OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Intelligence and National Security is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cyber conflict vs. Cyber Command: hidden dangers in the American military solution to a large-scale intelligence problem	12
Critical intelligence studies: introduction to the special issue	10
Australian intelligence oversight and accountability: efficacy and contemporary challenges	10
Of intelligence oversight and the challenge of surveillance corporatism	9
The impact of AI on intelligence analysis: tackling issues of collaboration, algorithmic transparency, accountability, and management	8
A whole of society intelligence approach: critical reassessment of the tools and means used to counter information warfare in the digital age	8
Britain’s European connection in counter-terrorism intelligence cooperation: everyday practices of police liaison officers	7
Operation Rubicon: sixty years of German-American success in signals intelligence	7
Hard target espionage in the information era: new challenges for the second oldest profession	6
Reflexive intelligence and converging knowledge regimes	6
Why still critical? Critical intelligence studies positioned in scholarship on security, war, and international relations	5
#ForgetJamesBond: diversity, inclusion and the UK’s intelligence agencies	5
Operation Rubicon: Germany as an intelligence ‘Great Power’?	5
From sigint to cyber: a hundred years of Britain’s biggest intelligence agency	5
Circulation, not cooperation: towards a new understanding of intelligence agencies as transnationally constituted knowledge providers	5
Michael Polanyi and the epistemology of intelligence analysis	5
RUBICON and revelation: the curious robustness of the ‘secret’ CIA-BND operation with Crypto AG	5
Adding value to the intelligence community: what role for expert external advice?	4
A prominent spy: Mehdi Ben Barka, Czechoslovak intelligence, and Eastern Bloc espionage in the Third World during the Cold War	4
Small state or minor power? New Zealand’s Five Eyes membership, intelligence reforms, and Wellington’s response to China’s growing Pacific role	4
On the critical utility of complexity theory in intelligence studies	4
Division D: Operation Rubicon and the CIA’s secret SIGINT empire	4
Explaining the depth and breadth of international intelligence cooperation: towards a comprehensive understanding	4
Can United States intelligence community analysts telework?	4
Integrating intelligence theory with philosophy: introduction to the special issue	4

Queering intelligence studies	4
The third eye: Canada’s development of autonomous signals intelligence to contribute to Five Eyes intelligence sharing	3
Justified true belief theory for intelligence analysis	3
Strange bedfellows in the arms trade: Polish intelligence, Monzer al-Kassar and the Iran-Contra affair	3
Party politics and intelligence: the Labour Party, British intelligence and oversight, 1979-1994	3
CIA support to policymakers: the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities	3
The Iran nuclear archive: impressions and implications	3
New evidence and new methods for analyzing the Iranian revolution as an intelligence failure	3
‘No, we don’t know where Tupac is’: critical intelligence studies and the CIA on social media	3
Espionage by Europeans: treason and counterintelligence in post-Cold War Europe	3
Intelligence under democracy and authoritarianism: a philosophical analysis	3
“Don’t keep mum”: critical approaches to the narratives of women intelligence professionals	3
The limited influence of competitive intelligence over corporate strategy in Israel: historical, organizational, conceptual, and cultural explanations	3
‘Familiar but not intimate’: executive oversight of the UK intelligence and security agencies	3
Strategic intelligence practice in the Australian intelligence community: evolution, constraints and progress	3
A fundamental re-conceputalization of intelligence: cognitive activity and the pursuit of advantage	3
The UK National Security Council and misuse of intelligence by policy makers: reducing the risk?	3
Flexible versus structured support for reasoning: enhancing analytical reasoning through a flexible analytic technique	3
Moshe Dayan in the Yom Kippur War: a Reassessment	3
Deciphering intelligence analysis: the synthetic nature of the core intelligence function	3
The Red Brigades and communist Czechoslovakia: a troubling legacy full of ambiguities	3
‘An anarchy of treason’: public history, insider knowledge and the early spy novels of John le Carré	2
Transforming the Australian intelligence community: mapping change, impact and challenges	2
Twenty years on: Intelligence and Security Committee and investigating torture in the 'war on terror'	2
Devil’s Advocacy within Dutch military intelligence (2008-2020): an effective instrument for quality assurance?	2
The Yom Kippur intelligence failure after fifty years: what lessons can be learned?	2
Adopting and improving a new forecasting paradigm	2
Intelligence analysis as cryptic hermeneutics	2
Oversight and governance of the Danish intelligence community	2
Public knowledge of intelligence agencies among university students in Spain	2
Philosophical foundations of intelligence collection and analysis: a defense of ontological realism	2
Reluctant revolutionaries: Czechoslovak support of revolutionary violence between decolonization and détente	2
Michael Herman: doyen of intelligence studies	2
Conclusion: the development of critical intelligence studies	2
State preferences, viable alternatives, and American covert action, 1946-1989	2
Understanding the complexity of intelligence problems	2
Private sector intelligence: on the long path of professionalization	2
The many realisms of John le Carré	2
Rethinking intelligence practices and processes: three sociological concepts for the study of intelligence	2
City council and national security: oversight of local counterterrorism and security intelligence	2
What philosophy can do for intelligence	2
Arming Iran from the heart of Westminster? The Iranian military procurement offices, rumours and intelligence, 1981–1987	2
Intelligence and culture: an introduction	2
Epidemiological intelligence fusion centers: health security and COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic	2
The good, the bad, and the tradecraft: HUMINT and the ethics of psychological manipulation	2
The multifaceted norm of objectivity in intelligence practices	2
Policy for promoting analytic rigor in intelligence: professionals’ views and their psychological correlates	2
Analytical innovation in intelligence systems: the US national security establishment and the craft of ‘net assessment’	1
Robust-satisficing ethics in intelligence	1
Making intelligence telework work: mitigating distraction, maintaining focus	1

The Sisson Documents and their ‘distinguished place’ in the history of disinformation	1
John le Carré’s The Looking Glass War: imagining the Special Operations Executive – Secret Intelligence Service rivalry as post-war counterfactual history	1
Sharing empire: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (anti-) colonial intelligence networks in the Palestine Mandate, 1933-1940	1
National security intelligence activity: a philosophical analysis	1
Intelligence warning in the Ukraine war, Autumn 2021 – Summer 2022	1
Compartmentalized minds: the Communist security services’ understanding of the Western espionage threat to the Communist bloc during the Cold War	1
Growth, diversification, and disconnection: an analysis of 70 years of intelligence scholarship (1950-2020)	1
The intelligence war against the IRA	1
Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace	1
Effectiveness fettered by bureaucracy : why surveillance technology is not evaluated	1
Tradecraft, the PIAB, and the 2007 NIE on Iran’s Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities	1
How surprising was ISIS’ rise to power for the German intelligence community? Reconstructing estimates of likelihood prior to the fall of Mosul	1
The best of both worlds? a hybrid approach to intelligence and research	1
Arms exports and intelligence: the case of Sweden	1
Assessing intelligence oversight: the case of Sweden	1
Feminist philosophy and the problem of intelligence analysis: standpoint, measurement, and motivation	1
Nikolay Dolgopolov: the storyteller of Soviet intelligence history	1
The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures	1
CIA/SOF convergence and congressional oversight	1
Towards a better framework for estimative intelligence – addressing quality through a systematic approach to uncertainty handling	1
Intelligence-exalting strategic cultures: a case study of the Russian approach	1
A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence	1
Where to submit: a guide to publishing intelligence studies articles	1
Dealing with data: coming to grips with the Information Age in Intelligence Studies journals	1
The perils of presidential openness: strikes, secrecy and performative opacity	1
Leviathan’s Heirs: sovereignty, intelligence, and the modern state	1
The impact of ‘Tempest’ on Anglo-American communications security and intelligence, 1943–1970	1
The Security Intelligence Agencies in New Zealand: evolution, challenges and progress	1
Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy	1
‘Extremely valuable work’: British intelligence and the interrogation of refugees in London, 1941–45	1
The intelligence politics of early congressional oversight of CIA	1
British geographic intelligence during the Second World War: a case study of the Canary Islands	1
Is sunlight the best counterintelligence technique? the effectiveness of covert operation exposure in blunting the Russian intervention in the 2020 U.S. election	1
Overcoming the inertia of ‘old ways of producing intelligence’—the IC’s development and use of new analytic methods in the 1970s	1
Reappraising the effectiveness of intelligence methods of a violent non-state sovereignty: a case-study of the SPLA insurgency in the Sudan (1983 – 2005)	1
Critical Intelligence Studies: a new framework for analysis	1
British intelligence and the Dardanelles: the 1906 Taba affair revisited	1
Stay-behind networks and interim flexible strategy: the ‘Gladio’ case and US covert intervention in Italy in the Cold War	1
All the world’s a stage: covert action as theatrical performance	1
The evolution of historical scholarship and the rise of the visible and accountable national security state: tales from a life in Intelligence Studies	1
Stolen focus: why you can’t pay attention - and how to think deeply again	1
‘The tortuousness of our Albanian allies’: Special Operations Executive in Albania through the eyes of Anthony Quayle’s Eight hours from England	1
Quantum espionage: a phenomenology of the Snowden affair	1
Reflections on conveying uncertainty	1
Getting it right: Canadian intelligence assessments on Iraq, 2002-2003	1
Finding a match: the revolution in recruitment and its application to selecting intelligence analysts	1
The Phantom Eye: New Zealand and the Five Eyes	1
Robert Jervis: remembering the dean of intelligence studies	1
The sad loss of Michael Herman (1929–2021)	1
Expanding on the concept of telework in the IC: a response to Gioe, Hatfield & Stout	1
Health security intelligence capabilities post COVID-19: resisting the passive “new normal” within the Five Eyes	1
Secrecy, evidence, and fear: exploring the construction of intelligence power with Actor-Network Theory (ANT)	1
The Rooseboom operation: uncovering the embryonic German intelligence network in South Africa, 1940-1942	1
The essential inevitability of worrying about the bomb: new writing on the Cuban missile crisis	1
The evolution of the Al-Shabaab jihadist intelligence structure	1
French paramilitary actions during the Algerian War of Independence, 1956-1958	1