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Being Critical about Intelligence Studies: a New Research Agenda
- Analysis
- February 7, 2022
In a recent CIPS podcast, Srdjan Vucetic, David Murakami Wood and myself discussed criticality in Intelligence Studies and Surveillance Studies. The question was simple enough: what does ‘critique’ mean in the context of both fields of scholarship? To respond to this question requires understanding critique as a ‘method’, that is, as a way of doing research
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Bullying and the Ghosts of History
- Analysis
- January 25, 2022
History never repeats exactly; there are always different nuances and circumstances. Our understanding of the past, on which we apply any equivalence, is distorted by the perspectives of our time. Reliance on historical analogy is therefore risky. The crisis in Ukraine is a case in point. The analogy that this crisis proves that a new “Cold War” with
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The Disinformation Industry – A Cure Worse than the Disease?
- Analysis
- January 25, 2022
In April last year, several hundred people marched through the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in honour of the SS Galicia Division, a collaborationist Ukrainian unit from World War Two. The event provoked me to write a piece that was published on RT.com, in which I remarked that by tolerating such marches, Ukraine was tarnishing its reputation.
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NATO vs. Putin: the Lessons of the Ukraine Crisis
- Analysis
- January 18, 2022
These are extraordinary times in NATO-Russia relations. Among NATO members, fears of a Russian military offensive against Ukraine have notbeen as heightened since the end of the Cold War. In recent days, the world has witnessed marathon talks in Geneva between the US and Russia, the first meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in more than two years, and
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