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This chapter situates the current project within the larger universe of queer theory, as well as within the newly emerging field of critical intelligence studies through a literature review. The chapter introduces queer phenomenology, drawing upon the insights of Daggett and Ahmed. It also analyzes how intelligence studies has been treated within the larger international relations theory literature, explicates how intelligence studies itself exists as a subfield, and lays out the plan for the book.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Michael German, “The US Intelligence Community Is Bigger Than Ever But Is It Worth the Cost?” in “Rethinking Intelligence,” special issue, Defense One, February 6, 2015, accessed August 8, 2018, https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/02/us-intelligence-community-bigger-ever-it-worth-it/104799/?oref=d-river

  2. 2.

    Christopher Andrew, “Intelligence, International Relations and ‘Under-theorization,’” Intelligence and National Security 19, no. 2 (2004): 170–184.

  3. 3.

    However, this is changing somewhat. Here, see Mary Manjikian, “Positivism, Post-Positivism, and Intelligence Analysis,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 26, no. 3 (2013): 563–582.

  4. 4.

    See, for example, Eveline Lubbers, “Undercover Research: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists. An Introduction to Activist Intelligence as a New Field of Study,” Surveillance & Society 13, no. 3/4 (2015): 338–353.

  5. 5.

    Elizabeth E. Anderson, “The Security Dilemma and Covert Action: The Truman Years,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 11, no. 4 (2010): 403–427.

  6. 6.

    Kaeten Mistry, “Approaches to Understanding the Inaugural CIA Covert Operations in Italy: Exploding Useful Myths,” Intelligence and National Security 26, no. 2–3 (2011): 225.

  7. 7.

    Michael A. Turner, “A Distinctive U.S. Intelligence Identity,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 17, no. 1 (2004): 50.

  8. 8.

    Laurie Nathan, “Intelligence Bound: The South African Constitution and Intelligence Services,” International Affairs 86, no. 1 (2010).

  9. 9.

    Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (New York, NY: Doubleday, 2007).

  10. 10.

    William J. Daugherty, Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2004), p. xi.

  11. 11.

    “Collusion,” Dictionary.com. Available at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/collusion

  12. 12.

    Hamilton Bean. “What is Critical Intelligence Studies?” LinkedIn. July 23, 2019. Available at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-critical-intelligence-studies-hamilton-bean/

  13. 13.

    For more on this point, see also Cynthia Weber, Queer International Relations (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 143.

  14. 14.

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2003. “Phenomenology.” Available at: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/

  15. 15.

    Cara Daggett. 2015. “Drone Disorientations: How ‘unmanned’ weapons queer the experience of killing in war,” International Feminist Journal of Politics 17(3), 361–379. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2015.1075317

  16. 16.

    See, for example, Joe Mazzafro, “The Second Oldest Profession,” Signal Magazine. April 30, 2012. https://www.afcea.org/content/second-oldest-profession?page=1

  17. 17.

    Quoted in Dai Kojima. 2008. “A Review of Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others.” Phenomenology and Practice 2(1), 89.

  18. 18.

    See, for example, H.R. Haldeman with Joseph Dimona. 1978. The Ends of Power. New York: New York Times Books, 39.

  19. 19.

    See, for example, Gabriella Munoz. “Irregular Channel: Impeachment Probe zeroes in on Trump Fixer Rudy Giuliani,” The Washington Times, November 11, 2019. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/11/rudy-giuliani-ukraine-irregular-channel-center-don/

  20. 20.

    Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (New York, NY: Alfred Knopf, 1979), 7; John Jacob Nutter, The CIA’s Black Ops: Covert Action, Foreign Policy and Democracy (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000).

  21. 21.

    Bob Jessop, “The Gender Selectivity of the State: A Critical Realist Analysis,” Journal of Critical Realism 3, no. 2 (2004): 21–29.

  22. 22.

    Cynthia Weber. “What is told is always in the telling: Reflections on Faking It in 21st century IR/Global Politics.” Millennium 45, no. 1 (2016): 119–130.

  23. 23.

    Cynthia Weber, “‘What is Told is Always in the Telling’ Reflections on Faking It in 21st Century IR/Global Politics,” Millennium 45, no. 1 (2016): 119–130.

  24. 24.

    Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (London, UK: Duke University Press, 2007), 27.

  25. 25.

    Samuel J. Rascoff, “Presidential Intelligence,” Harvard Law Review 129, no. 3 (2016): 84.

  26. 26.

    For more on this point, see Jack Goldsmith, “Secrets in a Transparent World,” in “Intelligence and Cyberwar,” special issue, Hoover Digest 4, October 16, 2015, 1–5.

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Manjikian, M. (2020). Introduction. In: Gender, Sexuality, and Intelligence Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39894-1_1

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