Paul Maddrell
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Dr Paul Maddrell lectures on Intelligence
and Strategic Studies
at Aberystwyth University in the International Politics department. He was educated at The University of Cambridge and obtained an MA, LL. M., M. Phil and Ph. D Degrees. Prior to teaching at Aberystwyth he lectured at the University of Salford.
, intelligence
and Post-War Germany
. He has written several academic articles and chapters of books on these topics. In 2006 he had a book published by Oxford University Press
entitled Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany, 1945-1961 about technical espionage between the superpowers in the Cold War
, particularly concentrating on the West's intelligence collection in the GDR.
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving....
and Strategic Studies
Strategic studies
Strategic studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning the relationship between politics, geography and natural resources, economics, and military power, such as the role of intelligence, diplomacy and threats in the preparation and use of force...
at Aberystwyth University in the International Politics department. He was educated at The University of Cambridge and obtained an MA, LL. M., M. Phil and Ph. D Degrees. Prior to teaching at Aberystwyth he lectured at the University of Salford.
Research interests
Paul Maddrell's research interests center around securitySecurity
Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime. Security as a form of protection are structures and processes that provide or improve security as a condition. The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as "a form of protection...
, intelligence
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving....
and Post-War Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. He has written several academic articles and chapters of books on these topics. In 2006 he had a book published by Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
entitled Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany, 1945-1961 about technical espionage between the superpowers in the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
, particularly concentrating on the West's intelligence collection in the GDR.
Books
- Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany, 1945-1961 (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006)
Chapters in Books
- ‘Operation “Matchbox” and the Scientific Containment of the USSR ', in P. Jackson & J. Siegel (eds.), Intelligence and Statecraft: The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society ( Westport, CT : Praeger Publishers), (2005), pp. 173–206.
- ‘Blütezeit der Spionage', in Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland & Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig (Hrsg.), Duell im Dunkel: Spionage im geteilten Deutschland (Köln: Böhlau Verlag), (2002), pp. 25–33.
- ‘La Pénétration de la Zone Soviétique de l'Allemagne et de l'Union Soviétique par les Services de Renseignement Britanniques, 1945-1955', in J. Delmas & J. Kessler (eds.), Renseignement et Propaganda pendant la Guerre Froide (1947-1953) (Brussels: Editions Complexe), (1999), pp. 153-172.
Academic Articles
- “The Western Secret Services, the East German Ministry of State Security and the Building of the Berlin Wall”, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 21, No. 5 (2006), pp. 829–847
- “The Scientist Who Came in from the Cold: Heinz Barwich'sHeinz BarwichHeinz Barwich was a German nuclear physicist. He was deputy director of the Siemens Research Laboratory II in Berlin. At the close of World War II, he went to the Soviet Union for ten years to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, for which he received a Stalin Prize...
Flight from the GDR”, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 20, No. 4 (2005), pp. 608–630.
- ‘What we have Discovered about the Cold War is what we already Knew: Julius Mader and the Western Secret Services during the Cold War', Cold War History, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2005), pp. 235–258.
- ‘Debate: The Stasi Files', Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 19, No. 3 (2004), pp. 553–569.
- ‘The Revolution Made Law: The Work since 2001 of the Federal Commissioner for Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic', Cold War History, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2004), pp. 153–162.
- ‘Einfallstor in die Sowjetunion: die Besatzung Deutschlands und die Ausspähung der UdSSR durch den britischen Nachrichtendienst', Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Vol. 51, No. 2 (2003), pp. 183–227.
- ‘Western Intelligence Gathering and the Division of German Science', Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issue 12/13 (Fall/Winter 2001), pp. 352–359.
- ‘British-American Scientific Intelligence Collaboration during the Occupation of Germany ', Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2000), pp. 74–94. This special issue of Intelligence and National Security was also published as a book, R. Jeffreys- Jo nes & D. Stafford (eds.), American-British-Canadian Intelligence Relations, 1939-2000 (London: Cass) .
- ‘Battlefield Germany ', Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1998), pp. 190–212.
- ‘Fond 89 of the Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State ', Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 12, No. 2 (1997), pp. 184–197.