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.
Stasi: Shield and Sword of the Party
1st Edition
By John Christian Schmeidel
April 28, 2014
This book is a fascinating new examination of one of the most feared and efficient secret services the world has ever known, the Stasi. The East German Stasi was a jewel among the communist secret services, the most trusted by its Russian mother organization the KGB, and even more efficient. ...
Codebreaker in the Far East
1st Edition
By Alan Stripp
December 14, 2012
This is the first book to describe British wartime success in breaking Japanese codes of dazzling variety and great complexity which contributed to the victory in Burma three months before Hiroshima. Written for the general reader, this first-hand account describes the difficulty of decoding one of...
Improving Intelligence Analysis: Bridging the Gap between Scholarship and Practice
1st Edition
By Stephen Marrin
December 14, 2012
This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. Compared to the more ...
The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War: Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946
1st Edition
Edited
By Neville Wylie
November 14, 2012
This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the ‘non-military’ aspects of British special operations in the Second World War. It details how SOE was established in the summer of 1940 to ‘set Europe ablaze’, as Churchill memorably put it. This ...
Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad: Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935-1940
1st Edition
By Manuela Williams
November 01, 2012
This is the first major study in English of Fascist Italy’s overseas propaganda. Using rare Italian and French captured documents, this is also the first investigation into the relationship between Mussolini’s regime and Arab nationalist movements This new account covers propaganda and subversive ...
The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War: The State-Private Network
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen Laville, Hugh Wilford
October 09, 2012
This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War. By moving beyond state-dominated, ‘top-down’ interpretations of international relations and exploring instead the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and ...
Controlling Intelligence
1st Edition
Edited
By Glenn P. Hastedt
September 10, 2012
The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. For the USA, as the Bay of Pigs incident and the Iran-Contra affair have shown, controlling intelligence is a problem which policy-makers and concerned citizens have rarely examined and imperfectly...
International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans Born, Ian Leigh, Aidan Wills
July 23, 2012
This book examines how international intelligence cooperation has come to prominence post-9/11 and introduces the main accountability, legal and human rights challenges that it poses. Since the end of the Cold War, the threats that intelligence services are tasked with confronting have become ...
Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror: Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11
1st Edition
By Adam D.M. Svendsen
April 10, 2012
This book provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world. Seeking to connect an analysis of intelligence liaison with the wider realm of Anglo-American Relations, the book draws on a wide range of interviews and consultations with key actors in both countries...
The South African Intelligence Services: From Apartheid to Democracy, 1948-2005
1st Edition
By Kevin A. O'Brien
March 21, 2012
This book is the first full history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa’s intelligence organizations and structures. Covering the apartheid period of 1948-90, the transition from apartheid to democracy of 1990-94,...
East German Foreign Intelligence: Myth, Reality and Controversy
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristie Macrakis, Thomas Wegener Friis, Helmut Müller-Enbergs
February 10, 2012
This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence. The contributors broaden the conventional view of East German ...
Britain's Secret War against Japan, 1937-1945
1st Edition
By Douglas Ford
November 15, 2011
A new look at how Britain’s defence establishment learned to engage Japan’s armed forces as the Pacific War progressed. Douglas Ford reveals that, prior to Japan’s invasion of Southeast Asia in December 1941, the British held a contemptuous view of Japanese military ...