Aims and scope
“The premier journal of intelligence studies” Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs

Intelligence has never played a more prominent role in international politics than it does now in the early years of the twenty-first century. National intelligence services are larger than ever, and they are more transparent in their activities in the policy making of democratic nations. Intelligence and National Security is widely regarded as the world’s leading scholarly journal focused on the role of intelligence and secretive agencies in international relations. It examines this aspect of national security from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines, with insightful articles research and written by leading experts based around the globe.

Among the topics covered in the journal are:

the historical development of intelligence agencies
representations of intelligence in popular culture
public understandings and expectations related to intelligence
intelligence and ethics
intelligence collection and analysis
covert action and counterintelligence
privacy and intelligence accountability
the outsourcing of intelligence operations
the role of politics in intelligence activities
international intelligence cooperation and burden-sharing
the relationships among intelligence agencies, military organizations, and civilian policy departments.
Authors for Intelligence and National Security come from a range of disciplines, including international affairs, history, sociology, political science, law, anthropology, philosophy, medicine, statistics, psychology, bio-sciences, and mathematics. These perspectives are regularly augmented by research submitted from current and former intelligence practitioners in several different nations. Each issue features a rich menu of articles about the uses (and occasional misuses) of intelligence, supplemented from time to time with special forums on current intelligence issues and interviews with leading intelligence officials.