I'm a great Limes fan too, they do wide-spanning analysis with lots of hard info and have the best-ever range of geopolitical maps.  Also a Mini fan - his "La guerra dopo la guerra" (2003 - "War after War: soldiers bureaucrats and mercenaries in the age of virtual peace") is a classic, it taught me so much - really woke me up to some of the realities behind the politically-correct blahblahblah. It's one of the very few recent Italian books that really should have got itself translated into dozens of languages... but no such luck, not EU-orthodox enough. Grrrr very frustrating to hear that La Repubblica published an article of his on Kosovo yesterday but not in its online edition :-(

"Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami