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Studies in Intelligence Vol. 69, No. 3 (Extracts, September 2025)

Reviews: Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf (September 2025)

Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake

Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf

This issue of IO Bookshelf contains five reviews of books about intelligence services abroad. They are:

Contemporary Intelligence in Africa, Edited by Tshepo Gwatiwa (Routledge, 2025) 319 pages, end-of-chapter notes, index.

India’s Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises: Spying for South Block, By Dheeraj Paramesha Caya (Routledge, 2023) 287 pages, end-of-chapter notes, appendix, index.

Intelligence Practices in High-Trust Societies: Scandinavian Exceptionalism,
Edited by Kira Vrist Rønn, et al. (Routledge, 2025) 232, end-of-chapter notes,
references, appendices, index.

Intelligence Services in South Asia: Colonial Past and Present Post-Colonial Realities, Edited by Ryan Shaffer and ASM Ali Ashraf (Routledge, 2025) 227, end-of-chapter notes, index.

Israeli National Intelligence Culture: Problem Solving, Exceptionalism, and Pragmatism, By Itai Shapira. (Routledge, 2025) 257, end-of-chapter notes, appendix, index.

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