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.
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 ...
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 ...
Understanding Intelligence Failure: Warning, Response and Deterrence
1st Edition
By James Wirtz
November 10, 2016
This collection, comprising key works by James J. Wirtz, explains how different threat perceptions can lead to strategic surprise attack, intelligence failure and the failure of deterrence. This volume adopts a strategist’s view of the issue of surprise and intelligence failure by placing these ...
Ethics and the Future of Spying: Technology, National Security and Intelligence Collection
1st Edition
Edited
By Jai Galliott, Warren Reed
January 20, 2016
This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised. Intelligence officers, whether gatherers, analysts or some combination thereof, are operating in a sea...
The Ethics of Intelligence: A new framework
1st Edition
By Ross W. Bellaby
January 20, 2016
This book starts from the proposition that the field of intelligence lacks any systematic ethical review, and then develops a framework based on the notion of harm and the establishment of Just Intelligence Principles. As the professional practice of intelligence collection adapts to the changing...
An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A 50-year retrospective
1st Edition
Edited
By David Gioe, Len Scott, Christopher Andrew
September 16, 2015
This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from a global perspective. Despite the discoveries of recent research, there is still much more to be revealed about the handling of nuclear weapons before and during the Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC). ...
The Future of Intelligence: Challenges in the 21st century
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Ben de Jong, Joop Reijn
July 22, 2015
This volume discusses the challenges the future holds for different aspects of the intelligence process and for organisations working in the field. The main focus of Western intelligence services is no longer on the intentions and capabilities of the Soviet Union and its allies. Instead, at ...