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Three members of the European Intelligence Academy (EIA) leadership have participated as authors in a new report on inter-religious violence in Nigeria. EIA Director John Nomikos, Deputy Director Thomas Wegener Friis, and Advisory Board Member Darko Trifunovic, are among the authors of the Analytical Intelligence Report: Nigerian Christians as Victims of Islamist Extremism, published by the International Institute for Religious Freedom in Bonn, Germany. The report is available here. ^[pdf]

The European Intelligence Academy has unveiled the latest installment in our Research Paper Series, with the publication of “South Korea’s Strategic Role in SEATO 2.0: Advancing Space Innovation and Global Market Integration in the Indo-Pacific“. The author argues that, in response to increasing global power competition in the Indo-Pacific, SEATO 2.0 must be established to counteract China and Russia’s military and economic might. He goes on to highlight South Korea’s pivotal role in such a project. The paper can be accessed online here. ^[pdf]

European Intelligence Academy Chairman and Research Institute for European and American Studies Director Dr. John M Nomikos is the recipient of the 2025 Life Time Achievement Award by the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) for his academic research work on Intelligence Studies in the international community. In the award ceremony in Spain, the IAFIE award committee praised Dr. Nomikos for embodying “the spirit of innovation, excellence, and service to the global academic and professional intelligence community. His work has elevated intelligence studies to a respected academic field and strengthened the role of international cooperation in addressing today’s most pressing security challenges.”

European Intelligence Academy Deputy Director for North America, Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis, has received the HTC Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award at Coastal Carolina University. The HTC Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award is made possible through a generous donation from the Horry Telephone Cooperative. The award annually recognizes a Coastal Carolina University faculty member who has distinguished him/herself as a teacher, a scholar, and a communicator.

We are pleased to present the latest addition to our Research Paper Series, namely a report on “How Jihadist Groups Take Advantage of Porous Borders in West Africa“, authored by Marco Fais, an analyst with over 25 years of experience in organizations and agencies such as United Nations, Interpol, Europol, and Frontex. Fais points to population scarcity and border porosity as lying at the root of security concerns in the Sahel region of West Africa. Fais’ paper can be accessed here.^[pdf]

We begin the new year with a new addition to our Research Paper Series. We announce the publication of “Russian Hybrid Warfare and the Delegitimization of the State: The Case of Germany“, by Stephan Blancke, PhD. Dr Blancke is a political scientist specializing on the intelligence and clandestine activities of North Korea and China. He is currenlty an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. Dr Blancke’s new paper can be accessed here.^[pdf]

The European Intelligence Academy has published a new essay by Nicholas Eftimiades, a 34-year veteran of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the author of the seminal Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics (2020), which is widely viewed as the standard unclassified work on the subject. In his paper for the EIA, which is entitled “Chinese Espionage Recruitment Motivations“, Eftimiades revisits the traditional MICE idea and offers a revision that reflects the complexity of Chinese espionage in our time. The paper can be accessed here.^[pdf]

The latest publication as part of our EIA’s Research Paper Series is a timely paper by Madison Scholar on the topic of “Climate Change and the Spread of Terrorism: The Indirect Linkage“. The author evaluates the links between climate change and the rise of terrorist groups in fragile states that are already experiencing conflict, or have a high potential to do so. In dong so, she focuses on the case study of Boko Haram and its presence around the Lake Chad Basin. The paper can be accessed here.^[pdf]

The European Intelligence Academy has officially launched its Global Watch Center, a collaboration between the EIA and the Intelligence Operations Command Center at Coastal Carolina University in the United States. The intelligence products of the EIA Global Watch Center are freely available by going to the EIA Global Watch webpage. We thank the Intelligence Operations Command Center at Coastal Carolina University for its contribution to the work of the EIA.

The European Intelligence Academy welcomes Dr. Thomas Wegener Friis, Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Center for Cold War Studies, to its Executive Committee. Dr. Friis comes to the EIA with years of experience in graduate and undergraduate teaching in the areas of security and intelligence, as well as affiliations with a host of international bodies, including the Institute for National and International Security and the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies at the Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF) Dr. Friis will serve as EIA Deputy Director for Europe.

The latest instalment in the EIA’s Research Paper Series is a timely essay by Ellie Cassidy, entitled “Regulating Innovative Platforms: AI-Based Online Monetization Methods and Their Ramifications“. It can be accessed here.^[pdf]

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]

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.

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).

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.

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.

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. To order printed copies, please contact EIA Deputy Director Dr Joseph Fitsanakis at joe (at) intelnews.org or 423-742-1627 in the United States.

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 and the Cold War influence the organization of national intelligence systems, among other topics.

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. To order printed copies, please contact EIA Deputy Director Dr Joseph Fitsanakis at joe (at) intelnews.org or 423-742-1627 in the United States.

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. To order printed copies, please contact EIA Deputy Director Dr Joseph Fitsanakis at joe (at) intelnews.org or 423-742-1627 in the United States.

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.

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 free, here. To order printed copies, please contact EIA Deputy Director Dr Joseph Fitsanakis at joe (at) intelnews.org or 423-742-1627 in the United States.

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 the immense variety and vast operational scope of such activities in Europe, the Americas, and beyond. The paper can be accessed online by clicking here. ^[pdf]

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 a special edition covering “Major security challenges for the Trump Administration”. The volume is available to download for free, here. To order printed copies, please contact EIA Deputy Director Dr Joseph Fitsanakis at joe (at) intelnews.org or 423-742-1627 in the United States.

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.