The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures
The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures

Author: Ryan Shaffer

Publisher: Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series

Published: 2023-01-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781538159972

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Intelligence cultures are influenced by past and present governments, society and foreign relations. This book provides the first review of every African intelligence culture. It examines the role of the state, civil society and international relations in shaping African countries' intelligence norms, activities and oversight. Bringing together a group of international scholars, the book explores how intelligence culture is shaped and the role it has in government and civil society. This comprehensive book argues that African agency in government and society is the key to understanding Africa's intelligence services.

The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures
The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures

Author: Ryan Shaffer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-02-06

Total Pages: 833

ISBN-13: 1538159988

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Bringing together a group of international scholars, The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures provides the first review of intelligence cultures in every African country. It explores how intelligence cultures are influenced by a range of factors, including past and present societal, governmental and international dynamics. In doing so, the book examines the state’s role, civil society and foreign relations in shaping African countries’ intelligence norms, activities and oversight. It also explores the role intelligence services and cultures play in government and civil society.

African Intelligence Services
African Intelligence Services

Author: Ryan Shaffer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-09-27

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1538150832

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This book argues for making African intelligence services front-and-center in studies about historical and contemporary African security. As the first academic anthology on the subject, it brings together a group of international scholars and intelligence practitioners to understand African intelligence services’ post-colonial and contemporary challenges. The book’s eleven chapters survey a diverse collection of countries and provides readers with histories of understudied African intelligence services. The volume examines the intelligence services’ objectives, operations, leaderships, international partners and legal frameworks. The chapters also highlight different methodologies and sources to further scholarly research about African intelligence.

The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures
The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures

Author: Ryan Shaffer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-10-03

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1538160005

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As Asia increases in economic and geopolitical significance, it is necessary to better understand the region’s intelligence cultures. The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures explores the historical and contemporary influences that have shaped Asian intelligence cultures as well as the impact intelligence service have had on domestic and foreign affairs. In examining thirty Asian countries, it considers the roles, practices, norms and oversight of Asia’s intelligence services, including the ends to which intelligence tools are applied. The book argues that there is no archetype of Asian intelligence culture due to the diversity of history, government type and society found in Asia. Rather, it demonstrates how Asian nations’ histories, cultures and governments play vital roles in intelligence cultures. This book is a valuable study for scholars of intelligence and security services in Asia, shedding light on understudied countries and identifying opportunities for future scholarship.

Contemporary Intelligence in Africa
Contemporary Intelligence in Africa

Author: Tshepo Gwatiwa

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-08

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1040105068

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The edited volume examines contemporary intelligence and tradecraft in Africa. The work offers a timely and empirically grounded account of African intelligence. It provides a multi-contributor narrative that explains contemporary dynamics without discounting historical and external influences, as well as explaining systemic dynamics borne by African agency. The volume features chapters on different issues and themes in intelligence studies, which include but are not limited to intelligence politicization, covert operations and subversion during political transitions, institutionalizing intelligence in post-conflict states, intelligence and counterterrorism, financial intelligence and complex crimes, intelligence professionalization, media and intelligence, intelligence humanization, environmental intelligence, and others. The volume is geographically representative and features case studies from the five regions of Africa: North Africa (the Maghreb), East Africa (or Horn of), Central Africa, West Africa, and Southern Africa. Without following a specific theoretical orientation, the book also aims to start a conversation around the prospects for a theory for African intelligence, with the various chapters paying attention to the political, social, and economic nuances that have a bearing on contemporary intelligence in Africa. This book will be of great interest to students of intelligence studies, African politics, security studies, and IR.

Lifting the Fog
Lifting the Fog

Author: Bob de Graaff

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-06-06

Total Pages: 677

ISBN-13: 1538176246

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Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022) is unique as a general body of knowledge about the history of the Dutch intelligence and security services since 1913. The chapters alternate between a general historical overview and a number of case studies spread out over the more-than-a-century long history that taken together give a good insight into the main functions of a middle-size military intelligence service as The Netherlands has known. The MIVD is giving the author access to the archives of the MIVD and its predecessors, which normally are closed to outsiders.

Agent Link
Agent Link

Author: Raymond J. Batvinis

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1538184915

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Agent Link: The Spy Erased from History examines the life of Willaim Wolfe Weisband. It tells the story of his KGB recruitment and working with codebreakers at the top-secret Army Security Agency. The book reveals his motivations for spying, the extent of America’s losses, how he was caught, and the consequences of his treachery.

The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology
The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology

Author: Peter Mitchell

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 1077

ISBN-13: 0191626147

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Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.

Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures
Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures

Author: Bob de Graaff

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1442249420

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National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country’s history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Latvia, Montenegro), the work provides insight into a number of rarely discussed national intelligence agencies to allow for comparative study, offering hard to find information into one volume. In their chapters, the contributors, who are all experts from the countries discussed, address the intelligence community rather than focus on a single agency. They examine the environment in which an organization operates, its actors, and cultural and ideological climate, to cover both the external and internal factors that influence a nation’s intelligence community. The result is an exhaustive, unique survey of European intelligence communities rarely discussed.

Communicating with Intelligence
Communicating with Intelligence

Author: M. Patrick Hendrix

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1538160684

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Writing and briefing are fundamental to the intelligence profession. The ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and coherently is basic to all intelligence disciplines, even the most technical. Communicating with Intelligence, Third Edition is a handbook on writing and briefing intelligence based on the decades of practical experience of James S. Major. The book is designed primarily for faculty and students pursuing studies in intelligence, national security, and homeland security, who need to learn the art of preparing written products and intelligence briefings. But it also has considerable value for working professionals who simply wish to sharpen their communication skills. The third edition of Communicating with Intelligence provides the expediency, efficiency, and effectiveness instructors and members of the Intelligence Community require for a communication handbook.