Books from Praeger Security International

Strategic Intelligence: Covert action

By Loch K. Johnson

While several fine texts on intelligence have been published over the past decade, there is no complementary set of volumes that addresses the subject in a comprehensive manner for the...

Terrorism's Unanswered Questions

By Beverly Lindsay, Adam Lowther

Despite the growth of interest in the study of terrorism since 9/11, terrorism analysts rarely take a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. This leaves a number of terrorism's characteristics to...

In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval History

By Kenneth J. Hagan, Michael McMaster

This 30th anniversary edition of a highly acclaimed classic covers the entire span of the American naval experience from the Revolution to the present. It avoids descending into a dry...

The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security

By Tony Payan

As the United States' response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, begins to take its final shape, perhaps the most affected area of the country is the U.S. borderlands...

Nuclear Endgame: The Need for Engagement with North Korea

By Jacques L. Fuqua, Jacques L.. Fuqua

Despite the volatility and unpredictability North Korea has come to symbolize in international diplomacy and security issues, it represents only half of the potential danger on the Korean peninsula. In...

Denial of Sanctuary: Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens

By Michael A. Innes

The war on terror's emphasis on denying sanctuary and safe havens to terrorists has placed a premium on physical territory, from mountain caves and frontier hideouts to the bordered world...

Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists

By Adam Dolnik, Keith M. Fitzgerald

This book is about the role of negotiation in resolving terrorist barricade hostage crises. What lessons can be learned from past deadly incidents so that crisis negotiators and decision makers...

Losing Iraq: Insurgency and Politics

By Stephen C. Pelletiere

"According to the Bush administration, the war in Iraq ended in May 2003 when the president pronounced "mission accomplished" from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Yet, fighting, resistance,...

Global Security Watch--Korea: A Reference Handbook

By William E. Berry

Since the end of World War II, primarily through the actions of external powers, the Korean peninsula has been divided--with North and South Korea engaged in a competition for the...

Russia in the Middle East: Friend Or Foe?

By Andrej Kreutz

Kreutz examines the goals and strategies of Russia and the former Soviet Union toward most of the Arab states in the Middle East. The author argues that Russia has been...

Homeland Security and Federalism: Protecting America from Outside the Beltway

By Matt A. Mayer

An insider's account presents a prescient look at what's wrong with America's homeland security effort--and how to fix it.In this most timely and important book, Matt A. Mayer uses the...

The Making of a Terrorist: Training

By James J. F. Forest

Global terrorism has become a frightening reality. Ordinary citizens throughout the civilized world live with increasing fear of a deadly attack from unknown individuals, for reasons many of us cannot...

The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: Interventions

By Chris E. Stout, Mari Fitzduff

These volumes present issues of war, conflict resolution, and stable peace. They explain how men and women are transformed into perpetrators of genocide, how neighbors become sworn enemies, the cultural...

Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and Civil-military Relations During the Mexican War

By John C. Pinheiro

This is not another chronological retelling of the Mexican War. Instead, it examines civil-military clashes during the war in light of Jacksonian politics and the American citizen-soldier tradition, looking at...

A Military History of Britain: From 1775 to the Present

By Jeremy Black

Starting his account at a time when Britain was poised to rule the world's oceans--and much of its land as well--prolific historian Jeremy Black details the nation's involvement in global...

The Hidden Power of the American Dream: Why Europe's Shaken Confidence in the United States Threatens the Future of U.S....

By Giovanna Dell'Orto

On the day after the tragic terrorist attacks of 9/11, newspapers across Europe proclaimed, We Are All Americans in many different languages, crystallizing the solidarity that so many people around...