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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
New evidence and new methods for analyzing the Iranian revolution as an intelligence failure	22
Investigating an authoritarian intelligence apparatus: the case of Myanmar	10
The academic-practitioner divide in intelligence studies	8
Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace	8
The governance of covert action: asymmetric power and the British plan to overthrow Saddam	7
Philosophical foundations of intelligence collection and analysis: a defense of ontological realism	7
Australian intelligence oversight and accountability: efficacy and contemporary challenges	7
Agents, attachés, and intelligence failures: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s efforts to establish espionage networks in the United States before Pearl Harbor	7
Pinochet’s poisons: examining Chile’s historical interest in chemical and biological weapons	6
A new theory of surprise – unraveling the logic of uncertainty and knowledge	6
Optimal spending on cybersecurity measures: digital privacy and data protection	5
The COVID-19 intelligence failure. Why warning was not enough	5
Cyber intelligence and international security: breaking the legal and diplomatic silence?	5
Beyond counterintelligence: understanding the SBU’s social media outreach on Telegram during wartime	5
The many realisms of John le Carré	5
Unravelling effectiveness in intelligence: a systematic review	5
A blue ribbon goat: the Rockefeller Commission, public opinion, and the Ford Administration’s intelligence reform failure	5
Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy	4
The multifaceted norm of objectivity in intelligence practices	4
The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures	4
Health security warning intelligence during first contact with COVID: an operations perspective	4
Spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of American intelligence	4
Modelling the intelligence requirements and priorities process: the US response to the Rwandan genocide	4
Analytical innovation in intelligence systems: the US national security establishment and the craft of ‘net assessment’	4
New writings on grand strategy	4

Critical Intelligence Studies: a new framework for analysis	4
Oversight and governance of the Danish intelligence community	4
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, Republic	4
A unified theory for intelligence analysis	4
Privatizing civil society: outsourcing governance in John le Carré’s post-Cold War novels	3
The evolution of African intelligence cultures	3
Profiles in Intelligence: an interview with Professor Loch K. Johnson	3
The Eurospy boom and the evolution of Europe’s transnational identity	3
The neo-imperialism of decolonisation: John le Carré and Cold War India	3
Strange bedfellows in the arms trade: Polish intelligence, Monzer al-Kassar and the Iran-Contra affair	3
‘The painful aftermath’: reactions to the publication of SOE in France	3
State Department cipher machines and communications security in the early Cold War, 1944–1965	3
Stepping out of the shadows: the legitimacy of the Bahamas’ NCIA	3
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-1970s	3
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man	3
World War I and the foundations of American intelligence	3
Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI): adaptive evolution in the interaction between collection and analysis	3
Unlikely ally: how the military fights climate change and protects the environment	3
A seat at the president’s table? Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Six Day War	3
‘What goes on behind the cloaks and daggers’: George Markstein and the dramatization of counterintelligence on British television	3
Christopher Andrew and the study of intelligence	3
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with the 17th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon	3
The perils of presidential openness: strikes, secrecy and performative opacity	2
The Chinese Communist Party’s exploitation of the Second United Front: intelligence and counterintelligence on a middle force territory	2
Che Guevara: the romantic revolutionary	2
Recruiting resistance: women, war, and intelligence in the SOE’s F section	2
The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets , Matthew Con	2
Improving intelligence analysis and education in the US with stronger foundations in statistical literacy	2
Twenty years on: Intelligence and Security Committee and investigating torture in the 'war on terror'	2
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 terrorism	2
Integrating Japan’s Intelligence Community: analyzing the effectiveness of the Director of Cabinet Intelligence as a coordinating body	2
The politics of intelligence failures: power, rationality, and the intelligence process	2
Editor’s Note:	2
Advanced introduction to American Foreign Policy	2
The theatre of the real: the actor/spy relationship in le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Little Drummer Girl	2
Great Britain, international law, and the evolution of maritime strategic thought, 1856-1914	2
Intelligence scandals: a comparative analytical model and lessons learned from the test case of North Macedonia	2
Examining the January 6 Capitol attack ‘intelligence failure’: the challenge of domestic security and the role of HUMINT	2
A fundamental re-conceputalization of intelligence: cognitive activity and the pursuit of advantage	2
Fact, fake or fiction?: the disguised spy novels of Bernard Newman in the 1930s	2
Intelligence outsourcing for non-traditional clients: the rise of private sector intelligence providers	2
The regulation of intelligence activities under international law	2
Partisanship and congressional intelligence oversight: the case of the Russia inquiries, 2017-2020	2
Listening to Cairo: British radio monitoring and intelligence gathering, c. 1953-1967	2
‘Profiles in intelligence’: an interview with 8th Mossad chief Danny Yatom	2
Women in intelligence: historic insights, contemporary challenges, and future directions	2
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Tony Comer	2
Swedish intelligence, Russia and the war in Ukraine: anticipations, course, and future implications	2
National security intelligence activity: a philosophical analysis	2
Correction	1

Secret partners: the national reconnaissance office and the intelligence-industrial-academic complex	1
Women in intelligence: a limited systematic review	1
The intelligence lobby before the intelligence lobby: MI5 Director General Stella Rimington and the hunt for the new legitimacy	1
How to explain the value of intelligence analysis: external consequences or internal characteristics?	1
Intelligence & the Russo-Ukrainian war: introduction to the special issue	1
John le Carré’s southern turn: British intelligence and degenerative satire in post-Cold War Latin America and Africa	1
The reality game: how the next wave of technology will break the truth	1
Political theory and the CIA in the US imperium	1
Knowledge gives strength to the arm: an agenda for studying combat intelligence as a discrete function within military intelligence	1
All the world’s a stage: covert action as theatrical performance	1
NOCs and illegals in the current surveillance landscape: can mimicry help overcome evolving challenges?	1
Intelligence and culture: an introduction	1
Espionage by Europeans: treason and counterintelligence in post-Cold War Europe	1
Assessing the FBI’s pre-1979 counterintelligence operations against China	1
Ian Fleming’s Soviet rival: Roman Kim and Soviet spy fiction during the early Cold War	1
The Bridge in the Parks: The Five Eyes and Cold War Counter-Intelligence	1
Contesting France: intelligence and US foreign policy in the early Cold War	1
Big data, emerging technologies and the characteristics of ‘good intelligence’	1
The intelligence politics of early congressional oversight of CIA	1
John le Carré’s The Looking Glass War: imagining the Special Operations Executive – Secret Intelligence Service rivalry as post-war counterfactual history	1
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 hi	1
Health security intelligence, edited	1
State secrecy and security: refiguring the covert imaginary	1
Dealing with data: coming to grips with the Information Age in Intelligence Studies journals	1
The FAN TAN file: Quebec separatism and security service resistance to politicization 1971–72	1
India’s foreign intelligence history and future challenges Strategic Challenges: India in 2030 , edited by Jayadeva Ranade, foreword by Peter Rimmele, Gurugram, HarperCo	1
Policy for promoting analytic rigor in intelligence: professionals’ views and their psychological correlates	1
‘All the heroes are dead:’ U.S. covert operations in Ukraine, 1949-1953	1
American zealots: inside right-wing domestic terrorism	1
Quantum espionage: a phenomenology of the Snowden affair	1
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
Redefining vigilance: reevaluating the meaning of early warning in Israel’s security doctrine and the October 7 attack	1
Justified true belief theory for intelligence analysis	1
Leviathan’s Heirs: sovereignty, intelligence, and the modern state	1
The FBI and foreign intelligence in the domestic setting	1
From TOPLEV to ALCHEMY: the evolution of one FBI approach to addressing foreign influence	1
Spreading the “smog of war”: the impact of propaganda, social media, and OSINT on U.S. civil-intelligence relations	1
The good, the bad, and the tradecraft: HUMINT and the ethics of psychological manipulation	1
Sharing empire: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (anti-) colonial intelligence networks in the Palestine Mandate, 1933-1940	1
Turkish intelligence and the Cold War: the Turkish secret service, the US and the UK	1
Skip the corsets, we’d rather have childcare: gendering spycraft in genre fiction and memoir	1