Gender, Sexuality, and Intelligence Studies: The Spy in the Closet

Manjikian, Mary

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021-06-20

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783030398965

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-39894-1

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 279