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.
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 ...
The Egyptian Intelligence Service: A History of the Mukhabarat, 1910-2009
1st Edition
By Owen L. Sirrs
June 06, 2011
This book analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago. Starting in 1910, when the modern Egyptian intelligence system was created to deal with militant nationalists and Islamists, the book ...
Intelligence Theory: Key Questions and Debates
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Gill, Stephen Marrin, Mark Phythian
June 02, 2009
This edited volume brings together a range of essays by individuals who are centrally involved in the debate about the role and utility of theory in intelligence studies. The volume includes both classic essays and new articles that critically analyse some key issues: strategic intelligence, the ...
US National Security, Intelligence and Democracy: From the Church Committee to the War on Terror
1st Edition
Edited
By Russell A. Miller
February 10, 2009
This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee (‘Church Committee’) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current ‘war on terror’. This report remains the most thorough public record of America’s intelligence services, and ...
Peacekeeping Intelligence: New Players, Extended Boundaries
1st Edition
Edited
By David Carment, Martin Rudner
January 30, 2009
This is a new evaluation of the role, dynamics and challenges of intelligence in peacekeeping activities and its place in a much wider social, economic and political context. It assesses the role of coalition forces, law enforcement agencies, development institutions, and non-governmental ...
Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt: The First Modern Intelligence War
1st Edition
By Polly A. Mohs
January 12, 2009
Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain’s strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War. It also presents a radical re-examination of the achievements of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) as an intelligence ...