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This study asserts that complexity science, the study of systems that are complex and adaptive, holds many promises for examining the threats in the operational environment as well as intelligence organisations themselves. While this may seem a logical deduction, the study of intelligence has yet to adopt the ideas and methods of complexity science. Therefore this study aims to seek insights from complexity science and to apply these to intelligence.

On 25-26 October 2023 the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) held its bi-annual international conference in Amsterdam. Founded in 1991 the NISA aims to further academic research and education regarding (counter)intelligence and security developments. It brings together academics, media representatives, (former) practitioners, and others within the (semi-)government, NGOs and private sector, taking an interest in intelligence and security.

The NISA International Conference 2023 will take place on Wed-Thu 25-26 October 2023 at OBA Oosterdok in Amsterdam (NL).

The registration form, conference schedule and other information is available at the conference website.

This bibliography on intelligence numbers almost a thousand pages and runs up to 2008. It contains publications in English, German, French and Dutch and was put together by Erich Schmidt-Eenboom of the Forschungsinstitut für Friedenspolitik in Weilheim, Germany. NISA is grateful to him for making this bibliography available to us.