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 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 ...
Twenty-First Century Intelligence
1st Edition
Edited
By Wesley K. Wark
April 22, 2008
Twenty-First Century Intelligence collects the thinking of some of the foremost experts on the future of intelligence in our new century. The essays contained in this volume are set against the backdrop of the transforming events of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Intelligence plays a central ...
Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State
1st Edition
Edited
By R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson, Len Scott
April 07, 2008
This edited volume brings together many of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which ...
Intelligence, Crises and Security: Prospects and Retrospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes
December 24, 2007
This collection of essays by leading experts seeks to explore what lessons for the exploitation and management of secret intelligence might be drawn from a variety of case studies ranging from the 1920s to the ‘War on Terror’. Long regarded as the ‘missing dimension’ of international history and ...
Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods But Verify
1st Edition
By Rose Mary Sheldon
July 10, 2007
Professor Sheldon uses the modern concept of the intelligence cycle to trace intelligence activities in Rome whether they were done by private citizens, the government, or the military. Examining a broad range of activities the book looks at the many types of espionage tradecraft that ...
Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence: Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg
1st Edition
Edited
By Reinhard R. Doerries
May 31, 2007
When the curtains fell on the 'Thousand-Year Reich', in May 1945, SS-Brigadefuhrer Walter Schellenberg left for neutral Stockholm, only to be takn shortly thereafter to Frankfurt and London for interogating. The 'Final Report' on the Case of Walter Schellenberg is the revealing product of those ...
Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53: The Information Research Department
1st Edition
By Andrew Defty
April 23, 2007
In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of communism' by taking the offensive against it.' A...
Special Operations Executive: A New Instrument of War
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Seaman
December 16, 2005
This unique book presents an accurate and reliable assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It brings together leading authors to examine the organization from a range of key angles. This study shows how historians have built on the first international conference on the SOE at the ...