Books by IWP Faculty

Here is one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995 the Venona documents—secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted—finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more than five years researching all the available evidence, espionage experts…

A history of US nonproliferation efforts since the dawn of the Cold War.

Mediapolitik is the first scholarly examination of a powerful new phenomenon in world politics – the mass media.

The new edition of this best-selling insight into terrorism today has been fully updated and revised to include what the author terms the new ‘militant Moslem international.’ Drawing directly on the words and ideas of terrorists themselves, this book is an examination of patterns, current trends and future threats in terrorism worldwide. 

In this work Dr. Chodakiewicz offers a nuanced and comprehensive history of Polish-Jewish relations from the resurrection of an independent Polish state, following the end of the First World War, to the end of orthodox Stalinism in communist-occupied Poland. An updated edition of this work is forthcoming.

Unlike some oral history compilers, Santoli does not limit his book to the accounts of American combat veterans; nor does he follow the typical question-answer format. He instead provides experiences, views and thoughts of Americans, Southeast Asians, and civilians, that focus on matters beyond the chaotic insanity of combat, descriptions of which do not dominate…

The most authoritative report yet published about President Reagan’s strategy to accelerate the demise of the Soviet Union, this monograph focuses on National Security Decision Directive 75, prepared in early 1983, to run economic warfare against the USSR. The author served as senior director of national security planning and international economic affairs on the National…

The unanimous bipartisan result of a congressional investigation of U.S.-Chinese security interaction, The Cox Report finds that China successfully engaged in harmful espionage and obtained sensitive military technology from the United States, while financing political operations that corrupted the U.S. decision-making process. Designed for the general reader, this book is edited from the official three-volume report, with explanatory…

The National Armed Forces (NSZ) were a Polish right-wing nationalist underground resistance formation during the Second World War. They have often been falsely portrayed as “Polish fascists” or outright Nazi collaborators. Dr. Chodakiewicz’s painstaking research on this organization has revealed conclusions which debunk this conventional wisdom.

Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro have pooled their extensive experience observing China to produce a shocking account of what they believe will be the “the major global rivalry in the first decades of the twenty-first century, the rivalry that will force other countries to take sides.” The authors describe an inevitable conflict between an…