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The Contest For Central Asia
AUTHOR: Alexander Cooley
PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press, USA
REVIEWED BY: Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor
In the 1800s, Russia and Great Britain played a geopolitical “great game” to control trade routes from…
‘War by other memes’
AUTHORs: P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
PUBLISHED BY: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
REVIEWED BY: Patrick Swan, per Concordiam contributor
If war is, as Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz so memorably…
Hybrid War in the Lands in Between
BOOK AUTHOR: Mitchell A. Orenstein
PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press, 2019
REVIEWED BY: per Concordiam Staff
Mitchell Orenstein assures us that his book, The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid…
An Essential Military Role
Edited by: U.S. Army Col. William Mendel and Dr. Peter McCabe
PUBLISHED BY: JSOU Press
REVIEWED BY: per Concordiam Staff
It is counterintuitive that nations should employ special operations military forces to combat…
What the Past Reveals
AUTHORS:
Peter R. Mansoor and Williamson Murray
PUBLISHED BY:
Cambridge University Press, 2016
REVIEWED BY:
per Concordiam Staff
Seven precarious coalitions battled French attempts to dominate Europe in the Napoleonic…
The battle for digital supremacy
Book author: David Patrikarakos
Published by: Basic Books
Reviewer: per Concordiam Staff
Social media has made a mockery of the old saw that a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Today,…
Islam’s Revival in Central Asia
Book author, editor: Pauline Jones
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017
Reviewer: Diana Clark Gill
Civil violence is worrisome no matter where it originates or where its proponents strike. But in the case of Central…
Countering extremism at the national level
Book author: Hamed El-Said
Published by Palmgrave Macmillan, 2015
Reviewer: Clare Calvert
As the number of countries dealing with the threat of foreign terrorist fighters increases, the book New Approaches to Countering Violent…
Human Trafficking Cases Offer Insight Into Criminal Networks
Authors:
Johan Leman and Stef Janssens, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Reviewed by:
Sabrina A. Laursen
Marshall Center intern
Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in Southeast Europe and Russia provides an in-depth…
A History of Cyberspace
Book editor: Eneken Tikk-Ringas; published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies,
London; December 2015.
Reviewed by: Joseph W. Vann, Marshall Center
Evolution of the Cyber Domain: The Implications for National and…