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In the last decade our international community of intelligence scholars has become more aware of the need to expand the field beyond the Anglosphere. This includes important books like "Intelligence Elsewhere" (by @Violent_Memo & Philip Davies) http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/intelligence-elsewhere 1/7
As well as articles on "Escaping from American Intelligence" by Richard Aldrich and John Kasuku https://academic.oup.com/ia/article-abstract/88/5/1009/2326590?redirectedFrom=fulltext see also Aldrich's piece with Zakia Shiraz on "Secrecy, spies and the global South" also in @IAJournal_CH 2/7
And of course the body of research on non-anglophone intelligence powers like France, Israel, the Soviet Union/Russia, as well as a variety of other countries has been growing for decades too - but to a much lesser extent 3/7
Access to archives and other primary sources necessarily defines the scope of intelligence research. The US and UK frequently declassify and digitise relevant archives (see great threads by @RoryCormac & @SourceMerlin), and thus feed a robust research culture & public debate 4/7
When escaping the Anglosphere, the lack of access to primary sources continues to significantly limit researchers' ability to expand our horizons and support an informed public debate on intelligence and security issues 5/7
In France, for example, things are going backward. A new inter-ministerial instruction and bureaucratic practices dating from another century are significantly disrupting historical research on intelligence, security and defence https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2021/01/26/archives-classees-secret-defense-un-reglement-absurde-interrompt-brutalement-des-centaines-de-travaux-de-recherche_6067604_3232.html 6/7
French officials often complain France lacks "an intelligence culture". Yet instead of facilitating access to archives, gov has now halted automatic declassification of documents dating back to 1934. This is a major setback, not only for research but for democracy 7/7
