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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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New evidence and new methods for analyzing the Iranian revolution as an intelligence failure22
Investigating an authoritarian intelligence apparatus: the case of Myanmar10
The academic-practitioner divide in intelligence studies8
Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace8
The governance of covert action: asymmetric power and the British plan to overthrow Saddam7
Philosophical foundations of intelligence collection and analysis: a defense of ontological realism7
Australian intelligence oversight and accountability: efficacy and contemporary challenges7
Agents, attachés, and intelligence failures: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s efforts to establish espionage networks in the United States before Pearl Harbor7
Pinochet’s poisons: examining Chile’s historical interest in chemical and biological weapons6
A new theory of surprise – unraveling the logic of uncertainty and knowledge6
Optimal spending on cybersecurity measures: digital privacy and data protection5
The COVID-19 intelligence failure. Why warning was not enough5
Cyber intelligence and international security: breaking the legal and diplomatic silence?5
Beyond counterintelligence: understanding the SBU’s social media outreach on Telegram during wartime5
The many realisms of John le Carré5
Unravelling effectiveness in intelligence: a systematic review5
A blue ribbon goat: the Rockefeller Commission, public opinion, and the Ford Administration’s intelligence reform failure5
Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy4
The multifaceted norm of objectivity in intelligence practices4
The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures4
Health security warning intelligence during first contact with COVID: an operations perspective4
Spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of American intelligence4
Modelling the intelligence requirements and priorities process: the US response to the Rwandan genocide4
Analytical innovation in intelligence systems: the US national security establishment and the craft of ‘net assessment’4
New writings on grand strategy4
Critical Intelligence Studies: a new framework for analysis4
Oversight and governance of the Danish intelligence community4
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
A unified theory for intelligence analysis4
Christopher Andrew and the study of intelligence3
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with the 17th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon3
Privatizing civil society: outsourcing governance in John le Carré’s post-Cold War novels3
The evolution of African intelligence cultures3
Profiles in Intelligence: an interview with Professor Loch K. Johnson3
The Eurospy boom and the evolution of Europe’s transnational identity3
The neo-imperialism of decolonisation: John le Carré and Cold War India3
Strange bedfellows in the arms trade: Polish intelligence, Monzer al-Kassar and the Iran-Contra affair3
‘The painful aftermath’: reactions to the publication of SOE in France3
State Department cipher machines and communications security in the early Cold War, 1944–19653
Stepping out of the shadows: the legitimacy of the Bahamas’ NCIA3
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
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man3
World War I and the foundations of American intelligence3
Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI): adaptive evolution in the interaction between collection and analysis3
Unlikely ally: how the military fights climate change and protects the environment3
A seat at the president’s table? Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Six Day War3
‘What goes on behind the cloaks and daggers’: George Markstein and the dramatization of counterintelligence on British television3
Swedish intelligence, Russia and the war in Ukraine: anticipations, course, and future implications2
National security intelligence activity: a philosophical analysis2
The perils of presidential openness: strikes, secrecy and performative opacity2
The Chinese Communist Party’s exploitation of the Second United Front: intelligence and counterintelligence on a middle force territory2
Che Guevara: the romantic revolutionary2
Recruiting resistance: women, war, and intelligence in the SOE’s F section2
The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets , Matthew Con2
Improving intelligence analysis and education in the US with stronger foundations in statistical literacy2
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 terrorism2
Integrating Japan’s Intelligence Community: analyzing the effectiveness of the Director of Cabinet Intelligence as a coordinating body2
The politics of intelligence failures: power, rationality, and the intelligence process2
Editor’s Note:2
Advanced introduction to American Foreign Policy2
The theatre of the real: the actor/spy relationship in le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Little Drummer Girl2
Great Britain, international law, and the evolution of maritime strategic thought, 1856-19142
Intelligence scandals: a comparative analytical model and lessons learned from the test case of North Macedonia2
Examining the January 6 Capitol attack ‘intelligence failure’: the challenge of domestic security and the role of HUMINT2
A fundamental re-conceputalization of intelligence: cognitive activity and the pursuit of advantage2
Fact, fake or fiction?: the disguised spy novels of Bernard Newman in the 1930s2
Intelligence outsourcing for non-traditional clients: the rise of private sector intelligence providers2
The regulation of intelligence activities under international law2
Partisanship and congressional intelligence oversight: the case of the Russia inquiries, 2017-20202
Listening to Cairo: British radio monitoring and intelligence gathering, c. 1953-19672
‘Profiles in intelligence’: an interview with 8th Mossad chief Danny Yatom2
Women in intelligence: historic insights, contemporary challenges, and future directions2
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Tony Comer2
From TOPLEV to ALCHEMY: the evolution of one FBI approach to addressing foreign influence1
Spreading the “smog of war”: the impact of propaganda, social media, and OSINT on U.S. civil-intelligence relations1
The good, the bad, and the tradecraft: HUMINT and the ethics of psychological manipulation1
Sharing empire: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (anti-) colonial intelligence networks in the Palestine Mandate, 1933-19401
Secret partners: the national reconnaissance office and the intelligence-industrial-academic complex1
Turkish intelligence and the Cold War: the Turkish secret service, the US and the UK1
Women in intelligence: a limited systematic review1
The intelligence lobby before the intelligence lobby: MI5 Director General Stella Rimington and the hunt for the new legitimacy1
Skip the corsets, we’d rather have childcare: gendering spycraft in genre fiction and memoir1
Intelligence & the Russo-Ukrainian war: introduction to the special issue1
Correction1
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
John le Carré’s southern turn: British intelligence and degenerative satire in post-Cold War Latin America and Africa1
Political theory and the CIA in the US imperium1
Knowledge gives strength to the arm: an agenda for studying combat intelligence as a discrete function within military intelligence1
All the world’s a stage: covert action as theatrical performance1
NOCs and illegals in the current surveillance landscape: can mimicry help overcome evolving challenges?1
Ian Fleming’s Soviet rival: Roman Kim and Soviet spy fiction during the early Cold War1
Intelligence and culture: an introduction1
The Bridge in the Parks: The Five Eyes and Cold War Counter-Intelligence1
Big data, emerging technologies and the characteristics of ‘good intelligence’1
Espionage by Europeans: treason and counterintelligence in post-Cold War Europe1
John le Carré’s The Looking Glass War: imagining the Special Operations Executive – Secret Intelligence Service rivalry as post-war counterfactual history1
Assessing the FBI’s pre-1979 counterintelligence operations against China1
Health security intelligence, edited1
Contesting France: intelligence and US foreign policy in the early Cold War1
The intelligence politics of early congressional oversight of CIA1
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
State secrecy and security: refiguring the covert imaginary1
Dealing with data: coming to grips with the Information Age in Intelligence Studies journals1
The FAN TAN file: Quebec separatism and security service resistance to politicization 1971–721
India’s foreign intelligence history and future challenges Strategic Challenges: India in 2030 , edited by Jayadeva Ranade, foreword by Peter Rimmele, Gurugram, HarperCo1
Quantum espionage: a phenomenology of the Snowden affair1
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
Policy for promoting analytic rigor in intelligence: professionals’ views and their psychological correlates1
Justified true belief theory for intelligence analysis1
‘All the heroes are dead:’ U.S. covert operations in Ukraine, 1949-19531
The FBI and foreign intelligence in the domestic setting1
American zealots: inside right-wing domestic terrorism1
Redefining vigilance: reevaluating the meaning of early warning in Israel’s security doctrine and the October 7 attack1
Leviathan’s Heirs: sovereignty, intelligence, and the modern state1
‘I sente a woman … beecause a man shoulde have beene suspected’: tudor women and military intelligence (c.1509–1603)0
Overcoming the inertia of ‘old ways of producing intelligence’—the IC’s development and use of new analytic methods in the 1970s0
Effect and reflect: opening the ‘black hands’ of foreign involvement in the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests0
Intelligence and alliance politics: America, Britain, and the strategic Defense Initiative0
Iran’s Qods Force: proxy wars, terrorism, and the war on America0
Intelligence power and practice Intelligence power and practice , by Michael Herman and David Schaefer, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 418 pp., $US 120 (ha0
State preferences, viable alternatives, and American covert action, 1946-19890
Was the Prosper French resistance circuit betrayed by the British in 1943?0
Insights into the secret world0
British intelligence and the Dardanelles: the 1906 Taba affair revisited0
Building blind spots: sexism and intelligence failure0
Spy stories: inside the secret world of the RAW and the ISI0
Countering a technological Berlin tunnel: North Korean operatives, helicopters and intelligence in the Cold War illicit arms trade, 1981-19860
Blood, toil, tears, and spies0
Redefining the security paradigm to create an intelligence ethic0
Reconnecting the dots: state-terrorist relations during the Cold War0
National Intelligence Organization (MİT) 1826–20230
CIA/SOF convergence and congressional oversight0
David Kahn, in remembrance: an INS special forum0
Spies: the epic intelligence war between East and West0
The war we won apart: the untold story of two elite agents who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII0
Devil’s Advocacy within Dutch military intelligence (2008-2020): an effective instrument for quality assurance?0
Waiting for advice that is beyond doubt: uncertainty as Australia’s reason to join the invasion of Iraq0
The view from somewhere: lessons from the intelligence failure in Iran0
‘Vital and irreplaceable facilities’: explaining leverage when states host great powers’ spying operations0
‘A bald exposition of the essential facts’: information and reconnaissance in The Riddle of the Sands0
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
Learning to think and talk like the locals: the Soviet political police’s efforts to adapt in Lithuania and Ukraine, 1944-19490
A milestone in encryption control – what sank the US key-escrow policy?0
Epidemiological intelligence fusion centers: health security and COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic0
The Palgrave handbook of national security0
Warship 20230
The assault on intelligence: American national security in an age of lies0
Understanding Putin’s Russia: a continuing challenge for Western intelligence0
Nigerian perspectives on intelligence and national security0
Introduction0
Fake leads, defamation and destabilization: how online disinformation continues to impact Russia’s invasion of Ukraine0
William Playfair, pioneer of modern intelligence0
Sea, sex, and spies: on Gérard de Villiers’ relations with the covert world0
Introduction to special issue on issues in intelligence analysis0
‘A cuckoo in the diplomatic service nest’: freedom of information and the ‘English Desk’ of the Information Research Department (IRD)0
Correction0
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
Disaster intelligence: developing strategic warning for national security0
A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence​0
Wartime intelligence experience in the works of Barbara Pym and Muriel Spark0
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 – The British Perspective0
Circulation, not cooperation: towards a new understanding of intelligence agencies as transnationally constituted knowledge providers0
Restricted data: the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States0
Separating isotope facts from fallacies: nuclear weapons proliferation in the eyes of three intelligence communities0
The Pinkerton Pause: how opposition to Pinkertonism delayed the advent of the privatized security state0
National security and the state: a focus on Nepal0
Indications of war: American, British and Canadian intelligence diplomacy and the 1957 tripartite intelligence alerts agreement0
‘No end of a lesson’: the Anglo-Boer War and British espionage fiction0
Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare: the USA, China, and strategic stability0
The media and ‘Mrs Petrov’: press representations of Australia’s most famous spy0
British geographic intelligence during the Second World War: a case study of the Canary Islands0
Plotting for peace: American peacemakers, British codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914-170
How do we know if an intelligence analytic product is good?0
Intelligence operations, Indigenous cultures, and early U.S. Ambassadors to Native American polities0
The Yom Kippur intelligence failure after fifty years: what lessons can be learned?0
Correction0
When spies go public! Lessons learnt from the instrumentalization of intelligence for strategic communication in the run-up to the Russian-Ukrainian war0
Root values and root skills: a new model for intelligence education0
Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-19750
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
‘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
INS special forum on David Sherman’s ‘An Intelligence Classic That Almost Never Was – Roberta Wohlstetter’s Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision0
Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s secret cold war0
Say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland Say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland , Patrick Radden Keefe, London, Wil0
Arms exports and intelligence: the case of Sweden0
Politics and intelligence analysis: the Canadian experience0
‘An anarchy of treason’: public history, insider knowledge and the early spy novels of John le Carré0
Military intelligence and the securitization of Arabic proficiency in Israel: the limits of influence and the curse of unintended consequences0
Grey literature in the intelligence domain: twilight or revival?0
The evolution of historical scholarship and the rise of the visible and accountable national security state: tales from a life in Intelligence Studies0
Is sunlight the best counterintelligence technique? the effectiveness of covert operation exposure in blunting the Russian intervention in the 2020 U.S. election0
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
Commissars with keyboards: the lingering relevance of the military-political origins of Chinese and Russian psychological warfare0
Ethics of spying: a reader for the intelligence professional. Vol. 30
Contemporary French security policy in Africa: on ideas and wars0
Medieval military medicine: from the Vikings to the High Middle Ages0
CIA’s evaluation of analytic quality: can it fortify tradecraft?0
Reluctant revolutionaries: Czechoslovak support of revolutionary violence between decolonization and détente0
Resisting the KGB Mythmakers: Willy Fisher, spy fiction, and the myth of Rudolf Abel0
Christopher Andrew and the myriad worlds of intelligence0
Adopting and improving a new forecasting paradigm0
Correction0
Canadian Military Intelligence: operations and evolution from the October crisis to the war in Afghanistan0
‘The enemy teaches us how to operate’: Palestinian Hamas use of open source intelligence (OSINT) in its intelligence warfare against Israel (1987-2012)0
Forbidden history: CIA censorship, The Invisible Government , and the origins of the “deep state” conspiracy theory0
The impact of AI on intelligence analysis: tackling issues of collaboration, algorithmic transparency, accountability, and management0
The Russian hybrid intelligence state: reconceptualizing the politicization of intelligence and the ‘intelligencization’ of politics0
‘The weatherman and the umbrella’: a case of complex and multilayered defence intelligence relations in the Netherlands0
Intelligence warning in the Ukraine war, Autumn 2021 – Summer 20220
Attributing digital covert action: the curious case of WikiSaudiLeaks0
The Polly Corrigan Book Prize – call for nominations0
Private sector intelligence: on the long path of professionalization0
Spies, lies and exile: the extraordinary story of Russian double agent George Blake0
Internal security management in Nigeria: perspectives, challenges and lessons0
Moshe Dayan in the Yom Kippur War: a Reassessment0
The Phantom Eye: New Zealand and the Five Eyes0
A clear case of genius: room 40’s code-breaking pioneer0
Correction0
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with John Ferris0
Bubbleheads, SEALs and Wizards: America’s Scottish Bastion in the Cold War0
Integrating intelligence theory with philosophy: introduction to the special issue0
The bitskrieg that was and wasn’t: the military and intelligence implications of cyber operations during Russia’s war on Ukraine0
Correction0
Assessing intelligence oversight: the case of Sweden0
The future of intelligence studies: technology and data0
Assumptions in intelligence analysis0
Correction0
Emotional intelligence: culture, intimacy, and empire in early CIA espionage0
Innovating in a secret world: the future of national security and global leadership0
Operation Payback: Soviet disinformation and alleged Nazi war criminals in North America0
Using argument mapping to improve clarity and rigour in written intelligence products0
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
“The hyena who stalks the capitalist deserts”: imagining the ‘anti-Bond’ in the works of John le Carré0
Intelligence under democracy and authoritarianism: a philosophical analysis0
Health security intelligence capabilities post COVID-19: resisting the passive “new normal” within the Five Eyes0
Caught off guard? Evaluating how external experts in Germany warned about Russia’s war on Ukraine0
The Rooseboom operation: uncovering the embryonic German intelligence network in South Africa, 1940-19420
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
A ‘perfect spy’: the espionage of Ana Montes0
Contemporary intelligence in Africa0
Advancing intelligence analysis: using natural language processing on East Pakistani intelligence documents0
Finding a match: the revolution in recruitment and its application to selecting intelligence analysts0
The Situation Room: the inside story of presidents in crisis0
India’s intelligence culture and strategic surprises: spying for South block0
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
Towards a better framework for estimative intelligence – addressing quality through a systematic approach to uncertainty handling0
Correction0
How surprising was ISIS’ rise to power for the German intelligence community? Reconstructing estimates of likelihood prior to the fall of Mosul0
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