The Invisible Wars

How Nations Fight Without Firing Bullets

Helena Markovic

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English

Vij Books
30 November 2025

International relations; Economics; Computer security

Power today is exercised in quiet rooms and cached files, not on battlefields. If you want to understand why a headline moves markets, why a lawsuit reroutes a supply chain, or why a rumour becomes policy, this is your field guide to the grey zone conflict that shapes your life.

This book exposes how states win with economic sanctions, information warfare, lawfare and geopolitics, currency warfare, and cyber operations-then gives you clear tools to read the signals and resist being played.

-Learn how narratives are engineered and how to verify before you share

-See how payment rails, ratings, and standards become weapons without warning labels

-Build practical defences at home, at work, and in your city

Written for policy professionals, executives, journalists, and curious citizens, it makes the invisible visible with case studies, causal maps, and a no-drama vocabulary for complex systems. You will finish with a dashboard for cyber operations strategy, a checklist for sanctions that punish architects rather than populations, and a civic ethic for non-kinetic deterrence that preserves legitimacy. If you're seeking information warfare explained without hype-and a sober path from alarm to agency-start here..

By: Helena Markovic
Imprint: Vij Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 268g
ISBN: 9789390349098
ISBN 10: 9390349095
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 30 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Helena Markovic writes about the quiet decisions that decide nations' fates. Raised between borders and languages, she came to distrust the simple story and to follow the plumbing-of money, media, law, and code-where power actually runs. Her work sits at the crossroads of political economy and moral inquiry: how to exercise pressure without losing legitimacy; how to measure effects honestly when causation is designed to be hidden; how citizens can remain free in a world that competes without firing shots. Drawing on the history of embargoes from ancient sieges to modern sanctions lists, the jurisprudence of courts that shape markets, and the craft of engineers who keep the internet stitched together, she writes with the conviction that clarity is a civic duty. This book continues that project: to replace noise with structure and to give thoughtful readers tools for judgement rather than slogans.