Gender, sexuality, and intelligence studies : the spy in the closet
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Gender, sexuality, and intelligence studies : the spy in the closet
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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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.
Table of Contents
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 IntelligenceAsking Queer Questions about IntelligenceIntelligence Activity as the Third WayThe Queer Mission of the Intelligence CommunityAccepting the Reality of our Queer Foreign Policy
Chapter 3: Queer SpiesIntelligence Agents: Bodies Behaving Queerly in SpaceThe State as Container/State as Vault: The Spy's Queer Moral StatusHer Naked State/Our Naked State: The Myth of Artemis and the Ethics of Spying
Chapter 4: Treason, Agency and SexualityThe Prevailing Orthodoxy about TreasonThree Narratives about Homosexuality
Chapter 5: Queerness, Secrecy and RevelationIntelligence and SecrecyWhat is a secret society? The Mythology of the Intelligence CommunityParallel Organizations as a violation of statecraftIntelligence, Stigma, and the wall of separationAccountability, Performativity and the Wall of SeparationOuting, Policing and Disciplining Intelligence Activities
Chapter 6: Coming Out as an Intelligence AgentMemoirs as sourcebooksThe silence of the spy and the ability to tell his storyOther types of queerness: the double agent and the torturerComing out as a spy
Chapter 7: The Politics of Covert ActivityIR Theory and the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" of Covert Activity Queer Presidents/Queer PrecedentsRescuing the State by Blaming the Intelligence CommunityQueer Behavior and the theater of accountability
Chapter 8: The Future is Queer: New Developments in Intelligence ActivityPrying Open the Closet: The Erosion of Secrecy in an Era of Big DataJoin Us in the Closet: Adding New Actors to the Intelligence CommunityNormalization: Spying Emerges from the Closet
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