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Putin’s Long Shadow Over Post-Soviet Russia

The Return of Russia

Putin’s Long Shadow Over Post-Soviet Russia

BOOK REVIEW: The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful KremlinBy James Rodgers / Yale University PressReviewed by: Susan [...] More

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From Shah to Supreme Leader: A Revolution Gone Wrong

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

From Shah to Supreme Leader: A Revolution Gone Wrong

BOOK REVIEW: King of Kings. The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation.By Scott Anderson / DoubledayReviewed [...] More

When Journalism Met Totalitarianism: Lessons From Prewar Paris

The Typewriter and the Guillotine

When Journalism Met Totalitarianism: Lessons From Prewar Paris

BOOK REVIEW: THE TYPEWRITER AND THE GUILLOTINE: AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST, A GERMAN SERIAL KILLER, AND PARIS ON THE EVE OF WWIIBy Mark Braude / Grand [...] More

When Journalism Met Totalitarianism: Lessons From Prewar Paris

The Typewriter and the Guillotine

When Journalism Met Totalitarianism: Lessons From Prewar Paris

BOOK REVIEW: THE TYPEWRITER AND THE GUILLOTINE: AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST, A GERMAN SERIAL KILLER, AND PARIS ON THE EVE OF WWIIBy Mark Braude / Grand [...] More

The Burden of the Bomb

The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age

The Burden of the Bomb

BOOK REVIEW: The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic AgeBy Alex Wellerstein / William MorrowReviewed [...] More

The Mossad’s Most Transformational Leader

The Architect of Espionage: The Man Who Built Israel's Mossad into the World's Boldest Intelligence

The Mossad’s Most Transformational Leader

BOOK REVIEW: THE ARCHITECT OF ESPIONAGE: The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad into the World’s Boldest Intelligence ForceBy Samuel M. Katz / [...] More

Can Iran Ever Become a “Normal Adversary”?

Enduring Hostility

Can Iran Ever Become a “Normal Adversary”?

BOOK REVIEW: ENDURING HOSTILITY: THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S IRAN POLICYBy Dalia Dassa Kaye / Stanford University PressReviewed by: Joe ZacksThe [...] More

The Spy Who Came in Because He Wanted a Divorce

The Defector

The Spy Who Came in Because He Wanted a Divorce

BOOK REVIEW: The Defector. The Untold Story of the KGB Agent Who Saved MI5 and Changed the Cold WarBy Richard Kerbaj / BlinkReviewed by: Tim [...] More

Cold War, Hot Zone: Inside the New Arctic Rivalry

Cold War, Hot Zone: Inside the New Arctic Rivalry

BOOK REVIEW: Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting ArcticBy Kenneth R. Rosen / Simon & Schuster January 6, [...] More

The Global Shadow War Behind the Cold War

Cold War on Five Continents

The Global Shadow War Behind the Cold War

Book Review of Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and EspionageBy Alfred W. McCoy/ Haymarket BooksReviewed by: Jean-Thomas [...] More

When Symphony Met Starvation: The Untold Stories of Leningrad's Siege

Saint Petersburg

When Symphony Met Starvation: The Untold Stories of Leningrad's Siege

BOOK REVIEW: Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City that Defied HitlerBy Sinclair McKay/Pegasus Books Reviewed by: Susan GorgioskiThe [...] More

MI6's Secret Weapon: The Belgian Networks That Helped Win Two World Wars

The White Lady

MI6's Secret Weapon: The Belgian Networks That Helped Win Two World Wars

BOOK REVIEW: The White Lady. The Story of Two Key British Secret Service Networks Behind German LinesBy: Helen Fry/ Yale University PressReviewed by: [...] More

History's Most Mistrusted Friendship

Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies

History's Most Mistrusted Friendship

BOOK REVIEW: Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian RelationsBy David S. Fogelsong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria [...] More