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Through book, reference, electronic publishing, and distribution services, the Press broadens the university’s international reputation. cup.columbia.edu Princeton University Press Princeton University Press brings scholarly ideas to the world. We publish peer-reviewed books that connect authors and readers across spheres of knowledge to advance and enrich the global conversation. We embrace the highest standards of scholarship, inclusivity, and diversity in our publishing. In keeping with Princeton University’s commitment to serve the nation and the world, we publish for scholars, students, and engaged readers everywhere. press.princeton.edu The University Press Group (UPG) is jointly owned by the University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton and is responsible for the sales of their books in the UK and Ireland, Europe, The Middle East and Africa. upguk.com Resolved Spies, Lies, and Algorithms Uniting Nations in a Divided World The History and Future of American Intelligence Ban Ki-moon Amy B. Zegart Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital dropping on his Korean village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts The six-year-old boy fled with his family, trudging for miles in mud-soaked shoes, suffering from incessant hunger, and wondering how they would survive—until Spying has never been more ubiquitous—or less understood. The world is the United Nations rescued them. Young Ban Ki-moon grew up determined to drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses repay this lifesaving generosity. on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on powdered milk than espionage. This crisis in intelligence education is distorting Resolved is Ban Ki-moon’s personal account of his decade at the helm of the public opinion, fueling conspiracy theories, and hurting intelligence policy. In organization during a period of historic turmoil and promise. Meeting challenges Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart separates fact from fiction as she offers and resistance with a belief in the UN’s mission of peace, development, and an engaging and enlightening account of the past, present, and future of human rights, he steered the United Nations through a volatile period that American espionage as it faces a revolution driven by digital technology. included the Arab Spring, nuclear pursuits in Iran and North Korea, the Ebola epidemic, and brutal new conflicts in Central Africa. As secretary-general, Ban Drawing on decades of research and hundreds of interviews with intelligence also forged global agreements to fight extreme poverty and address the climate officials, Zegart provides a history of U.S. espionage, from George Washington’s crisis. Revolutionary War spies to today’s spy satellites; examines how fictional spies are influencing real officials; gives an overview of intelligence basics and life inside Ban performed what has been called “the most impossible job on this earth” with America’s intelligence agencies; explains the deadly cognitive biases that can a genuine belief in collective action and global transformation. Freed from the mislead analysts; and explores the vexed issues of traitors, covert action, and diplomatic constraints of a lifetime of public service, he offers a candid congressional oversight. Most of all, Zegart describes how technology is assessment of the people and events that shape our era and a bracing analysis of empowering new enemies and opportunities, and creating powerful new players, what lies ahead. such as private citizens who are successfully tracking nuclear threats using little more than Google Earth. And she shows why cyberspace is, in many ways, the ultimate cloak-and-dagger battleground, where nefarious actors employ deception, subterfuge, and advanced technology for theft, espionage, and information warfare. A fascinating and revealing account of espionage for the digital age, Spies, Lies, and Algorithms is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the reality of spying today. 9780231198721 9780691147130 $27.95 | £22.00 $29.95 | £25.00 Hardback Hardback 376 pages | 155.575mm : 234.95mm 416 pages | 155.45mm : 234.95mm 2021 2022 Biography & Autobiography / Political Political Science / Political Freedom & Security Columbia University Press Princeton University Press 1 Liberalism in Dark Times Politics and Expertise The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century How to Use Science in a Democratic Society Joshua L. Cherniss Zeynep Pamuk A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its A new model for the relationship between science and democracy greatest midcentury proponents that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right- wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of Our ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons, depends on issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of knowledge provided by scientists and other experts. Meanwhile, contemporary liberal thought. political life is increasingly characterized by problematic responses to expertise, with denials of science on the one hand and complaints about the ignorance of Assaults on liberalism—a political order characterized by limits on political power the citizenry on the other. and respect for individual rights—are nothing new. Early in the twentieth century, democracy was under attack around the world, with one country after Politics and Expertise offers a new model for the relationship between science another succumbing to dictatorship. While many intellectuals dismissed and democracy, rooted in the ways in which scientific knowledge and the liberalism as outdated, unrealistic, or unworthy, a handful of writers defended political context of its use are imperfect. Zeynep Pamuk starts from the fact that and reinvigorated the liberal ideal, including Max Weber, Raymond Aron, Albert science is uncertain, incomplete, and contested, and shows how scientists’ Camus, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Isaiah Berlin—each of whom is given a compelling judgments about what is significant and useful shape the agenda and framing of new assessment here. political decisions. The challenge, Pamuk argues, is to ensure that democracies can expose and contest the assumptions and omissions of scientists, instead of Building on the work of these thinkers, Cherniss urges us to imagine liberalism not choosing between wholesale acceptance or rejection of expertise. To this end, she as a set of policies but as a temperament or disposition—one marked by openness argues for institutions that support scientific dissent, proposes an adversarial to complexity, willingness to acknowledge uncertainty, tolerance for difference, “science court” to facilitate the public scrutiny of science, reimagines structures and resistance to ruthlessness. In the face of rising political fanaticism, he for funding scientific research, and provocatively suggests restricting research persuasively argues for the continuing importance of this liberal ethos. into dangerous new technologies. Through rigorous philosophical analysis and fascinating examples, Politics and Expertise moves the conversation beyond the dichotomy between technocracy and populism and develops a better answer for how to govern and use science democratically. 9780691217031 9780691218939 $35.00 | £28.00 $35.00 | £28.00 Hardback Hardback 328 pages | 155.57mm : 234.95mm