@inbook{277dd7a5118c43cf8f8d55c6bc2f1401,
title = "The Quest for a Theory of Intelligence",
abstract = "This lead chapter in an edited book represents an assessment of the long-standing search for a unifying theory of intelligence since 1945.",
keywords = "Intelligence, Security, Strategy, History, Max Weber , Politics",
author = "Hughes, {R. G.} and Claudia Hillebrand",
note = "R. Gerald Hughes is Reader in Military History and Director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies at Aberystwyth University. Hughes is the reviews editor of *Intelligence & National Security*, the world{\textquoteright}s leading journal on the role of intelligence in international affairs, and the editor of the UK Study Group on Intelligence newsletter. His publications include *Germany and the Cold War: The Search for a European D{\'e}tente, 1949–1967* (2007), *The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement: British Foreign Policy Since 1945* (2014), and *The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal* (2016). R. Gerald Hughes is a member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).",
year = "2017",
month = aug,
day = "31",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-137-53674-7",
pages = "1--24",
editor = "Dover, {Robert } and Dylan, {Huw } and Michael Goodman",
booktitle = "The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
address = "Switzerland",
edition = "1st",
}