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Pauline Blistène is a Lecturer in Strategic Communication at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her research and teaching focus on spy fiction, theoretical foundations of intelligence (including secrecy and state reasoning), disinformation, and the French intelligence community. Blistène is also the Research Coordinator at the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI). She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, during which she received the Grand Prix from France’s Intelligence Academy and the Bastien Irondelle Prize from the Association for War and Strategic Studies in 2019. Her contributions to the field include work on various publications, such as the Intelligence and National Security journal and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, as well as her upcoming book, "Hidden Plain Sight: Spy Fiction, Secrecy, Democracy" under contract with Princeton University Press. Blistène has previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in an ERC-funded project and has been affiliated with institutions like the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. She has also impacted public discourse through her podcast, 'Espion, une vie sous légende', which analyzes espionage through the lens of popular culture.
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