Adolf Tolkatchev est ingénieur à l'Institut de recherches sur les radars et a accès à des informations ultrasecrètes et essentielles dans la course à l'armement entre les États-Unis et l'URSS. Après avoir convaincu la CIA d'accepter sa collaboration, il photographie entre 1978 et 1985 des documents d'une immense valeur pour lesquels il reçoit de grosses sommes d'argent. Dénoncé par un agent double il est arrêté et exécuté pour haute trahison en 1986.
S'appuyant sur des documents jusqu'alors secrets et sur des entretiens avec des témoins, David E. Hoffman dresse un portrait saisissant et sans précédent de Adolf Tolkatchev. Passionnant, imprévisible, au rythme enlevé mais extrêmement précis, L'Espion qui valait des milliards est un document brillant doublé d'un formidable récit d'espionnage.
David E. Hoffman est journaliste et rédacteur en chef adjoint au Washington Post. Il est l'auteur de The Oligarchs et The Dead Hand, sur la fin de la course aux armements pendant la guerre froide, pour lequel Hoffman a été lauréat du prix Pulitzer en 2010.
This book provides an overview of the major findings of the comparative research project, Changes in Networks, Higher Education and Knowledge Society (CINHEKS). The main aim of this international comparative research project is the analysis of how Higher education institutions are networked within distinct knowledge societies in two key regions of the world: Europe and the United States of America. This research project was carried out in four European countries (Finland, Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom) and in two different states in the United States of America. In addition, during the course of the research, a team from the Russian Federation joined the CINHEKS study. The analysis is contextually grounded in a comparative policy analysis focused on the main developments and understandings of the ideas surrounding the term knowledge society, in all countries concerned. Empirical elaboration is established via a series of sequential studies, each building, incrementally, on the previous study. These studies include institutional profiles of higher education institutions, institutional case studies, and an international comparative survey that illuminates academics' social networks. The research findings broaden our understanding of the differences and similarities in how higher education institutions and individual academics are networked within and between societies that understand themselves as knowledge societies. The book introduces a novel analytical synthesis, which asserts contemporary societies have evolved into Networked Knowledge Societies. Methodologically, the book both challenges and raises the bar for previous approaches in comparative higher education, in terms of research design, execution and lays the groundwork for a new generation of international comparative higher education research. ?
