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Book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency  The central intelligence agency  its founding and the dispute over its mission  1945 1954

Download or read book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency The central intelligence agency its founding and the dispute over its mission 1945 1954 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency  The emergence of an Asian Pacific rim in American foreign policy  Korea  Japan  and Formosa

Download or read book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency The emergence of an Asian Pacific rim in American foreign policy Korea Japan and Formosa written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency  The constitutional crisis over President Truman s seizure of the steel industry in 1952

Download or read book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency The constitutional crisis over President Truman s seizure of the steel industry in 1952 written by Dennis Merrill and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency

Download or read book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency written by Dennis Merrill and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency

Download or read book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency  The development of an atomic weapons program following World War II

Download or read book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency The development of an atomic weapons program following World War II written by Dennis Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency  Oil crisis in Iran

Download or read book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency Oil crisis in Iran written by Dennis Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency  Preparing to survive atomic attack  the Truman administration s civil defense program

Download or read book Documentary History of the Truman Presidency Preparing to survive atomic attack the Truman administration s civil defense program written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spy Chiefs  Volume 1

Download or read book Spy Chiefs Volume 1 written by Christopher Moran and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of intelligence? This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and national security in the United States and United Kingdom from the early 1940s to the present. The figures profiled range from famous spy chiefs such as William Donovan, Richard Helms, and Stewart Menzies to little-known figures such as John Grombach, who ran an intelligence organization so secret that not even President Truman knew of it. The volume tries to answer six questions arising from the spy-chief profiles: how do intelligence leaders operate in different national, institutional, and historical contexts? What role have they played in the conduct of international relations and the making of national security policy? How much power do they possess? What qualities make an effective intelligence leader? How secretive and accountable to the public have they been? Finally, does popular culture (including the media) distort or improve our understanding of them? Many of those profiled in the book served at times of turbulent change, were faced with foreign penetrations of their intelligence service, and wrestled with matters of transparency, accountability to democratically elected overseers, and adherence to the rule of law. This book will appeal to both intelligence specialists and general readers with an interest in the intelligence history of the United States and United Kingdom.

Book Accidental State

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  • Author : Hsiao-ting Lin
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-14
  • ISBN : 0674969626
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Accidental State written by Hsiao-ting Lin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of two Chinese states—one controlling mainland China, the other controlling the island of Taiwan—is often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the Chinese civil war. Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the “Two Chinas” dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Accidental State challenges this conventional narrative to offer a new perspective on the founding of modern Taiwan. Hsiao-ting Lin marshals extensive research in recently declassified archives to show that the creation of a Taiwanese state in the early 1950s owed more to serendipity than careful geostrategic planning. It was the cumulative outcome of ad hoc half-measures and imperfect compromises, particularly when it came to the Nationalists’ often contentious relationship with the United States. Taiwan’s political status was fraught from the start. The island had been formally ceded to Japan after the First Sino-Japanese War, and during World War II the Allies promised Chiang that Taiwan would revert to Chinese rule after Japan’s defeat. But as the Chinese civil war turned against the Nationalists, U.S. policymakers reassessed the wisdom of backing Chiang. The idea of placing Taiwan under United Nations trusteeship gained traction. Cold War realities, and the fear of Taiwan falling into Communist hands, led Washington to recalibrate U.S. policy. Yet American support of a Taiwan-based Republic of China remained ambivalent, and Taiwan had to eke out a place for itself in international affairs as a de facto, if not fully sovereign, state.

Book Spies and Their Masters

Download or read book Spies and Their Masters written by Matteo Faini and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the secret histories of the CIA, the FBI, and British and Italian intelligence to study how policymakers can control intelligence agencies and when these agencies will try to remove their own government. For every government they serve, intelligence agencies are both a threat and a necessity. They often provide vital information for national security, but the secrets they possess can also be used against their own masters. This book introduces subversion paradox theory to provide a social scientific explanation of the unequal power dynamic resulting from an often fraught relationship between agencies and their ‘masters’. The author also makes a case for the existence of ‘deep state’ conspiracies, including in highly developed democracies, and cautions those who denounce their existence that trying to control intelligence by politicizing it is likely to backfire. An important intervention in the field of intelligence studies, this book will be indispensable for intelligence professionals and policymakers in understanding and bridging the cultural divide between these two groups. It will also make for a fascinating and informative read to scholars and researchers of diplomacy, foreign policy, international relations, strategic and defence studies, security studies, political studies, policymaking and comparative politics.

Book Tibet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lezlee Brown Halper
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199368368
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Tibet written by Lezlee Brown Halper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythologizing of Tibet in the West and the Himalyan state's subsequent abandonment to China are recounted in this briskly paced and revealing new history.