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About the Author

John A. Gentry was for twelve years an intelligence analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he worked mainly on economic issues concerning the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He also was senior analyst on the staff of the National Intelligence Officer for Warning in 1987-1989. In 1986 he experienced politicization from the political Right-efforts by CIA managers to make the Soviet Union and its allies look even worse than they clearly were. ... Read more

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"An extraordinarily timely and germane assessment of the evolution of the transatlantic relationship and the identity and roles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the European, Eura-sian, Greater Middle Eastern, and broader global security architecture in the wake of Russia's inter-vention in (and conduct of a war of choice against) Ukraine beginning in February 2022. Most sig-nificantly, the book is instructive in situating the historical strains of cooperation and discord be-tween the United States and its European allies within shifting strategic and geopolitical environ-ments that demand balance and in safeguarding often interconnected threats posed by global and regional adversaries, most notably Russia, China, Iran and North Korea on one hand, and transna-tional challenges such as climate change, cybersecurity, and Islamist extremist driven terrorism on the other. Further, the author is adept in identifying and explaining the links between those threats emphasized in the 2022 NATO Strategic Concept and the daunting challenges in achieving the req-uisite transatlantic unity to manage them effectively." --Robert J. Pauly, Jr., Professor of Interna-tional Development, The University of Southern Mississippi

"This is a timely contribution to deepen our understanding of how Russian and Chinese offensive maneuvers, along with the security risks posed by the current pandemic, climate change, terrorism, migration, and threats posed by hybrid war-fare are shaping NATO's strategic reorientation. Dolan also recognizes the internal threats to liberal democracies, namely the rise of illiberal political forces, in NATO member states and the challenges they pose to the Euro-Atlantic alliance. The book is clearly organized and includes the author's recommendations for NATO's effective path forward." --S. Mohsin Hashim, Professor of Political Science, Muhlenberg College

Chris Dolan (PhD, University of South Carolina) is Professor and Director of the Masters of Sci-ence in Intelligence and Security Studies at Lebanon Valley College. He is a two-time Fulbright U.S. Scholar (Kosovo; North Macedonia) and recipient of the Thomas Vickroy Distinguished Teaching Award.....  Read more

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This book argues for making African intelligence services front-and-center in studies about historical and contemporary African security. As the first academic anthology on the subject, it brings together a group of international scholars and intelligence practitioners to understand African intelligence services’ post-colonial and contemporary challenges. The book’s eleven chapters survey a diverse collection of countries and provides readers with histories of understudied African intelligence services. The volume examines the intelligence services’ objectives, operations, leaderships, international partners and legal frameworks. The chapters also highlight different methodologies and sources to further scholarly research about African intelligence... Read more

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Bringing together twelve experts from nine countries, this volume explores intelligence and diplomatic activities, both historical and contemporary, in the Balkan region. Covering a wide range of periods and radically different historical conditions, the various contributions are united by a common theme: the intimate relationship between diplomacy and intelligence. Read more

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Secret Apparatus” is a clandestine incubator for Islamic terrorism, and it exports its “industry of death” to destroy the world through infiltration, disinformation, and jihad.

The world’s most dangerous terrorist group is not hiding in the caves of the Hindu Kush or in the Saharan wilderness—it operates inside the United States, and its members have sworn to fight eternal jihad. The Muslim Brotherhood is a fraternal cult inspired by the Order of the Assassins and modeled after Joseph Stalin’s Secret Apparatus. It’s an incubator for Islamic terrorist organizations, and it has implemented a one-hundred-year plan to destroy the West. The Muslim Brotherhood claims to be a reformist, non-violent political organization, but it is a terrorism apparatus with a political facade, which its ... Read more

At the Great War raged in Europe, Athens, the city of the Acropolis, turned into a place of violence and political intrigue where nothing was or could be kept secret. This book reveals the activities of British, German, and French spymasters in 1914-1918. All spymasters, overzealous and amateurs, were involved in countless real and imagined plots at a time of constitutional crisis. The Anglophile Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos insisted that Greece join the Entente against the central powers. King Constantine demanded Greece remain neutral, to the strategic advantage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose sister, Sofia, he had married.

Dr. Ioannis P. Sotiropoulos demonstrates scientific precision and methodological rigor, producing a work that can be ranked among the most important on the Afghanistan issue. The work of Sotiropoulos contributes decisively to the clarification of the causes of the soviet intervention in Afghanistan, since, among other things, he reconstructs with precision, patience and meticulous documentation the timeline of the decision-making by the official bodies of the Soviet Union, within the geopolitical framework of the Cold War. ... Read more

“Russia Wagner Militia, Chechen Fighters, and Nazification of Ukraine”, by Musa Khan Jalalzai, a member of RIEAS, Greece and Director of the Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analysis Center, UK and Fellow of Islamic Theology of Counter-Terrorism (ITCT), a Think-Tank based in UK.

The book focuses on the issue of Foreign Fighters, or Proxy Militias that have circulated in newspapers, Proxy Militias have reached Ukraine and are fighting against Russian and Ukraine’s army in different cities. There were different perceptions about these militias and their fighting capabilities, but one thing was clear that these militias might be effective in guerrilla war, not in traditional technological war.

RIEAS presents a valuable book for security and intelligence scholars titled: “We Have Never Expected That: A Comparative Study of Failures in National and Business Intelligence” by Avner Barnea, a research fellow at the National Security Studies (NSSC) at the University of Haifa, Israel.
The Book will be presented online event hosted by the Bar -Ilan University (Israel), on Thursday the 10 March at 1130 (EST-US) / 1830 (Israel and Greek time)  Click on to Read more.

RIEAS presents a valuable book for security and intelligence scholars titled: “Handbook of Terrorism, Prevention, and Preparedness”, edited by Prof. Alex P. Schmid and featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, this ambitious joint project aims to be an authoritative resource on counter-terrorism. Edition 1st Edition, First Published 2020, The Hague, ICCT Press. DOI 10.19165/2020.6.01, ISBN 9789090339771. Read more

RIEAS presents a valuable book for security and intelligence scholars titled: “Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations” by Mikael Weissmann, Niklas Nilsson, Per Thunholm and Bjorn Palmertz (eds). Hybrid Warfare refers to a military strategy that blends conventional warfare, so-called 'irregular warfare' and cyber-attacks with other influencing methods, such as fake news, diplomacy and foreign political intervention. As Hybrid Warfare becomes increasingly commonplace, there is an imminent need for research bringing attention to how these challenges can be addressed in order to develop a comprehensive approach towards Hybrid Threats and Hybrid Warfare. Read more 

RIEAS presents a book titled: Chinese Communist Espionage, An Intelligence Primer by Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil (eds). This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations. It profiles the leaders, top spies, and important operations in the history of China's espionage organs, and links to an extensive online glossary of Chinese language intelligence and security terms. Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage both past and present, enabling a better understanding of how pervasive and important its influence is, both in China and abroad. Read more