: United Nations : Kosovo : Peacekeeping Date: 2000-06-01 Posted By: Two senior foreign-policy studies fellows at the Brookings Institution assess what went right and what went wrong in NATO's 1999 efforts to protect the people of Kosovo. They argue that, despite the inadequacy of NATO's early actions, NATO "won" the confrontation: "the vast majority of Kosovars are far better off today--and their future is much more promising--because Nato intervened." Although the air war was the key to this victory, the authors argue that NATO's unity, Russia's diplomatic involvement, and a more credible ground-war threat were also critical in convincing Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw from Kosovo. After a thorough discussion of what happened on both the military and diplomatic fronts, Daalder and O'Hanlon spell out implications for the future, including the need for early intervention, for linking military and political aims, and for more nations to develop rapidly deployable military forces. They also discuss the desirability of Russia's support, United Nations authorization, and U.S. leadership within NATO. Mary Carroll |
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Intelligence Power in Peace and War Author: Michael Herman Categories: Espionage : Intelligence : Warfare Date: 1996-10-01 Posted By: 
Comments: Intelligence services form an important but controversial part of the modern state. Drawing mainly on British and American examples, this book provides an analytic framework for understanding the "intelligence community" and assessing its value. |
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War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet Author: Eric S. Margolis Categories: China : Afghanistan : Tibet Date: 2000-02-01 Posted By: 
Having reported for years from the Khyber Pass and the Karakoram and Himalayan ranges, journalist Margolis here distills his experience with the geopolitics of this forbidding region. To outsiders, it might seem perplexing that Pakistan, India, and China should have fought wars over uninhabitable mountains, a bewilderment Margolis dispels by explaining the stakes in Kashmir and Tibet as viewed from Islamabad, New Delhi, and Beijing. It may seem bizarre that the battlefield, at 16,000 feet of elevation, is on the Siachen Glacier, where hypoxic, frostbitten Indians and Pakastinis regularly lob shells at each other. The author's explanation makes it more understandable strategically, for he who controls the glacier controls the only Pakistan-China road. Convinced that Hindu-Muslim animosities will again erupt in war, Margolis describes the tension between China and India, played out in their nascent nuclear and naval arms races. Combining vignettes of his travels (including to Lhasa) with strategic summaries, Margolis usefully draws attention to hot spots some believe are the most likely to set off a nuclear war. Gilbert Taylor
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