Dr Aviva Guttmann

Dr Aviva Guttmann

Lecturer in Strategy and Intelligence

Department of International Politics

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Profile

Dr Aviva Guttmann is Lecturer in Strategy and Intelligence. Before joining Aberystwyth, she was a Research Associate at King’s College London (KCL) in King’s Intelligence and Security Group and a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the Center for War Studies at Southern Denmark University (Project: LINSEC). Aviva is the founder and chair of the Women’s Intelligence Network (WIN), which connects and promotes women scholars and practitioners in the field of intelligence studies. Her research focuses on the international relations of intelligence agencies, covert action, and counterterrorism in Europe and the Middle East during and after the Cold War. She is the author of Operation Wrath of God (Cambridge, 2025) and The Origins of International Counterterrorism (Brill, 2018), co-edited a book on Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking, and contributed over 12 articles in three languages to refereed academic journals of history, intelligence, international, strategic, and terrorism studies. She is teaching on topics of intelligence, strategy, and international security.

Teaching

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Aviva teaches in intelligence and security studies, cyber intelligence, international history, diplomacy, and IR.

In the academic year 2024/25, Aviva is on research leave. For a meeting, please send an email.

Research

Aviva’s research foci include:

  • International relations of intelligence agencies,
  • clandestine diplomacy,
  • covert action,
  • the ethics of targeted killings,
  • strategic surprise,
  • terrorism and counterterrorism,
  • EU security integration,
  • the Global Cold War

Responsibilities

In the academic year 2024/25, Aviva is Open and Visiting Day Officer 

Office Hours (Student Contact Times)

  • Tuesday 14:30-15:30
  • Thursday 13:30-14:30

Publications

Meyer, C, Michaels, E, Ikani, N, Guttmann, A & Goodman, M (eds) 2022, Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking: Learning Lessons from an Era of Surprise. Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh .
Ikani, N, Guttmann, A & Meyer, CO 2020, 'An analytical framework for postmortems of European foreign policy: should decision-makers have been surprised?', Intelligence and National Security, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 197-215. 10.1080/02684527.2019.1704384
Guttmann, A 2018, 'Combatting terror in Europe: Euro-Israeli counterterrorism intelligence cooperation in the Club de Berne (1971–1972)', Intelligence and National Security, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 158-175. <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684527.2017.1324591?journalCode=fint20>
Guttmann, A 2018, 'Secret Wires Across the Mediterranean: The Club de Berne, Euro-Israeli Counterterrorism, and Swiss ‘Neutrality’', International History Review, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 814-833. 10.1080/07075332.2017.1345774
Guttmann, A 2018, The Origins of International Counterterrorism: Switzerland at the Forefront of Crisis Negotiations, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Intelligence Cooperation (1969-1977) . New Perspectives on the Cold War , vol. 2, Brill, Leiden . <https://brill.com/view/serial/NPCW>
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