ISP Faculty in the Field: Dr. Kiril Avramov to Publish Co-Edited Volume on Foreign Intelligence Services; Provides Expert Analysis to Chilean Newspaper  

Dr. Kiril Avramov, Non-Resident Fellow at the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) and Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, will publish a co-edited volume, Comparative Foreign Intelligence Services: Framing Policy and Threat Perception, with Routledge this fall. His co-editor, Dr. Bianca Adair, is a former CIA Operations Officer and former Resident Intelligence Officer at The University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. The book is currently showcased as part of Routledge’s “Studies in Intelligence” series.  

Comparative Foreign Intelligence Services examines how Washington engages with foreign intelligence services across a spectrum of relationships — beyond the traditional adversary-ally divide. Individual chapters analyze the intelligence apparatuses of China, Cuba, Iran, Israel, the United Kingdom, and others. Scholars, students, and practitioners of intelligence studies and national security will particularly benefit from the publication.  

Interested members of the ISP community are encouraged to pre-order a paperback copy of Comparative Foreign Intelligence Services here starting on September 28, 2026.  

In addition to this accomplishment, Dr. Avramov recently provided expert analysis regarding the at times dual purpose of state-led, targeted assassinations in  “Asesinatos selectivos y de alto perfil: la ‘guerra en las sombras’ que llevan adelante Ucrania y Rusia” (“Targeted, High-Profile Assassinations: The ‘Shadow War’ Being Waged by Ukraine and Russia”) for El Mercurio. He argues that while the primary purpose of a high-profile assassination is usually physical elimination rather than signaling, these killings nonetheless send a secondary warning: no one is beyond the reach of state-sponsored assassins.  

The Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project is proud of its faculty members’ dedication to developing the skills of tomorrow’s intelligence professionals in the classroom and contributing to scholarly discourse in intelligence studies beyond the Forty Acres.    

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