by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
When her mother passed away, I immediately sent Arundhati Roy my condolences, recalling our brief meeting in Sweden with another remarkable figure, Daniel Ellsberg, the man behind the Pentagon Papers. I wrote,
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by Nil Julian Richards’ Pakistan’s ISI: A Concise History of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate stands as an incisive, unflinching inquiry into one of the world’s most enigmatic and polarising intelligence services. Written
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by Eric Retired from the Sri Lanka Navy, Rear Admiral Rathnayake’s work is immediately distinguished by its rare integration of operational experience, academic rigour, and a profound understanding of regional geopolitics, particularly
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Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional detective, believed that his brother, Mycroft, could also have been a brilliant solver of crimes if he had not been so impossibly lazy. Mycroft was large and
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by Nil Yossi Cohen’s The Sword of Freedom is far more than an intelligence memoir; it is an erudite dissection of geopolitics, a meditation on destiny, and a confessional reflection on the
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When Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico in 1519, he encountered cities, markets, schools, courts, astronomers, and rulers — institutions strikingly familiar to those he had left behind in Spain. Two civilizations, separated
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Tropical fish are among the most popular pets in the world, with millions sold every year to brighten aquariums in homes, offices, and even car dealerships. Yet behind their vibrant colors lies
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More than four decades after its publication, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong’s The Brethren remains one of the most controversial books ever written about the United States Supreme Court. It is frequently
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by Nil The Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa, edited by Prof. Rohan Gunaratna and Dr. C. Nna-Emeka Okereke, represents a rigorous scholarly effort to dissect the complex and escalating phenomenon of
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by Durga Jay Heinrichs’ Aristotle’s Guide to Self-Persuasion (2025) is an audacious amalgam of classical rhetoric, pop culture exegesis, and self-help exhortation, positing that Aristotelian persuasive techniques can catalyse personal transformation. With
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