About
AT A GLANCE:
Professor of ‘Intelligence and International Affairs’ & the Director of the King’s
Centre for the Study of Intelligence
RESEARCH AREAS:
• Intelligence Studies
• Nuclear Weapons History
• Cold War History
BIOGRAPHY:
Professor Michael S. Goodman holds the position of Professor of 'Intelligence and International Affairs' and serves
as the Director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence. He previously
served as the Head of the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Currently,
he is a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Intelligence School and at Sciences Po
in Paris. Widely recognized for his contributions to the field of intelligence history,
Professor Goodman has published extensively, including The Official History of the
Joint Intelligence Committee, Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War
to the Suez Crisis (Routledge, 2015), which was selected as one of The Spectator’s
books of the year.
Moreover, he acts as the series editor for 'Intelligence, Surveillance, and Secret Warfare' for Edinburgh University Press and is a member of the editorial boards for five journals. With a significant tenure on secondment to the Cabinet Office, he holds the role of the Official Historian of the Joint Intelligence Committee, with Volume II scheduled for publication in 2024. Additionally, Professor Goodman is a current British Army reservist.
PUBLICATIONS:
He has published widely in the field of intelligence history and scientific intelligence,
including Spying on the Nuclear Bear: Anglo-American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb
(Stanford University Press, 2008), Spinning Intelligence: Why Intelligence Needs
the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence (Columbia: Columbia University Press,
2009), Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History (Georgetown
University Press, 2011), The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies(Routledge,
2014); Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee
(Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and The Official History of the Joint Intelligence
Committee, Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis
(Routledge, 2014). This last book, the Official History, was chosen as one of The
Spectator’s books of the year.
His articles have appeared in Intelligence and National Security, the International
Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, CIA Studies in Intelligence, Cold
War History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Cryptologia,
The Journal of Intelligence History, Contemporary British History, Historical Studies
in the Physical Sciences, Diplomacy and Statecraft, and International History Review.
He is series editor for ‘Intelligence, Surveillance, and Secret Warfare’ for Edinburgh
University Press and ‘Intelligence and Security’ for Hurst/Oxford University Press.
He is a member of the editorial boards for Intelligence and National Security; International
Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; International Journal of Intelligence,
Security, and Public Affairs; The Journal of Intelligence History and Contemporary
British History.
CONNECT / FOLLOW:
LinkedIn: @michaelgoodman2
Twitter: @77_msg