What is Being Published in Intelligence? A Study of Two Scholarly Journals

摘要

The academic discipline of Intelligence studies is a rather young field, especially when compared to other disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and others. Sherman Kent first called attention to the lack of "intelligence literature" back in 1955, the year that the Central Intelligence Agency published the first issue of its journal Studies in Intelligence. Some two decades later, the Agency also created a Center for the Study of Intelligence, which opened its doors in 1974. Moreover, during the following four decades, several peer-reviewed journals were launched in the area of intelligence-including the UK-based Intelligence and National Security and the U.S.-based International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence back in the mid- and late 1980s. Two more journals followed some years later, the Germany-based Journal of Intelligence History in 2001 and the European Journal of Intelligence Studies in 2007.