Hezbollah by Matthew Levitt

Additional Advance Praise for

Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God
    “Matthew Levitt has laid out a timely and relevant history of Hezbollah, a global terrorist organization often referred to as the ‘A Team’ of terror. This book comes at the right time as Hezbollah continues its decades-long war against the United States, Israel, and our allies around the globe while it attempts to consolidate political power in Lebanon—on its behalf and for the Iranian regime.”
    — Juan Zarate , former Deputy National Security Advisor for Combatting Terrorism and author of the forthcoming book,
Treasury’s War
    “Richard Armitage, then Deputy Secretary of State, once described Hezbollah as the ‘A team’ of international terror. In his extraordinary new book, Matthew Levitt explains why Hezbollah is seen as such a global threat. Levitt paints a compelling picture of Hezbollah’s terror activities not just in the Middle East but throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. While Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies have tracked and disrupted Hezbollah’s global activities for years, this highly unsettling story has been largely unknown to wider publics. Thanks to Levitt’s meticulous and well-written book, that should no longer be the case.”
    — Ambassador Dennis Ross , counselor at the Washington Institute; former Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for the Central Region at the National Security Council
    “This book tells the sinister story of a highly sophisticated organization that for more than thirty years has been an archetype of worldwide illicit activities. Hezbollah effectively combines its overt social and political activities with covert criminal and terrorist operations on a global scale. Matthew Levitt’s painstaking collection of a rich array of data provides uncomfortable evidence of ‘
The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God’
. This book is essential reading for policymakers and the international intelligence community.”
    — Uri Rosenthal , former Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands
    “In
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God
, Matthew Levitt, through adept storytelling and impressive attention to historical detail, manages to teach even long-time students of the Middle East a great deal about Hezbollah. The book leaves little doubt as to the increasing importance, danger, and international reach of Hezbollah. It will be an important resource for serious scholars of the Middle East and a great read for anyone interested in better understanding the region.”
    — Andy Liepman , Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation; former Principal Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center
    “Matthew Levitt’s book touches a key point of the growing debate on Hezbollah: the European approach to the phenomenon. It is a reminder for us Europeans that there are threats that might seem distant geographically, but could nevertheless have a strong impact politically on the continent as well.”
    — Franco Frattini , Justice and Chamber President of the Italian Conseil d’Etat (Supreme Administrative Court); President of the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI); former Italian Foreign Minister (2002–4 and 2008–11)
    “This book on Lebanese Hezbollah is a unique incisive insight into its global terror tentacles around the globe. No one has catalogued these terrorist connections and plots in such forensic detail as Matthew Levitt, especially how the terror nexus between Hezbollah and Iran has continually evolved. It systematically lays bare Hezbollah’s operational capability and its multiple intersections with Iranian intelligence architecture. This should be required reading for every intelligence analyst and terrorism researcher.”
    — Magnus Ranstorp , Research Director, Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies, Swedish National Defence College

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