Damien Van Puyvelde
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. D.T.N. Van Puyvelde
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- d.t.n.van.puyvelde@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2991-5856
Dr. Damien Van Puyvelde is Assistant Professor of Intelligence and Security at the Leiden Institute of Security and Global Affairs and a research fellow at the French Ministry of Armed Forces. He is currently researching a book on The DGSE: France’s foreign intelligence agency.
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Damien Van Puyvelde is Assistant Professor in Intelligence and Security. His research seeks to broaden the field of intelligence studies beyond its governmental frame, and links academic and professional debates on research methods and contemporary threats.
He is the author of Outsourcing US Intelligence (Edinburgh University Press), co-author of Cybersecurity: Politics, Governance and Conflict in Cyberspace (Polity) and co-editor of Researching National Security Intelligence (Georgetown University Press). He is currently writing a book on The DGSE: France’s foreign intelligence agency and preparing the second edition of Cybersecurity.
Damien currently chairs the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association, the largest network of intelligence researchers in the world. He serves on the editorial boards of Intelligence and National Security and the International Journal of Intelligence, Security and Public Affairs. Damien is a research fellow at the Strategic Research Institute of the French Ministry of Armed Forces where he contributes to the “intelligence, anticipation and hybrid threats” department, and a research associate with the Norwegian Intelligence School.
Prior to joining ISGA, Damien was Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies at the University of Glasgow, Visiting Professor at Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, and Assistant Professor at the Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Intelligence
- Blistène P. & Van Puyvelde D. (2023), A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence, Intelligence and National Security 38(2): 193-203.
- Blistène P. & Van Puyvelde D.T.N. (2023), Special issue: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence Member of editorial staff Intelligence and National Security 2(38).
- Blistène P. & Puyvelde D. Van (2023), A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence, Intelligence and National Security 38(2): 1-11.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2022), Médiatisation du renseignement et guerre en Ukraine . Paris: IRSEM.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2022), La production des savoirs dans la communauté américaine du renseignement. In: Forcade O. (Ed.) Les Intelligence Studies aujourd’hui: doctrines, pratiques, perspectives. Paris: La documentation française. 43-56.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Sangiovanni S. (2022), Private sector intelligence. In: Dover R., Dylan H. & Goodman M.S. (Eds.) A research agenda for intelligence studies and government.: Edward Elgar. 103-111.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2022), The academic-practitioner divide in France. In: Arcos R., Drumhiller N. & Phythian M. (Eds.) The academic-practitioner divide in intelligence studies. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 179-196.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2022), Transcender « l’école française » des études sur le renseignement. In: Forcade O. (Ed.) Les Intelligence Studies aujourd’hui: doctrines, pratiques, perspectives. Paris: La documentation française. 159-164.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2021), French paramilitary actions during the Algerian War of Independence, 1956-1958, Intelligence and National Security 36(6): 898-909.
- Cormac R., Walton C. & Van Puyvelde D. (2021), What constitutes successful covert action? : Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs, Review of International Studies 48(1): 111-128.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2021), Gérer la libéralisation du renseignement, Revue Défense Nationale 842: 67-71.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2021), Le renseignement face à la menace terroriste, Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales 22: 127-137.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020), Women and black employees at the Central Intelligence Agency: from fair employment to diversity management, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 34(5): 673-703.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020), European intelligence agendas and the way forward, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 33(3): 506-513.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Jubelin A. (28 April 2020), Tuer, saboter, manipuler les facettes de l'action clandestine. Le Collimateur [podcast].
- Van Puyvelde D., Wirtz J.J., Holeindre J., Oudet B., Bar-Joseph U., Kotani K., Matei C. & Díaz Fernández A.M. (2020), Comparing national approaches to the study of intelligence, International Studies Perspectives 21(3): 298-337.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020), Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Sir David Omand, Intelligence and National Security 35(2): 171-178.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020), A micro-deterrence approach to cyber defense. In: Brantly A. (Ed.) The cyber deterrence problem. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 125-140.
- Lledo-Ferrer Y. & Van Puyvelde D. (2020), Assassination: an increasingly uninhibited instrument of power. Paris: IRSEM.
- Coulthart S, Landon-Murray M & Van Puyvelde D. (2019), Researching national security intelligence: multidisciplinary approaches . Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
- Van Puyvelde D & Brantly A. (2019), Cybersecurity : politics, governance and conflict in cyberspace. Cambridge: Polity.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2019), Outsourcing US Intelligence: contractors and government accountability Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020), Les Espions de la Terreur Review of: Suc M. (2019) Les Espions de la Terreur, Journal of Strategic Studies 43(2): 334-336.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2019), The public vs. private distinction. In: Matei F.C. & alladay C. (Eds.) The conduct of intelligence in democracies. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. 167-180.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2018), Qualitative research interviews and the study of national security intelligence, International Studies Perspectives 19(4): 375-391.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2018), Institutionnalisation et pratiques renseignement à l'heure du terrorisme, Défense & Sécurité Internationale 135: 70-75.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2018), Renseignement et sécurité à l’heure du big data. In: Danet D, Cattaruzza A. & Taillat S. (Eds.) La Cyberdéfense : Politique de l’espace numérique. Paris: Armand Colin.
- Van Puyvelded D., Coulthart S. & Hossain M. (28 September 2017), National security relies more and more on big data: here’s why. The Washington Post.
- Van Puyvelde D., Coulthart S. & Hossain M.S. (2017), Beyond the buzzword: big data and national security decision-making, International Affairs 93(6): 1397-1416.
- Duke M. & Van Puyvelde D. (9 February 2017), ‘Enhanced interrogations’ don’t work as well as regular ones. The Washington Post.
- Duke M.C. & Van Puyvelde D. (2017), What science can teach us about “enhanced interrogation”, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 30(2): 310-339.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Brantly A. (2017), US National Cybersecurity: International Politics, Concepts and Organization Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Coulthrt S., Van Puyvelde D. & Landon-Murray M. (9 January 2017), Can colleges teach intelligence?. The Washington Post.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2017), Le renseignement géospatial américain dans les frappes contre Daech: une arme à double tranchant, Revue Stratégique 116: 223-232.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2017), Privatisation. In: Dover R., Dylan H. & Goodman M. (Eds.) The Palgrave handbook of security, risk and intelligence. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 297-313.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Curtis S. (2016), ‘Standing on the shoulders of giants’: diversity and scholarship in Intelligence Studies, Intelligence and National Security 31(7): 1040-1054.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Coulthart S. (25 January 2016), The intelligence community must remove barriers to minority recruitment. Defense One.
- Coulthart S. & Van Puyvelde D. (2015), What crisis? Scholarship and national security, War on the Rocks.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2015), Fusing drug enforcement: a study of the El Paso Intelligence Center, Intelligence and National Security 31: 888-902.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2015), Hybrid War: does it even exist?, NATO Review.
- Van Puyvelde D. (26 January 2015), We can’t expect intelligence services to prevent every terrorist attack.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2015), L’évolution de l’analyse du renseignement aux Etats-Unis, Sécurité et stratégie 20: 25-31.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2014), The next big gun debate:: 3-D printed firearms, The National Interest.
- Van Puyvelde D. (10 October 2014), We need to fix the way we talk about national intelligence.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2014), Intelligence, democratic accountability, and the media in France, Democracy and Security 10(3): 287-305.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2014), Sécurité de l’information et partenariats public-privé dans le renseignement américain, Sécurité et stratégie 17: 25-30.
- Van Puyvelde D. (31 October 2013), Espionnage américain: (fausse) indignation européenne. La Libre Belgique.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2013), Intelligence accountability and the role of public interest groups in the United States, Intelligence and National Security 28(2): 139-158.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2012), Quelles leçons tirer de la privatisation du renseignement aux États-Unis?, La Revue Internationale et Strategique 87(3): 42-52.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2011), Médias, responsabilité gouvernementale et secret d’état: l’Affaire Wikileaks, Le Temps des médias 16: 161-172.
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