29 Citations
The European Union as a Small Power, or Conceptualizing Europe’s Strategic Actorness
- Political Science, Business
- 2008
Abstract The article disputes the notion that the European Union is unfit to develop a strategic actorness for cultural or structural reasons or that it must change in order to facilitate the…
Intelligence under democracy and authoritarianism: a philosophical analysis
- PhilosophyIntelligence and National Security
- 2022
“A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option” The KGB and the revolution in Iran
- HistoryIranian Studies
- 2022
This paper investigates the activities of the KGB residency in Iran during the 1978–79 revolution and early years of the Islamic Republic. While some foreign experts were quick to point to the KGB…
John Cairncross, RASCLS and a reassessment of his motives
- HistoryIntelligence and National Security
- 2022
ABSTRACT In 1990, John Cairncross was identified as the ‘fifth man’ of the Cambridge Ring of Five. Historians have provided various motivations for Cairncross’ decision to spy for the Soviet Union.…
Intelligence-exalting strategic cultures: a case study of the Russian approach
- SociologyIntelligence and National Security
- 2021
ABSTRACT Since the 1920s, Soviet intelligence and counterintelligence followed a concept of an ‘unending covert war’ against the hostile international environment and cultivated a sophisticated…
CIA Performance Assessment of the Occupation of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Aban 13, 1358
- Political Science
- 2020
Iran's strategic position has attracted significant world powers, especially the United States, so the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has continuously monitored Iran's political and social…
The Dentist Chair: Dr. Gessel Schkolnikoff and the mysteries of Soviet espionage
- MedicineIntelligence and National Security
- 2019
There are precedents for Soviet intelligence agencies using a dental surgery as a conduit for passing on information and there are persuasive indications that Dr. Schkolnikoff’s surgery can be added to their list.
Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy
- Political Science
- 2018
Providing a comprehensive overview of Russia’s foreign policy directions, this handbook brings together an international team of scholars to develop a complex treatment of Russia’s foreign policy.…
Orthodox Internationalism: State and Church in Modern Russia and Ethiopia
- SociologyComparative Studies in Society and History
- 2018
Abstract Russia and Ethiopia, both multiethnic empires with traditionally orthodox Christian ruling elites, from the nineteenth century developed a special relationship that outlived changing…
Desinformation durch Geheimdienste: eine untaugliche Waffe des Kalten Krieges wiederbelebt?
- 2016
ZusammenfassungDesinformation ist die Verbreitung falscher oder verfälschter Informationen, in einer Weise, die den Ursprung oder Urheber und ihre Verbreitungswege nicht erkennen lässt. Während kein…