Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022) is unique as a general body of knowledge about the history of the Dutch intelligence and security services since 1913. The chapters alternate between a general historical overview and a number of case studies spread out over the more-than-a-century long history that taken together give a good insight into the main functions of a middle-size military intelligence service as The Ne...

Na de onafhankelijkheid van Suriname in 1975 bleef de Nederlandse betrokkenheid achter de schermen groot. De militaire coup van Desi Bouterse in 1980 leidde tot nerveuze reacties in Den Haag én tot geheime plannen voor interventie. Hoe dicht kwam Nederland werkelijk bij militair ingrijpen in zijn voormalige kolonie? In Coups, contracoups en constitutie reconstrueert Bob de Graaff een fascinerend en tot nu toe onderbelicht hoofdstuk uit deze recente geschiedenis. Mede dankzij een unieke toe...

In the summer of 2013 the Central Intelligence Agency and the Clinton Presidential Library made an unprecedented declassification of more than 300 documents showing the role of intelligence in supporting American decision-making on Bosnia in the 1990s, and in particular the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, which brought an end to the fighting in Bosnia. The following spring, James Madison University hosted a conference in which scholars from all over the world assessed what the documents show ...

National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country’s history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Latvia, Montenegro), the work provides insight into a number of rarely discussed national intelligence agencies to allow for comparative study, offering hard to find information into one volume. In their chapters, the contributors, who are all experts from the countries discussed, address the intelligence community rather than focus on a s...