Publications

Hänni has published peer-reviewed academic articles and essays in leading history and political science journals.

Selected works

Hänni, Adrian, “The Pope’s Secret Cold War Radio”, Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (JIPSS), vol. 17, no. 1, 2023, pp. 127–138.
Hänni, Adrian & Miguel Grossmann, “Death to Traitors? The Pursuit of Intelligence Defectors from the Soviet Union to the Putin Era“, Intelligence and National Security, vol. 35, no. 3, 2020, pp. 403–423, doi:10.1080/02684527.2020.1728046.
Hänni, Adrian, “Das politische Papsttum im Jahrhundert transnationaler Massenmobilisierung: Der Fall der Commission pour l’Église Persécutée” [“The Political Papacy in the Century of Transnational Mass Mobilisation: The Case of the Commission pour l’Église Persécutée”], in: Mariano Barbato & Stefan Heid (eds.), Macht und Mobilisierung: Der politische Aufstieg des Papsttums seit dem Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts [“Power and Mobilisation: The Political Rise of the Papacy since the Late Nineteenth Century”], Freiburg: Herder, 2020, pp. 176-200.
Hänni, Adrian, “State Support for Terrorist Actors in the Cold War: Myths and Reality”, in: Adrian Hänni, Thomas Riegler & Przemyslaw Gasztold (eds.), Terrorism in the Cold War: State Support in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Sphere of Influence, London: I.B. Tauris, 2020, pp. 1–20.
Hänni, Adrian, “State Support for Terrorist Actors in the Cold War: Myths and Reality (Part 2)”, in: Adrian Hänni, Thomas Riegler & Przemyslaw Gasztold (eds.), Terrorism in the Cold War: State Support in the West, Middle East and Latin America, London: I.B. Tauris, 2020, pp. 1–14.
Hänni, Adrian & Lukas Hegi, “The Pakistani Godfather: The Inter-Services Intelligence and the Afghan Taliban 1994–2010”, in: Musa Khan Jalalzai, Pakistan’s Spy Agencies, New Delhi: Vij Books India, 2020, pp. 92–123.

Hänni, Adrian, “Transnationale politische Gewalt: Grundriss eines neuen historischen Forschungsfelds” [“Transnational Political Violence: Outline of a New Field of Historical Research”], in: Adrian Hänni, Daniel Rickenbacher & Thomas Schmutz (eds.), Über Grenzen hinweg: Transnationale politische Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert [“Across Borders: Transnational Political Violence in the Twentieth Century”], Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2019, pp. 7-63.
Hänni, Adrian, “Crypto, Corona & Co.”, Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 2019, pp. 6–11.
Hänni, Adrian, “Among Spies, Popes, and the Good Cyrenians: La Commission pour I’Église Persécutée as a Transnational Catholic Actor in the Cold War”, in: Mariano P. Barbato, Robert J. Joustra & Dennis R. Hoover (eds.), Modern Papal Diplomacy and Social Teaching in World Affairs, London: Routledge, 2019, pp. 48-66.
Hänni, Adrian, “Prequel to the Present: Multilateral Clubs and the Secret History of International Counterterrorism Cooperation in Western Europe, 1969-1989“, in: National Security and the Future, vol. 19, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 65-109.
Hänni, Adrian, “Secret Bedfellows? The KGB, Carlos the Jackal and Cold War Psychological Warfare“, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, vol. 43, no. 1, 2018, pp. 69–87, doi:10.1080/1057610x.2018.1471970.
Hänni, Adrian, “Among Spies, Popes, and the Good Cyrenians: La Commission Pour l’Église Persécutée as a Transnational Catholic Actor in the Cold War“, The Review of Faith & International Affairs, vol. 15, no. 4, 2017, pp. 48–66, doi:10.1080/15570274.2017.1392153.

Hänni, Adrian, “When Casey’s Blood Pressure Rose: A Case Study of Intelligence Politicization in the United States“, in: Intelligence and National Security, vol. 31, no. 7, December 2016, pp. 963-977, doi: 10.1080/02684527.2016.1162401.
Hänni, Adrian, “‘Read It in the Papers, Seen It on TV…’: The 1981 Libyan Hit Squad Scare as a Case of Simulated Terrorism in the United States“, Critical Studies on Terrorism, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016, pp. 54–75, doi:10.1080/17539153.2016.1178523.
Hänni, Adrian, “The Myth of a New Cold War: On the Use and Abuse of History concerning Russia’s Challenge to the West“, in: Russia’s Strategic Puzzle: Past Lessons, Current Assessment, and Future Outlook, edited by the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Arlington, VA, March 2016, pp. 10-13.
Hänni, Adrian, “Ein Forum konservativer Machteliten im transatlantischen Raum: Der Cercle im Zeitalter des Kalten Kriegs” [“A Transatlantic Forum of Conservative Power Elites: The Cercle in the Age of the Cold War”], in: Björn Wendt, Marcus B. Klöckner, Sascha Pommrenke & Michael Walter (eds.), Wie Eliten Macht organisieren: Bilderberg & Co.: Lobbying, Think Tanks und Mediennetzwerke [“How Elites Organize Power: Lobbying, Think Tanks and Media Networks”], Hamburg: VSA, 2016, pp. 118-130.
Hänni, Adrian, “Carlos der Schakal: Der Mythos des ersten globalen ‘Superterroristen’ und die Rolle von Geheimdiensten in Ost und West” [“Carlos the Jackal: The Myth of the First Global ‘Superterrorist'”], Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, pp. 69-82.
Hänni, Adrian, “Discurso terrorista y la militarización del contraterrorismo estadounidense: Los años de Reagan” [“Terrorism Discourse and the Militarization of U.S. Counterterrorism: The Reagan Years”], Relaciones Internacionales [“International Relations”], vol. 12, no. 32, 2016, pp. 97-117.

Hänni, Adrian, “Chimäre Curiel: Westliche Geheimdienste, antikommunistische Propaganda-Netzwerke und die Produktion eines Kalten-Kriegs-Mythos” [“Mysterious Curiel: Western Intelligence Services, Anti-Communist Propaganda Networks and the Production of a Cold War Myth”], Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2015, pp. 76-92.
Hänni, Adrian, “A Chance for a Propaganda Coup? The Reagan Administration and The Day After (1983)“, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vol. 36, no. 3, 2015, pp. 415–435, doi:10.1080/01439685.2015.1105514.
Hänni, Adrian. “A Global Crusade against Communism: The Cercle in the Second Cold War”, in: Giles Scott-Smith, Luc van Dongen & Stephanie Roulin (eds.), Transnational Dimensions of Cold War Anticommunism: Actions, Networks, Transfers, Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series, New York 2014, pp. 161-174.
Hänni, Adrian, “Mastermind of Terror: The Soviet Union as the Leader of the International Terror Network“, in: Eva-Maria Stolberg (ed.), The Soviet Union and the United States: Rivals of the Twentieth Century: Coexistence and Competition, Frankfurt am Main: Peter-Lang-Edition, 2013, pp. 217-246.
Hänni, Adrian & Lukas Hegi, “Pakistanischer Pate: Der Geheimdienst Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) und die afghanischen Taliban, 2002-2010” [“Pakistani Godfather: The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Afghan Taliban, 2002-2010”], Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2011, pp. 46-60.