Bas Rietjens
Professor by Special Appointment Intelligence in War and Conflict
- Name
- Prof.dr.ir. S.J.H. Rietjens
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9506
- s.j.h.rietjens@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0847-9020

Sebastiaan Rietjens holds the special chair of 'Intelligence in War & Conflict' established and funded by the Netherlands Defence Academy. He also is a full professor of Intelligence & Security at the Netherlands Defence Academy. He has done extensive fieldwork in military exercises and operations (Afghanistan (ISAF), Mali (MINUSMA), Greece (FRONTEX), Poland and Baltic States (NATO)) and has published widely in international journals and books. His main research focus is on intelligence during military operations, peacekeeping intelligence, warning for hybrid threats and future developments that confront intelligence organizations. Sebastiaan is a member of the editorial boards of Armed Forces and Society and the International Journal of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, board member of the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) and editor of several volumes including the Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies (Routledge, 2014).
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Professor by Special Appointment Intelligence in War and Conflict
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- War, Peace and Justice
- Rothman M., Peperkamp L. & Rietjens S.J.H. (Eds.) (2024), Reflections on the Russia-Ukraine War. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
- Beek H. van & Rietjens S.J.H. (2024), Open-Source Intelligence in the Russia-Ukraine War. In: , Reflections on the Russia-Ukraine War. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 57-76.
- Peperkamp L., Rothman M., Rietjens S.J.H. & Stevens E. (2024), Introduction. In: , Reflections on the Russia-Ukraine War. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 11-18.
- Hogendoorn M., Spoor B. & Rietjens S.J.H. (2024), Caught by Surprise: Warning for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. In: Rothman M., Peperkamp L. & Rietjens S.J.H. (Eds.), Reflections on the Russia-Ukraine War. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 41-56.
- Rietjens Sebastiaan Sinterniklaas Rob Coulthart Stephen (2024), How intelligence organisations innovate, Intelligence and National Security : 1-20.
- Rietjens Sebastiaan (2024), Innovatie in de schaduw: Nieuwe dreigingen en de strijd van de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten, Atlantisch Perspectief 48(4): 23-27.
- Rietjens Sebastiaan (2024), Dreigingsbeelden van toen en nu, Militaire Spectator 193(5): 352-257.
- Rietjens Sebastiaan (2023), Coming to Grips with Hybrid Warfare, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 36(2): 626-631.
- Rietjens Sebastiaan De Werd Peter (2023), Intelligence and the Military: Introduction, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 36(4): 1-6.
- Horlings T. Lindelauf R. Rietjens S.J.H. (2023), Battling Information Overload in Military Intelligence & Security Organizations. In: Peter Pijpers Mark Voskuijl Robert Beeres (Ed.), Towards a Data-driven military: a multidisciplinary perspective. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 221-236.
- Snetselaar D. & Rietjens S.J.H. (2023), Understanding western perceptions of war and insecurity: Unravelling hybridity. In: Gruszczak A. and S. Kaempf (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare. London: Routledge. 155-165.
- Rietjens S.J.H. S. Coulthart and R. Sinterniklaas (2023), Innovate or perish: towards a research agenda for intelligence organisations. . Amsterdam.
- Spoor B.E.P., S.J.H. Rietjens & E. de Waard (2023), Intelligence in a Complex Operational Environment: Experiences from NATO Multinational Corps Northeast. Internationale Studies Association Conference.
- Spoor B.E.P., S.J.H. Rietjens & E. de Waard (2023), Intelligence in a Complex Operational Environment: Experiences from NATO Multinational Corps Northeast. .
- Tuinier P., Brocades Zaalberg T.W. & Rietjens S. (2023), The social ties that bind: unraveling the role of trust in international intelligence cooperation, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 26(2): 386-422.
- Tuinier P., Zaalberg T.B. & Rietjens S.J.H. (2022), The social ties that bind: unraveling the role of trust in international intelligence cooperation, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence : 1-37.
- Pothoven S., Rietjens S.J.H. & Werd P. de (2022), Producer-client paradigms for defense intelligence, Defence Studies : 1-18.
- Oling P., Rietjens S.J.H., Fenema P. van & Schakel J.K. (2022), Towards a cultural perspective on the absorption of emerging technologies in military organizations, Intelligence and National Security 37: 482-497.
- Ruffa C. & Rietjens S.J.H. (2022), Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali, European Journal of International Relations : 135406612211047.
- Rietjens S.J.H. (2022), NATO’s struggle for intelligence in Afghanistan, Armed Forces & Society : .
- Rietjens S.J.H. (2022), De toekomst van de MIVD: een complex perspectief, Militaire Spectator 2022(9): .
- Frerks G., Remmits F., Sweijs T., Rietjens B. & Kitzen K. (2022), Mars voorwaarts en voorwaarts mars: het War Studies Research Centre van de Nederlandse Defensie Academie, Militaire Spectator 2022(7/8): .
- Snetselaar D., Frerks G., Gould L., Rietjens S.J.H. & Sweijs T. (2022), Knowledge security: insights for NATO, NATO Review 2022: .
- Kitzen M.W.M., Rietjens S.J.H. & Osinga F.P.B. (2013), Soft Power, the Hard Way: Adaptation by the Netherlands' Task Force Uruzgan. In: Osinga F.P.B., Farrell T. & Russell J.A. (Eds.), Military Adaptation in Afghanistan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 159-191.
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