About
AT A GLANCE:
Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London
RESEARCH AREAS:
• Covert action
• Intelligence
• Hybrid warfare
• Organized crime
• Counterterrorism
BIOGRAPHY:
Magda Long, PhD has almost two decades of combined work and academic experience in
defense and security issues, intelligence, and risk management. In addition to being
a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Global and National Security Institute at the
University of South Florida, she is also a Visiting Research Fellow at The King’s
Centre for the Study of Intelligence at the War Studies Department at King’s College
London and at the Centre for the Study of Subversion, Unconventional Interventions,
and Terrorism at the University of Nottingham, and an Honorary Fellow at the University
of Exeter’s Strategy and Security Institute.
Long’s research examines how states use covert action to pursue their foreign policy
objectives, mitigate national security threats, and as a tool in hybrid warfare. She
has given guest lectures on covert activities to undergraduate and postgraduate students
at several academic institutions and at international academic conferences. Dr. Long
has also written academic studies on national approaches to covert action, proxy warfare,
sabotage, terrorist financing, and how states use organized crime to pursue geostrategic
objectives covertly.
Prior to her academic career, Long worked as a defense and security analyst at RAND
Corporation in Europe, as a senior manager in risk management and open source intelligence-related
roles at Deloitte in the U.S., and with international organizations in conflict and
post-conflict societies on issues related to security, fraud, and corruption.
PUBLICATIONS:
Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention
Georgetown University Press
American Covert Action and Diplomacy Post-9/11
Statecraft and Diplomacy
Covert Action and Proxy War Studies
Routledge Handbook of Proxy Wars
An Essential Tool of American Foreign Policy: US Covert Action since 1947
The International Spectator
Is Western Covert Action a Viable Policy Option in Ukraine?
King’s College London
What are the Implications of Ukraine's Civilian Resistance Going Viral?
King’s College London
CONNECT / FOLLOW:
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