A series of investigations, especially in Great Britain and the United
States, have focused attention on the performance of national
intelligence services. At the same time, terrorism and a broad span of
trans-national security challenges has highlighted the crucial role of
intelligence. This book takes stock of the underlying intellectual
sub-structure of intelligence. For intelligence, as for other areas of
policy, serious intellectual inquiry is the basis for improving the
performance of real-world institutions. The volume explores
intelligence from an intellectual perspective, not an organizational
one. Instead the book identifies themes that run through these
applications, such as the lack of comprehensive theories, the unclear
relations between providers and users of intelligence, and the
predominance of bureaucratic organizations driven by collection. A key
element is the development, or rather non-development, of intelligence
toward an established set of methods and standards and, above all, an
ongoing scientific discourse.
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ISBN
9780511846922
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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