Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures

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Bob de Graaff, James M. Nyce
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Aug 2, 2016 - Political Science - 532 pages
National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country’s history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Latvia, Montenegro), the work provides insight into a number of rarely discussed national intelligence agencies to allow for comparative study, offering hard to find information into one volume. In their chapters, the contributors, who are all experts from the countries discussed, address the intelligence community rather than focus on a single agency. They examine the environment in which an organization operates, its actors, and cultural and ideological climate, to cover both the external and internal factors that influence a nation’s intelligence community. The result is an exhaustive, unique survey of European intelligence communities rarely discussed.

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About the author (2016)

Bob de Graaff is professor for Intelligence and Security studies at both The Netherlands Defense Academy and the University of Utrecht.

James M. Nyce is professor in the Department of Anthropology, Ball State University, USA. He is also affiliated professor, Lund University, Sweden and has been visiting professor at the Swedish National Defence College 1998-2000, 2005-2011.

About the Contributors
  • Wilhelm Agrell, professor in Intelligence Analysis, Lund University, Sweden.
  • Gordan Akrap, Croatia.
  • Lars Erslev Andersen, research coordinator, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen.
  • Gérald Arboit, senior researcher,French Centre for Intelligence Studies.
  • Jordan Baev, professor and senior research fellow of security studies, Rakovski National Defense College; visiting professor, Sofia University; and Diplomatic Institute of Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Colonel Jacques Baud, currently seconded to NATO by the Swiss government.
  • Siegfried Beer, director, Austrian Center for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies..
  • Dražen Cerović, Faculty of Law, University of Montenegro.
  • Dirk Van Daele, professor, Faculty of Law of the KU (Catholic University) Leuven, Belgium.
  • Eric Denécé, director and founder of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies (CF2R).
  • Antonio M. Díaz Fernández, professor of politics and administration, University of Cádiz, Spain.
  • Arjan Dyrmishi, head of the Centre for European and Security Studies, the Institute for Democracy and Mediation, Tirana, Albania.
  • Gunilla Eriksson, Swedish National Defence University.
  • Laris Gaiser, researcher at ITSTIME, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy.
  • Peter Gill, honorary senior research fellow, University of Liverpool, UK.
  • Artur Gruszczak, associate professor of political science, chair of national security, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
  • José Manuel Duarte de Jesus, invited professor, University of Lisbon, Universidade de Aveiro, Institute for High Military Studies, and NOVA University, Portugal.
  • Nenad Koprivica, executive director, Centre for Democracy and Human Rights CEDEM, Montenegro.
  • Juho Kotakallio, historian, Finland.
  • Wolfgang Krieger, professor (ret.) of Modern history and history of international relations, Universität Marburg, Germany.
  • Jakob Thor Kristjánsson, independent security analyst and researcher, Akureyri Akademia, Iceland.
  • Taras Kuzio, senior research associate, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
  • Marco Lombardi, director of ITSTIME, the research center of the Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan,Italy.
  • Eero Medijainen, professor of Contemporary History, University of Tartu, Estonia.
  • Matej Medvecký, researcher, Institute for Military History, Slovakia.
  • John M. Nomikos, director, Research Institute for European and American Studies, Athens, Greece.
  • Eunan O’Halpin, professor of contemporary Irish history, Trinity College, Dublin.
  • Maid Pajevic, head of Department for the Agency for Education and Professional Training, Ministry of Security, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
  • Predrag Petrović, deputy director, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, Serbia.
  • Iztok Prezelj, associate professor and head of the Chair of Defence Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • Teresa Ferreira Rodrigues, associate professor, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Jerguš Sivoš, Nation's Memory Institute, Slovakia.
  • Prokop Tomek, senior researcher, Military History Institute, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Miroslav Tudjman, professor of Information Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Vaidotas Urbelis, Defence Policy Director, Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence.
  • Danijela Vujosevic, project manager, Centre for Democracy and Human Rights CEDEM, Montenegro.
  • Larry L. Watts, former sector reform advisor to the Romanian Presidency and Defense Ministry (1991-2004), University of Bucharest, Romania.
  • Njord Wegge, senior social science advisor to The Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee.

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