Diana I. Bolsinger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies and the former director of the Intelligence and National Security Studies (INSS) graduate program at The University of Texas at El Paso. Her research examines how Washington's clandestine security relationships historically have impacted U.S. policymaking. Dr. Bolsinger's current project, No Permanent Friends: How Secret Intelligence Ties Broke the U.S. Pakistani Relationship, analyzes how Washington's secret programs in Pakistan shaped the overall bilateral relationship. The manuscript is contracted with Georgetown University Press. Dr. Bolsinger most recently published in Intelligence and National Security, The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and The Texas National Security Review. She is a former co-director of the Texas Intelligence Academy and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for Intelligence History (SIH).<br><br>Prior to joining UTEP, Dr. Bolsinger served in multiple leadership positions in the U.S. Intelligence Community, including assignments in South Asia, the Balkans, Northeast Asia, and Washington, DC.

• 2020 Bobby Inman Prize for Student Scholarship on Intelligence - Intelligence Studies Program, Robert Strauss Center, University of Texas at Austin (08/13/2020)

• Ph D in Public Policy, University of Texas at Austin (2022)
• MA in Government, New Mexico State University (2016)
• M.Ed in Elementary Education, Marymount University (2002)
• MA in International Affairs, George Washington University (1990)
• BA in International Studies, Reed College (1985)

• Overt action: congressional oversight, private activism and Afghan covert action policy in the Reagan administration Intelligence and National Security 39 5 (2024), Diana I. Bolsinger.
• Deception and Manipulation in an Intelligence Liaison Relationship: U.S.–Pakistani Negotiations and the 1980s Afghan Program International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 37 1 (2024), Diana I. Bolsinger.
• Deception and Manipulation in an Intelligence Liaison Relationship: U.S.-Pakistani Negotiations and the 1980s Afghan Program International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 37 1 (2023), Diana I. Bolsinger.
• H-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 69: Bolsinger on Sims, Decision Advantage H-Diplo/Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum (2023), Diana I. Bolsinger.
• “Intelligence Studies: Problem or the Solution?” Review of Hager Ben Jaffel and Sebastian Larsson, eds., Problematising Intelligence Studies: Towards a New Research Agenda. International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence First View (2022), Diana I. Bolsinger.

• The Hidden Element: How Intelligence Equites Shaped U.S. Cold War Relaons with Pakistan, Iran, and Ethiopia (2024), Volume San Francisco, CA, Diana I. Bolsinger.
• Theories of National Security Intelligence for the Future Intelligence Enterprise (2024), Volume San Francisco, CA, Diana I. Bolsinger.
• Surprises in Intelligence: The Events that Surprise Us (2024), Volume Orlando, Florida, Diana I. Bolsinger.
• Diana Bolsinger: My Career in Intelligence and Diplomacy (2024), Volume Washington, DC, Diana I. Bolsinger.
• "It’s no laughing matter. Soviet jokes as a basis for intelligence analysis in the Cold War & beyond." (2023), Volume Streaming, Diana I. Bolsinger, Elena Grossfeld.

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