Category: Security Studies

January 28, 2009

Why Israel Has Failed to Stop Terrorism.

Yesterday, we ran an interview with Ami Pedahzur about his new book The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. In the interview, Pedahzur explores why Israel has failed to stop terrorism despite the amount of resources it has...

January 27, 2009

Interview with Ami Pedahzur

The following is an interview with Ami Pedahuzur, author of The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. Q: Have you ever worked for the Mossad or any other intelligence agency? Ami Pedahzur: No. never. I was a senior...

January 14, 2009

Wired on The Scientific Way of Warfare

On Danger Room, a national security blog on Wired, Michael A. Innes, director of The Complex Terrain Laboratory, reviews and praises Antoine Bousquet’s The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity. Innes argues that Bousquet’s...

December 23, 2008

Two Perspectives on the Terrorist Attacks in Mumbai — Ami Pedazhur and Bruce Hoffman

In a recent New York Times op-ed, Ami Pedazhur, author of the forthcoming The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism, compared the recent attack in Mumbai to the one during 1972 Munich Olympics. In both cases, the terrorists...

December 2, 2008

Learning from the Mumbai Tragedy — An Op-ed from Rohan Gunaratna

“Without building a robust relationship with Pakistan, India has been strengthening its cooperation with Israel and the U.S. As the regional power, India must take the lead and reach out to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka and share counter...

June 30, 2008

Richard Betts and Intelligence Reform

The Washington Note recently cited Richard Betts’s newest book Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security for its impact on policymakers and legislators in Washington D. C. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, favored...

June 9, 2008

Bruce Hoffman and the Feud over Terrorism

Yesterday’s New York Times “Week in Review” featured an article about the growing dispute between experts on the nature of the terrorist threat. One of the central figures in this debate is Bruce Hoffman, professor at Georgetown University’s School of...

February 19, 2008

Books for the Candidates: Terrorism

This continues our series of blog postings on essential reading for the presidential candidates. Two weeks ago we advised our candidates to read The Economists’ Voice, edited by Joseph Stiglitz, Aaron Edlin, and J. Bradford Delong to prepare for tackling...