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Our View: Intelligence Studies and the Disaster in Afghanistan

[31 August 2021] August 30th marked the inglorious demise of Operation RESOLUTE SUPPORT and the end of the NATO-led multinational mission in Afghanistan. For several weeks now, some of the “bread-and-butter” terms of intelligence analysis, such as “optimism bias”, “critical thinking”, and even “strategic surprise”, have been appearing with uncommon frequency in the headlines. Obviously, this rare phase will not last long, as the Memento-like nature of the neurotic news cycle [...]

admin2025-09-26T12:12:04+00:00August 31, 2021|

Our View: Learning from Taiwan’s Experience with COVID-19

[28 July 2021] Every country has faced serious challenges associated with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS?CoV?2) pandemic. But not every country has fared in equal measure during this trying time. Observers have noted repeatedly that a number of countries in Southeast Asia —among them South Korea, Taiwan and Japan— have been able to withstand the force of COVID-19 far more effectively than others. Why? Yi Chen Chang, a [...]

admin2025-10-13T10:34:23+00:00July 28, 2021|

July 2021

The EIA has issued the second instalment of its Research Paper Series, with the publication of a study entitled: "Taiwanese Medical and Security Policy Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Best Practice", by Yi Chen Chang. The paper can be accessed here.[pdf]

admin2025-10-12T21:24:09+00:00July 1, 2021|

Our View: Scholars Can Make a Difference in Intelligence Work

[05 June 2021] In a specially themed issue that came out in April of this year, the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism explores the topic of “cooperation between academia and national security practitioners”. Entitled “Navigating the Divide”, this issue of the journal (volume 16, issue 1) hosts a collection of informative articles that examine the relations between academics and practitioners of intelligence. The European Intelligence Academy welcomes this noteworthy effort to explore an [...]

admin2025-10-17T07:45:38+00:00June 5, 2021|

Our View: Ransomware is now a national security threat

[23 May 2021] The first attempt —albeit failed— to use malware in order to extort a victim took place in 1989, with the appearance of the so-called “AIDS Trojan”. In the second half of the 1990s, many hackers continued to experiment with these methods of illicit money-making, and by the end of the first decade of the 2000s, the term “ransomware” was being used in the hacker lexicon. But these were [...]

admin2025-10-13T11:34:36+00:00May 23, 2021|

April 2021

EIA Director Dr. John M. Nomikos, has interviewed Mr. Danny Yatom, former head of the Israeli Intelligence Service (1996-1998), Mossad. The interview was aired on YouTube and can be watched here.

admin2025-09-26T20:38:12+00:00April 1, 2021|

Our View: European school of intelligence studies takes shape

[12 March 2021] In a recent article in The International Journal of Intelligence, Security, and Public Affairs, two well-read intelligence scholars argue that the European school of intelligence studies is quickly taking shape. The article, “Shaping the European School of Intelligence Studies”, was authored by W?adys?aw Bu?hak, assistant professor at the Office for Historical Research at the Institute for National Remembrance in Warsaw, Poland, and Thomas Wegener Friis, associate professor and [...]

admin2025-09-25T11:29:15+00:00March 12, 2021|

Our View: Coronavirus is changing the nature of surveillance

[02 February 2021] The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the nature of surveillance —and by extension surveillance studies, an area of scholarship with which intelligence studies has interacted for decades. There is no question that, in almost every country, the need to track and trace the coronavirus disease has triggered an unprecedented growth in the techniques of surveillance. There is also little question that these surveillance techniques —which are primarily based on [...]

admin2025-09-25T11:27:49+00:00February 2, 2021|

October 2020

EIA Deputy Director Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis has published a chapter entitled “Researching State-Sponsored Cyber-Espionage”, in the boook Cybersecurity in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Research Methods Approach, edited by Hugo Loiseau, Daniel Ventre and Hartmut Aden (John Wiley & Sons, London, UK, pp85-122).

admin2025-09-26T20:35:41+00:00October 1, 2020|

September 2020

EIA Advisory Board member, Dr. Shlomo Shpiro, has published a new study entitled "Israeli Intelligence and the Coronavirus Crisis", in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 34(10). Dr. Shpiro's article examines the activities and tasks of Israel’s intelligence services during the critical first two months, from March to May 2020, of the coronavirus crisis, and analyzes the challenges, contributions, and limitations of intelligence services in a national and global pandemic crisis.

admin2025-09-26T20:34:52+00:00September 2, 2020|

December 2020

Frontiers in Communication has published the peer-reviewed article, “Spies and the Virus: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Intelligence Communication in the United States”, co-authored by Ana Maria Lankford, Derrick Storzieri, and EIA Deputy Director, Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis.

admin2025-10-12T21:33:20+00:00September 1, 2020|

September 2020

The EIA has published the eighth issue of The Intelligence Review, a volume of timely analytical forecasts relating to some of the most pressing questions in international security today. The Intelligence Review is the product of a collaboration between the EIA and the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief (CIB), an initiative supported by the Department of Politics at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, United States. The volume is available to download for free, here. [...]

admin2025-09-26T20:34:06+00:00September 1, 2020|

May 2020

EIA Advisory Board member, Dr. Stephan Blancke, participates with a chapter on the intelligence services of North Korea in the book Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: A Comprehensive Reference, edited by Professor Bob de Graaff (Utrecht University). This new volume examines questions such as: how are intelligence systems structured in countries across Asia and the Middle East? Additionally, it analyzes the ways in which decolonization [...]

admin2025-09-26T20:33:11+00:00May 1, 2020|

December 2019

The EIA has published the seventh issue of The Intelligence Review, a volume of timely analytical forecasts relating to some of the most pressing questions in international security today. The Intelligence Review is the product of a collaboration between the EIA and the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief (CIB), an initiative supported by the Department of Politics at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, United States. The volume is available to download for free, here. [...]

admin2025-09-26T20:32:17+00:00December 1, 2019|

April 2019

The EIA has published the sixth issue of The Intelligence Review, a volume of timely analytical forecasts relating to some of the most pressing questions in international security today. The Intelligence Review is the product of a collaboration between the EIA and the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief (CIB), an initiative supported by the Department of Politics at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, United States. The volume is available to download for free, here. [...]

admin2025-09-26T20:31:18+00:00April 1, 2019|

March 2019

EIA Director Dr. John Nomikos has co-authored, with Aya Burweila, the article "Libya and the New Axis of Terror: Reshaping the Security Theater in MENA and Europe", in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, volume 31, issue 9.

admin2025-10-12T21:41:19+00:00March 1, 2019|

November 2018

The EIA has published the fifth issue of The Intelligence Review, a volume of timely analytical forecasts relating to some of the most pressing questions in international security today. The Intelligence Review is the product of a collaboration between the EIA and the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief (CIB), a student-run initiative supported by the Department of Politics at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, United States. The volume is available to download for [...]

admin2025-09-26T20:28:46+00:00November 1, 2018|

July 2018

The EIA has inaugurated its Research Paper Series with the publication of "Influencing the Adversary: From Wet Affairs to Propaganda", by Dr Stephan Blancke. Written by a political scientist with expertise on North Korean and Chinese espionage, this paper explores influence operations far beyond the usual focus on Russian activities in the era of Vladimir Putin. Dr Blancke presents a holistic account of the modern use of influence operations that explores [...]

admin2025-10-12T21:45:03+00:00July 1, 2018|

April 2018

The EIA has published the fourth issue of The Intelligence Review, a volume of useful analytical forecasts relating to some of the most pressing questions in international security today. The Intelligence Review is the product of a collaboration between the EIA and the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief (CIB), a student-run initiative supported by the Department of Politics at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, United States. The fourt issue of the journal is [...]

admin2025-09-26T20:27:03+00:00April 1, 2018|

December 2017

EIA Advisory Board member Dr. Tassos Symeonides and EIA Director Dr. John M. Nomikos have co-authored an article entited "Intelligence and Balkan Instability: Repeating the Past or Moving in a New Direction?", in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 31:1, pp85-101.

admin2025-10-12T21:46:13+00:00December 1, 2017|

October 2017

The EIA has published the third issue of The Intelligence Review, a volume of useful analytical forecasts relating to some of the most pressing questions in international security today. The Intelligence Review is the product of a collaboration between the EIA and the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief (CIB), a student-run initiative supported by the Department of Politics at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, United States. The volume is available to download for [...]

admin2025-09-26T19:41:31+00:00October 1, 2017|

May 2017

EIA Director Dr. John Nomikos delivered a lecture on “Intelligence Cooperation and Maritime Security in the Mediterranean Region” at the American Military University in Charles Town, West Virginia, USA.

admin2025-10-12T21:55:07+00:00May 2, 2017|

May 2017

The EIA has published the second issue of The Intelligence Review, a compendium of useful analytical forecasts relating to some of the most pressing questions in international security today. The Intelligence Review is the product of a collaboration between the EIA and the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief (CIB), a student-run initiative supported by the Department of Politics at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, United States. For more about The Intelligence Review see the announcement on the [...]

admin2025-09-26T19:32:41+00:00May 1, 2017|

April 2016

EIA Deputy Director, Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis, has presented his research at the 2016 Conference of the New York Military Affairs Symposium, in New York City, NY. The conference, entitled "Espionage: From Cold War to Asymmetric Conflict", also featured Dr. Mark Kramer, Director of Cold War Studies at Harvard University, and Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times. The panel discussion was aired by C-SPAN television in the United States and can [...]

admin2025-10-12T22:08:40+00:00April 1, 2016|

January 2014

EIA Director, Dr. John Nomikos, has participated in an international workshop entitled "The smaller European Intelligence and Security Services: National Intelligence Systems and Their Environments"[pdf] organized in Breda, the Netherlands, by the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association.

admin2025-10-12T22:15:00+00:00January 1, 2014|