Understanding The Globalization Of Intelligence

Description: This book provides an introduction to the complexities of contemporary Western Intelligence and its dynamics during an era of globalization. Towards an understanding of the globalization of intelligence process, Svendsen focuses on the secretive phenomenon of international or foreign intelligence cooperation ('liaison'), as it occurs in both theory and practice. Reflecting a complex coexistence plurality of several different and overlapping concepts in action, the challenging process of the globalization of intelligence emerges as: essential for complex issue management purposes during a globalized era characterized by transnational terror, crises (man-made and natural), and organized crime; while simultaneously raising several valid accountability and oversight concerns, including proportionality questions. The book spans several bodies of literature in a connective and exploratory manner offering an interdisciplinary and comprehensive analytical framework on a topical theme.

Contents: List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Interview Notes PART I: BACKGROUND Unpacking Intelligence and Liaison: Understanding Basics, Drivers and Underlying Mechanisms PART II: THE 'GLOBALIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE' IN ACTION The Burgeoning 'Globalization of Intelligence': Intelligence Cooperation in Practice Photographs of Various Participants in UK-US Relations and their Interactions Overview: From Intelligence to 'Globalized Intelligence' during an Era of Terror, Crises, and Organized Crime Anatomy and Introducing Theory: Why 'Reach' Matters PART III: CONCLUSIONS Where Next? Strategy and Policy-Orientated Suggestions for the Future Clarifying the Globalization nexus: Explaining the 'Globalization of Intelligence' in the Broader Context and Theory Conclusions

Author Biography: ADAM D.M. SVENDSEN is an intelligence and defence strategist, educator and researcher in the Centre for Military Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, UK, has been a Visiting Scholar at CPASS, Georgetown University, has studied and taught at CSEG, University of Nottingham, researched at Chatham House and IISS, London, and trained at European defence colleges. He holds a BA (Hons) and MA from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and is the author of several publications.