Intelligence Studies Review

Date: 26-27 June 2024  

Location: Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK 

Deadline for Proposals:
8 January 2024 

The Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS) is calling for papers about the activities, role and functioning of intelligence and security organisations in autocratic regimes. We are also interested in the causes, conditions and difficulties that national intelligence and security infrastructures face as governments transform into democracies.  

We welcome individual submissions on the following themes: 

• Activities, role and functioning of intelligence and security organisations in authoritarian regimes 
• Impacts on intelligence, security, and special services during the processes of democratisation 
• The evolution of form and function in intelligence and security infrastructure and culture during democratisation   
• The effect of authoritarian legislation and practice on security and intelligence services.   
• Cases of struggle and/or cases of success in the above 

We welcome submissions from any relevant discipline. Papers may address both current and historical examples. 

We are particularly keen to see work that challenges prevailing orthodoxies, develops taxonomies and typologies of authoritarian intelligence systems, or situates the agencies and their work in the wider workings of authoritarian government and governance.   

Proposals and Inquiries should be directed to: 

Dr Neveen Abdalla (neveen.abdalla2@brunel.ac.uk) 
Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies 

Please use the subject “Knock in the Night”