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11. Hollywood and the CIA

    Cinema, Defense and Subversion

    By Oliver Boyd Barrett, David Herrera, James Baumann

    Series: Media, War and Security

    This book investigates representations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Hollywood films, and the synergies between Hollywood product, U.S. military/defense interests and U.S. foreign policy. As probably the best known of the many different intelligence agencies of the US, the CIA is an...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
12. Mask

    MI5's Penetration of the Communist Party of Great Britain

    By Nigel West

    MI5’s dramatic interception of secret signals to Moscow from a hidden base in Wimbledon uncovered the true extent of Soviet espionage in Britain. Intelligence expert Nigel West reveals how MASK, the codename for one of the most secretive sources ever run by British intelligence, enabled Stanley...

    Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
13. Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad

    Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935-1940

    By Manuela Williams

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    This is the first major study in English of Fascist Italy’s overseas propaganda. Using rare Italian and French captured documents, this is also the first investigation into the relationship between Mussolini’s regime and Arab nationalist movements This new account covers propaganda and subversive...

    Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
14. Intelligence and Strategic Culture

    Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn

    Reliable information on potential security threats is not just the result of diligent intelligence work but also a product of context and culture. The volume explores the nexus between the intelligence process and strategic culture. How can and does the strategic outlook of the United States and...

    Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
15. Psychology, Strategy and Conflict

    Perceptions of Insecurity in International Relations

    Edited by James W. Davis

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century. International relations theory urgently needs strategies for coping with the growing complexity of the international system following the collapse of...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
16. Controlling Intelligence

    Edited by Glenn P. Hastedt

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. For the USA, as the Bay of Pigs incident and the Iran-Contra affair have shown, controlling intelligence is a problem which policy-makers and concerned citizens have rarely examined and imperfectly...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
17. US Internal Security Assistance to South Vietnam

    Insurgency, Subversion and Public Order

    By William Rosenau

    Series: Cold War History

    This new study of American support to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam illuminates many contemporary events and foreign policies. During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, the United States used foreign police and paramilitary assistance to combat the spread of communist...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
18. The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War

    The State-Private Network

    Edited by Helen Laville, Hugh Wilford

    Series: Studies in Intelligence

    This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War. By moving beyond state-dominated, ‘top-down’ interpretations of international relations and exploring instead the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
19. Intelligence and International Security

    New Perspectives and Agendas

    Edited by Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes, Martin Alexander

    The events of 9/11 and subsequent acts of jihadist terrorism, together with the failures of intelligence agencies over Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, have arguably heralded a new age of intelligence. For some this takes the form of a crisis of legitimacy. For others the threat of cataclysmic...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
20. 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 July 22nd 2012 by Routledge