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1. Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror

   Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11

   By Adam D.M. Svendsen

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world. Seeking to connect an analysis of intelligence liaison with the wider realm of Anglo-American Relations, the book draws on a wide range of interviews and consultations with key actors in both countries...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. The South African Intelligence Services

   From Apartheid to Democracy, 1948-2005

   By Kevin A. O'Brien

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book is the first full history of South African intelligence and provides a detailed examination of the various stages in the evolution of South Africa’s intelligence organizations and structures. Covering the apartheid period of 1948-90, the transition from apartheid to democracy of 1990-94,...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Britain's Secret War against Japan, 1937-1945

   By Douglas Ford

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   A new look at how Britain’s defence establishment learned to engage Japan’s armed forces as the Pacific War progressed. Douglas Ford reveals that, prior to Japan’s invasion of Southeast Asia in December 1941, the British held a contemptuous view of Japanese military...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. East German Foreign Intelligence

   Myth, Reality and Controversy

   Edited by Kristie Macrakis, Thomas Wegener Friis, Helmut Müller-Enbergs

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence. The contributors broaden the conventional view of East German...

   Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge
5. Improving Intelligence Analysis

   Bridging the Gap between Scholarship and Practice

   By Stephen Marrin

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. Compared to the more...

   Published June 19th 2011 by Routledge
6. Russia and the Cult of State Security

   The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin

   By Julie Fedor

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian...

   Published June 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Egyptian Intelligence Service

   A History of the Mukhabarat, 1910-2009

   By Owen L. Sirrs

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago. Starting in 1910, when the modern Egyptian intelligence system was created to deal with militant nationalists and Islamists, the book...

   Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge
8. International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability

   Edited by Hans Born, Ian Leigh, Aidan Wills

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book examines how international intelligence cooperation has come to prominence post-9/11 and introduces the main accountability, legal and human rights challenges that it poses. Since the end of the Cold War, the threats that intelligence services are tasked with confronting have become...

   Published January 6th 2011 by Routledge
9. Intelligence Theory

   Key Questions and Debates

   Edited by Peter Gill, Stephen Marrin, Mark Phythian

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This edited volume brings together a range of essays by individuals who are centrally involved in the debate about the role and utility of theory in intelligence studies. The volume includes both classic essays and new articles that critically analyse some key issues: strategic intelligence, the...

   Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge
10. US National Security, Intelligence and Democracy

    From the Church Committee to the War on Terror

    Edited by Russell A. Miller

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee (‘Church Committee’) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current ‘war on terror’. This report remains the most thorough public record of America’s intelligence services, and...

    Published January 30th 2009 by Routledge