Studies in Intelligence
About the Book Series
The growing interest in intelligence activities and the opening of hitherto closed archives since the end of the Cold War has stimulated this series of scholarly monographs, wartime memoirs and edited collections. With contributions from leading academics and prominent members of the intelligence community, this series has quickly become the leading forum for the academic study of intelligence.
Israeli Defense and Intelligence Before and After October 2023: The Cultural Roots of Strategic Surprise and Resilience
1st Edition
By Itai Shapira
June 17, 2026
This book provides a cultural analysis of the Israeli defense and intelligence establishments before and after the Hamas surprise attack on 7 October 2023. The Hamas attack was one of the most colossal intelligence and security failures in modern times, and brought Israel to one of the darkest ...
Intelligence and Technology: Trends, Challenges, and Choices
1st Edition
Edited
By William J. Lahneman, Florina Cristiana (Cris) Matei
March 20, 2026
This book examines the value of innovative technologies to intelligence organizations, with a particular focus on the United States. It addresses how intelligence organizations and their partners keep up with innovations that will make or break their ability to continue to produce effective ...
Contemporary Intelligence in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Tshepo Gwatiwa
January 30, 2026
The edited volume examines contemporary intelligence and tradecraft in Africa. The work offers a timely and empirically grounded account of African intelligence. It provides a multi-contributor narrative that explains contemporary dynamics without discounting historical and external influences, as ...
Health Security Intelligence: Managing Emerging Threats and Risks in a Post-Covid World
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick F. Walsh
January 30, 2026
The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the role national security intelligence agencies played in supporting national governments’ response to COVID-19. Spanning the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), this book offers the first ...
Israeli National Intelligence Culture: Problem-Solving, Exceptionalism, and Pragmatism
1st Edition
By Itai Shapira
January 30, 2026
The book offers a novel conceptualization of Israeli national intelligence culture, describing the way in which Israelis perceive and practice intelligence. Different nations have different national intelligence cultures, relying on different ideas of intelligence, perceiving and practicing ...
Cognitive Warfare: Grey Matters in Contemporary Political Conflict
1st Edition
By Adam Henschke
December 26, 2025
This book explores the conceptual, historical, and ethical issues of information conflict to present a detailed analysis of cognitive warfare. Is it possible for liberal democracies to deliberately use information on civilian populations to impact political and social institutions? While ...
US Intelligence Failure and Knowledge Creation: Improving Intelligence Analysis
1st Edition
By Carl W. Ford, Jr., Kathleen M. Vogel
October 16, 2025
This book examines the roots and elements of the research and knowledge-generation problems in US intelligence. The work identifies the crux of the problem as the lack of a research capability in US intelligence, which has developed over the past 40 years due to a variety of organizational ...
The Ethics of National Security Intelligence Institutions: Theory and Applications
1st Edition
By Adam Henschke, Seumas Miller, Andrew Alexandra, Patrick F. Walsh, Roger Bradbury
September 29, 2025
This book explores the ethics of national security intelligence institutions operating in contemporary liberal democracies. Intelligence collection by agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and Mossad involves practices that are apparently inconsistent with the principles of ordinary morality – practices ...
Big Data, Emerging Technologies and Intelligence: National Security Disrupted
1st Edition
By Miah Hammond-Errey
August 01, 2025
This book sets out the big data landscape, comprising data abundance, digital connectivity and ubiquitous technology, and shows how the big data landscape and the emerging technologies it fuels are impacting national security. This book illustrates that big data is transforming intelligence ...
Time and Narrative in Intelligence Analysis: A New Framework for the Production of Meaning
1st Edition
By Joshua Yaphe
July 11, 2025
This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics. The US Intelligence Community is guided by a conviction that its practitioners are engaged in the ...
Intelligence Services in South Asia: Colonial Past and Post-Colonial Realities
1st Edition
Edited
By Ryan Shaffer, ASM Ali Ashraf
February 18, 2025
This book explores colonial and post-colonial intelligence services in South Asia. It traces the genealogy of the institutions to analyze changes and continuities throughout the region. The volume also provides a framework for analyzing how intelligence services developed in these countries by ...
India’s Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises: Spying for South Block
1st Edition
By Dheeraj Chaya
May 27, 2024
This book examines India’s foreign intelligence culture and strategic surprises in the 20th century. The work looks at whether there is a distinct way in which India ‘thinks about’ and ‘does’ intelligence, and, by extension, whether this affects the prospects of it being surprised. Drawing on a ...