Product Description: How have the intelligence services been forced to adapt to try and combat the threat of terrorism? In this gripping book, former security correspondent Mark Huband takes us inside the shadowy world of intelligence-gathering. Drawing on previously unseen material, unpublished letters and exclusive interviews, he explores how the role and purpose of 'intelligence' has evolved from its origins in nineteenth-century Ireland to today's fight against terrorism...read more

Product Description: The prominence of Saudi Arabia in international relations today is undisputed. Bringing together contributors from the worlds of business, politics, journalism and academia, The Kingdom provides a much-needed context to the role that Saudi Arabia plays today...read more

A veteran journalist searches for the origins of Arab hatred of America and finds evidence of deep policy failures and a deadly alignment of geopolitical and regional forces that serve as a warning against continued American arrogance when dealing with the Middle East. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: En este libro, el periodista Mark Huband sostiene que la implicación extranjera en África -por parte de las potencias coloniales, ciertas iniciativas económicas, los políticos reformistas y los protagonistas de la Guerra Fría- ha sido uno de los acontecimientos más catastróficos para la historia de ese continente...read more

In The Skull beneath the Skin: Africa after the Cold War journalist Mark Huband argues that foreign involvement in Africa - whether by colonialists, financial donors, armies, political reformers, or Cold War protagonists - has been the single most destructive element in the continent's history. He argues that the catastrophes that have erupted since the end of the Cold War are a legacy of that long foreign involvement, and that stability will only be achieved on the continent if African countries are left to find their own solutions to the problems they face. The end of the Cold War, he says, may now offer the opportunity for Africa to achieve the independence it never really achieved when the European powers departed from their former colonies.

Explores Islamic fundamentalism in the twentieth century, discussing Islamic history, religious thinkers, Western politics and profiling the affects of such ideologies on Afghanistan, Somalia, Algeria, Egypt, and Sudan.

The civil war in 1989 promised freedom from ten years of vicious dictatorship; instead the seeds of Liberia's devastation were sown. Mark Huband's account of the conflict is a portrayal of the war as it unfolded, drawing on the author's experience of living amongst the fighters. (view table of contents)