Contemporary Intelligence Warning Cases: Learning from Successes and Failures (Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399531905 ISBN 13: 9781399531900

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

What can intelligence producers and users learn from contemporary intelligence warning cases to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate and prevent future security challenges?

• A multiple case-study of contemporary intelligence warning (2006-2023)
• Features a broad spectrum of traditional and non-traditional intelligence problems, ranging from invasions and wars, through terrorist attacks and hybrid warfare, to pandemics, financial crises, climate change, strategic acquisitions, and attacks on cultural heritage
• Identifies lessons and practical recommendations for the producers, users and observers of intelligence warning, and for theory

Contemporary Intelligence Warning Cases presents lessons learned and recommendations for producers and users of intelligence warning in their joint venture to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate and prevent future threats to national security. It presents and synthesizes the findings of 16 contemporary intelligence warning case studies undertaken by leading intelligence scholars and former intelligence practitioners. It is the first multi-case study of intelligence warning and adopts a uniquely broad and contemporary approach to the phenomenon, featuring both successful and failed cases. Consistent with the increasing complexity of intelligence problems and scope of intelligence services, it ranges from traditional warning problems such as invasions and wars, through terrorist attacks, to threats that lie beyond the traditional core scope of intelligence services such as pandemics, financial crises, climate change, strategic acquisitions and attacks on cultural heritage.

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About the Authors

Bjørn Elias Mikalsen Grønning is Deputy Research Director and Deputy Head of the Centre for Intelligence Studies at the Norwegian Intelligence School (NORIS), Oslo.

Stig Stenslie is Research Director and Head of the Centre for Intelligence Studies at the Norwegian Intelligence School (NORIS), and Professor at Oslo New University College, Oslo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399531905
• ISBN 13: 9781399531900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Bjørn Elias Mikalsen Grønning, Stig Stenslie