Dr Aviva Guttmann

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 the recently published 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.

Module Coordinator

• IPM0420 - Intelligence, Security and International Relations in the 20th Century
• IQ20520 - From Mincemeat to Cyberwars: A Global Perspective on Covert Operations since 1945
• IQ30520 - From Mincemeat to Cyberwars: A Global Perspective on Covert Operations since 1945

Coordinator

• IQ30520 - From Mincemeat to Cyberwars: A Global Perspective on Covert Operations since 1945
• IQ20520 - From Mincemeat to Cyberwars: A Global Perspective on Covert Operations since 1945
• IPM0420 - Intelligence, Security and International Relations in the 20th Century

Moderator

• IPM8820 - British Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Twentieth Century
• IPM0420 - Intelligence, Security and International Relations in the 20th Century

Lecturer

• IPM0420 - Intelligence, Security and International Relations in the 20th Century
• IP12820 - The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789

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

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

In the academic year 2025/26, Aviva is Masters Teaching and Learning Officer

• Monday 14:00-15:00
• Wednesday 14:00-15:00