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Few military organisations have had a greater importance than the Wagner Group: at a cursory glance no more than a disreputable private mercenary group dedicated to committing war crimes yet also, astonishingly, the challengers of the Kremlin on 23-24 June, 2023-unheard of in over two decades of Vladimir Putins rule. From its inception in 2014 this nebulous organisation operating from Russia was intentionally cloaked in questions. How was it able to operate alongside Russias top government officials? How could it deploy the logistical systems of the Russian army up to and including ordering air attacks with fighter planes of the Russian Federation, despite the deep antipathy of Russias powerful defence minister Sergei Shoigu? Why did the Kremlin provide such an ample helping hand to its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, for over a decade? In this compelling book, former Financial Times journalist Owen Wilson investigates the Wagner Group and their ties to Vladimir Putin. It skilfully sets out its history and the dramatic death of Yevgeny Prigozhin to cast a searching light on the person who ultimately stands behind the group.

Detail worthy of a John le Carre novel. Telegraph The history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its centre: Lenin defines its rise, Gorbachev its fall, and Putin its aftermath. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov, however, introduce a new historical axis: the Chekathe Bolsheviks nebulous revolutionary intelligence service. Wrapped around the Party in a fight to the death from 1918 under its first head Felix Dzerzhinsky, only Stalin was able to resist its stranglehold at the cost of enormous bloodshed. Luring Russia into submission over less than a century, its murder-plots and unrivalled scheming culminated in the capture of the Kremlin in 2000. Drawing on Popovs secret documents of over two decades as a senior officer in one of the KGBs key covert sections, and on Felshtinskys encyclopedic knowledge of Russian state archives open in the 1990s, little-known sources, and access to leading oligarchs, a new Russian history emerges. The story they tell is often unexpected while introducing a new cast of characters still of great influencepotentially surpassing Lenins roleon our world today. From Red Terror to Terrorist State is the first complete history of the Cheka. Written from the inside, it fundamentally transforms our understanding of Russia and rethinks the way todays Kremlin views itself and the rest of the world. Animated by lifelong study, this authoritative narrative by two exceptional Russian-intelligence experts presents ground-breaking new insights based on an unrivalled wealth of new factual details.

Qual o maior desafio geopolítico do Séc. 21? Essa pergunta ambiciosa é respondida pelo Dr. Cezar Roedel, em Conjunturas Internacionais, primeiro eBook brasileiro sobre cenários geopolíticos, com bônu

Covering the lives and achievements of five English intelligence officers involved in wars at home and abroad between 1870 and 1918, this exceptionally researched book offers an insight into spying in the age of Victoria. Including material from little-known sources such as memoirs, old biographies and information from M15 and the police history archives, this book is a more detailed sequel to Wades earlier work, Spies in the Empire. The book examines the social and political context of Victorian spying and the role of intelligence in the Anglo-Boer wars as well as case studies on five intriguing characters: William Melville, Sir John Ardagh, Reginald Wingate and Rudolf Slatin, and William Robertson. Responding to a dearth of books covering this topic, Wade both presents fascinating biographies of some of the most significant figures in the history of intelligence as well as a snapshot of a time in which the experts and amateurs who would eventually become M15 struggled against bias, denigration and confusion.

Operating in all weathers, invariably at night, often at low level and usually without fighter escort, Allied Special Duties (SD) squadrons and units played a vital role in the Second World War. By their very nature, these operations went unreported in wartime and for considerable time thereafter, but their importance in prosecuting the war of resistance in Occupied Europe was immense.Emerging from a time of rudimentary communications and transport, dedicated air units had been established by 1939 to fly agents into enemy territory, but their aircraft were hand-me-downs and the SD was considered a poor third to fighter and bomber operations. However, the tasks undertaken by these men and their aircraft were often more hazardous and demanding than any other type of wartime flying: for every SOS, SIS or OSS agent who lost their life in the field, at least one RAF or USAAF airman was killed while flying SD operations.Here, David Oliver examines the exploits of British, Commonwealth, American, Free European, Soviet, German, Italian and Japanese airmen and units, supported by first-hand accounts and archive photographs.

The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlike any that had gone before it.At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its brethren did. But with Churchill at the countrys helm, it was decided to let him in on the secret, providing him with a weekly report of the spy activities. These reports were so classified that he was handed each report personally and copies were never allowed to be made, nor was he allowed to keep hold of them. Even now, the documents only exist as physical copies deep in the archives, many pages annotated by hand by W.S.C. himself.In Churchills Spy Files intelligence expert Nigel West unravels the tales of hitherto unknown spy missions, using this groundbreaking research to paint a fresh picture of the worldwide intelligence scene of the Second World War.

Afif Safieh served as Palestinian General Delegate in London, Washington and Moscow from 1990 to 2009. During this time, he met and interacted with the leading figures of our times: from Yasser Arafat, John Major and Tony Blair; to Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Pope John Paul II. The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown brings together Afif Safiehs articles, lectures and interviews from 1981, when he was a staff member in Yasser Arafats Beirut office, to 2005, at the end of his mission in London, revealing the political and intellectual journey of one of Palestines most skilled and distinguished diplomats. His writings, which centre on the Palestinian struggle for independence, are a testament to his vision and humanity and provide a unique map of Palestinian diplomacy over the last three decades.

La publicación de Los principios del derecho público, tomos I y II, obra en homenaje al profesor Diego Younes Moreno, era más que necesaria, pues el doctor Younes ha sido uno de los principales tratadistas de nuestro pais en los ultimos cincuenta años. En este primer tomo, reconocidos juristas se ocupan de la parte general del derecho publico y en los distintos capitulos discuten y analizan desde el mismo concepto de principio, hasta el principio del Estado de derecho, el principio democratico y representacion politica, el de prevalencia del interes general sobre el particular, el de efectividad de los derechos, el de seguridad juridica, el de confianza legitima, el del debido proceso, el de imparcialidad, el de rendicion de cuentas, el de publicidad, el de coordinacion entre autoridades administrativas, el de moralidad, el de discrecionalidad administrativa, el de progresividad de los derechos constitucionales, el de la buena administracion publica, el de la perspectiva de genero en la administracion de justicia, el de la gobernanza de los bienes comunes, y los principios del medio ambiente.

La obra está dirigida a estudiantes universitarios y personas interesadas en las matemáticas como lenguaje para comprender el mundo y motor del desarrollo científico y tecnológico. Su enfoque combina rigor academico con una presentacion clara y gradual, ideal para el aprendizaje autodidacta o guiado. Incluye mas de 800 ejercicios clasificados por nivel de dificultad y 364 ejemplos explicativos, muchos con soluciones en el apendice.En los primeros capitulos se aborda la evolucion historica de la teoria de numeros y los sistemas de numeracion, junto con la aritmetica en distintas bases. Luego, se introduce la induccion matematica y los principios basicos del conteo. Posteriormente, se estudian los conceptos de divisibilidad, ecuaciones diofanticas y fracciones continuas como herramientas para resolverlas. Tambien se exploran funciones aritmeticas como la funcion de Euler y otras relacionadas con la descomposicion prima. Finalmente, se abordan las congruencias, junto con teoremas fundamentales como los de Fermat, Wilson y Euler, y conceptos avanzados como la reciprocidad cuadratica. El apendice A incluye materiales complementarios: tablas de numeros primos, temas ludicos como juegos matematicos y aplicaciones practicas como calendarios y diseño. El apendice B ofrece soluciones parciales o completas a los ejercicios propuestos, facilitando el proceso de autoevaluacion y estudio.Esta cuarta edicion mejora la claridad expositiva, amplia la cantidad de ejercicios y ejemplos, y estructura los contenidos de forma que favorece tanto el estudio individual como la enseñanza en el aula.

The Stack cruza filosofía y software, urbanismo y tecnología, ecología y geopolítica. Es un estudio interdisciplinario y una herramienta para soñar y planificar cómo podemos construir mejor, vivir dentro, comunicarnos y gobernar nuestros mundos.Vivimos una epoca de cambio y aceleracion vertiginosa marcada por la disrupcion digital, la crisis climatica y el desorden global general. En este contexto, la publicacion de The Stack, que cruza filosofia y software, urbanismo y tecnologia, ecologia y geopolitica, no podria ser mas adecuada. Esta obra de Benjamin Bratton es un estudio interdisciplinario y una herramienta para soñar y planificar como podemos construir mejor, vivir, comunicarnos y gobernar nuestros mundos.En palabras de Kim Stanley Robinson, autor de libros como Nueva York 2140 y El Ministerio del Futuro: "Este asombroso libro, que invita infinitamente a la reflexion, es a la vez un mapeo cognitivo y una geometria proyectiva de las nuevas dimensiones de la realidad tecnologica en la que vivimos".

Tras la independencia de las repúblicas americanas, España y América vivieron de espaldas a sus respectivas realidades durante buena parte del siglo XIX. Cien años después, coincidiendo con el despertar de Estados Unidos como gran potencia internacional, España restablecio el dialogo atlantico en el ambito cientifico y cultural. En America, la Institucion Cultural Española argentina promovio que personalidades como Jose Ortega y Gasset, Ramon Menendez Pidal o Augusto Pi y Suñer viajaran alli para compartir sus saberes. En la España de la Edad de Plata, se recibio a mexicanos como Alfonso Reyes o Martin Luis Guzman, que huian de la revolucion en su pais. Cuando llegaron la guerra civil española y el franquismo, America abrio generosamente los brazos a los transterrados, en celebre expresion de Jose Gaos, generandose uno de los fenomenos mas fecundos de la historia con repercusiones en ambos lados del Atlantico. Los autores de esta obra desgranan algunos de los episodios fundamentales de esos caminos de ida y vuelta que unieron España con Estados Unidos, Mexico y Argentina. A traves de las circunstancias que hubieron de afrontar personalidades singulares (Ortega y Gasset, Alfonso Reyes, Jaime Benitez), instituciones (Junta para Ampliacion de Estudios, El Colegio de Mexico, Fundacion del Amo o Universidad de Puerto Rico) e industrias culturales (Revista de Occidente, Sur, Fondo de Cultura Economica o La Torre, entre otras), dibujan la silueta esencial del vasto legado y la enorme riqueza que esas relaciones han supuesto, de una u otra manera, en el siglo xx del mundo en español.

Para el Departamento de Derecho Económico de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y la Red Latinoamericana de Derecho Económico Internacional es muy grato presentar las memorias de la primera Conferencia Bianual de Derecho Economico Internacional, evento que sin duda construyo espacios de discusion y reflexion en torno a temas vitales y actuales de la integracion latinoamericana. En esta publicacion se compilan los articulos y debates mas importantes presentados durante la conferencia en el campo del derecho economico internacional. Una mirada al indice mostrara el amplio espectro de temas y especialistas que con claridad presentan sus aportes teoricos en el desarrollo de los seis capitulos del libro, convirtiendose en una magnifica herramienta de actualizacion para profesionales e investigadores que, de una u otra manera, tienen contacto con esta rama del derecho.

Se trata de un ensayo detallado que analiza las relaciones de Argentina con África. Examina la historia de las instituciones africanas, los enfoques previos de nuestro país y ofrece información valiosa sobre las acciones diplomaticas argentinas en Africa en los ultimos quince años.Este trabajo es una herramienta importante para los responsables de la politica exterior argentina, ya que proporciona conocimientos clave para desarrollar una politica africana mas solida. Ademas, promueve la idea de que Argentina puede ampliar sus oportunidades en Africa mediante la cooperacion tecnica y la participacion empresarial, en lugar de depender exclusivamente de las grandes potencias occidentales.Dado su enfoque unico y su valor informativo sobre Africa, este ensayo es esencial para quienes se interesan en las relaciones internacionales y es un recurso imprescindible para los tomadores de decisiones en politica exterior.

O livro essencial para compreender o mundo de hoje.No xadrez político da atualidade, três países ditam a ordem internacional.Estaremos nós a assistir ao nascimento de uma nova era?A ascensão da China

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition.Ireland and Britains relationship is as intertwined as it has so often been violent and traumatic. In These Divided Isles the award-winning author and journalist Philip Stephens tells the vital, riveting history that focuses on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and on the unfinished business of partition, revealing how the past has shaped the present and will inform the future of both nations.Telling the story from both sides of the Irish Sea and cutting through the layers of grievance and prejudice, Philips explores the emotional intimacy and enmity of a relationship shaped by close familial ties and clashing national identities. Its a story written by big political leaders - David Lloyd George, Michael Collins, Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera - and the millions of Irish emigrants who crossed from Ireland to Britain to begin new lives.Today demography, Brexit and political logic have brought the possibility of Irish unity into view. Grounded in decades of personal contact and interviews with key policymakers across Britain and Europe, Stephens maps this complex relationship and asks how Ireland might deploy its history to inform its future rather than hold it in place.

It is inspirational. Helen Fry, author of Women in IntelligenceAn important and exciting contribution to the history. Clare Mulley, author of Agent ZoBletchley Park is remembered as a land of male intellectuals who were supported by a staff of women in menial roles, with figures such as Alan Turing, William Tutte and John Tiltman taking centre stage. These are the men who worked on the fearsome Enigma and Lorenz ciphering systems the men who helped sway the course of the war in the Allies favour.But, as is often the case in the historical record, this is not the whole story. Women were not just secretaries and assistants: they had serious full-on codebreaking roles. And this was not just at Bletchley, or in the UK, or even only in the Second World War. These were women like Margaret Rock, who solved Enigma and other machine problems; Agnes Driscoll, the first US Navy codebreaker; and Asta Friedrichs, who postwar became a prime source for information on German Foreign Office codebreaking. Yet, when the histories were written, these women and many more besides somehow got left out.Who were they? What did they achieve? How did they vanish? In Misread Signals, expert codebreaking historian Dermot Turing turns his attention to these long-ignored women and puts their contributions back in the spotlight where they belong.

In Being There, Tony Leon goes behind the scenes, reflecting on how history is made, both here and around the world, through his unique mixture of anecdote and informed opinion.His vantage point ranges from a ringside seat in the recent formation of the government of national unity (GNU) recounted in detail here for the first time to close encounters with the likes of Harry Oppenheimer, Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Boris Johnson, and reappraisals of FW de Klerk, Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi.Leon writes of the dangers of modern politics, from the purgatory of social media to the perils of political fundraising in tough times. The challenge of leadership, in a world often led by populist grifters or uninspiring time-servers, runs like a golden thread through the book.Written with his customary blend of humour and flair, and with an eye to the future and what the present and the past can tell us about it, Being There is both important and highly readable.

A gripping account of the cloak and dagger game played in Berlin and beyond by Britains shadow warriors. A knife-edge Cold War showdown. A game of secrets, masterfully told. Damien Lewis, Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling AuthorThe British Commanders-in-Chief Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany, better known as BRIXMIS, was arguably the most successful and enduring intelligence organisation of the whole Cold War. Its three-man teams maintained a permanent presence behind the Iron Curtain, patrolling East German soil every single day from 1946 until the fall of the Berlin Wall changed the face of post-war Europe.In a follow-up to The Deadly Game, Will Britten, a career Military Intelligence Officer, treats us to a fresh, and in places hard-hitting look at his experience as one of the last generations of Cold War warriors. Over the Wall details reconnaissance missions in the depths of the DDR, targeting by Stasi surveillance teams, and fascinating personal contacts with the enemy. Beyond this, he puts forward the shocking proposition that Moscow had almost certainly compromised BRIXMIS through their own agents operating within the wide US military system.Providing a rare insight into the activities of the GRU-staffed Soviet military teams deployed reciprocally in West Germany, Over the Wall ultimately poses an intriguing question: in the final balance whose missions were operationally more effective?

Who better to guide us through the chaotic world of the last 25 years than one who had a ringside seat for much that went on, and who writes about it with such insight and skill? This is a must read book. - Sir Anthony Seldon, author of Truss at 10In my time working on Europe, Joo Vale de Almeida was the most important name in my address book: a view I suspect was widely shared. Lord Kim Darroch, former British ambassador to the United StatesThis is a superb book: provocative, witty, erudite, sober - and sometimes sobering - but ultimately wise in its prescriptions. - Sir Ivan Rogers, former UK Permanent Representative to the EUThis book is a rare opportunity to look behind the diplomatic curtain and see events and the people who inspired them up close and personal. - Baroness Catherine Ashton, former High Representative of the EU for Foreign AffairsToday we are witnessing one of the most dangerous geopolitical situations of modern times, heralded by loud populist and nationalist voices, and steeped in uncertainty. But how did the nations of the world come to find themselves in such a predicament? Is the international liberal order condemned?Drawing from decades of experience in Brussels, Washington, New York and London, one of the worlds foremost diplomats lifts the veil on modern foreign affairs and enables us to trace how countries have been sleepwalking towards the Divorce of Nations, and the steps we can take to fix it.Having met the most consequential global leaders since the turn of the millennium, Ambassador Vale de Almeidas insightful account features personal observances of figures such as Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, Emmanuel Macron, Hu Jintao and Donald Trump. He also recalls the numerous times he met Vladimir Putin and the early warning signs and grievances the Russian leader aired in the run up to his incursions into Georgia and Crimea, which ultimately were the precursors to the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022.Other key moments in his compelling narrative relate to the global response to the Great Financial Crisis, how the world shifted in the aftermath of 9/11, the opening up of China and how the world reacted to the Covid pandemic. The book also includes a personal and colourful account of the first 1,000 days of Brexit the ultimate act of separation so far.Based on contemporary notes and further reflections, The Divorce of Nations is a necessary and important book that enables us to move forward with better awareness and understanding of the current volatile and fragmented scene, at both national and global levels.

A comunidade mundial encontra-se perante um ponto de viragem histórico. Nas últimas décadas tem-se tornado evidente o alinhamento de uma nova ordem global na qual o estatuto bicentenário do Ocidente como centro global da politica e da economia mundial esta a ser substituido pela afirmaço de novas potencias, lideradas pela China e pela India.Antes do fim da presente decada, a civilizaço Ocidental deixara de ser o bloco cultural de referencia do desenvolvimento mundial, e no so a China ultrapassara os Estados Unidos como a principal economia do planeta, mas tambem a India ultrapassara o Reino Unido como o terceiro estado mais produtivo.Neste momento, a questo mais pertinente que se coloca aos estados ocidentais, especialmente aos Estados Unidos e a Unio Europeia, e como enfrentar esta alteraço nas regras do jogo internacional e adaptar a sua estrategia de forma a manter alguma relevancia no contexto global das naçes.Paradoxalmente, so admitindo o seu proprio declinio podera o Ocidente ser bem-sucedido nesta nova ordem mundial, encontrando uma renovada voz num planeta no qual ja no tem o poder para impor os seus ideais e abraçando uma nova abordagem que lhe permita materializar os seus objetivos num mundo diferente e cada vez mais diverso.CriticasNeste quadro de duvidas, ansiedades e interrogaçes, este livro de Francisco Gomes e uma reflexo util e necessaria. Vem no momento certo. Com a intensidade analitica que se impe. A desafiar a nossa reflexo individual e colectiva. No podia ser mais oportuno.Luis Marques Mendes