The Byzantine Empire was the first to create a “Bureau of Barbarians” and use it to great effect. It gathered information from all neighboring enemies states (ruler’s personality, power struggles, local customs, etc.), it analyzed reports arriving from envoys, it organized visits for foreign diplomats to Constantinople, and did almostContinue Reading
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“Shadows in the Desert” offers a comprehensive history of Persia’s wars with East and West The empires of ancient Persia remain as mysterious today as they were to contemporary Western scholars. Although Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia is legendary, the military successes of the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanian empires,Continue Reading
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. SvenContinue Reading
Fourth Edition Sheds New Light on Open Source Intelligence Collection and Analysis. Author Michael Bazzell has been well known and respected in government circles for his ability to locate personal information about any target through Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). In this book, he shares his methods in great detail. EachContinue Reading
As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz’s On War was in its own time, ‘Invisible Armies’ is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages. Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world— when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeatContinue Reading
Promotion of the book “Cold Peace” on TV Channel ‘KOHA’ in Tetovo on May 26, 2016. As a guest in the TV ‘KOHA’ the author, Selim Ibraimi presents some very important issues those have weight to regional events of the Balkan Peninsula. After morning edition of TV Channel ‘KOHA’ withContinue Reading
Promotion of book “The Cold Peace” in the Television TV 21 on May 23, 2016. In the morning program edition – “Fresh Air” at RTV 21 in Skopje, Selim Ibraimi clarified at some points the subject of the book. The Center for Security Studies and Development has consideration and gratitude’sContinue Reading
The Center for Security Studies and Development had invitation by-The Civil Society Forum Belgrade which is under the umbrella of the “Civil Society Forum of the Western Balkans Summit Series” and it comes as a follow-up of the Civil Society Forum Vienna 2015. It is a joint initiative of theContinue Reading
Press Releases: CSSD-Macedonia May 10 ,2016 Promotion of the book ‘The Cold Peace’ by the Center for Security Studies and Development in regard to its founder Mr. Selim Ibraimi, was held in South East European University in Tetovo- Macedonia, in the presence of professors, business people, students and administration staffContinue Reading