Call for Papers for Covert Action workshop

A workshop on 'Locating the Man Who Never Was: Understanding Covert Action in International Relations' will be held at The University of Nottingham on 6 September 2016.

Submissions are invited on topics including (but not limited to):

• States’ approaches to and understandings of covert action
• The role and purpose of covert action; when and why states use it
• Types of covert action (political action; economic warfare; special operations; deception; proxy warfare etc.)
• Defining covert action
• The relationship between intelligence and covert action
• Oversight, coordination and management of covert action
• Appraising covert action
• History of covert action; lessons from the past

Please send a 250 word abstract to Rory Cormac by 29 April 2016.

Download the call for papers (PDF)