The Academic-Practitioner Divide in Intelligence Studies (Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rubén Arcos is lecturer and researcher of communication sciences at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid (Spain). He is the founder and chapter chair of Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) for Spain and founding co-director of IntelHub. He is a freelance contributor of Jane's Intelligence Review and deputy editor of The International Journal of Intelligence, Security, and Public Affairs. He has served for almost 10 years as coordinating director of the first ever Master's degree in Intelligence Analysis in Spain. Arcos is national representative in the NATO/STO task group SAS-114 on "Assessment and communication of uncertainty in intelligence to support decision making". Arcos has published extensively in intelligence studies, strategic communications, and experiential learning in intelligence through simulations and games. Latest publications include "The Impact of Intelligence on Decision-Making: The EU and the Arab Spring" (with José Miguel Palacios) in Intelligence and National Security; two edited volumes (with William Lahneman) of The Art of Intelligence: Simulations, Exercises, and Games (Rowman & Littlefield), and the edited volume (with Randolph Pherson) Intelligence communication in the Digital Era (Palgrave).

Nicole Drumhiller is the Associate Dean in the School of Security and Global Studies at American Public University System in the United States. She is also the President and co-founder of the Center for Transnational Crime and Political Conflict, research centered non-profit organization. She is an editorial board member for the Journal of Global Security and Intelligence Studies. Nicole's recent publications include "Perceptions of Fear Among Targets of Radical Animal Rights Extremism," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism; "François Duvalier: Assessment of a 20th Century 'Doctator'" Journal of Global Security and Intelligence Studies; "Apocalyptic Opportunism: Cult Formation and Violence in an Unstable Nation State" American Intelligence Journal; and Issues in Maritime Cyber Security to name a few. Her current lines of research focus on threat management, simulation, and gamification in higher education, extreme group behavior, and leadership assessments of doctors that have become political dictators, aka "doctators."

Mark Phythian is Professor of Politics in the School of History, Politics & International Relations at the University of Leicester. He is the author or editor of several books on aspects of intelligence, most recently Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence, co-authored with David Omand (Oxford University Press/Georgetown University Press, 2018), and a third edition of Intelligence in an Insecure World, co-authored with Peter Gill (Polity Press, 2018), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is the co-editor of Intelligence and National Security and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.