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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The academic-practitioner divide in intelligence studies	19
Medieval military medicine: from the Vikings to the High Middle Ages	10
The theatre of the real: the actor/spy relationship in le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Little Drummer Girl	8
Deciphering intelligence analysis: the synthetic nature of the core intelligence function	7
Intelligence and alliance politics: America, Britain, and the strategic Defense Initiative	6
Reluctant revolutionaries: Czechoslovak support of revolutionary violence between decolonization and détente	6
The real special relationship: the true story of how the British and US secret services work together	5
‘An anarchy of treason’: public history, insider knowledge and the early spy novels of John le Carré	5
Sea, sex, and spies: on Gérard de Villiers’ relations with the covert world	4
Pinochet’s poisons: examining Chile’s historical interest in chemical and biological weapons	4
Advancing intelligence analysis: using natural language processing on East Pakistani intelligence documents	4
Probability or confidence, a distinction without a difference?	4
‘The weatherman and the umbrella’: a case of complex and multilayered defence intelligence relations in the Netherlands	4
Canadian Military Intelligence: operations and evolution from the October crisis to the war in Afghanistan	4
Fact, fake or fiction?: the disguised spy novels of Bernard Newman in the 1930s	4
A new theory of surprise – unraveling the logic of uncertainty and knowledge	4
Intelligence leadership and governance	3
‘Familiar but not intimate’: executive oversight of the UK intelligence and security agencies	3
The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets , Matthew Con	3
Agents, attachés, and intelligence failures: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s efforts to establish espionage networks in the United States before Pearl Harbor	3
Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace	3
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	3
Cold War in the Islamic world: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the struggle for supremacy	3
“The hyena who stalks the capitalist deserts”: imagining the ‘anti-Bond’ in the works of John le Carré	3
Introduction	3

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	3
Contemporary French security policy in Africa: on ideas and wars	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	2
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	2
Quantum espionage: a phenomenology of the Snowden affair	2
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, (	2
A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence	2
Stay-behind networks and interim flexible strategy: the ‘Gladio’ case and US covert intervention in Italy in the Cold War	2
Intelligence power and practice Intelligence power and practice , by Michael Herman and David Schaefer, foreword by Lord Butler, Intelligence Power in Pra	2
The evolution of the Al-Shabaab jihadist intelligence structure	2
Cyber intelligence and international security: breaking the legal and diplomatic silence?	2
National security intelligence activity: a philosophical analysis	2
Finding a match: the revolution in recruitment and its application to selecting intelligence analysts	2
‘Making the intelligence product of greater use to those for whom it is produced’: lessons from the National Security Council Intelligence Committee, 1971–1976	2
New evidence and new methods for analyzing the Iranian revolution as an intelligence failure	2
Restricted data: the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States	2
The Sisson Documents and their ‘distinguished place’ in the history of disinformation	2
Secret partners: the national reconnaissance office and the intelligence-industrial-academic complex	2
Warship 2023	2
The governance of covert action: asymmetric power and the British plan to overthrow Saddam	2
Critical review of the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses technique: lessons for the intelligence community	2
Great Britain, international law, and the evolution of maritime strategic thought, 1856-1914	2
The perils of presidential openness: strikes, secrecy and performative opacity	2
Australian intelligence oversight and accountability: efficacy and contemporary challenges	2
Investigating an authoritarian intelligence apparatus: the case of Myanmar	2
Advanced introduction to American Foreign Policy	2
India’s intelligence culture and strategic surprises: spying for South block	2
A risk science perspective on how to evaluate the quality of intelligence assessments	2
‘Profiles in intelligence’: an interview with 8th Mossad chief Danny Yatom	2
Caught off guard? Evaluating how external experts in Germany warned about Russia’s war on Ukraine	2
Philosophical foundations of intelligence collection and analysis: a defense of ontological realism	2
Neutering the CIA: why US intelligence versus Trump has long-term consequences	1
Resisting the KGB Mythmakers: Willy Fisher, spy fiction, and the myth of Rudolf Abel	1
A blue ribbon goat: the Rockefeller Commission, public opinion, and the Ford Administration’s intelligence reform failure	1
Towards intelligence accountability as a virtue	1
The bitskrieg that was and wasn’t: the military and intelligence implications of cyber operations during Russia’s war on Ukraine	1
Correction	1
Root values and root skills: a new model for intelligence education	1
‘A bald exposition of the essential facts’: information and reconnaissance in The Riddle of the Sands	1
Editor’s Note:	1
The many realisms of John le Carré	1
The evolution of historical scholarship and the rise of the visible and accountable national security state: tales from a life in Intelligence Studies	1
Assessing intelligence oversight: the case of Sweden	1
Shadows of power beneath the threshold: where covert action, organized crime and irregular warfare converge	1
Analytical innovation in intelligence systems: the US national security establishment and the craft of ‘net assessment’	1
Ian Fleming’s Soviet rival: Roman Kim and Soviet spy fiction during the early Cold War	1
The Chinese Communist Party’s exploitation of the Second United Front: intelligence and counterintelligence on a middle force territory	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 spymaster of Baghdad: a true story of bravery, family, and patriotism in the battle against ISIS	1
Critical Intelligence Studies: a new framework for analysis	1

Politics and intelligence analysis: the Canadian experience	1
Policy for promoting analytic rigor in intelligence: professionals’ views and their psychological correlates	1
Beyond counterintelligence: understanding the SBU’s social media outreach on Telegram during wartime	1
The multifaceted norm of objectivity in intelligence practices	1
Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy	1
Modelling the intelligence requirements and priorities process: the US response to the Rwandan genocide	1
Public knowledge of intelligence agencies among university students in Spain	1
‘All the heroes are dead:’ U.S. covert operations in Ukraine, 1949-1953	1
Oversight and governance of the Danish intelligence community	1
Countering cyberterrorism: the confluence of artificial intelligence, cyber forensics and digital policing in US and UK national cybersecurity	1
Innovating in a secret world: the future of national security and global leadership	1
American zealots: inside right-wing domestic terrorism	1
Assessing the FBI’s pre-1979 counterintelligence operations against China	1
Learning to think and talk like the locals: the Soviet political police’s efforts to adapt in Lithuania and Ukraine, 1944-1949	1
Unravelling effectiveness in intelligence: a systematic review	1
Secrecy and the politics of selective disclosures: the US government’s intervention in Guatemala	1
Visualizing versus verbalizing uncertainty in intelligence analysis	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 COVID-19 intelligence failure. Why warning was not enough	1
Correction	1
Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War	1
Listening to Cairo: British radio monitoring and intelligence gathering, c. 1953-1967	1
The regulation of intelligence activities under international law	1
Rethinking intelligence practices and processes: three sociological concepts for the study of intelligence	1
Project Spaceman: early British computer security and automatic data processing	1
Relationships, power, and ambiguity: how do U.S. intelligence officer responses to toxicity affect support to the core mission?	1
CIA/SOF convergence and congressional oversight	1
Spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of American intelligence	1
Partisanship and congressional intelligence oversight: the case of the Russia inquiries, 2017-2020	1
The Palgrave handbook of national security	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
The Bridge in the Parks: The Five Eyes and Cold War Counter-Intelligence	1