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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The academic-practitioner divide in intelligence studies	15
Medieval military medicine: from the Vikings to the High Middle Ages	11
The theatre of the real: the actor/spy relationship in le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Little Drummer Girl	10
Deciphering intelligence analysis: the synthetic nature of the core intelligence function	10
New evidence and new methods for analyzing the Iranian revolution as an intelligence failure	7
Intelligence and alliance politics: America, Britain, and the strategic Defense Initiative	6
‘An anarchy of treason’: public history, insider knowledge and the early spy novels of John le Carré	6
Reluctant revolutionaries: Czechoslovak support of revolutionary violence between decolonization and détente	6
Canadian Military Intelligence: operations and evolution from the October crisis to the war in Afghanistan	5
On the critical utility of complexity theory in intelligence studies	5
A Chinese spy manual (from the Qing dynasty)	5
The real special relationship: the true story of how the British and US secret services work together	5
Advancing intelligence analysis: using natural language processing on East Pakistani intelligence documents	5
Fact, fake or fiction?: the disguised spy novels of Bernard Newman in the 1930s	5
A new theory of surprise – unraveling the logic of uncertainty and knowledge	4
Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace	4
The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets , Matthew Con	4
‘Familiar but not intimate’: executive oversight of the UK intelligence and security agencies	4
Pinochet’s poisons: examining Chile’s historical interest in chemical and biological weapons	4
Probability or confidence, a distinction without a difference?	4
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 Univers	4
Sea, sex, and spies: on Gérard de Villiers’ relations with the covert world	4
‘The weatherman and the umbrella’: a case of complex and multilayered defence intelligence relations in the Netherlands	4
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	4
Intelligence leadership and governance	4

‘Making the intelligence product of greater use to those for whom it is produced’: lessons from the National Security Council Intelligence Committee, 1971–1976	3
The perils of presidential openness: strikes, secrecy and performative opacity	3
Introduction	3
Agents, attachés, and intelligence failures: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s efforts to establish espionage networks in the United States before Pearl Harbor	3
Great Britain, international law, and the evolution of maritime strategic thought, 1856-1914	3
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 independence	3
A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence	3
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	3
“The hyena who stalks the capitalist deserts”: imagining the ‘anti-Bond’ in the works of John le Carré	3
Cold War in the Islamic world: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the struggle for supremacy	3
Australian intelligence oversight and accountability: efficacy and contemporary challenges	3
Contemporary French security policy in Africa: on ideas and wars	3
Investigating an authoritarian intelligence apparatus: the case of Myanmar	2
Warship 2023	2
Quantum espionage: a phenomenology of the Snowden affair	2
The governance of covert action: asymmetric power and the British plan to overthrow Saddam	2
Finding a match: the revolution in recruitment and its application to selecting intelligence analysts	2
Modelling the intelligence requirements and priorities process: the US response to the Rwandan genocide	2
Spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of American intelligence	2
The multifaceted norm of objectivity in intelligence practices	2
India’s intelligence culture and strategic surprises: spying for South block	2
The Sisson Documents and their ‘distinguished place’ in the history of disinformation	2
Cyber intelligence and international security: breaking the legal and diplomatic silence?	2
A risk science perspective on how to evaluate the quality of intelligence assessments	2
Critical review of the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses technique: lessons for the intelligence community	2
National security intelligence activity: a philosophical analysis	2
Project Spaceman: early British computer security and automatic data processing	2
Neutering the CIA: why US intelligence versus Trump has long-term consequences	2
A blue ribbon goat: the Rockefeller Commission, public opinion, and the Ford Administration’s intelligence reform failure	2
Countering cyberterrorism: the confluence of artificial intelligence, cyber forensics and digital policing in US and UK national cybersecurity	2
The evolution of the Al-Shabaab jihadist intelligence structure	2
Intelligence power and practice Intelligence power and practice , by Michael Herman and David Schaefer, foreword by Lord Butler, Intelligence Power in Pra	2
A whole of society intelligence approach: critical reassessment of the tools and means used to counter information warfare in the digital age	2
Philosophical foundations of intelligence collection and analysis: a defense of ontological realism	2
Caught off guard? Evaluating how external experts in Germany warned about Russia’s war on Ukraine	2
‘Profiles in intelligence’: an interview with 8th Mossad chief Danny Yatom	2
Listening to Cairo: British radio monitoring and intelligence gathering, c. 1953-1967	2
The evolution of historical scholarship and the rise of the visible and accountable national security state: tales from a life in Intelligence Studies	2
Politics and intelligence analysis: the Canadian experience	2
Critical Intelligence Studies: a new framework for analysis	2
Secrecy and the politics of selective disclosures: the US government’s intervention in Guatemala	1
The regulation of intelligence activities under international law	1
Spy stories: inside the secret world of the RAW and the ISI	1
Winner of the Polly Corrigan Book Prize	1
The impact of AI on intelligence analysis: tackling issues of collaboration, algorithmic transparency, accountability, and management	1
‘A sad story of delay and obstructionism’: the impact of external relationships on the resourcing and development of Bletchley Park during the Second World War	1
The spymaster of Baghdad: a true story of bravery, family, and patriotism in the battle against ISIS	1
Correction	1
Rethinking intelligence practices and processes: three sociological concepts for the study of intelligence	1
Innovating in a secret world: the future of national security and global leadership	1

Relationships, power, and ambiguity: how do U.S. intelligence officer responses to toxicity affect support to the core mission?	1
Assessing the FBI’s pre-1979 counterintelligence operations against China	1
The many realisms of John le Carré	1
Resisting the KGB Mythmakers: Willy Fisher, spy fiction, and the myth of Rudolf Abel	1
Oversight and governance of the Danish intelligence community	1
From sigint to cyber: a hundred years of Britain’s biggest intelligence agency	1
Secret partners: the national reconnaissance office and the intelligence-industrial-academic complex	1
Towards intelligence accountability as a virtue	1
‘A bald exposition of the essential facts’: information and reconnaissance in The Riddle of the Sands	1
Learning to think and talk like the locals: the Soviet political police’s efforts to adapt in Lithuania and Ukraine, 1944-1949	1
‘All the Heroes are Dead:’ U.S. Covert Operations in Ukraine, 1949-1953	1
A clear case of genius: room 40’s code-breaking pioneer	1
Feminist philosophy and the problem of intelligence analysis: standpoint, measurement, and motivation	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
The bitskrieg that was and wasn’t: the military and intelligence implications of cyber operations during Russia’s war on Ukraine	1
The Chinese Communist Party’s exploitation of the Second United Front: intelligence and counterintelligence on a middle force territory	1
Unravelling effectiveness in intelligence: a systematic review	1
Britain’s key counter-subversion instrument before the 1971 withdrawal from the Gulf: Voice of the Coast [Sawt Al Saahil] Arabic radio station	1
Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War	1
Spy pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 incident, and a controversial Cold War legacy	1
Public knowledge of intelligence agencies among university students in Spain	1
Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy	1
Assessing intelligence oversight: the case of Sweden	1
Restricted data: the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States	1
Shadows of power beneath the threshold: where covert action, organized crime and irregular warfare converge	1
The COVID-19 intelligence failure. Why warning was not enough	1
Analytical innovation in intelligence systems: the US national security establishment and the craft of ‘net assessment’	1
Partisanship and congressional intelligence oversight: the case of the Russia inquiries, 2017-2020	1
Policy for promoting analytic rigor in intelligence: professionals’ views and their psychological correlates	1
Unlikely ally: how the military fights climate change and protects the environment	1
Root values and root skills: a new model for intelligence education	1
Between the secret state and the public sphere: the writer as intermediary	1
American zealots: inside right-wing domestic terrorism	1
Beyond counterintelligence: understanding the SBU’s social media outreach on Telegram during wartime	1
The Bridge in the Parks: The Five Eyes and Cold War Counter-Intelligence	1
Ken Robertson 1947–2021: foundations, innovations and legacies	1
The Palgrave handbook of national security	1
CIA/SOF convergence and congressional oversight	1
Ian Fleming’s Soviet rival: Roman Kim and Soviet spy fiction during the early Cold War	1
Queering intelligence studies	1
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, (	1
Stay-behind networks and interim flexible strategy: the ‘Gladio’ case and US covert intervention in Italy in the Cold War	1
Advanced introduction to American Foreign Policy	1