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  1. From Moscow to Tokyo: operation TOURIST and KGB illegals, live doubles, and sabotage plans

    Article • Intelligence & National Security, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  2. Spurious “Non-State Actors” in the International Conflict—Navigating the Fog of Plausible Deniability and Disinformation

    Article • Studia Administracji i Bezpieczeństwa, December 2025, Index Copernicus

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  3. The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  4. Locked in a New Ivory Tower: Beyond Self-Victimization and Depoliticization in Russian Studies

    Article • Problems of Post-Communism, June 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  5. Epistemic Communities and ‘Agents of Influence’: Insights from Soviet Intelligence Documents

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, February 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  6. Leaked email data: a new source for the study of authoritarian regimes

    Article • Digital War, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  7. Explaining Support for Russian Narratives about the Events in Ukraine among Japanese Scholars and Intellectuals in 2014–19

    Article • Communist and Post-Communist Studies, October 2024, University of California Press

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  8. The Sino–Soviet Intelligence War: The KGB Counterintelligence Perspective

    Article • International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  9. Cold War Active Measures

    Article • October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  10. Putin's understanders, Russia's normalizers: Discursive palettes beyond the East-West divide

    Article • Journal of Regional Security, January 2023, Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  11. Ukraine's agency in Japanese discourse: Everything ok with government and people, while academia in trouble

    Article • Journal of Regional Security, January 2023, Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  12. Perestroika of the KGB: Chekists Penetrate Politics

    Article • International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  13. Chekists Penetrate the Transition Economy: The KGB’s Self-Reforms during Perestroika

    Article • Problems of Post-Communism, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  14. Repeating History: Soviet Offensive Counterintelligence Active Measures

    Article • International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  15. Welcome to Surkov’s Theater: Russian Political Technology in the Donbas War

    Article • Nationalities Papers, September 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  16. Putin the ‘Peacemaker’?—Russian Reflexive Control During the 2014 August Invasion of Ukraine

    Article • The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  17. Hybrid Historical Memories in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine

    Article • Europe Asia Studies, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Sanshiro Hosaka

  18. ウクライナにおける地域ファクターと歴史観 ―「ユーロマイダン革命」以後の社会調査データをもとに―

    Article • Russian and East European Studies, January 2016, Japanese Association for Russian and East European Studies

    Sanshiro Hosaka