Intelligence services, international diplomacy experts
Amid rising geopolitical tensions, understanding the role of intelligence in global affairs is more urgent than ever. Researchers at the ºÚÁÏÍø offer expertise on the function of secret services, covert operations, cyber threats, and intelligence alliances. With a focus on both historical and contemporary developments—particularly in the US, Europe, and conflict zones such as Ukraine and the Middle East—these experts can provide context for stories on international security and diplomacy.
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Matthew Hefler, affiliated researcher at Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication, project lead of the new AJI Intelligence and Security Programme at the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy
Areas of expertise:
- The role of intelligence and secret services in international diplomacy.
- Intelligence relationships or liaisons between national intelligence services.
- Contemporary and historical developments around Western intelligence services and international security, including military and diplomatic history during the Second World War, the interwar period and the early Cold War.
- Secret intelligence and strategy/decision-making.
- Subversion, covert political action, clandestine diplomacy.
Email: Matthew.Hefler@hhs.se
Languages: English
Ronan Mainprize, postdoc fellow at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication
Area of expertise:
- Intelligence and international security, with a particular focus on the US and Europe.
- Intelligence and covert operations, including sabotage, cyber security, disinformation, and grey zone threats.
- American grand strategy and foreign policy, particularly in East Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
- European security, with a focus on European-US relations, intelligence sharing, and the war in Ukraine.
- Military operations and strategy, and technology and warfare.
Email: ronan.mainprize@hhs.se
Phone: +44 781 455 8397
Languages: English