Intelligence and National Security

Papers
(The median citation count of Intelligence and National Security is 0. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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The academic-practitioner divide in intelligence studies10
Investigating an authoritarian intelligence apparatus: the case of Myanmar9
Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace8
A new theory of surprise – unraveling the logic of uncertainty and knowledge7
Australian intelligence oversight and accountability: efficacy and contemporary challenges7
Cyber intelligence and international security: breaking the legal and diplomatic silence?7
Pinochet’s poisons: examining Chile’s historical interest in chemical and biological weapons7
Agents, attachés, and intelligence failures: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s efforts to establish espionage networks in the United States before Pearl Harbor7
Philosophical foundations of intelligence collection and analysis: a defense of ontological realism7
Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman intelligence in the great rivalry with Spain6
Unravelling effectiveness in intelligence: a systematic review6
Optimal spending on cybersecurity measures: digital privacy and data protection5
Critical Intelligence Studies: a new framework for analysis5
Beyond counterintelligence: understanding the SBU’s social media outreach on Telegram during wartime5
The COVID-19 intelligence failure. Why warning was not enough5
A blue ribbon goat: the Rockefeller Commission, public opinion, and the Ford Administration’s intelligence reform failure5
Spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of American intelligence5
The many realisms of John le Carré5
The multifaceted norm of objectivity in intelligence practices5
Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy4
Israeli national intelligence culture: problem-solving, exceptionalism, and pragmatism4
The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures4
State Department cipher machines and communications security in the early Cold War, 1944–19654
Stepping out of the shadows: the legitimacy of the Bahamas’ NCIA4
Modelling the intelligence requirements and priorities process: the US response to the Rwandan genocide4
The determined spy: the turbulent life and times of CIA pioneer Frank Wisner4
Profiles in Intelligence: an interview with Professor Loch K. Johnson4
‘The painful aftermath’: reactions to the publication of SOE in France4
The Eurospy boom and the evolution of Europe’s transnational identity4
Thatcher’s spy: my life as an MI5 agent inside Sinn Féin Thatcher’s spy: my life as an MI5 agent inside Sinn Féin , by Willie Carlin, Newbridge, County Kildare, Republic4
Oversight and governance of the Danish intelligence community4
Health security warning intelligence during first contact with COVID: an operations perspective4
The evolution of African intelligence cultures4
New writings on grand strategy4
Innovation, openness, and the future of intelligence: an interview with Brigt Harr Vaage3
‘What goes on behind the cloaks and daggers’: George Markstein and the dramatization of counterintelligence on British television3
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with the 17th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon3
Strange bedfellows in the arms trade: Polish intelligence, Monzer al-Kassar and the Iran-Contra affair3
A unified theory for intelligence analysis3
Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI): adaptive evolution in the interaction between collection and analysis3
A country with “its own special problems”: domestic surveillance in Scotland during the Second World War3
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man3
The neo-imperialism of decolonisation: John le Carré and Cold War India3
Standing, joint or select committee? The motivations and consequences of creating new permanent select committee on intelligence in the U.S. Congress3
Privatizing civil society: outsourcing governance in John le Carré’s post-Cold War novels3
A seat at the president’s table? Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Six Day War3
Christopher Andrew and the study of intelligence3
The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s3
Intelligence scandals: a comparative analytical model and lessons learned from the test case of North Macedonia2
The vanishing watchman: the rise and decline of early warning2
Human-machine teaming for digital transformation2
World War I and the foundations of American intelligence2
The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets , Matthew Con2
Comparative intelligence operations of nonstate armed groups: a comprehensive review2
Iran’s grand strategy: a political history2
Listening to Cairo: British radio monitoring and intelligence gathering, c. 1953-19672
National security intelligence activity: a philosophical analysis2
Avoiding the terrorist trap: why respect for human rights is the key to defeating terrorism Avoiding the terrorist trap: why respect for human rights is the key to defeating terrorism2
Twenty years on: Intelligence and Security Committee and investigating torture in the 'war on terror'2
Improving intelligence analysis and education in the US with stronger foundations in statistical literacy2
Examining the January 6 Capitol attack ‘intelligence failure’: the challenge of domestic security and the role of HUMINT2
The last honest man: the CIA, the Mafia and the Kennedy’s. And one senator’s fight for democracy2
Learning from mistakes: the impact of the October 7 surprise attack on the youngest generation of IDF intelligence analysts2
The value of engaged critique: civic intelligence oversight and the freedom of information in the Netherlands2
Public-private collaboration and the digital transformation of intelligence2
Partisanship and congressional intelligence oversight: the case of the Russia inquiries, 2017-20202
Editor’s Note:2
The theatre of the real: the actor/spy relationship in le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Little Drummer Girl2
Recruiting resistance: women, war, and intelligence in the SOE’s F section2
A fundamental re-conceputalization of intelligence: cognitive activity and the pursuit of advantage2
Women in intelligence: historic insights, contemporary challenges, and future directions2
Swedish intelligence, Russia and the war in Ukraine: anticipations, course, and future implications2
Integrating Japan’s Intelligence Community: analyzing the effectiveness of the Director of Cabinet Intelligence as a coordinating body2
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Tony Comer2
‘Profiles in intelligence’: an interview with 8th Mossad chief Danny Yatom2
Smart new world: adapting human intelligence for the digital age2
The regulation of intelligence activities under international law2
Fact, fake or fiction?: the disguised spy novels of Bernard Newman in the 1930s2
The perils of presidential openness: strikes, secrecy and performative opacity2
Intelligence and culture: an introduction1
Visualizing versus verbalizing uncertainty in intelligence analysis1
The evolution of the Al-Shabaab jihadist intelligence structure1
Correction1
American zealots: inside right-wing domestic terrorism1
John le Carré’s southern turn: British intelligence and degenerative satire in post-Cold War Latin America and Africa1
Adapting classical deception theory to cyber counterintelligence: challenges and opportunities1
NOCs and illegals in the current surveillance landscape: can mimicry help overcome evolving challenges?1
State secrecy and security: refiguring the covert imaginary1
Dealing with data: coming to grips with the Information Age in Intelligence Studies journals1
No cloak, no dagger: a professor’s secret life inside the CIA1
Che Guevara: the romantic revolutionary1
Justified true belief theory for intelligence analysis1
The FAN TAN file: Quebec separatism and security service resistance to politicization 1971–721
Correction1
Espionage by Europeans: treason and counterintelligence in post-Cold War Europe1
Assessing the FBI’s pre-1979 counterintelligence operations against China1
Britain’s key counter-subversion instrument before the 1971 withdrawal from the Gulf: Voice of the Coast [Sawt Al Saahil] Arabic radio station1
Towards intelligence accountability as a virtue1
Contesting France: intelligence and US foreign policy in the early Cold War1
Ian Fleming’s Soviet rival: Roman Kim and Soviet spy fiction during the early Cold War1
Leviathan’s Heirs: sovereignty, intelligence, and the modern state1
Quantum espionage: a phenomenology of the Snowden affair1
The walls have ears The walls have ears , by Helen Fry, London, Yale University Press, 2020, 319 pp., £10.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-300-25485-3 MI9: a hi1
RETRACTED ARTILCE: Health security intelligence1
From TOPLEV to ALCHEMY: the evolution of one FBI approach to addressing foreign influence1
All the world’s a stage: covert action as theatrical performance1
Spreading the “smog of war”: the impact of propaganda, social media, and OSINT on U.S. civil-intelligence relations1
The FBI and foreign intelligence in the domestic setting1
The myth of coercive diplomacy: the U.S. intelligence community and the war in Bosnia1
John le Carré’s The Looking Glass War: imagining the Special Operations Executive – Secret Intelligence Service rivalry as post-war counterfactual history1
Sharing empire: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (anti-) colonial intelligence networks in the Palestine Mandate, 1933-19401
The intelligence lobby before the intelligence lobby: MI5 Director General Stella Rimington and the hunt for the new legitimacy1
Knowledge gives strength to the arm: an agenda for studying combat intelligence as a discrete function within military intelligence1
Redefining vigilance: reevaluating the meaning of early warning in Israel’s security doctrine and the October 7 attack1
Relationships, power, and ambiguity: how do U.S. intelligence officer responses to toxicity affect support to the core mission?1
‘All the heroes are dead:’ U.S. covert operations in Ukraine, 1949-19531
Political theory and the CIA in the US imperium1
Secret partners: the national reconnaissance office and the intelligence-industrial-academic complex1
The intelligence politics of early congressional oversight of CIA1
Women in intelligence: a limited systematic review1
Introduction: rethinking strategic warning and intelligence failure in an era of global transformation1
The reality game: how the next wave of technology will break the truth1
How to explain the value of intelligence analysis: external consequences or internal characteristics?1
The good, the bad, and the tradecraft: HUMINT and the ethics of psychological manipulation1
Intelligence outsourcing for non-traditional clients: the rise of private sector intelligence providers1
Intelligence & the Russo-Ukrainian war: introduction to the special issue1
The politics of intelligence failures: power, rationality, and the intelligence process1
Big data, emerging technologies and the characteristics of ‘good intelligence’1
India’s foreign intelligence history and future challenges Strategic Challenges: India in 2030 , edited by Jayadeva Ranade, foreword by Peter Rimmele, Gurugram, HarperCo1
Spying and the crown: the secret relationship between British intelligence and the royals Spying and the crown: the secret relationship between British intelligence and the royals 1
Skip the corsets, we’d rather have childcare: gendering spycraft in genre fiction and memoir1
Indications of war: American, British and Canadian intelligence diplomacy and the 1957 tripartite intelligence alerts agreement0
‘A bald exposition of the essential facts’: information and reconnaissance in The Riddle of the Sands0
Integrating intelligence theory with philosophy: introduction to the special issue0
‘An anarchy of treason’: public history, insider knowledge and the early spy novels of John le Carré0
Correction0
The media and ‘Mrs Petrov’: press representations of Australia’s most famous spy0
Introduction0
Counterintelligence and escalation from hybrid to total war in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict 2014–20240
Revolutionary spring: fighting for a new world 1848–1849 Revolutionary spring: fighting for a new world 1848–1849 , by Christopher Clark, London, Allen Lane, 2023, 5 map0
The Russian hybrid intelligence state: reconceptualizing the politicization of intelligence and the ‘intelligencization’ of politics0
Intelligence operations, Indigenous cultures, and early U.S. Ambassadors to Native American polities0
A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence​0
The triumph of fear: domestic surveillance and political repression from McKinley to Eisenhower0
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: the USA, China, and strategic stability0
Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s secret cold war0
CIA/SOF convergence and congressional oversight0
Iran’s Qods Force: proxy wars, terrorism, and the war on America0
Understanding Putin’s Russia: a continuing challenge for Western intelligence0
Correction0
The Polly Corrigan Book Prize – call for nominations0
The Yom Kippur intelligence failure after fifty years: what lessons can be learned?0
India’s intelligence culture and strategic surprises: spying for South block0
‘An equal opportunity to spy?’ comparing women’s employment, empowerment, and institutional change in MI5 and the CIA0
British geographic intelligence during the Second World War: a case study of the Canary Islands0
Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective0
Correction0
The journey of digital transformation in intelligence organizations0
Politics and intelligence analysis: the Canadian experience0
When spies go public! Lessons learnt from the instrumentalization of intelligence for strategic communication in the run-up to the Russian-Ukrainian war0
Correction0
Sea, sex, and spies: on Gérard de Villiers’ relations with the covert world0
Gordon M. Stewart, Spymaster: the memoirs of Gordon M. Stewart, CIA station chief in Cold War Germany0
Assessing intelligence oversight: the case of Sweden0
Assumptions in intelligence analysis0
Reluctant revolutionaries: Czechoslovak support of revolutionary violence between decolonization and détente0
The war we won apart: the untold story of two elite agents who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII0
Japanese spy gear and special weapons: How Noborito’s scientists and technicians served in the Second World War and the Cold War0
William Playfair, pioneer of modern intelligence0
‘I sente a woman … beecause a man shoulde have beene suspected’: Tudor women and military intelligence (c.1509–1603)0
Stolen focus: why you can’t pay attention - and how to think deeply again Stolen focus: why you can’t pay attention - and how to think deeply again , by Johann Hari, New0
Of life, liberty and the pursuit of ‘All persons found lurking within our lines’: the Continental Congress’ Committee on Spies and the path to American independence0
Using argument mapping to improve clarity and rigour in written intelligence products0
A faithful spy: the life and times of an MI6 and MI5 officer0
British intelligence and the Dardanelles: the 1906 Taba affair revisited0
“The hyena who stalks the capitalist deserts”: imagining the ‘anti-Bond’ in the works of John le Carré0
Commissars with keyboards: the lingering relevance of the military-political origins of Chinese and Russian psychological warfare0
How intelligence organisations innovate0
The strange survival of liberal Britain: politics and power before the First World War The strange survival of liberal Britain: politics and power before the First World War 0
Nothing is beyond our reach: America’s techno-spy empire Nothing is beyond our reach: America’s techno-spy empire , Kristie Macrakis, Washington D.C., Georgetown Univers0
Women, war and intelligence in Ypres and the Flemish West Quarter (1488–1489)0
‘The enemy teaches us how to operate’: Palestinian Hamas use of open source intelligence (OSINT) in its intelligence warfare against Israel (1987-2012)0
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with John Ferris0
Resisting the KGB Mythmakers: Willy Fisher, spy fiction, and the myth of Rudolf Abel0
Reconnecting the dots: state-terrorist relations during the Cold War0
Spies, lies and exile: the extraordinary story of Russian double agent George Blake0
Arms exports and intelligence: the case of Sweden0
The Pinkerton Pause: how opposition to Pinkertonism delayed the advent of the privatized security state0
National security and the state: a focus on Nepal0
Building blind spots: sexism and intelligence failure0
The bitskrieg that was and wasn’t: the military and intelligence implications of cyber operations during Russia’s war on Ukraine0
Forbidden history: CIA censorship, The Invisible Government , and the origins of the “deep state” conspiracy theory0
Spies: the epic intelligence war between East and West0
Sigint and cyber power down under Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber , John Blaxland and Clare Birgin, (0
In hard times: security in a time of insecurity In hard times: security in a time of insecurity , edited by Manoj Joshi, Nishtha Gautam and Praveen Swami, New Delhi, Blo0
The Phantom Eye: New Zealand and the Five Eyes0
The evolution of historical scholarship and the rise of the visible and accountable national security state: tales from a life in Intelligence Studies0
National Intelligence Organization (MİT) 1826–20230
State preferences, viable alternatives, and American covert action, 1946-19890
Nigerian perspectives on intelligence and national security0
Emotional intelligence: culture, intimacy, and empire in early CIA espionage0
Epidemiological intelligence fusion centers: health security and COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic0
Contemporary French security policy in Africa: on ideas and wars0
Is sunlight the best counterintelligence technique? the effectiveness of covert operation exposure in blunting the Russian intervention in the 2020 U.S. election0
Exploring the meaning and challenges of early warning0
Contemporary intelligence in Africa0
Correction0
How do we know if an intelligence analytic product is good?0
Finding a match: the revolution in recruitment and its application to selecting intelligence analysts0
Grey literature in the intelligence domain: twilight or revival?0
Intelligence warning in the Ukraine war, Autumn 2021 – Summer 20220
‘The weatherman and the umbrella’: a case of complex and multilayered defence intelligence relations in the Netherlands0
Introduction to special issue on issues in intelligence analysis0
Was the Prosper French resistance circuit betrayed by the British in 1943?0
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 – The British Perspective0
Private sector intelligence: on the long path of professionalization0
Warship 20230
Towards a cultural perspective on the absorption of emerging technologies in military organizations0
Effect and reflect: opening the ‘black hands’ of foreign involvement in the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests0
Blood, toil, tears, and spies0
Medieval military medicine: from the Vikings to the High Middle Ages0
Canadian Military Intelligence: operations and evolution from the October crisis to the war in Afghanistan0
Striking the Empire: the Rome embassy bombing and the Irgun campaign against Britain in Europe, 1946–19470
“To deprive the enemy of the advantage of surprise”: analysis as a panacea for military and intelligence failures in early Soviet intelligence theory0
Diversity disfunction: The DEI threat to national security intelligence0
Plotting for peace: American peacemakers, British codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914-170
Correction0
Attributing digital covert action: the curious case of WikiSaudiLeaks0
Intelligence power and practice Intelligence power and practice , by Michael Herman and David Schaefer, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 418 pp., $US 120 (ha0
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence: a concise history0
‘A sad story of delay and obstructionism’: the impact of external relationships on the resourcing and development of Bletchley Park during the Second World War0
Digital transformation of intelligence in Denmark. An interview with Anja Dalgaard-Nilsen0
‘Vital and irreplaceable facilities’: explaining leverage when states host great powers’ spying operations0
The Palgrave handbook of national security0
Internal security management in Nigeria: perspectives, challenges and lessons0
Redefining the security paradigm to create an intelligence ethic0
Correction0
Correction0
Of harpies and sirens: the depiction of women in spy films and the construction of the feminine0
Caught off guard? Evaluating how external experts in Germany warned about Russia’s war on Ukraine0
INS special forum on David Sherman’s ‘An Intelligence Classic That Almost Never Was – Roberta Wohlstetter’s Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision0
Root values and root skills: a new model for intelligence education0
Health security intelligence capabilities post COVID-19: resisting the passive “new normal” within the Five Eyes0
Advancing intelligence analysis: using natural language processing on East Pakistani intelligence documents0
Wartime intelligence experience in the works of Barbara Pym and Muriel Spark0
Learning to think and talk like the locals: the Soviet political police’s efforts to adapt in Lithuania and Ukraine, 1944-19490
Ethics of spying: a reader for the intelligence professional. Vol. 30
‘No end of a lesson’: the Anglo-Boer War and British espionage fiction0
Countering a technological Berlin tunnel: North Korean operatives, helicopters and intelligence in the Cold War illicit arms trade, 1981-19860
Overcoming Anglocentrism in covert action scholarship0
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