Routledge Handbook of Disinformation and National Security

Rubén Arcos — a professor at Rey Juan Carlos University specialising in intelligence and strategic communication — and Marian Chiru — a Romanian security researcher — have assembled the most comprehensive academic reference work at the intersection of disinformation studies and national security. The handbook brings together over thirty contributors from across Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific to address the full spectrum of disinformation as a national security challenge: its historical antecedents, its current manifestations, the actors who deploy it, the societies it targets, and the counter-strategies that have proved most effective.

The Routledge Handbook format means comprehensive coverage at the cost of depth in any individual chapter, but the editorial judgement is sound and the contributor list is impressive, drawing from both academic and practitioner communities. For practitioners who need a single reference work that maps the full landscape of the field — for use in research, in briefing preparation, or in structuring analysis — this handbook provides the most up-to-date comprehensive overview available. Particularly valuable for its coverage of non-Western cases and its chapters on intelligence community approaches to disinformation assessment and counter-disinformation strategy.