Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1: Introduction Why don'y IR scholars study Intelligence? Bringing Intelligence back in-to the study of International Relations
Chapter 2: The Queerness of IntelligenceAsking Queer Questions about IntelligenceIntelligence Activity as the Third WayThe Queer Mission of the Intelligence CommunityAccepting the Reality of our Queer Foreign Policy
Chapter 3: Queer SpiesIntelligence Agents: Bodies Behaving Queerly in SpaceThe State as Container/State as Vault: The Spy's Queer Moral StatusHer Naked State/Our Naked State: The Myth of Artemis and the Ethics of Spying
Chapter 4: Treason, Agency and SexualityThe Prevailing Orthodoxy about TreasonThree Narratives about Homosexuality
Chapter 5: Queerness, Secrecy and RevelationIntelligence and SecrecyWhat is a secret society? The Mythology of the Intelligence CommunityParallel Organizations as a violation of statecraftIntelligence, Stigma, and the wall of separationAccountability, Performativity and the Wall of SeparationOuting, Policing and Disciplining Intelligence Activities
Chapter 6: Coming Out as an Intelligence AgentMemoirs as sourcebooksThe silence of the spy and the ability to tell his storyOther types of queerness: the double agent and the torturerComing out as a spy
Chapter 7: The Politics of Covert ActivityIR Theory and the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" of Covert Activity Queer Presidents/Queer PrecedentsRescuing the State by Blaming the Intelligence CommunityQueer Behavior and the theater of accountability
Chapter 8: The Future is Queer: New Developments in Intelligence ActivityPrying Open the Closet: The Erosion of Secrecy in an Era of Big DataJoin Us in the Closet: Adding New Actors to the Intelligence CommunityNormalization: Spying Emerges from the Closet