Gender, Sexuality, and Intelligence Studies: The Spy in the Closet

ISBN-13: 9783030398965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 279 str.

Mary Manjikian

Recenzje

"This challenging and bold study is more than a groundbreaking work in CIS literature ... . this book is highly recommended, not only for CIS academics but also for anyone related to and interested in critical thinking in IR. The fluent and clear usage of language makes it pleasant to read, while the pedagogic usage of mythology narratives facilitates comprehension of the theoretical concepts. ... the theoretical framework presented in this book provides substantial guidance." (Elif Ezgi Keles, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Vol. 17, 2022)

Spis treści

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 Intelligence

Asking Queer Questions about Intelligence

Intelligence Activity as the Third Way

The Queer Mission of the Intelligence Community

Accepting the Reality of our Queer Foreign Policy

Chapter 3: Queer Spies

Intelligence Agents: Bodies Behaving Queerly in Space

The State as Container/State as Vault: The Spy's Queer Moral Status

Her Naked State/Our Naked State: The Myth of Artemis and the Ethics of Spying

Chapter 4: Treason, Agency and Sexuality

The Prevailing Orthodoxy about Treason

Three Narratives about Homosexuality 

Chapter 5: Queerness, Secrecy and Revelation

Intelligence and Secrecy

What is a secret society? 

The Mythology of the Intelligence Community

Parallel Organizations as a violation of statecraft

Intelligence, Stigma, and the wall of separation

Accountability, Performativity and the Wall of Separation

Outing, Policing and Disciplining Intelligence Activities

Chapter 6: Coming Out as an Intelligence Agent

Memoirs as sourcebooks

The silence of the spy and the ability to tell his story

Other types of queerness: the double agent and the torturer

Coming out as a spy

Chapter 7: The Politics of Covert Activity

IR Theory and the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" of Covert Activity 

Queer Presidents/Queer Precedents

Rescuing the State by Blaming the Intelligence Community

Queer Behavior and the theater of accountability

Chapter 8: The Future is Queer: New Developments in Intelligence Activity

Prying Open the Closet: The Erosion of Secrecy in an Era of Big Data

Join Us in the Closet: Adding New Actors to the Intelligence Community

Normalization: Spying Emerges from the Closet

O autorze

Mary Manjikian is Professor and Associate Dean at the Robertson School of Government, Regent University, USA. Her work has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Intelligence and National Security and International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. She is a former US foreign service officer with service in the Netherlands, Russia and Bulgaria.

Blurb

“Gender, Sexuality, and Intelligence Studies is a bold and ambitious engagement across queer theorizing, critical international relations, and intelligence studies. It stirs up conversations that were previously either ignored or impossible while providing a clear argument and a unique perspective. A reader will not be able to help getting involved in the analysis, sometimes agreeing sometimes arguing. Manjikian brings a strong perspective and impressive familiarity across a wide variety of literatures. A worthwhile read!”

—Laura Sjoberg, Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of Florida, USA

This is the first work to engage with intelligence studies through the lens of queer theory. Adding to the literature in critical intelligence studies and critical international relations theory, this work considers the ways in which both the spy, and the activities of espionage can be viewed as queer. Part One argues that the spy plays a role which represents a third path between the hard power of the military and the soft power of diplomacy. Part Two shows how the intelligence community plays a key role in enabling leaders of democracies to conduct covert activities running counter to that mission and ideology, in this way allowing a leader to have two foreign policies—an overt, public policy and a second, closeted, queer foreign policy.

Mary Manjikian is Professor and Associate Dean at the Robertson School of Government, Regent University, USA.