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Studies in Intelligence


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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.

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Cognitive Warfare Grey Matters in Contemporary Political Conflict

Cognitive Warfare: Grey Matters in Contemporary Political Conflict

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Adam Henschke
August 23, 2024

This book explores the conceptual, historical, and ethical issues of information conflict to present a detailed analysis of cognitive warfare. Is it possible for liberal democracies to deliberately use information on civilian populations to impact political and social institutions? While ...

Contemporary Intelligence in Africa

Contemporary Intelligence in Africa

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Tshepo Gwatiwa
August 09, 2024

The edited volume examines contemporary intelligence and tradecraft in Africa. The work offers a timely and empirically grounded account of African intelligence. It provides a multi-contributor narrative that explains contemporary dynamics without discounting historical and external influences, as ...

India’s Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises Spying for South Block

India’s Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises: Spying for South Block

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Dheeraj Chaya
May 27, 2024

This book examines India’s foreign intelligence culture and strategic surprises in the 20th century. The work looks at whether there is a distinct way in which India ‘thinks about’ and ‘does’ intelligence, and, by extension, whether this affects the prospects of it being surprised. Drawing on a ...

The Ethics of National Security Intelligence Institutions Theory and Applications

The Ethics of National Security Intelligence Institutions: Theory and Applications

1st Edition

By Adam Henschke, Seumas Miller, Andrew Alexandra, Patrick F. Walsh, Roger Bradbury
March 19, 2024

This book explores the ethics of national security intelligence institutions operating in contemporary liberal democracies. Intelligence collection by agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and Mossad involves practices that are apparently inconsistent with the principles of ordinary morality – practices ...

Big Data, Emerging Technologies and Intelligence National Security Disrupted

Big Data, Emerging Technologies and Intelligence: National Security Disrupted

1st Edition

By Miah Hammond-Errey
January 29, 2024

This book sets out the big data landscape, comprising data abundance, digital connectivity and ubiquitous technology, and shows how the big data landscape and the emerging technologies it fuels are impacting national security. This book illustrates that big data is transforming intelligence ...

State-Private Networks and Intelligence Theory From Cold War Liberalism to Neoconservatism

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

British Military Intelligence in the Crimean War, 1854-1856

British Military Intelligence in the Crimean War, 1854-1856

1st Edition

By Stephen M. Harris
March 31, 2015

This is a study of the British military intelligence operations during the Crimean War. It details the beginnings of the intelligence operations as a result of the British Commander, Lord Raglan's, need for information on the enemy, and traces the subsequent development of the system....

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