Dr Rory Cormac
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant
Department of War Studies
Room K6.27
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Areas of Interest
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Intelligence studies / history
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British counterinsurgency
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Counter-terrorism
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Imperial security
Biography
Dr Rory Cormac is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the Department of War Studies. He is responsible for coordinating the Intelligence and International Security Research Group. Rory completed his AHRC-funded PhD at King’s College London under the supervision of Dr Mike Goodman and Dr Huw Bennett. His thesis was entitled ‘The Joint Intelligence Committee and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire.’
Publications
Confronting the Colonies: British Intelligence and Counterinsurgency (Hurst/Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2013)
‘Much Ado about Nothing: Terrorism, Intelligence, and the Mechanics of Threat Exaggeration’, Terrorism and Political Violence (forthcoming)
'Coordinating Covert Action: British Intervention in South Arabia and the Yemen Civil War', Journal of Strategic Studies (forthcoming)
‘A Whitehall “Showdown”?: Colonial Office – Joint Intelligence Committee Relations in the mid-1950s’,
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History vol.39 no.2 (June 2011) 249-268
‘Organizing Intelligence: An Introduction to the 1955 Report on Colonial Security’,
Intelligence and National Security vol.25 no.6 (December 2010): 800-822