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Spies in a barrel: When to reel in espionage

Journal of Theoretical Politics

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Abstract

Journal of Theoretical Politics, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 87-109, April 2026.
How do secrets affect international order? We present a formal model of counterintelligence as policy. In our model, the state can learn foreign agent activities from choices in preceding periods. Agents can moderate these actions to suppress the ...