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Book Review: The Hamas Intelligence War Against Israel Netanel Flamer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025. pp. 207. Pb. £30.99. ISBN: 9781009499408 (2025)
Journal Article
Dover, R. (2025). Book Review: The Hamas Intelligence War Against Israel Netanel Flamer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025. pp. 207. Pb. £30.99. ISBN: 9781009499408 [Review of the book]. Asian Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2025.2499148

Opening paragraph:
This book is a decisive contribution to our previously partial and fragmented understanding of the trajectory and capabilities of the intelligence services of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) since its inception... Read More about Book Review: The Hamas Intelligence War Against Israel Netanel Flamer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025. pp. 207. Pb. £30.99. ISBN: 9781009499408.

Coming in from the cold: Collective European intelligence in the Trump era (2025)
Digital Artefact
Dover, R. (2025, March 31). Coming in from the cold: Collective European intelligence in the Trump era. Anadolu Ajansı. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/opinion/opinion-coming-in-from-the-cold-collective-european-intelligence-in-the-trump-era/3524431

To develop European intelligence independence requires a large financial commitment, changes to laws and regulations, political cooperation and trust, and the coordination of European industry and academia.

Smoothing the Digital Identity Onboarding Process (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spiliotopoulos, T., & Dover, R. (2024, September 16). Smoothing the Digital Identity Onboarding Process [Presentation / Talk]. SPRITE+ Showcase 2024: Understandings of Identity, Online. https://spritehub.org/2024/08/28/sprite-showcase-2024/

Crown, cloak and dagger: the British monarchy and secret intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II (2024)
Journal Article
Dover, R. (2024). Crown, cloak and dagger: the British monarchy and secret intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II [Review of the book]. International Affairs, 100(3), 1339–1341. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae087

The Branding of Jihadi Terror: An Organizational Theory Understanding of Jihadi Terrorism (2023)
Journal Article
Farooqi, M., & Dover, R. (2023). The Branding of Jihadi Terror: An Organizational Theory Understanding of Jihadi Terrorism. Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne. New Series, (18), 25-42. https://studiasocjologicznopolityczne.pl/eng/archives.html

Since 2001, jihadism as a socio-political movement of waging jihadi violence has been prominent in international relations and security. The dominant discourse has been that jihadism is a religious phenomenon, in which violence is drawn from 19th and... Read More about The Branding of Jihadi Terror: An Organizational Theory Understanding of Jihadi Terrorism.

Onboarding Citizens to Digital Identity Systems (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spiliotopoulos, T., Sheik, A. T., Gottardello, D., & Dover, R. (2023, June 27-29). Onboarding Citizens to Digital Identity Systems [Paper presentation]. International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE 2023), Hybrid Conference, Venice, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2023.2575

Digital Identity (DI) technologies have the potential to enhance the quality of life of citizens through the provision of
seamless services, improve the effectiveness of public services, and increase overall economic competitiveness. However,
lack... Read More about Onboarding Citizens to Digital Identity Systems.

The British Government's Problem with Information Security (2022)
Digital Artefact
Dover, R. (2022, November 8). The British Government's Problem with Information Security. https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-british-governments-problems-with-information-security/

Robert Dover examines the information security issues that recent governments have faced, highlighting that the UK government’s approach has failed to keep pace with the way in which information technology has developed and is now used and exploited. Read More about The British Government's Problem with Information Security.

A research agenda for intelligence studies and government (2022)
Book
R. Dover, H. Dylan, & M. S. Goodman. (Eds.). (2022). A research agenda for intelligence studies and government. Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378803

This Research Agenda explores the academic field of intelligence studies and how it is developing into an increasingly international and diverse area of study.

As more governments release records, and as new generations of scholars engage with the... Read More about A research agenda for intelligence studies and government.

Introduction to a research agenda for intelligence studies and government (2022)
Book Chapter
Dover, R., Dylan, H., Bennett, H., & Goodman, M. (2022). Introduction to a research agenda for intelligence studies and government. In R. Dover, H. Dylan, & M. S. Goodman (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government (pp. 1-6). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378803.00005

The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts (2022)
Book Chapter
Dover, R. (2022). The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts. In R. Dover, H. Dylan, & M. S. Goodman (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government (pp. 155-165). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378803.00020

The term deep state has been used to describe the military-intelligence-industrial complex in some notable contexts such as the US, UK, India, Egypt and Turkey. More recently it has been appropriated by populists and conspiracy theorists to describe... Read More about The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts.

Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy. Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age (2022)
Book
Dover, R. (2022). Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy. Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age. Hurst Publishers. https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/hacker-influencer-faker-spy/

Intelligence agencies are reflections of the societies they serve. No surprise, then, that modern spies and the agencies they work for are fixated on the internet and electronic communications. These same officials also struggle with notions of priva... Read More about Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy. Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age.

Ukraine: sanctions can still make a difference – but only if done right (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Dover, R. (2022, February 24). Ukraine: sanctions can still make a difference – but only if done right. The Conversation.

Populism, anti-system politics and the media: A spotlight on Covid-19 (2022)
Book Chapter
Dover, R. (2022). Populism, anti-system politics and the media: A spotlight on Covid-19. In J. Mair, T. Clark, N. Fowler, R. Snoddy, & R. Tait (Eds.), Populism, the Pandemic and the Media : Journalism in the age of Covid, Trump, Brexit and Johnson (pp. 148-154). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003253822-24

Anti-system politicians in positions of power and influence and a compliant legacy and digital media have created a climate of disinformation and uncertainty for ordinary citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic, argues Professor Robert Dover

Ukraine-Russia: the first shots have already been fired – in cyberspace (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Dover, R. (2022, February 2). Ukraine-Russia: the first shots have already been fired – in cyberspace. The Conversation.

Inside the mirror maze : Uncovering some secrets of British spycraft (2021)
Journal Article
Dover, R. (2021). Inside the mirror maze : Uncovering some secrets of British spycraft [Review of the book Ferris, John (2020) BEHIND THE ENIGMA The authorised history of GCHQ, Britain’s secret cyber-intelligence agency. Bloomsbury ; Omand David (2020) HOW SPIES THINK 10 lessons in intelligence. Viking] [The Missing Dimension : Uncovering some secrets of spycraft]. Times Literary Supplement, (6160), 26.

Cryptography and the Global South: secrecy, signals and information imperialism (2020)
Journal Article
Dover, R., & Aldrich, R. J. (2020). Cryptography and the Global South: secrecy, signals and information imperialism. Third World Quarterly, 41(11), 1900-1917. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2020.1793665

© 2020 Global South Ltd. For decades, espionage during the Cold War was often presented as a competition between East and West. The extent to which the Global South constituted the main battleground for this conflict is now being appreciated, togethe... Read More about Cryptography and the Global South: secrecy, signals and information imperialism.

The Palgrave handbook of security, risk and intelligence (2017)
Book
R. Dover, H. Dylan, & M. S. Goodman. (Eds.). (2017). The Palgrave handbook of security, risk and intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53675-4

© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. All rights reserved. This handbook provides a detailed analysis of threats and risk in the international system and of how governments and their intelligence services must adapt and function in... Read More about The Palgrave handbook of security, risk and intelligence.

Fixing Financial Plumbing: Tax, Leaks and Base Erosion and Profit Shifting in Europe (2016)
Journal Article
Dover, R. (2016). Fixing Financial Plumbing: Tax, Leaks and Base Erosion and Profit Shifting in Europe. International Spectator, 51(4), 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2016.1224545

© 2016 Istituto Affari Internazionali. Aggressive tax planning by multinational enterprises (MNEs) costs EU member states between €50-70 billion and €150-190 billion per annum through base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS). This tax gap has been bla... Read More about Fixing Financial Plumbing: Tax, Leaks and Base Erosion and Profit Shifting in Europe.