Focus and Scope

Security Intelligence Terrorism Journal (SITJ)

Intelligence has never played a more prominent role in international politics than it does now in the early years of the twenty-first century. National intelligence services are more significant than ever, and they are more transparent in their activities in the policy-making of democratic nations. Security Intelligence Terrorism Journal (SITJ) is widely regarded as the world's leading scholarly journal focused on the role of intelligence and secretive agencies in international relations. It examines this aspect of national security from various perspectives and academic disciplines, with insightful articles researched and written by leading experts around the globe.

Among the topics covered in the journal are:

• the historical development of intelligence agencies
• representations of intelligence in popular culture
• public understanding and expectations related to intelligence
• intelligence and ethics
• intelligence collection and analysis
• covert action and counterintelligence
• privacy and intelligence accountability
• the outsourcing of intelligence operations
• the role of politics in intelligence activities
• international intelligence cooperation and burden-sharing
• the relationships among intelligence agencies, military organizations, and civilian police departments

Authors for Security Intelligence Terrorism Journal (SITJ) come from various disciplines, including international affairs, history, sociology, political science, law, anthropology, philosophy, medicine, statistics, psychology, bio-sciences, and mathematics. These perspectives are regularly augmented by research submitted by current and former intelligence practitioners in several different nations. Each issue features a rich menu of articles about intelligence's uses (and occasional misuses), supplemented from time to time with special forums on current intelligence issues and interviews with leading intelligence officials.