https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13034 ^ Moving to College of Arts, Law and Social Sciences Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:21:36 GMT 2026-08-23T02:21:36Z https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32466 Title: A Marriage of Convenience: When States Co-offend Authors: Twyman-Ghoshal, A; El Masri, O Editors: MacManus, T Abstract: ... Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32466 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32137 Title: Blogging (French) history: conversations and reflections amongst historians Authors: Broch, L; Carroll, A; Gordon, DG; O'Brien, L; Pooley, WG Abstract: In 2014, the French History Network Blog was launched with the aim of ‘connecting people and ideas’. Ten years later, it has shared hundreds of blog posts with many thousands of readers, covering teaching and researching French history, but also the lives and experiences of the historians involved in doing both things. To mark its tenth anniversary in December 2024, the Institute of Historical Research’s Modern French History Seminar hosted a roundtable bringing the founders into conversation with some of the most important contributors to the blog and with scholars representing new directions in the communication of French history. Contributors to the roundtable looked backwards, to the role that blogging has played in the creation of an academic community and sharing research over the last decade. But discussions also looked forwards, asking how blogging can help historians continue to communicate and connect in the face of new technologies of communication and dramatic changes to our field. Three of the contributions are collated here with an introduction; they invite readers to reflect on the function and future of blogs as a form of academic writing. Description: Issue Section: Roundtable. Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32137 2025-11-28T00:00:00Z https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/31678 Title: Teaching Structured Analytic Techniques across Nations: Same, Same but Different Authors: Borg, LC; Gustafson, KC Abstract: The implementation and evolution of structured analytic techniques (SATs) steadily advanced across several North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Intelligence Communities (ICs) post–11 September 2001, with an aim to enhance analytic rigor to prevent intelligence failures. Despite SATs’ widespread adoption, there remains a lack of consensus and uniformity in their application across nations and agencies, resulting in varied teaching and implementation approaches. Current research often overlooks these differences, leading to a distorted understanding of SATs’ effectiveness. This article investigates SATs’ teaching methodologies within and beyond the Anglosphere, revealing significant transatlantic and interagency divides. While the American approach treats SATs as discrete tools, European methods emphasize a more comprehensive methodological framework. Moreover, within Europe, there exists a distinction between an old and new generation of analysts, with the latter having received SATs training from the beginning and seeing the value of a social science–based methodological approach to intelligence analysis. The research found that a collaborative, creative application of SATs, coupled with critical thinking and sensemaking, can bolster analytic rigor and improve intelligence support to decisionmaking. This assertion draws from the educational experiences of Norwegian intelligence specialists, feedback from Ukrainian officers, and research within the UK IC, suggesting a path to professionalize intelligence analysis education in Europe. Description: This article formed part of a special section: European Intelligence Education and Culture(s). Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/31678 2025-04-25T00:00:00Z https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/31635 Title: Kabul, 2021 - The Taliban Overtakes Kabul Authors: Gustafson, K Editors: Grønning, BEM; Stenslie, S Abstract: The sudden collapse of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) in the face of the Taliban advance of July-August 2021, stands as a key moment of national embarrassment to the two intervening powers with the greatest exposure there: the US and the UK. Despite ample warning from multiple sources that the Taliban were making rapid advances, and that large parts of the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Police (ANP) were evaporating before the onslaught, neither the US nor the UK made adequate plans to deal with the collapse of GIRoA and the implications of that to their remaining interests in the country. Strategic intelligence analysis of the situation by US and UK analysts predicted state collapse, but generally on a longer timeline. Tactical warning was also lacking: the rapidity of the situation, and the inability of the two governments to understand and adapt to the situation, lead to chaotic evacuations of Afghanistan on terms dictated by the Taliban. The case is one of some accurate strategic warning married to tactical intelligence failure, leading to policy failure and surprise. It is both Type I and Type II failure. Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/31635 2024-12-31T00:00:00Z