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GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND INTELLIGENCE STUDIES IBD

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
06 / 2020
9783030398934
Inglés

Sinopsis

This is the first work to engage with intelligence studies through the lens of queer theory.áAdding 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.áPart 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.áPart 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.