Intelligence Analysis and Assessment (Studies in Intelligence) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714647098 ISBN 13: 9780714647098

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis and assessment; the changing ground in intelligence; and the impact of new technologies and modes of communication on intelligence gathering and analysis.

About this title

About the Author

Charters, David; Farson, Stuart; Hastedt, Glenn P.

From the Back Cover

By comparison with the other facets of intelligence, the analytical role provided by intelligence agencies has not received the scholarly attention that it rightly deserves. In October 1994 the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) and the Intelligence Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) attended to this deficit by holding a special international conference on the subject in Ottawa. This volume is the product of that conference. The essays comprising it may be divided into four self-contained sets of essays. The first critically examines the assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia. Each is written by someone who participated at a senior level and hence knows their respective strengths and weaknesses well. The second series of essays looks at the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis and assessment. While two specifically examine how well intelligence producers have related to their political masters, another dissects the internal relationships that have developed between CIA analysts and their managers. The changing ground that intelligence is currently experiencing is the focus of the third section. Here such new analytical priorities as the environment, peacekeeping and arms proliferation are singled out for study. Finally, the volume considers the impact of new technologies and modes of communication on intelligence gathering and analysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714647098
• ISBN 13: 9780714647098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Charters David, Farson Stuart, Hastedt Glenn P.