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    The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence by Johnson, Loch K.;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2
    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 19 January 2026

    • ISBN 9780197783160
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages752 pages
    • Size 236x170x45 mm
    • Weight 1179 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 12 b/w figures
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    Short description:

    The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a thoroughly updated state-of-the-art work on the role of secret agencies in defending the democracies and intelligence activities in authoritarian regimes. Throughout, contributors factor in broader historical and political contexts that are integral to understanding how intelligence agencies function in our information-dominated age.

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    Long description:

    The second edition of The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a thoroughly updated state-of-the-art work on the role of secret agencies in defending the democracies and intelligence activities in authoritarian regimes. Edited by Loch Johnson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, the handbook examines the topic in full, beginning with an examination of the major theories of intelligence. It then shifts its focus to how intelligence agencies operate, how they collect information from around the world, and the difficulties in disseminating intelligence to policymakers. It also considers the balance between secrecy and public accountability, and the ethical dilemmas that covert and counterintelligence operations routinely present to intelligence agencies. Throughout, contributors factor in broader historical and political contexts that are integral to understanding how intelligence agencies function in our information-dominated age.

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    Table of Contents:

    National Security Intelligence (NSI): A Roadmap
    Loch K. Johnson
    Part I: Views from the Top
    Chapter 1: National Security: Reassessment in a Period of Growing Instability
    Sir Richard Dearlove
    Chapter 2: The UK-US Intelligence Partnership
    Sir David Omand
    Part II: Theory and Method
    Chapter 3: The Sources and Methods of Intelligence Studies
    James J. Wirtz
    Chapter 4: Theories of Security Intelligence
    Peter Gill
    Chapter 5: Assessing Intelligence Performance
    John A. Gentry
    Part III: The Evolution of Modern Intelligence
    Chapter 6: British Strategic Intelligence and the Cold War
    Len Scott
    Chapter 7: CIA Relationships with the Media
    David P. Hadley
    Chapter 8: Law and Intelligence Enforcement
    Frederic F. Manget
    Chapter 9: Of Politics and Intelligence: The FBI since 9/11
    Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
    Chapter 10: J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI
    Beverly Gage
    Chapter 11: Evolution of Humint
    Kyle S. Cunliffe
    Chapter 12: United Nations Peacekeeping Intelligence
    A. Walter Dorn
    Chapter 13: Intelligence in and through Cyberspace
    Michael Warner
    Part IV: Intelligence Collection and Processing
    Chapter 14: The Increasing Value of OSINT within and beyond the IC
    Aaron F. Brantly
    Chapter 15: Signals Intelligence in War and Power Politics, 1914-2024
    John R. Ferris
    Chapter 16: Geospatial Intelligence: Imagery, Mapping, Analysis
    Joseph W. Caddell, Jr.
    Chapter 17: Human Intelligence
    Joseph W. Wippl
    Chapter 18: The Changing Nature of Intelligence Collection
    Robert M. Clark
    Part V: Intelligence Analysis and Production
    Chapter 19: The National Intelligence Council
    Gregory F. Treverton
    Chapter 20: Analysis in an Environment of Permanent Impermanence
    William M. Nolte
    Chapter 21: Early Warning for Environmental and Disaster Intelligence
    Chad Briggs and Miriam Matejova
    Chapter 22: AI and Traditional Intelligence
    Kathleen M. Vogel
    Part VI: Intelligence Dissemination
    Chapter 23: Leadership in an Intelligence Organization: The Directors of Central Intelligence and the
    CIA
    David Robarge
    Chapter 24: The Policymaker-Intelligence Relationship
    Mark M. Lowenthal
    Chapter 25: On Uncertainty and the Limits of Intelligence
    Peter Jackson and Fraser McGowan
    Chapter 26: The Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance: History, Evolution, and Prospects
    Patrick F. Walsh
    Part VII: Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism
    Chapter 27: Federal Bureau of Investigation: A Study of Reform and New Challenges in the Twenty-
    First Century
    Raymond J. Batvinis
    Chapter 28: FBI and Spy-Catching
    Darren E. Tromblay
    Chapter 29: Soviet Atomic Espionage in World War II
    John Haynes and Harvey Klehr
    Chapter 30: The State of Counterintelligence at the Department of Energy, Early 21st Century---Plus Ça Change
    Paul J. Redmond and W. Alan Messer
    Chapter 31: The Intelligence War on Terrorism
    Daniel L. Byman and Ines Oulamine
    Chapter 32: Guarding the Border: Intelligence and Law Enforcement in Canada's Immigration System since 9/11
    Arne Kislenko
    Part VIII: Covert Action
    Chapter 33: Covert Action and Unacknowledged Interference
    Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac
    Chapter 34: The Causes and Consequences of U.S. Covert Action
    Michael Poznansky
    Chapter 35: U.S. Covert Action in the Aftermath of the Cold War, 1989-2017
    Magda Long
    Chapter 36: Counterinsurgency and Intelligence
    Barbara Elias
    Chapter 37: Extraordinary Renditions
    William G. Weaver and Robert M. Pallitto
    Part IX: Intelligence Accountability
    Chapter 38: Watergate, Operation CHAOS, and the Dawning of Intelligence Accountability in the United States
    Loch K. Johnson
    Chapter 39: The Politics of Intelligence Accountability in the United States
    Glenn P. Hastedt
    Chapter 40: Congressional Oversight of Covert Action
    Stephen R. Weissman
    Chapter 41: The Intelligence and Security Committee and Legislative Oversight of Intelligence in the UK since 2013: Taking Up the Invitation to Struggle
    Mark Phythian
    Chapter 42: The State Secrets Privilege: Judicial Misconceptions
    Louis Fisher
    Chapter 43: Intelligence and International Law
    Asaf Lubin and Russell Buchan
    Chapter 44: Ethical Intelligence: A Framework within Professionalism
    Jan Goldman
    Part X: Intelligence in Other Lands
    Chapter 45: The Canadian Intelligence System
    Wesley Wark
    Chapter 46: "Secret Line, Open Line": Inside China's Ministry of State Security
    James Mulvenon
    Chapter 47: The French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE)
    Damien Van Puyvelde
    Chapter 48: The German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND): A "Toothless Tiger" by Design
    Wolfgang Krieger
    Chapter 49: Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate and Its Covert Proxy Wars in Afghanistan
    Owen L. Sirrs
    Chapter 50: Russian Intelligence under Vladimir Putin
    David Gioe
    Acknowledgements
    Appendix
    Glossary
    Index

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