リチャード・ジェームズ・オルドリッチFRHistS(Richard James Aldrich、1961年12月7日 - )は、イギリスの政治学者であり、諜報機関やセキュリティ・コミュニティに関する著作が多い諜報史家。
経歴 1990年、ケンブリッジ大学コーパスクリスティ・カレッジで博士号を取得。
2007年9月より、ウォーリック大学政治・国際学部国際安全保障学科教授。 ノッティンガム大学政治・国際関係学部教授を経て、雑誌『Intelligence and National Security』の共同編集者を8年間務めた。
著作 単著 The Black Door Lib/E: Spies, Secret Intelligence, and British Prime Ministers (William the 4th, 2020) GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency (HarperPress, 2010) Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service (Cambridge University Press, 2008) The Faraway War: Personal Diaries of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (Transworld Publishers Limited, 2006) Witness To War: Diaries Of The Second World War In Europe And The Middle East (Doubleday, 2004) The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence (John Murray Press, 2001) Intelligence and the War Against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service (Cambridge University Press, 2000) 邦訳: Espionage, Security and Intelligence in Britain, 1945-1970 (Manchester University Press, 1998) The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand During the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929-1942 (Oxford University Press, 1993) British Intelligence, Strategy and the Cold War, 1945-51(Taylor & Francis, 1992)
共著 The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana (Atlantic Books, 2021) with Rory Cormac, Secret Intelligence: A Reader (Routledge, 2019) with Christopher Andrew and Wesley K. Wark Spying on the World: The Declassified Documents of the Joint Intelligence Committee, 1936-2013 (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) with Rory Cormac and Michael S. Goodman The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65: Western Intelligence, Propaganda and Special Operations (Taylor & Francis, 2000) with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley Intelligence, Defence and Diplomacy: British Policy in the Post-War World (Taylor & Francis, 1994) with Michael F. Hopkins
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