The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 10. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
752 pages
978-0-19-778316-0 (ISBN)
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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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
12 b/w figures
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
1202 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-778316-0 (9780197783160)
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Person
Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor Emeritus of International Affairs, University of Georgia. His books include National Security Intelligence (Polity, 2024); The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy (Oxford, 2024); and Intelligence: The Secret World of Spies, with James J. Wirtz (Oxford, 2023). He assisted the chairmen of the Church Committee on Intelligence and the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence. In 2012, the Southeast Conference selected him as its inaugural "Professor of the Year." At the University of Georgia, he led the founding of the School of Public and International Affairs and is a recipient of its Presidential Medal.
Content
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 Ca 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 Generale de la Securite Exterieure (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
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 Ca 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 Generale de la Securite Exterieure (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