This chapter continues and expands on the map** of Intelligence Studies literature
initiated in the introduction chapter. Here, however, the focus lies on the way in which …

This article investigates the conceptualisation of accountability in the Intelligence Studies
literature, distinguishing between accountability as a mechanism and a virtue, and questions …

Much of the research on gender and diplomacy has focused on those already let into the
'club'. This article analyses the 'threshold'to diplomacy: security clearance processes …

This book examines the dynamics of intelligence practices in the Scandinavian culture of
high social cohesion and high trust. Situated within the new body of scholarly literature, the …

This research explores different types of accountability within the Australian Intelligence
Community (AIC), including democratic, constitutional, learning and reputational …

This chapter describes how intelligence activities and operatives have been ignored and
silenced in contemporary international relations scholarship, suggesting that the actions of …

This chapter introduces the notion of a secret society to explain how such organizations are
configured and how secrecy can act as a source of power or internal social capital. The …

This chapter presents three narratives often deployed to “rescue the state” from charges that
it itself is queer—through deflecting the charges to another actor. Narrative One posits that …

Intelligence operatives themselves are queer due to the liminal space they occupy within the
structures of foreign policy, as well as the liminal status which all members of the intelligence …

The thesis explores 'what are the avenues through which the public are provided with a
portrayal of the British Intelligence Services and, what depictions of the British Intelligence …