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Intelligence, Security, War Strategy

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
James M. Sullivan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2
Gil Baram
University Research Co (United States)
3
Chiara Libiseller
King's College London
4
Jakob Hauter
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
5
Kurt F. Jensen
Carleton University
6
Isabelle Böhm
Albstadt-Sigmaringen University
7
Ziyun Fan
University of York
8
Aaron Bateman
Texas A&M International University
9
Avner Barnea
Netanya Academic College
10
Tim Willasey-Wilsey
King's College London

Rising Stars Papers

1
Israeli Intelligence Was Caught Off Guard: The Hamas Attack on 7 October 2023—A Preliminary Analysis
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence|2024
26 cit.
2
Local primordial non-Gaussian bias at the field level
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics|2025
7 cit.
3
Emplotting Climate Change: Rhetorical History and Imagined Accountability
Academy of Management Perspectives|2025
5 cit.
4
High-redshift millennium and astrid galaxies in effective field theory at the field level
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2025
5 cit.
5
Exploring Religious Practice in Crisis: A non-Western tension-centred approach to meaningful work
Organization Studies|2024
4 cit.
6
Cyber Diplomacy through Official Public Attribution: Paving the Way for Global Norms
International Studies Perspectives|2024
4 cit.
7
Redefining vigilance: reevaluating the meaning of early warning in Israel’s security doctrine and the October 7 attack
Intelligence & National Security|2025
3 cit.
8
Local primordial non-Gaussian bias from time evolution
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2025
2 cit.
9
“Hamas is deterred” as wishful thinking: An analysis of how Israel empowered Hamas to attack Israel on October 7
Journal of Strategic Studies|2025
2 cit.
10
The war we won apart: the untold story of two elite agents who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII
Intelligence & National Security|2024
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Richard J. Harknett
University of Cincinnati
2
Michael J. Soules
University of Houston
3
Tobias Liebetrau
Department of Social Sciences
4
Colin Jackson
Naval War College
5
Chau Tong
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6
Kevin Dlugos
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
7
Alex Farrington
University of Oregon
8
Bleddyn E. Bowen
Durham University
9
Samuel Lolagar
Albstadt-Sigmaringen University
10
Sebastian Wójtowicz
Medical University of Warsaw

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Critical maritime infrastructure protection: What’s the trouble?
Marine Policy|2023
55 cit.
2
Stolen focus: why you can’t pay attention - and how to think deeply again <b>Stolen focus: why you can’t pay attention - and how to think deeply again</b> , by Johann Hari, New York, Crown, 2022, 345 pp., US$28.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780593138519
Intelligence & National Security|2022
50 cit.
3
We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war
Journal of Strategic Studies|2023
45 cit.
4
Recruiting Rebels: Introducing the Rebel Appeals and Incentives Dataset
Journal of Conflict Resolution|2023
20 cit.
5
Cyber conflict short of war: a European strategic vacuum
European Security|2022
17 cit.
6
Problematising EU Cybersecurity: Exploring How the Single Market Functions as a Security Practice
JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies|2023
14 cit.
7
Thinking Outside of the Box: Transnational Terrorism in Civil Wars
International Studies Quarterly|2023
12 cit.
8
Search Term Identification Methods for Computational Health Communication: Word Embedding and Network Approach for Health Content on YouTube
JMIR Medical Informatics|2022
11 cit.
9
Advancing coordination in critical maritime infrastructure protection: Lessons from maritime piracy and cybersecurity
International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection|2024
11 cit.
10
Organizing cyber capability across military and intelligence entities: collaboration, separation, or centralization
Policy Design and Practice|2022
10 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Imre Csiszár
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2
Pekka Koskela
University of Jyväskylä
3
John Lewis Gaddis
The University of Texas at Austin
4
Helen Nissenbaum
Princeton University
5
Dennis Goeckel
University of Massachusetts Amherst
6
David A. Campbell
Carleton University
7
Richard Clarke
University of Auckland
8
Philip Zelikow
Harvard University
9
Steven Livingston
George Washington University
10
Jon R. Lindsay
Georgia Institute of Technology

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Broadcast channels with confidential messages
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory|1978
3.4k cit.
2
$I$-Divergence Geometry of Probability Distributions and Minimization Problems
The Annals of Probability|1975
1.6k cit.
3
The disinformation order: Disruptive communication and the decline of democratic institutions
European Journal of Communication|2018
1.5k cit.
4
Information-type measures of difference of probability distributions and indirect observation
Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica|1967
1.4k cit.
5
Common randomness in information theory and cryptography. I. Secret sharing
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory|1993
1.4k cit.
6
Bias in computer systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems|1996
1.1k cit.
7
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
Foreign Affairs|1999
1.1k cit.
8
Essence of Decision
Foreign Policy|1999
973 cit.
9
Sobolev met Poincaré
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society|2000
951 cit.
10
Quasiconformal maps in metric spaces with controlled geometry
Acta Mathematica|1998
939 cit.

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