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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating an authoritarian intelligence apparatus: the case of Myanmar	16
Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman intelligence in the great rivalry with Spain	14
Pinochet’s poisons: examining Chile’s historical interest in chemical and biological weapons	12
Agents, attachés, and intelligence failures: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s efforts to establish espionage networks in the United States before Pearl Harbor	11
Beyond secrets and surveillance: understanding analytic reform in the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security	10
Unveiling state secrets to occupying forces: interwar intelligence activities in the Baltic Sea region through the lens of the NKVD/NKGB interrogations, 1940–1942	10
Dangerously provocative: co-optation to undermining of women’s groups by U.S. intelligence agencies	10
A new theory of surprise – unraveling the logic of uncertainty and knowledge	8
Cyber intelligence and international security: breaking the legal and diplomatic silence?	8
Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace	7
The COVID-19 intelligence failure. Why warning was not enough	6
A blue ribbon goat: the Rockefeller Commission, public opinion, and the Ford Administration’s intelligence reform failure	6
The many realisms of John le Carré	6
Israeli national intelligence culture: problem-solving, exceptionalism, and pragmatism	5
No straight line: the Samuels–Codd Commission of Inquiry into the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and the pathway to the Intelligence Services Act 2001	5
The determined spy: the turbulent life and times of CIA pioneer Frank Wisner	5
Spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of American intelligence	5
The history of intelligence in Kenya	5
Critical Intelligence Studies: a new framework for analysis	5
Beyond counterintelligence: understanding the SBU’s social media outreach on Telegram during wartime	5
Optimal spending on cybersecurity measures: digital privacy and data protection	5
Unravelling effectiveness in intelligence: a systematic review	5
Modelling the intelligence requirements and priorities process: the US response to the Rwandan genocide	5
Recruit, deploy, discard: Jewish Israelis in Iranian espionage operations	5
The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures	4

‘The painful aftermath’: reactions to the publication of SOE in France	4
A unified theory for intelligence analysis	4
Stepping out of the shadows: the legitimacy of the Bahamas’ NCIA	4
The evolution of African intelligence cultures	4
Profiles in Intelligence: an interview with Professor Loch K. Johnson	4
Warning intelligence in the digital afterlife of Iraqi Ba’thism	4
Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI): adaptive evolution in the interaction between collection and analysis	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
State Department cipher machines and communications security in the early Cold War, 1944–1965	4
New writings on grand strategy	4
Innovation, openness, and the future of intelligence: an interview with Brigt Harr Vaage	4
Standing, joint or select committee? The motivations and consequences of creating new permanent select committee on intelligence in the U.S. Congress	4
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
A seat at the president’s table? Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Six Day War	3
The last honest man: the CIA, the Mafia and the Kennedy’s. And one senator’s fight for democracy	3
Integrating Japan’s Intelligence Community: analyzing the effectiveness of the Director of Cabinet Intelligence as a coordinating body	3
Human-machine teaming for digital transformation	3
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man	3
Ambient politicization: intelligence, credibility, and the U.S. intervention in Lebanon, 1958	3
‘What goes on behind the cloaks and daggers’: George Markstein and the dramatization of counterintelligence on British television	3
A country with “its own special problems”: domestic surveillance in Scotland during the Second World War	3
Swedish intelligence, Russia and the war in Ukraine: anticipations, course, and future implications	3
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with 11th Mossad director Tamir Pardo	3
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with the 17th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon	3
Unveiling the art and science of virtual HUMINT: a methodological proposal for handling HUMINT sources online	3
Privatizing civil society: outsourcing governance in John le Carré’s post-Cold War novels	3
The neo-imperialism of decolonisation: John le Carré and Cold War India	3
Contesting France: intelligence and US foreign policy in the early Cold War	3
World War I and the foundations of American intelligence	3
The value of engaged critique: civic intelligence oversight and the freedom of information in the Netherlands	3
SIGINT below zero: the indications and warning role of Canadian Forces Station Alert, 1958–1975	3
The perils of presidential openness: strikes, secrecy and performative opacity	2
The vanishing watchman: the rise and decline of early warning	2
Women in intelligence: historic insights, contemporary challenges, and future directions	2
Examining the January 6 Capitol attack ‘intelligence failure’: the challenge of domestic security and the role of HUMINT	2
The regulation of intelligence activities under international law	2
Leveraging data science to investigate intelligence failures	2
Dealing with data: coming to grips with the Information Age in Intelligence Studies journals	2
Iran’s grand strategy: a political history	2
Smart new world: adapting human intelligence for the digital age	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
The theatre of the real: the actor/spy relationship in le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Little Drummer Girl	2
The Soviet intelligence illegals program in the face of counterintelligence pressure: the case of the United States and Canada	2
Improving intelligence analysis and education in the US with stronger foundations in statistical literacy	2
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Tony Comer	2
Diffuse intelligence: foresight for forecasting	2
The myth of coercive diplomacy: the U.S. intelligence community and the war in Bosnia	2
The good, the bad, and the tradecraft: HUMINT and the ethics of psychological manipulation	2
The FAN TAN file: Quebec separatism and security service resistance to politicization 1971–72	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
Editor’s Note:	2
Fact, fake or fiction?: the disguised spy novels of Bernard Newman in the 1930s	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
Learning from mistakes: the impact of the October 7 surprise attack on the youngest generation of IDF intelligence analysts	2
Twenty years on: Intelligence and Security Committee and investigating torture in the 'war on terror'	2
Comparative intelligence operations of nonstate armed groups: a comprehensive review	2
Public-private collaboration and the digital transformation of intelligence	2
The politics of intelligence failures: power, rationality, and the intelligence process	2
Che Guevara: the romantic revolutionary	2
Intelligence outsourcing for non-traditional clients: the rise of private sector intelligence providers	2
Partisanship and congressional intelligence oversight: the case of the Russia inquiries, 2017-2020	2
India’s foreign intelligence history and future challenges Strategic Challenges: India in 2030 , edited by Jayadeva Ranade, foreword by Peter Rimmele, Gurugram, HarperCo	2
Recruiting resistance: women, war, and intelligence in the SOE’s F section	2
Intelligence & the Russo-Ukrainian war: introduction to the special issue	1
Big data, emerging technologies and the characteristics of ‘good intelligence’	1
Secret partners: the national reconnaissance office and the intelligence-industrial-academic complex	1
‘All the heroes are dead:’ U.S. covert operations in Ukraine, 1949-1953	1
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Gill Bennett	1
The hero of Star Wars ’ Andor : liberal rebel and authoritarian imperial lessons in navigating the “Sarlac	1
The Polly Corrigan Book Prize Winner 2024, The Regulation of Intelligence Activities under International Law	1
Redefining vigilance: reevaluating the meaning of early warning in Israel’s security doctrine and the October 7 attack	1
The FBI and foreign intelligence in the domestic setting	1
NOCs and illegals in the current surveillance landscape: can mimicry help overcome evolving challenges?	1
No cloak, no dagger: a professor’s secret life inside the CIA	1
From TOPLEV to ALCHEMY: the evolution of one FBI approach to addressing foreign influence	1
Knowledge gives strength to the arm: an agenda for studying combat intelligence as a discrete function within military intelligence	1
Spy mania and state security: the Great Retreat of 1915 and the expansion of the internal enemy in Imperial Russia	1
John le Carré’s The Looking Glass War: imagining the Special Operations Executive – Secret Intelligence Service rivalry as post-war counterfactual history	1
Relationships, power, and ambiguity: how do U.S. intelligence officer responses to toxicity affect support to the core mission?	1
Rethinking intelligence practices and processes: three sociological concepts for the study of intelligence	1
Visualizing versus verbalizing uncertainty in intelligence analysis	1
Trust without knowledge? UK intelligence agencies and the public trust conundrum	1
Time and narrative in intelligence analysis: a new framework for the production of meaning	1
John le Carré’s southern turn: British intelligence and degenerative satire in post-Cold War Latin America and Africa	1
The intelligence lobby before the intelligence lobby: MI5 Director General Stella Rimington and the hunt for the new legitimacy	1
Correction	1
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Health security intelligence	1
Contesting France: intelligence and US foreign policy in the early Cold War	1
Promoting and evaluating intelligence assessment quality: examining the problem through an accountability lens	1
Political theory and the CIA in the US imperium	1
Sharing empire: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (anti-) colonial intelligence networks in the Palestine Mandate, 1933-1940	1
The intelligence intellectuals: social scientists and the making of the CIA	1
Correction	1
Adapting classical deception theory to cyber counterintelligence: challenges and opportunities	1
Correction	1
Memoir of an Indian spymaster A life in the shadows: a memoir , by A. S. Dulat, Gurugram, HarperCollins India, 2023, 264 pp., ₹699.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-9356295964	1
Towards intelligence accountability as a virtue	1
Skip the corsets, we’d rather have childcare: gendering spycraft in genre fiction and memoir	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
Espionage by Europeans: treason and counterintelligence in post-Cold War Europe	1
Women in intelligence: a limited systematic review	1
The intelligence politics of early congressional oversight of CIA	1
Introduction: rethinking strategic warning and intelligence failure in an era of global transformation	1
Spreading the “smog of war”: the impact of propaganda, social media, and OSINT on U.S. civil-intelligence relations	1
‘No one was listening’: the 1981 JIC report, the Falklands/Malvinas crisis, and the politics of selective listening	1