Rory Cormac

582 total citations
31 papers, 209 citations indexed

About

Rory Cormac is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rory Cormac has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 209 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Rory Cormac's work include Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (18 papers), Military History and Strategy (14 papers) and Global Security and Public Health (4 papers). Rory Cormac is often cited by papers focused on Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (18 papers), Military History and Strategy (14 papers) and Global Security and Public Health (4 papers). Rory Cormac collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and Iran. Rory Cormac's co-authors include Richard Aldrich, Michael S. Goodman, Thomas Eason and Joshua Rovner and has published in prestigious journals such as International Affairs, Journal of European Public Policy and Review of International Studies.

In The Last Decade

Rory Cormac

26 papers receiving 181 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rory Cormac United Kingdom	7	159	107	17	9	8	31	209
Tim Willasey-Wilsey United Kingdom	6	96 0.6×	88 0.8×	8 0.5×	6 0.7×	5 0.6×	22	156
Kai Michael Kenkel Brazil	10	194 1.2×	166 1.6×	5 0.3×	4 0.4×	8 1.0×	24	240
Len Scott United Kingdom	7	140 0.9×	70 0.7×	4 0.2×	5 0.6×	12 1.5×	34	177
Gregorio Bettiza United Kingdom	8	128 0.8×	147 1.4×	2 0.1×	8 0.9×	9 1.1×	15	211
Sean Kay United States	8	141 0.9×	82 0.8×	5 0.3×	5 0.6×	2 0.3×	21	186
Dimitrios Karmis Canada	6	104 0.7×	80 0.7×	8 0.5×	2 0.2×	8 1.0×	12	157
Brent Scowcroft United States	5	130 0.8×	85 0.8×	6 0.4×	8 0.9×	10 1.3×	18	194
Andreas Krieg China	8	129 0.8×	124 1.2×	5 0.3×	2 0.2×	3 0.4×	24	185
E. van Sliedregt Netherlands	10	181 1.1×	90 0.8×	6 0.4×	11 1.2×	20 2.5×	37	232
Uwe Backes Germany	10	145 0.9×	123 1.1×	3 0.2×	4 0.4×	8 1.0×	46	258

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rovner, Joshua, et al.. (2025). Sand in the gears: Sabotage in world politics. European Journal of International Security. 1–20.

Cormac, Rory. (2024). Subversion: from covert operations to cyber conflict. International Affairs. 100(6). 2682–2683.

Cormac, Rory, et al.. (2024). Friends Disunited: Explaining US-UK Covert Action in Albania. The International History Review. 47(1). 157–175. 1 indexed citations

Cormac, Rory. (2022). British “Black” Productions. Journal of Cold War Studies. 24(3). 4–42. 2 indexed citations

Cormac, Rory, et al.. (2021). What constitutes successful covert action? Evaluating unacknowledged interventionism in foreign affairs. Review of International Studies. 48(1). 111–128. 11 indexed citations

Cormac, Rory. (2019). Techniques of covert propaganda: the British approach in the mid-1960s. Intelligence & National Security. 34(7). 1064–1069. 1 indexed citations

Cormac, Rory. (2018). Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy. 4 indexed citations

Cormac, Rory & Richard Aldrich. (2018). Grey is the new black: covert action and implausible deniability. International Affairs. 94(3). 477–494. 73 indexed citations

Aldrich, Richard & Rory Cormac. (2016). The black door: spies, secret intelligence, and British Prime Ministers. Nottingham ePrints (University of Nottingham). 26 indexed citations

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Cormac, Rory. (2016). Disruption and deniable interventionism: explaining the appeal of covert action and Special Forces in contemporary British policy. International Relations. 31(2). 169–191. 6 indexed citations

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Cormac, Rory, et al.. (2016). A Modern-Day Requirement for Co-Ordinated Covert Action. The RUSI Journal. 161(2). 14–21. 3 indexed citations

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Cormac, Rory. (2014). The Pinprick Approach: Whitehall’s Top-Secret Anti-Communist Committee and the Evolution of British Covert Action Strategy. Journal of Cold War Studies. 16(3). 5–28. 6 indexed citations

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Cormac, Rory. (2014). Confronting the Colonies. Oxford University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Aldrich, Richard, Rory Cormac, & Michael S. Goodman. (2014). Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013. Research Portal (King's College London). 7 indexed citations

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Cormac, Rory. (2014). Confronting the Colonies: British Intelligence and Counterinsurgency. 8 indexed citations

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Cormac, Rory. (2013). The Counter-Insurgency Myth: The British Experience of Irregular Warfare. Defence Studies. 14(2). 236–238. 4 indexed citations

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Goodman, Michael S., Richard Aldrich, & Rory Cormac. (2013). Spying on the World: The Joint Intelligence Committee and Events which Shaped History, 1936-2011. Research Portal (King's College London). 1 indexed citations

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Cormac, Rory. (2013). Much Ado About Nothing: Terrorism, Intelligence, and the Mechanics of Threat Exaggeration. Terrorism and Political Violence. 25(3). 476–493. 6 indexed citations

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Cormac, Rory. (2012). Coordinating Covert Action: The Case of the Yemen Civil War and the South Arabian Insurgency. Journal of Strategic Studies. 36(5). 692–717. 9 indexed citations

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Cormac, Rory. (2011). A Whitehall ‘Showdown’?: Colonial Office—Joint Intelligence Committee Relations in the Mid-1950s. The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History. 39(2). 249–267. 5 indexed citations

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