#Reading: On Grand Strategy
The way the author effortlessly balances literature, history and theory makes “On Grand Strategy” a great primer on strategic thinking.
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Book of the Week
Weekly installments of Books, readings and pamphlets that may help you navigate the world of intelligence and geopolitics.
#Reading Civilizing the Enemy
Jackson asks vital questions and encourage us to question what we came to take as granted over the years: he claims that the notion of Western Civilization is a recent development and the rhetoric was used to justify the rehabilitation and the remilitarization of West Germany after 1945.
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#Reading The Cultural Politics of Emotion
The beauty of social sciences is in the diversity of approaches on which they’re built. Although not an explicit incursion
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#Reading Orientalism
‘Orientalism’ is a strong tradition with a vast literature that has had a great impact on the mentality of countless people. These paradigms determine the relations between former colonizers and the descendants of the formerly oppressed nations. .
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#Reading Zionism: A Brief History
Zionism: A Brief History is a vivid illustration of a movement which is much older than the goal it achieved in 1949.
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#Reading Easternisation
The West is in decline, Asia on the rise. So much so good: this common knowledge has been repeated again
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#Reading War in 140 Characters
People looking for an entry point in the world of cyberthreats and open-source intelligence will find in War in 140 Characters a sober guide with a sense of the big questions that will affect peace and war in the next decades.
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#Reading: Stalin and the Scientists
Stalin and the Scientists is a gripping and tragic lecture recommended for all those believing science can come to the rescue of politics.
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#Reading Syrian Notebooks and Siria Perché
One shouldn’t forget that the aborted Syrian revolution of 2011 has also been a symbol of hope.
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#Reading All the Kremlin’s Men
All the Kremlin’s Men is so thorough and deep into the lion’s den that it manages to dive beyond the smokes and mirrors of “political technologists” and media companies on Moscow’s payroll.
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