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Prof Julian Richards

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Professor Julian Richards

Professor Julian Richards聽gained a PhD in political violence in Pakistan, at Cambridge University, in 1993. He then spent nearly 20 years working in intelligence and security for the British Government, returning to academic life as a Research Fellow with Brunel University鈥檚 Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies in 2006. In 2008, he jointly founded the new聽Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies聽(BUCSIS) at The University of Buckingham, and became a full-time member of staff at the university two years later. As a Professor in the department, he is Programme Director for three MA programmes and the convenor of BUCSIS鈥檚 research school of MPhil and DPhil students.

Julian Richards is the author of four books and a number of papers and book chapters on a range of security and intelligence issues. He has given formal evidence to Government inquiries on privacy and security issues and is a regular media commentator on security and intelligence issues for national and international television and radio, including the BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, LBC radio, and the Islam Channel. His current research interests include a range of issues concerning global security and security policy; questions of extremism and radicalization; and the development of techniques in intelligence analysis.

Selected Publications

  • Anthony Glees & Julian Richards, Freelancing and National Security
  • The Art and Science of Intelligence Analysis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
  • Anthony Glees & Julian Richards, 鈥淚nternational terrorism: the neglected domestic dimension鈥
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淕lobalization and the rise of Far Right militancy in Europe: a UK perspective鈥
  • Julian Richards, A Guide to National Security: Threats, Responses and Strategies
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淚ntelligence dilemma? Contemporary counter-terrorism in a liberal democracy鈥
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淧eddling Hard: Further Questions about the Intelligence Cycle in the Contemporary Era鈥, in Mark Phythian (ed.), Understanding the Intelligence Cycle (London: Routledge, 2013), 43-55
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淚ntelligence, Counter-Insurgency and Reconstruction: Intelligence and International Cooperation in Afghanistan鈥, Inteligencia y Seguridad: Revista de analisis y prospectiva 13 (2013), 167-192
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淭he Contribution of Alan Turing to British Intelligence鈥, in A. Beckman & B. Loewe (eds), Acts of the Programme: Semantics and Syntax (London: College Publications, 2013), 75-83
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淪ignals intelligence鈥, in R. Dover, M. Goodman and C. Hillebrand (eds), The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies (London: Routledge, 2013), ch.8
  • Julian Richards, Cyber-War: The Anatomy of the Global Security Threat (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淐yber Warfare鈥, in D. Armstrong (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淭he Rise of Far-Right Extremism in Contemporary Great Britain and Continental Europe鈥, Concordia Discors (Russia) 3/26 (2015), 166-175
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淧akistani intelligence and India鈥, in P. Maddrell (ed.), The Image of the Enemy (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015), ch.7
  • Julian Richards, 鈥淣eedles in haystacks: Law, capability, ethics and proportionality in Big-Data intelligence gathering鈥, in A. Bunnik, A. Cawley, M. Mulqueen & A. Zwitter (eds), Big Data Challenges (Society, Security, Innovation and Ethics) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 73-84
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