This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as
knowledge producers. Intelligence agencies are producers and providers
of arcane information. However, little is known about the social,
cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge production,
processing and distribution. This volume starts from the assumption
that during the Cold War, these core activities of information
services underwent decisive changes, of which scientization and
computerisation are essential. With a focus on the emerging alliances
between intelligence agencies, science and (computer) technology, the
chapters empirically explore these transformations and are
characterised by innovative combinations of intelligence history with
theoretical considerations from the history of science and technology
and the history of knowledge. At the same time, the book challenges
the bipolarity of Cold War history in general and of intelligence
history in particular in favour of comparative and transnational
perspectives. The focus is not only the Soviet Union and the United
States, but also Poland, Turkey, the two German states and Brazil.
This approach reveals surprising commonalities across systems: time
and again, the expansion and use of intelligence knowledge came up
against the limits that resulted from intelligence culture itself. The
book enriches our global understanding of knowledge of the state and
contributes to a historical framework for the past decade of debates
about the societal consequences of intelligence data processing. This
book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies,
science and technology studies, security studies and International
Relations.
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Data Processing and Information Transfer in Secret Services during the Cold War
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000543193
Publisert
2022
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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