Stephen Coulthart
Biographic Data
| ID | 2290466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Coulthart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Coulthart |
| SIGNATURE | COULTHART S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From classroom to clearance: Explaining internship attainment in aspiring US intelligence professionals
Internships are often the first step into intelligence careers for those without prior experience, yet little is known about what drives success in obtaining them. This paper reports the results of a survey of 89 students from 16 US intelligence education programmes nationwide. The strongest predictors of securing an internship were related to student diligence – namely applying to multiple positions, seeking résumé assistance, and using career c…
How intelligence organisations innovate
Practitioners and academics recognize the importance of innovative intelligence organisations. However, we know little about how intelligence organisations innovate and what challenges they are being confronted with. Drawing upon intelligence studies as well as innovation and organisational studies this paper forwards a conceptual framework to answer the question: how do intelligence organisations innovate? To address this, we introduce the conce…
Disruptive technologies and intelligence services: A framework for adoption in the digital age
Digital transformation of intelligence requires advances in information technology. However, the hardest to implement IT – disruptive IT like artificial intelligence and quantum computing – pose significant adoption challenges for intelligence services, including technological illiteracy and system incompatibility. This paper explores these barriers, examines the role of public sector innovation, and introduces a framework emphasizing collaborati…
Special Forum on intelligence and theory
The literature on intelligence and theory has developed considerably in recent years. This Special Forum takes as its point of departure four recent publications that have made a particular contrib
Growth, diversification, and disconnection: An analysis of 70 years of intelligence scholarship (1950-2020)
Intelligence studies scholarship is growing exponentially but is siloed in disciplinary clusters. After reviewing a citation dataset of nearly 6,000 articles on intelligence, we found that article-based scholarship on intelligence is growing at an exponential rate – the last ten years (2010–2020) saw more knowledge production in scholarship than the previous sixty years combined (1950–2010). The topics under investigation have diversified into th…
Where to submit: A guide to publishing intelligence studies articles
As intelligence studies has grown as a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, publication venues have proliferated. This article surveys journals that publish primarily intelligence studies articles to provide scholars and researchers with an understanding of where to submit their papers for publication. It could also provide librarians, students, and the public with an understanding of how to access knowledge about intelligence. It does …
The Brave New World of Third Party Location Data
The use of third-party location data (3PLD)—geospatial data captured by smart devices and sold by ‘data brokers’—for intelligence and investigations is increasing each year. This data source provides opportunities for analysts and decision makers to better understand as well as counter a host of security threats from common criminals to terrorists. However, and like other emerging and potent sources of intelligence like social media intelligence …
Putting Big Data to Work in Government: The Case of the United States Border Patrol
Investigating how the public sector adopts technologies to process and analyze very large datasets is crucial for understanding governance in the digital age. The authors of this article examine a large government agency, the United States Border Patrol (USBP), an organization that is in the early phases of building big data capabilities. They argue the wide‐scale adoption of big data analytics will require trial‐and‐error processes coordinated b…
Where in the World is Baghdadi? Refining a Methodology for Finding National Security Fugitives
The authors of this article – a team of graduate students led by a professor – identified the probable hideout locations of the fugitive ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. To do this, we built on a geographic profiling approach created by another academic team. In addition, we created a profile of the buildings Baghadi could hide in and analyzed one of his speeches to glean further details of his whereabouts. Soon after our analysis was complete …
An Evidence-Based Evaluation of 12 Core Structured Analytic Techniques
“If you always do what you’ve always done,” goes an old saying, “you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”1 The same is true of the literature on intelligence analysis. Since its inception more th
Structure and Performance in a Violent Extremist Network: The Small-world Solution
This study combines network science and ethnography to explore how al-Muhajiroun, a banned Islamist network, continued its high-risk activism despite being targeted for disruption by British authorities. We analyze news reports, interviews, and field notes using social network analysis and qualitative content analysis to test hypotheses pertaining to network structure and performance. Our analysis suggests that the activist network’s structural p…
Beyond the buzzword: Big Data and National Security Decision-Making
This article explores the role big data plays in the national security decision-making process. The global surveillance disclosures initiated by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have increased public and academic discussions about big data and national security. Yet, efforts to summarize and import insights from the vast and interdisciplinary literature on data analytics have remained rare in the field of security studies. To fill this gap, w…
Terra Incognita: Mapping American Intelligence Education Curriculum
For more than two decades, degree-granting intelligence programs have popped up around the U.S., representing the largest and perhaps most enduring investment in American intelligence education. Scholars have addressed issues in American intelligence education, but to date, there has been no focused study that has mapped and analyzed these programs. This article addresses this gap by answering the questions: What are the American intelligence pro…
Social Cohesion and Counter-Terrorism: A Policy Contradiction
Structure and Performance in a Violent Extremist Network: The Small-world Solution
This study combines network science and ethnography to explore how al-Muhajiroun, a banned Islamist network, continued its high-risk activism despite being targeted for disruption by British authorities. We analyze news reports, interviews, and field notes using social network analysis and qualitative content analysis to test hypotheses pertaining to network structure and performance. Our analysis suggests that the activist network’s structural p…
Beyond the buzzword: Big Data and National Security Decision-Making
This article explores the role big data plays in the national security decision-making process. The global surveillance disclosures initiated by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have increased public and academic discussions about big data and national security. Yet, efforts to summarize and import insights from the vast and interdisciplinary literature on data analytics have remained rare in the field of security studies. To fill this gap, w…
Social Cohesion and Counter-Terrorism: A Policy Contradiction
Where in the World is Baghdadi? Refining a Methodology for Finding National Security Fugitives
The authors of this article – a team of graduate students led by a professor – identified the probable hideout locations of the fugitive ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. To do this, we built on a geographic profiling approach created by another academic team. In addition, we created a profile of the buildings Baghadi could hide in and analyzed one of his speeches to glean further details of his whereabouts. Soon after our analysis was complete …
Social Cohesion and Counter-Terrorism: A Policy Contradiction
Terra Incognita: Mapping American Intelligence Education Curriculum
For more than two decades, degree-granting intelligence programs have popped up around the U.S., representing the largest and perhaps most enduring investment in American intelligence education. Scholars have addressed issues in American intelligence education, but to date, there has been no focused study that has mapped and analyzed these programs. This article addresses this gap by answering the questions: What are the American intelligence pro…
An Evidence-Based Evaluation of 12 Core Structured Analytic Techniques
“If you always do what you’ve always done,” goes an old saying, “you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”1 The same is true of the literature on intelligence analysis. Since its inception more th
Structure and Performance in a Violent Extremist Network: The Small-world Solution
This study combines network science and ethnography to explore how al-Muhajiroun, a banned Islamist network, continued its high-risk activism despite being targeted for disruption by British authorities. We analyze news reports, interviews, and field notes using social network analysis and qualitative content analysis to test hypotheses pertaining to network structure and performance. Our analysis suggests that the activist network’s structural p…
Beyond the buzzword: Big Data and National Security Decision-Making
This article explores the role big data plays in the national security decision-making process. The global surveillance disclosures initiated by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have increased public and academic discussions about big data and national security. Yet, efforts to summarize and import insights from the vast and interdisciplinary literature on data analytics have remained rare in the field of security studies. To fill this gap, w…
Putting Big Data to Work in Government: The Case of the United States Border Patrol
Investigating how the public sector adopts technologies to process and analyze very large datasets is crucial for understanding governance in the digital age. The authors of this article examine a large government agency, the United States Border Patrol (USBP), an organization that is in the early phases of building big data capabilities. They argue the wide‐scale adoption of big data analytics will require trial‐and‐error processes coordinated b…
Where in the World is Baghdadi? Refining a Methodology for Finding National Security Fugitives
The authors of this article – a team of graduate students led by a professor – identified the probable hideout locations of the fugitive ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. To do this, we built on a geographic profiling approach created by another academic team. In addition, we created a profile of the buildings Baghadi could hide in and analyzed one of his speeches to glean further details of his whereabouts. Soon after our analysis was complete …
Growth, diversification, and disconnection: An analysis of 70 years of intelligence scholarship (1950-2020)
Intelligence studies scholarship is growing exponentially but is siloed in disciplinary clusters. After reviewing a citation dataset of nearly 6,000 articles on intelligence, we found that article-based scholarship on intelligence is growing at an exponential rate – the last ten years (2010–2020) saw more knowledge production in scholarship than the previous sixty years combined (1950–2010). The topics under investigation have diversified into th…
Where to submit: A guide to publishing intelligence studies articles
As intelligence studies has grown as a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, publication venues have proliferated. This article surveys journals that publish primarily intelligence studies articles to provide scholars and researchers with an understanding of where to submit their papers for publication. It could also provide librarians, students, and the public with an understanding of how to access knowledge about intelligence. It does …
The Brave New World of Third Party Location Data
The use of third-party location data (3PLD)—geospatial data captured by smart devices and sold by ‘data brokers’—for intelligence and investigations is increasing each year. This data source provides opportunities for analysts and decision makers to better understand as well as counter a host of security threats from common criminals to terrorists. However, and like other emerging and potent sources of intelligence like social media intelligence …
Special Forum on intelligence and theory
The literature on intelligence and theory has developed considerably in recent years. This Special Forum takes as its point of departure four recent publications that have made a particular contrib
How intelligence organisations innovate
Practitioners and academics recognize the importance of innovative intelligence organisations. However, we know little about how intelligence organisations innovate and what challenges they are being confronted with. Drawing upon intelligence studies as well as innovation and organisational studies this paper forwards a conceptual framework to answer the question: how do intelligence organisations innovate? To address this, we introduce the conce…
Disruptive technologies and intelligence services: A framework for adoption in the digital age
Digital transformation of intelligence requires advances in information technology. However, the hardest to implement IT – disruptive IT like artificial intelligence and quantum computing – pose significant adoption challenges for intelligence services, including technological illiteracy and system incompatibility. This paper explores these barriers, examines the role of public sector innovation, and introduces a framework emphasizing collaborati…
From classroom to clearance: Explaining internship attainment in aspiring US intelligence professionals
Internships are often the first step into intelligence careers for those without prior experience, yet little is known about what drives success in obtaining them. This paper reports the results of a survey of 89 students from 16 US intelligence education programmes nationwide. The strongest predictors of securing an internship were related to student diligence – namely applying to multiple positions, seeking résumé assistance, and using career c…
Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Intelligence analysis (4 works) · Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence (3 works) · Data science (3 works)