Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global Struggle
This innovative work seeks to bridge the gap between the academic study of international relations and the field of intelligence. The book is based on the author's doctoral dissertation in political science at the University of Washington, where he is a postdoctoral research fellow the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. In some ways, the book reflects Alexseev's professional and personal sojourn from Soviet journalist to U.S.-trained scholar. Using a vast array of sources, including Russian and French documents that have largely been ignored English-language scholarship, the author has produced a coherent, historically rich and theoretically sound book that covers such topics as the Mongol Empire and Sung China and the Soviet-American competition from 1971 to 1991. Recommended for academic libraries.?Nader Entessar, Spring Hill Coll., Mobile, Ala.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.