Chikara Hashimoto on intelligence and counter-subversion during the twilight of the British Empire: An enduring scholarly legacy

TY - JOUR

T1 - Chikara Hashimoto on intelligence and counter-subversion during the twilight of the British Empire

T2 - An enduring scholarly legacy

AU - Hughes, Geraint

AU - Hughes, R. Gerald

N1 - Geraint Hughes is Reader in Diplomatic and Military History at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London, teaching at the Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC), Defence Academy of the UK. His research interests include proxy conflict, land warfare in its historical and contemporary context and the Cold War, and he has recently been engaged in researching the history of the Dhofar conflict in Oman, 1965-1975. His publications include Harold Wilson’s Cold War: The Labour Government and East-West Politics, 1964-1970 (2009); ‘Demythologising Dhofar: British Policy, Military Strategy, and Counterinsurgency in Oman, 1963-1976ʹ in the Journal of Military History (2015); ‘Militias in Internal Warfare: From the Colonial Era to the Contemporary Middle East’ in Small Wars and Insurgencies (2016); and ‘“Amateurs Who Play in League Division One”? Anglo-Iranian Military Relations during the Dhofar War in Oman’ in the British Journal for Military History (2017). R. Gerald Hughes is Reader in Military History and Director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement: British Foreign Policy Since 1945 (2014); and Britain, Germany and the Cold War: The Search for a European Détente, 1949-1967 (2007). A reviews editor of Intelligence and National Security, Hughes is the author of a number of book chapters and articles (including, most recently, ‘“Fear has large eyes”: The History of Intelligence in the Soviet Union’ in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies; and ‘Between Man and Nature: The Enduring Wisdom of Sir Halford J. Mackinder’ in the Journal of Strategic Studies). He has also edited, or co-edited, a number of scholarly volumes. These include The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal (2016); Intelligence and International Security: New Perspectives and Agendas (2011); Intelligence, Crises and Security: Prospects and Retrospects (2008); and Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State(2008). R. Gerald Hughes is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

PY - 2020/1/2

Y1 - 2020/1/2

KW - British Empire

KW - Intelligence

KW - Counter-subversion

KW - Communism

KW - Middle East

KW - Cold War

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U2 - 10.1080/02684527.2019.1603662

DO - 10.1080/02684527.2019.1603662

M3 - Review Article

SN - 0268-4527

VL - 35

SP - 149

EP - 158

JO - Intelligence and National Security

JF - Intelligence and National Security

IS - 1

ER -