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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This week's HISTORY'S DEVILS sees @encyclopediageopolitica.com join me to discuss the notorious Civil War spy turned scourge of striking workers - Allan Pinkerton! Listen here ⬇️ 🗃 #history podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This week's HISTORY'S DEVILS sees @encyclopediageopolitica.com join me for a deep dive into the strike-breaking conspiracy theorist who founded private security - the notorious Allan Pinkerton Listen here ⬇️ 🗃 #history podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 05/05/2026

I've always loved @hurstpublishers.bsky.social' books, so I am delighted to announce that Colin Reed and I have signed with them to write a book on the history, present, and future of corporate geopolitics! #book #geopolitics

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 05/01/2026

New book accepted for publication, due out at the end of the year! #intelligence #geopolitics

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 18/11/2025

It's that time of year: Encyclopedia Geopolitica has published its 2026 geopolitical reading list! #geopolitics #security #intelligence #readinglist encyclopediageopolitica.com/2025/11/18/t...

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 18/11/2025

MI5 has warned of espionage in which individuals are offered freelance geopolitical analysis work. I've seen these "cash for reports" ads on LinkedIn, posted by suspicious users offering high sums yet lacking the specificity that would give such reports actual value. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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MPs and peers warned of China spy risk on LinkedIn

MI5 has issued a new "espionage alert" to members of the House of Commons and Lords.

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 05/09/2025

My favourite time of year! Back on campus at Sciences Po Paris for another semester of undergrad and MA intelligence in the public and private sectors! #intelligence #sciencespo

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 15/08/2025

Despite the headline, this isn't limited to tech and it isn't limited to exec security. Corporate security spending is up across the board due to geopolitical/conflict risks, economic espionage, resilience requirements, and crisis management. #intelligence #security www.ft.com/content/303d...

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Tech bosses spend millions more on personal security

Companies including Meta and Nvidia have increased their protection budgets after death threats and cyber attacks

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 29/07/2025

"French authorities are investigating a network that allegedly tried to court elite university students and junior bankers, betting they’d one day land top finance jobs and hand over market-moving intelligence." #intelligence #insiderrisk #espionage www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Insider-Trading Gang Allegedly Courted Future Rothschild Banker

In a novel twist on insider trading probes, French authorities are investigating a network that allegedly tried to court elite university students and junior bankers, betting they’d one day land top f...

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 25/07/2025

Another deeply frustrating article which reduces the extremely broad (and overwhelmingly ethical, legal, and frankly friendly) private intelligence field to a handful of dodgy private investigations and Due Diligence firms. #intelligence #investigations www.politico.eu/article/uk-b...

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Britain’s spies-for-hire are running wild

Lucrative, freewheeling — and largely unregulated — private intelligence and security firms are booming in the land of James Bond and John le Carré.

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 08/07/2025

Tech theft isn't new: China's tea secrets were stolen by an East India Company spy and Venetian telescope makers were confined to the isle of Murano to prevent leaks. The (connected) modern economy and research collab makes the scale of today's challenge different though! www.ft.com/content/f896...

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OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats

Artificial intelligence group has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 29/06/2025

Looking forward to reviewing this very timely release from Aviva Guttmann! Special thanks to Cambridge Uni Press for the review copy 🥰 #intelligence #assassinations #readinglist

The cover of the book "Operation Wrath of God" by Aviva Guttmann

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 24/06/2025

Everyone seems to think they have independently invented the corporate geopolitical risk field. CEOs have not left international relations to "lobbyists"; most have sophisticated political risk teams! #geopolitics #politicalrisk #intelligence #business www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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CEOs Need to Stop Outsourcing Politics

For decades, global capitalism ruled. But with national security now overshadowing economic priorities, leaders must adapt.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Trump could learn from the Danish defence forces’ way to sign off their post: ”we are monitoring the situation and have nothing more to add.”

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 24/05/2025

Another likely sabotage incident adjacent to a major French cultural event (the last was a series of TGV line sabotage incidents on the eve of the Paris olympics). www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...

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Sabotage causes power outage at Cannes hours before Palme d'Or ceremony

A suspected arson attack on electrical infrastructure plunged 160,000 homes into darkness and disrupted early events at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The first Observer overseen by Tortoise Media - and what a picture they got to kick it off.

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 25/04/2025

End of term at Sciences Po Paris is always bittersweet, as I miss teaching the next generation of #intelligence professionals over break, but also look forward to hearing about the amazing things they go on to! This final class was a treat with guest talks by Drs Maria Robson-Morrow & Angela Lewis!

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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

😂 I am a big hit with French kids apparently!

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Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com · 26/03/2025

Nice to see my review of Sean West's new book "Unruly" made it into the print edition! A really good read for those curious about the intersection of geopolitics, tech, and the law!

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Benjamin Tallis @bctallis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

ONA & Andrew Marshall were crucial to developing the strategies that won the Cold War. Closing ONA is Absolutely in keeping with an administration that has no interest in actually winning the long-term systemic competition against authoritarian regimes breakingdefense.com/2025/03/hegs...

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Hegseth 'disestablishing' Office of Net Assessment, Pentagon's strategic analysis specialists - Breaking Defense

A March 13 memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, obtained by Breaking Defense, orders all employees of the Office of Net Assessment reassigned to different roles and cancels related contracts.

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Bureaucrats are to officials what terrorists are to freedom-fighters.

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BisRepetita @bisrepetita.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

"You have the appearance of the U.S. being more of a paper tiger than it has been since the beginning of World War I. [...] These factors [are] increasing [the] assessment of the likelihood of a near-term PRC invasion of Taiwan" Great piece by A. Clay in @encyclopediageopolitica.com

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Waking the Dragon: Tempting an Invasion of Taiwan

Since 2011, U.S. defense planning has increasingly focused on potential conflicts with China, particularly regarding Taiwan. Anthony Clay discusses evolving perceptions that a PRC invasion may be m…

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I reviewed @drichterova.bsky.social’s excellent book Watching the Jackals for @jpict.bsky.social. Bottom line: read it. It’s great. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Watching the Jackals: Prague’s Cold War liaisons with Cold War terrorists and revolutionaries

Published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

📢 Heads' up Washington DC To celebrate the US release of "Rogue Agent", I will be talking about Robert Bruce's Lockhart's escapades in Bolshevik Russia and signing books at the Spy Museum on 16 April #history #spy #booksky #russia #intelligence #historybookchat 🔽🔽 www.spymuseum.org/calendar/rog...

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Kiril Avramov @avramovok.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It's a special day! After two years, @lucatrenta.bsky.social & I submitted our edited volume, “Killing in the Name of the State: State-Sponsored Assassinations in International Politics.” Thanks to all contributors and Lynne Rienner Publishers. Awaiting peer review and hope to see it in print soon!

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Europe has to pay more for its own defence. One debate is whether they should "Buy European" weapons or buy them from America or other allies. One really BAD statistic is polluting the debate: that the EU buys 80% of its weapons from overseas. Ursula von der Leyen repeated it today. It's wrong. 🧵

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“In certain sectors, we could see US firms defined as high-risk suppliers, in the same way Chinese companies like Huawei have been" My comments to Handelsblatt on the "Trump Effect" on US firms abroad. Trust is a fragile thing. And the US no longer enjoys it. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/inte...

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Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"Europe 🇪🇺 collectively outproduces the United States 🇺🇸 in steel, vehicles, ships, and civil aircraft. European Union member countries, on average, also pay less to service their debts than the United States. This gives the EU the industrial heft and financial firepower."

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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

📢New #substack After a Russian spy ring was uncovered in Britain last week, let's look at the first Bolshevik spy to set up shop in London - 100 years ago #intelligence #History #research #writing #spies #writingcommunity #historyIR jamescrossland.substack.com/p/tales-from...

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Tales From the First Cold War

The First Bolshevik "Resident Spy" in Britain - Nicolai Klishko

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

New piece in foreign policy. The US's postwar role as guarantor of Europe’s security is over. But Europe has an overlooked trump card: when it comes to manufacturing it blows the US out of the water, giving Europe the ability to rearm. Thread on Monday. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/07/e...

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Heavy Industry Is Europe’s Trump Card

The continent has an upper hand in its looming security competition with the United States.

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Some thoughts on the European response to the chaos now emanating from the White House - on Ukraine and more broadly, based on chats with senior European policymakers directly or indirectly involved in formulating the bloc's response 1/

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Spy agencies around the world may limit their information-sharing with the U.S. due to its reconciliatory approach to Russia - NBC News Intelligence agencies among American allies - including Five Eyes Spy Alliance (US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada), Israel, and Saudi Arabia -

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Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism @jpict.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

🚨 We are very excited to announce to we have joined the Bluesky community - please spread the word and give us a follow! 🎉

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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If the EU could seize this moment, and issue eurobonds, “it would tap in to a deep well of willing buyers keen to trim US exposure” www.ft.com/content/4ba5...

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Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar

The US could dismantle its own exorbitant privilege by pushing the big bond market beasts into the arms of others

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Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/

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Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Jack Watling and I take a look at what the requirements might look like for a European force in Ukraine. We find that this not an insurmountable task, but will require proper resourcing and difficult political choices. @warontherocks.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2025/03/will...

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Willpower, Not Manpower, is Europe’s Main Limitation for a Force in Ukraine - War on the Rocks

Following a dramatic meeting in the White House, U.S. military support for Ukraine is perilously uncertain. Sustaining Ukraine in this war, and

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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Emmanuel Macron has told Le Figaro newspaper that he wants to increase French defence spending to 3%-3.5% of GDP. If so, that would be massive. France is currently, just, at 2% www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...

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Ukraine, dissuasion nucléaire, dépenses militaires… Les pistes d’Emmanuel Macron pour pousser le «réveil» européen

EXCLUSIF - Le chef de l’État, qui participait dimanche à un sommet sur la défense à Londres, précise ses axes d’action au Figaro.

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A point I forgot to make on @maxbergmann.bsky.social podcast. The supremacy of the dollar is driven by alliances, alongside capital market depth. Allies historically held more of a dominant reserve currency. A US weakening alliances is dollar negative. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Dollar Bears Seize on Notion of Crumbling US Exceptionalism

President Donald Trump’s tariff threats once again lifted the dollar last week, but a growing group of investors is betting against the greenback amid signs the US economy is cooling and on concern a ...

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The interaction of potential large scale issuance of safe Euro-denominated government backed defence bonds and creeping questioning of the role of US Treasuries in global finance is going to be fascinating to watch.

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