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

by Mary Manjikian

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303039896X
• ISBN13: 9783030398965
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"