Intelligence Studies Books

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1. The US Military and Outer Space: Perspectives, Plans and Programs

   By Peter L. Hays

   This new book clearly explains the evolution of US military perspectives, plans, and programmes for the use of space from the 1950s to the present. It shows how and why the military’s use of space has moved from the highest strategic levels down to the tactical level, enabling a new American...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-36654-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Intelligence and Politics: An Introduction

   By Philip Davies

   The 9/11 attacks, the public furores over intelligence following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and a succession of highly publicized inquiries on both of sides of the Atlantic, have served to amplify a rapidly growing interest in Intelligence Studies. Subsequent terrorist attacks in Britain, Spain...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-42868-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Hollywood and the CIA: Media, Defense and Subversion

   By Oliver Boyd Barrett, David Herrera, James Baumann

   This book analyses representations in Hollywood film of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As probably the best known of the many different intelligence agencies of the US, the CIA is an exceptionally well known national and international icon or even “brand,” one that exercises a...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-78006-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Improving Intelligence Analysis: Bridging the Gap between Scholarship and Practice

   By Stephen Marrin

   This book comprises a series of articles, extended and updated, written by intelligence expert Dr Stephen Marrin over 10 years on the subject of intelligence analysis....

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-78068-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Russia and the Cult of State Security: The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin

   By Julie Fedor

   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...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60933-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. War, Ethics and Justice: New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World

   Edited by Mark Phythian, Annika Bergman-Rosamond

   This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world. There is a lively debate in contemporary international relations concerning the relationship between statist obligations to one’s own political community and cosmopolitan duties to...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-55234-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability

   Edited by Hans Born, Ian Leigh, Aidan Wills

   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...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-58002-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. The South African Intelligence Services: From Apartheid to Democracy, 1948-2005

   By Kevin A. O'Brien

   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-...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-43397-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Intelligence

   Edited by Loch K. Johnson

   Many experts on security intelligence distinguish ‘mysteries’ from ‘secrets’. Mysteries (e.g. can Pakistan survive the threat it faces from the presence of insurgents in its western provinces?) are worldly phenomena that governments may wish to understand, but which are difficult to fathom given...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-56971-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. A History of the Egyptian Intelligence Service: A History of the Mukhabarat, 1910-2009

    By Owen L. Sirrs

    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...

    January 2010 | 978-0-415-56920-0 | Hardback (Routledge)