Damien Van Puyvelde
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. D.T.N. Van Puyvelde
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- d.t.n.van.puyvelde@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2991-5856
Damien Van Puyvelde chairs the Intelligence and Security Group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. His expertise lies in contemporary intelligence, technology and cybersecurity. His contributions to the field include books on Outsourcing US Intelligence (Edinburgh University Press), Cybersecurity: Politics, Governance and Conflict in cyberspace (Polity) together with Aaron Brantly, a co-edited volume on Researching National Security Intelligence (Georgetown University Press), as well as 20 peer-reviewed journal articles. Damien is currently completing an NWO project on Open-source intelligence and the war in Ukraine. His next book, DGSE: France’s foreign intelligence agency, will be published by Georgetown University Press.
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Damien Van Puyvelde chairs the Intelligence and Security Group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. His expertise lies in contemporary intelligence, technology and cybersecurity. His contributions to the field include books on Outsourcing US Intelligence (Edinburgh University Press), Cybersecurity: Politics, Governance and Conflict in cyberspace (Polity) together with Aaron Brantly, a co-edited volume on Researching National Security Intelligence (Georgetown University Press), as well as 20 peer-reviewed journal articles. Damien is currently completing an NWO project on Open-source intelligence and the war in Ukraine. His next book, DGSE: France’s foreign intelligence agency, will be published by Georgetown University Press.
Damien’s career has followed a highly international trajectory, having held positions at research-intensive universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands. From 2020 to 2023, he chaired the largest network of intelligence studies researchers in the world: the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association. Prior to joining Leiden University, he led the Scottish Centre for War Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Damien is committed to knowledge dissemination both within and beyond academia. He serves on the editorial boards of Intelligence and National Security, the premier journal in the field, and the newly established Etudes Françaises de Renseignement et de Cyber. Beyond academia, he is affiliated with the Strategic Research Institute of the French Ministry of Armed Forces and the Research Centre of the Norwegian Intelligence School. He has made several contributions to popular media such as Le Monde and The Washington Post, and assisted the International Spy Museum with its latest exhibition.
Associate professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Intelligence
- Puyvelde D.T.N. van (2024), Science Politique et Renseignement. In: Charon P & Jeangène-Vilmer J.-B. (Eds.), Les mondes du renseignement: Approches, acteurs, enjeux. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 35-48.
- Puyvelde D.T.N. van (2024), La communauté américaine du renseignement. In: Charon P. & Jeangène Vilmer J.B. (Eds.), Les mondes du renseignement: approches, acteurs, enjeux. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 143-153.
- Puyvelde D.T.N. van & Lledo-Ferrer Y. (2024), Les opérations clandestines. In: Charon P & Jeangène Vilmer J.-B. (Eds.), Les mondes du renseignement: approches, acteurs, enjeux. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 379-395.
- Van Puyvelde D.T.N. & Tabarez Rienzi F. (2024), OSINT and the war in Ukraine: workshop summary. The Hague: Leiden University (Leiden University). [discussion paper].
- Van Puyvelde D. & Brantly A. F. (2024), Cybersecurity: Politics, Governance and Conflict in Cyberspace. Cambridge: Polity.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2023), Intelligence Adaption from the Cold War to the Resurgence of Great Power Politics. In: Juneau T., Massie J. & Munier M. (Eds.), Intelligence Cooperation under Multipolarity: Non-American Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 19-37.
- Blistène P. & Puyvelde D. Van (2023), A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence, Intelligence and National Security 38(2): 1-11.
- Blistène P. & Van Puyvelde D. (2023), A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence, Intelligence and National Security 38(2): 193-203.
- Blistène P. & Van Puyvelde D.T.N. (Eds.) (2023), Special issue: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence. Intelligence and National Security: Taylor and Francis Group.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2022), The academic-practitioner divide in France. In: Arcos R., Drumhiller N. & Phythian M. (Eds.) The academic-practitioner divide in intelligence studies. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 179-196.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2022), Médiatisation du renseignement et guerre en Ukraine . Paris: IRSEM.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Sangiovanni S. (2022), Private sector intelligence. In: Dover R., Dylan H. & Goodman M.S. (Eds.) A research agenda for intelligence studies and government.: Edward Elgar. 103-111.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2022), La production des savoirs dans la communauté américaine du renseignement. In: Forcade O. (Ed.) Les Intelligence Studies aujourd’hui: doctrines, pratiques, perspectives. Paris: La documentation française. 43-56.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2022), Transcender « l’école française » des études sur le renseignement. In: Forcade O. (Ed.), Les Intelligence Studies aujourd’hui: doctrines, pratiques, perspectives. Paris: La documentation française. 159-164.
- Cormac R., Walton C. & Van Puyvelde D. (2021), What constitutes successful covert action? : Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs, Review of International Studies 48(1): 111-128.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2021), French paramilitary actions during the Algerian War of Independence, 1956-1958, Intelligence and National Security 36(6): 898-909.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2021), Le renseignement face à la menace terroriste, Annuaire Français de Relations Internationales 22: 127-137.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2021), Gérer la libéralisation du renseignement, Revue Défense Nationale 842: 67-71.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020), Women and black employees at the Central Intelligence Agency: from fair employment to diversity management, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 34(5): 673-703.
- Van Puyvelde D., Wirtz J.J., Holeindre J., Oudet B., Bar-Joseph U., Kotani K., Matei C. & Díaz Fernández A.M. (2020), Comparing national approaches to the study of intelligence, International Studies Perspectives 21(3): 298-337.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020), European intelligence agendas and the way forward, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 33(3): 506-513.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020), A micro-deterrence approach to cyber defense. In: Brantly A. (Ed.) The cyber deterrence problem. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 125-140.
- Lledo-Ferrer Y. & Van Puyvelde D. (2020), Assassination: an increasingly uninhibited instrument of power. Paris: IRSEM.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020), Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Sir David Omand, Intelligence and National Security 35(2): 171-178.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2020) Les Espions de la Terreur. Review of: Suc M. (2019), Les Espions de la Terreur. Paris: HarperCollins. Journal of Strategic Studies 43(2): 334-336.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Jubelin A. 28 April 2020, Tuer, saboter, manipuler les facettes de l'action clandestine. Le Collimateur. IRSEM, Ministère des Armées [podcast].
- Van Puyvelde D & Brantly A. (2019), Cybersecurity : politics, governance and conflict in cyberspace. Cambridge: Polity.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2019), Outsourcing US Intelligence: contractors and government accountability. Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Coulthart S, Landon-Murray M & Van Puyvelde D. (2019), Researching national security intelligence: multidisciplinary approaches . Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2019), The public vs. private distinction. In: Matei F.C. & alladay C. (Eds.), The conduct of intelligence in democracies. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. 167-180.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2018), Qualitative research interviews and the study of national security intelligence, International Studies Perspectives 19(4): 375-391.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2018), Renseignement et sécurité à l’heure du big data. In: Danet D, Cattaruzza A. & Taillat S. (Eds.) La Cyberdéfense : Politique de l’espace numérique. Paris: Armand Colin.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2018), Institutionnalisation et pratiques renseignement à l'heure du terrorisme, Défense & Sécurité Internationale 135: 70-75.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Brantly A. (2017), US National Cybersecurity: International Politics, Concepts and Organization . Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Van Puyvelde D., Coulthart S. & Hossain M.S. (2017), Beyond the buzzword: big data and national security decision-making, International Affairs 93(6): 1397-1416.
- Duke M.C. & Van Puyvelde D. (2017), What science can teach us about “enhanced interrogation”, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 30(2): 310-339.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2017), Privatisation. In: Dover R., Dylan H. & Goodman M. (Eds.) The Palgrave handbook of security, risk and intelligence. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 297-313.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2017), Le renseignement géospatial américain dans les frappes contre Daech: une arme à double tranchant, Revue Stratégique 116: 223-232.
- Van Puyvelded D., Coulthart S. & Hossain M. (28 September 2017), National security relies more and more on big data: here’s why. The Washington Post.
- Duke M. & Van Puyvelde D. (9 February 2017), ‘Enhanced interrogations’ don’t work as well as regular ones. The Washington Post.
- Coulthrt S., Van Puyvelde D. & Landon-Murray M. (9 January 2017), Can colleges teach intelligence?. The Washington Post.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Curtis S. (2016), ‘Standing on the shoulders of giants’: diversity and scholarship in Intelligence Studies, Intelligence and National Security 31(7): 1040-1054.
- Van Puyvelde D. & Coulthart S. (25 January 2016), The intelligence community must remove barriers to minority recruitment. Defense One.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2015), Fusing drug enforcement: a study of the El Paso Intelligence Center, Intelligence and National Security 31: 888-902.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2015), L’évolution de l’analyse du renseignement aux Etats-Unis, Sécurité et stratégie = Securite & Strategie 20: 25-31.
- Coulthart S. & Van Puyvelde D. (2015), What crisis? Scholarship and national security, War on the Rocks.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2015), Hybrid War: does it even exist?, NATO Review.
- Van Puyvelde D. (26 January 2015), We can’t expect intelligence services to prevent every terrorist attack.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2014), Intelligence, democratic accountability, and the media in France, Democracy and Security 10(3): 287-305.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2014), Sécurité de l’information et partenariats public-privé dans le renseignement américain, Sécurité et stratégie = Securite & Strategie 17: 25-30.
- Van Puyvelde D. (10 October 2014), We need to fix the way we talk about national intelligence.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2014), The next big gun debate:: 3-D printed firearms, The National Interest : .
- Van Puyvelde D. (2013), Intelligence accountability and the role of public interest groups in the United States, Intelligence and National Security 28(2): 139-158.
- Van Puyvelde D. (31 October 2013), Espionnage américain: (fausse) indignation européenne. La Libre Belgique.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2012), Quelles leçons tirer de la privatisation du renseignement aux États-Unis?, La Revue Internationale et Strategique 87(3): 42-52.
- Van Puyvelde D. (2011), Médias, responsabilité gouvernementale et secret d’état: l’Affaire Wikileaks, Le Temps des médias 16: 161-172.
- Member of the scientific committee and editorial board
- Member of the editorial board