Spy Chiefs: Volume 2: Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia

In authoritarian regimes, however, the spy chief was and remains a frightening and opaque figure who exercises secret influence abroad and engages in repression at home. This second volume of Spy Chiefs goes beyond the commonly studied spy chiefs of the United States and the United Kingdom to examine leaders from Renaissance Venice to the Soviet Union, Germany, India, Egypt, and Lebanon in the twentieth century. In democracies, the spy chief has become a public figure, and intelligence activities have been brought under the rule of law. Throughout history and across cultures, the spy chief has been a leader of the state security apparatus and an essential adviser to heads of state. The contributors to the volume try to answer the following questions: how do intelligence leaders operate in these different national, instit

Any student or teacher of intelligence history will find this invaluable for understanding leadership, organisation and management within intelligence. It adds the depth and breadth on intelligence leadership which until now simply doesn't exist for intelligence organisations outside the Anglosphere." Kristian Gustafson,, Brunel University London . With case studies ranging from the early-modern to the recent past it covers a broad swath yet with excellent detail over its ten well-crafted case studies. "Spy Chiefs: Volume 2 is a finely-crafted book which adds a critical depth to current literature on intelligence leaders across the globe

. Paul Maddrell is lecturer in modern history and international relations at Loughborough University.Christopher Moran is associate professor of US national security at the University of Warwick. Ioanna Iordanou is a senior lecturer specializing in organizational and business history at the Oxford Brookes University School of Business. Mark Stout is program director of the MA in Global Security Studies Program at Johns Hopkins Univ