CALL FOR PAPERS

4. Annual Meeting of the
INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE HISTORY STUDY GROUP
(http://intelligence-history.wiso.uni-erlangen.de)

"THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
and the
SIGNIFICANCE OF ESPIONAGE IN WORLD WAR I"

Akademie fuer Politische Bildung, Tutzing (near Munich), Germany, 24-26 April 1998

The conference program will be structured around four broad issues:

1) The significance of intelligence for wartime diplomacy

2) The significance of intelligence for the military conduct of the war

3) Technical means of intelligence

4) The methodology of intelligence history

Please note the following rules:

-- While papers should focus on the 1914-18 period their particular subjects may of course require the authors to include materials and issues from before or after the war.

-- We prefer papers to be delivered in English though at past conferences we have managed to accommodate presentations in other languages as well. Unfortunately we cannot provide professional interpreters.

-- Apart from special lectures, oral presentations of conference papers will be limited to 20 minutes each. We hope to receive advance copies (20-30 typed pages) for distribution to the conference participants.

-- As with previous conferences we will make an effort to produce a published book, but we obviously cannot enter into a formal commitment at this stage.

-- Ideally, we would like to see a mixture of more general and more narrowly focussed papers. Each should demonstrate the "state of the art" in intelligence history but together they should add up to a collection of essays which are also of interest to a non-specialized academic readership.

Finally we would like to schedule a few conference presentations on subjects of intelligence history which lie outside the World War I era. However, such proposals would have to be of exceptional interest to our membership:

-- either for reasons of methodology (e.g. new archival sources, materials, or methods of analysis and interpretation)

-- or because they concern particularly exciting (as yet unpublished) research findings.

Please send your proposals to:

For more information on the International Intelligence History Study Group, visit our WWW pages at:

http://intelligence-history.wiso.uni-erlangen.de

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