Misha Glenny

A history of the modern Balkans studies its diverse cultures; portrays its kings, guerrillas, bandits, generals, and politicians; and describes the impact of great power interference in the region.

Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999

The Balkans

A revised and updated discussion of the five-year conflict

The Third Balkan War

The Fall of Yugoslavia

An explosive vision of contemporary Brazil's underbelly by one of our greatest investigative reporters. This is a book about a man known as Nem; about Rocinha, the slum or "favela" he grew up in and came to run as a private fiefdom; about Rio, the beautiful but damned city that Rocinha exists in; and about the battle for Brazil. Nemesis pans in and out from the arc of Nem's individual, astonishing trajectory to the wider story of the country that he exists in. It's about drugs and gangs and violence and poverty. It's about a man who made a terribly dangerous and life-altering decision for the best and most understandable of reasons. And it's about the wider forces at work in a country that is in the world's spotlight as never before and is set to stay there. Those forces include the evangelical church, bent police and straight police, drug lords, farmers, TV magnates, crusading politicians, and corrupt politicians. And what they are engaged in is nothing less than the battle for Brazil's soul.

The Battle for Brazil

Nemesis

* The benefits of living in a digital, globalised society are enormous; so too are the dangers. * The world has become a law enforcer's nightmare and every criminal's dream. We bank online, shop online, date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become complacent about our personal security - sharing our thoughts, beliefs and the details of our daily lives with anyone who cares to relieve us of them? * In this fascinating and compelling book, Misha Glenny, author of the international bestseller McMafia, explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the 21st century: cyber crime, cyber warfare and cyber industrial espionage. Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year, fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible, often super-smart new breed of criminal: the hacker. * Glenny has travelled and trawled the world. And by exploring the rise and fall of the criminal website, DarkMarket, he has uncovered the most vivid, alarming and illuminating stories. Whether JiLsi or Matrix, Iceman, Master Splynter or Lord Cyric; whether Detective Sergeant Chris Dawson in Scunthorpe or Agent Keith Mularski in Pittsburgh, Glenny has tracked down and interviewed all the players - the criminals, the geeks, the police, the security experts and the victims - and he places everyone and everything in a rich brew of politics, economics and history. * The result is simply unputdownable. DarkMarket is authoritative and completely engrossing. It's a must-read for everyone who uses a computer: the essential crime book for our times.

Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You

DarkMarket

Drugs, weapons, migrant labour, women — these are just a few of the many goods that effortlessly cross national borders in this globalized age, often without the knowledge or permission of the nations concerned. How is this remarkable criminal feat managed?From gun runners in the Ukraine, to money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers in Japan, and the booming marijuana industry in western Canada, McMafia builds a breathtaking picture of a secret and bloody business.Internationally celebrated writer Misha Glenny crafts a fascinating, highly readable, and impressively well-researched account of the emergence of organized crime as a globalized phenomenon and shows how its secret and bloody business mirrors both the methods and the rewards of the legitimate world economy. Employing his journalistic talent and his prior experience covering organized crime in Eastern Europe, Glenny reports on his travels around the planet to investigate this worrying and worsening situation. After comprehensively surveying the criminal scene, Glenny ends by considering the future of organized crime. McMafia is an important book that assembles all the pieces of this worldwide puzzle for the first time.

A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

McMafia

A survey of two centuries of history, by Britain's commentator on the Balkans, Misha Glenny. It offers general readers a single narrative that explains the background to the terrible events on their television screens and provides insights into the roots of the region's reputation for violence. It also explores the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria and Albania.

Nationalism, War and the Great Powers

The Balkans, 1804-1999

A refreshed edition of the landmark history of the Balkans.

The Balkans, 1804-2012

Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy; 2nd Edition

The Rebirth of History

The Rise of the Iron Men

“Vigorous, passionate, humane, and extremely readable. . . For an account of what has actually happened. . . Glenny’s book so far stands unparalleled.”—The New Republic The fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the Balkan Crisis—and the ensuing war—for those around the world who have watched the battle unfold with a mixture of horror, dread, and confusion. When Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence in June 1991, peaceful neighbors of four decades took up arms against each other once again and a savage war flared in the Balkans. The underlying causes go back to business left unfinished by both the Second and First World Wars. In this acclaimed book, now revised and updated with a new chapter on the Dayton Accords and the subsequent U.S. involvement, Misha Glenny offers a sobering eyewitness chronicle of the events that rekindled the violent conflict, a lucid and impartial analysis of the politics behind them, and incisive portraits of the main personalities involved. Above all, he shows us the human realities behind the headlines, and puts in its true, historical context one of the most ferocious civil wars of our time.

The Third Balkan War, Third Revised Edition

o człowieku z faweli i bitwie o Rio

Nemezis

„Un demers ce merită o admirație nemărginită și care, până acum, nu are rival." – The Guardian Istoria definitivă a zbuciumatei regiuni a Balcanilor Această remarcabilă și plină de viață istorie a geopoliticii balcanice, ce demarează cu începutul secolului al XIX-lea, le oferă cititorilor cadrul istoric esențial pentru a înțelege tabloul fascinant al evoluțiilor dramatice dintr-o zonă sfâșiată de conflicte. Nicio altă carte nu acoperă atât de exhaustiv întreaga regiune, nu oferă perspective atât de profunde asupra surselor violențelor locale și nu explică atât de grăitor originile apariției statelor moderne din zonă: Serbia, Croația, Bosnia, Grecia, Bulgaria și România. Totodată, lucrarea explorează relația, adesea dezastruoasă, dintre Balcani și Marile Puteri, ridicând îngrijorătoare semne de întrebare cu privire la intervențiile occidentale, mai vechi sau mai noi. „Misha Glenny este cel mai înțelept și pătrunzător dintre toți jurnaliștii care s-au ocupat de această parte a Europei în ultimele două decenii... Aceasta este o carte construită pe un proiect enorm de ambițios, dar este cartea de care deopotrivă Europa și America au nevoie." – Neal Ascherson, The Observer „...o carte de istorie pe înțelesul tuturor, în spiritul școlii lui Norman Davies, concepută pe o scară panoramică, extrem de accesibilă, străbătută de muzica trecutului. Punctele sale forte sunt forța evocării, detaliul fascinant și amplitudinea narativă. O realizare de excepție." – Timothy Garton Ash, The Mail on Sunday „Captivantă... Cartea lui Glenny ar trebui să fie lectură obligatorie pentru toți cei care doresc să afle despre problematica regiunii." – Jonathan Eyal, The Irish Times În această celebră istorie a Balcanilor, devenită carte de referință în domeniu, Misha Glenny investighează cauzele vărsărilor de sânge, ale conflictelor și fervorii naționaliste care au ajuns să definească percepția noastră despre flancul estic al Europei. El dezvăluie cum popoare considerate a fi dușmani implacabili au format, de-a lungul secolelor, alianțe surprinzătoare, contrazicând astfel teoria conform căreia conflictele din Balcani sunt produsul ineluctabil al unor vechi resentimente. Relația dintre Balcani și restul Europei este și ea scrutată intransigent, intervențiile occidentale relativ recente intrând, la rândul lor, sub vigilența lupei analizei. Adusă la zi, pentru a include ciocnirile brutale din Kosovo și Macedonia, escaladarea crimei organizate în regiune, ascensiunea Turciei și drumul dificil către integrarea europeană, Balcanii rămâne un studiu fundamental, inegalabil, al celei mai complexe și mai puțin înțelese regiuni din Europa.

Balcanii. Naționalism, război și Marile Puteri 1804–2012

Tudorel Ilie

crime fără frontiere

Los beneficios de vivir en una sociedad interconectada y globalizada son incontables... Igual que los peligros. Compramos en línea, gestionamos nuestras cuentas bancarias en línea, nos relacionamos, aprendemos y trabajamos en línea. Vivimos en línea. Como consecuencia, el mundo virtual se ha convertido en un paraíso para las nuevas formas de criminalidad y en la pesadilla de las instituciones encargadas de protegernos de ellas. ¿Somos demasiado confi ados al compartir en el mundo virtual lo que pensamos y creemos, todos los detalles de nuestra vida cotidiana? La respuesta está en este libro, resultado de dos años de investigación, en el que el autor de McMafia, Misha Glenny, escarba con determinación en la trastienda del cibercrimen a partir del auge y la desaparición de la web Dark Market, dedicada a la compra y venta de datos bancarios de ciudadanos de todo el mundo entre 2005 y 2008. Tras recorrer medio mundo y entrevistarse con criminales, policías, víctimas y hackers, Glenny desvela en este ensayo con aroma a thriller todos los secretos de la floreciente industria del cibercrimen, denuncia la insuficiencia de los medios policiales y la escasa implicación de las instituciones bancarias y, por encima de todo, plantea interrogantes sobre la seguridad en los tiempos de internet, convirtiendo El lado oscuro de la red en una lectura obligatoria para cualquiera que utilice un ordenador en nuestros días. «Como un Indiana Jones del periodismo, Glenny ha recorrido el mundo en busca de su presa, desplegando una impresionante resistencia, audacia intelectual y valentía física en el camino.» Mail on Sunday «Quedará como uno de los libros esenciales de no ficción de nuestra época. Cualquiera que tenga el más mínimo interés en saber cómo funciona el mundo debería leerlo.» GQ

La nueva mafia del ciberespacio

El lado oscuro de la red

Misha Glenny, autore del bestseller internazionale McMafia , ricostruisce la mappa di un labirinto illegale in formato digitale. Seguendo le orme digitali lasciate dai primi siti illeciti, CarderPlanet e Shadowcrew, l'autore s'imbatte in DarkMarket, il più prestigioso "criminal website", e ne ricostruisce la storia, che si snoda tra Germania e Ucraina, Turchia e Gran Bretagna.

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