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.
State-Private Networks and Intelligence Theory: From Cold War Liberalism to Neoconservatism
1st Edition
By Tom Griffin
January 29, 2024
This book examines the United States neoconservative movement, arguing that its support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was rooted in an intelligence theory shaped by the policy struggles of the Cold War. The origins of neoconservative engagement with intelligence theory are traced to a tradition of ...
Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production: Data Processing and Information Transfer in Secret Services during the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, Constantin Goschler
September 25, 2023
This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers. Intelligence agencies are producers and providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the social, cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge production, processing and distribution...
Conflict and Cooperation in Intelligence and Security Organisations: An Institutional Costs Approach
1st Edition
By James Thomson
May 31, 2023
This book provides an institutional costs framework for intelligence and security communities to examine the factors that can encourage or obstruct cooperation. The governmental functions of security and intelligence require various organisations to interact in a symbiotic way. These organisations ...
Intelligence Analysis in the Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Stig Stenslie, Lars Haugom, Brigt H. Vaage
May 31, 2023
This book examines intelligence analysis in the digital age and demonstrates how intelligence has entered a new era. While intelligence is an ancient activity, the digital age is a relatively new phenomenon. This volume uses the concept of the "digital age" to highlight the increased change, ...
National Security Intelligence and Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Seumas Miller, Mitt Regan, Patrick F. Walsh
May 31, 2023
This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis. Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in ...
Intelligence Leadership and Governance: Building Effective Intelligence Communities in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Patrick F. Walsh
May 30, 2022
This book explores the challenges leaders in intelligence communities face in an increasingly complex security environment and how to develop future leaders to deal with these issues. As the security and policy-making environment becomes increasingly complicated for decision-makers, the focus on ...
Intelligence Oversight in the Twenty-First Century: Accountability in a Changing World
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Leigh, Njord Wegge
June 30, 2020
This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight.Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing security environment. This book addresses the impact...
Interrogation in War and Conflict: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Andrew, Simona Tobia
June 30, 2020
This edited volume offers a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of interrogation and questioning in war and conflict in the twentieth century. Despite the current public interest and its military importance, interrogation and questioning in conflict is still a largely under-researched theme....
Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability: Relationships of Influence with Civil Society
1st Edition
By Vian Bakir
December 09, 2019
This book provides a definitive overview of the relationships of influence between civil society and intelligence elites. The secrecy surrounding intelligence means that publication of intelligence is highly restricted, barring occasional whistle-blowing and sanitised official leaks. These ...
The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War: The Limits of Making Common Cause
1st Edition
By Sarah Miller Harris
May 09, 2018
This book questions the conventional wisdom about one of the most controversial episodes in the Cold War, and tells the story of the CIA's backing of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. For nearly two decades during the early Cold War, the CIA secretly sponsored some of the world’s most feted ...
Russia and the Cult of State Security: The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin
1st Edition
By Julie Fedor
February 08, 2017
This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian ...
Intelligence Governance and Democratisation: A comparative analysis of the limits of reform
1st Edition
By Peter Gill
February 02, 2017
This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation.Within the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), academics have paid significant attention to both the police and military. The democratisation of intelligence structures that ...