Problematising Intelligence Studies: Towards A New Research Agenda (Routledge New Intelligence Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032071214 ISBN 13: 9781032071213

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times.

In contrast to Intelligence Studies (IS), whose aim has largely been to improve the performance of national security services and assist in policy making, this book takes the investigation of the new professionals and everyday practices of intelligence as the immediate point of departure. Starting from the observation that intelligence today is increasingly about counter-terrorism, crime control, surveillance, and other security-related issues, this book adopts a transdisciplinary approach for studying the shifting logics of intelligence, how it has come to involve an expanding number of empirical sites, such as the police, local community, prison and the Internet, as well as a corresponding multiplicity of new actors in these domains. Shifting the focus away from traditional spies and Anglo-American intelligence services, this book addresses the transformations of contemporary intelligence through empirically detailed and theoretically innovative analyses, making a key contribution to existing scholarship.

This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, critical security studies, foreign policy, and International Relations.

About this title

About the Author

Hager Ben Jaffel is a Research Associate at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France.

Sebastian Larsson is an Associate Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, Sweden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032071214
• ISBN 13: 9781032071213
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Ben Jaffel Hager, Larsson Sebastian