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Creator: Taylor Sheridan | 2023-2026 (3 Seasons, 24 Episodes)
CIA operative Joe McNamara and her team attempt to balance their personal and professional lives as the tip of the spear in the agency's war on terror.
Renato Caputo, Mark A. Randol | UNINTESS | 24 August 2026
FSB: Anatomy of Russia’s Security State offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most powerful institutions of contemporary Russia.
More than simply the successor to the Soviet KGB, the Federal Security Service occupies a unique position within the Russian system of power. It combines counterintelligence, counterterrorism, criminal investigation, surveillance, information and economic security, military counterintelligence, border protection, and coercive powers. It has also become deeply intertwined with the protection of Russia’s political order and Vladimir Putin’s system of government.
Renato Caputo and Mark A. Randol trace the development of the FSB from the origins of Russian political policing through the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, and KGB to the security apparatus of the Russian Federation. The book examines what survived across different political systems: professional cultures, concepts of the enemy, surveillance and coercion, and the enduring Chekist conception of state security.
The study reconstructs the rise of the FSB under Vladimir Putin, its legal foundations, structure, leadership, specialized units, and expanding responsibilities. Particular attention is devoted to the relationship between state security and regime security. The authors show how counterespionage and counterterrorism coexist with political policing, repression of dissent, intimidation, and the progressive restriction of political and civil space.
Separate chapters examine the monitoring of opposition movements, journalists, NGOs, activists, and anti-war dissent; Russia’s system of digital surveillance and interception; telecommunications and Internet control; and the relationship between economic security, corruption, patronage, and political pressure.
The book also explores the FSB’s activities beyond Russia, analyzing the Fifth Service, Russian influence networks in the post-Soviet space, and operations involving Belarus, Moldova, Transnistria, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia. The authors carefully distinguish the FSB from the GRU, SVR, Rosgvardiya, Interior Ministry, and other Russian institutions.
A major section is devoted to Ukraine. The volume reconstructs the FSB’s penetration efforts before 2014, its networks within Ukrainian institutions, its role in Crimea and the Donbas, and the preparations preceding Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. It then examines a major intelligence failure of the Putin era: the assumption that the Ukrainian state would rapidly collapse and that regime change in Kyiv could be achieved quickly. The analysis considers confirmation bias, bureaucratic self-censorship, corruption, distorted reporting, and relations with the Kremlin leadership.
The book also shows how the FSB adapted to war, reinforced domestic repression, and assumed a central role in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories through counterintelligence, surveillance, detention, filtration, communications control, and support for occupation administrations.
Based on academic literature, Russian legislation, judicial proceedings, government documents, investigative journalism, official attributions, and open-source intelligence, the authors adopt a rigorous evidentiary method, distinguishing established facts from government attribution, investigative reconstruction, and hypothesis.
Ultimately, FSB: Anatomy of Russia’s Security State is not merely a study of an intelligence and security service. It is an examination of contemporary Russian power itself: of the relationship between intelligence and coercion, security institutions and political authority, and the process through which protection of the state can become protection of the regime.
An essential reference for readers interested in Russia, intelligence studies, counterintelligence, national security, political repression, the KGB legacy, Vladimir Putin’s system of power, and the war against Ukraine.
Editors: Mohiuddin Ahmed, Sascha Dov Bachmann | Springer |24 January 2026
This book is a vital resource for policymakers, legal professionals, and government leaders navigating the evolving landscape of cyber threats and their impact on national security.
Cyber espionage poses a direct and growing threat to both national and international security. In the era of information warfare and cognitive warfare, traditional cybersecurity measures—such as penetration testing and Red Team vs. Blue Team exercises—are increasingly inadequate for addressing complex, large-scale attacks. New approaches are needed to counter these threats to cyber security.
Cyber security does require legal clarity. The legal frameworks for prosecuting cybercrime also require greater clarity and accessibility. This book bridges the gap between cybersecurity practice and legal policy, offering insights that are essential for professionals working at the intersection of technology, law, and governance.
Sandra Araújo | Bloomsbury Academic | 6 February 2025
Revealing Portugal's counterinsurgent spying on Muslims during Mozambique's liberation struggle, this book uses archival and field work to study Muslim responses to counterinsurgency and armed nationalism that led to Mozambique's freedom from colonial rule. Paying particular attention to the intricate set of realities Muslims faced during the colonial war, and their responses to Portuguese efforts to woo them against armed nationalism, Araújo shows how some elements of the Muslim community supported Portuguese counterinsurgency, while others defied it.
Exploring complex interconnections between Muslim culture, Portuguese intelligence-gathering practices, and colonial and nationalist propaganda, Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique brings a novel insight to the study of colonial counterinsurgency. Drawing scholarly attention to view this period of Portuguese colonisation as a matrix of lived realities pushing and pulling Muslim communities in opposite directions, this study enhances our understanding of colonial security strategies in Mozambique during the liberation war and their legacies in the post-colonial era.