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.
Author(s): Hager Ben Jaffel, Sebastian Larsson
Series: Routledge New Intelligence Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 276
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Contributors
Part I: Reconstructing the Object of Intelligence
1. Introduction: What's the Problem with Intelligence Studies? Outlining a New Research Agenda on Contemporary Intelligence
Introduction
The 'Social Life' of the Intelligence Practice
A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Contemporary Intelligence
The Problem with Intelligence Studies
Anglo-Americanism, State-Centrism, and Functionalism in IS
'Critical' Intelligence Studies
Themes and Research Questions
Organisation of the Book
Notes
References
2. Towards a Reflexive Study of Intelligence Accountability
Introduction
Mapping the Common Sense of Intelligence Oversight Scholarship
A Necessary 'Balance'
Access Under Secrecy
Jurisdiction and the Limits of Oversight
The Progress of Oversight
Embracing the Raison d'État
The Scope of Oversight: Legality and Efficiency
The Need for Neutrality
Towards a Reflexive Understanding of Oversight
Reflexivity as a Break with Common Sense
Reflexivity as Reflexive Sociology
Conclusion
Notes
References
3. Tracing Pre-emptive Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP): Immigration, Classification Struggles, and the Expansion of Intelligence Logics in British Policing
Introduction
Interrogating IS and PS
A Nation in Crisis and the Advent of Classification Struggles
Immigration and Institutional Struggles in Intelligence Strategy
The Dominant Position of the Metropolitan Police
Throttling Information Exchange
Transnational Networks
Conclusion: Implications for the Proliferation of Intelligence Actors
Notes
References
Archival Material
Part II: The Practical Transformations of Contemporary Intelligence
4. Citizen-Led Intelligence Gathering under UK's Prevent Duty
Introduction
Intelligence, Surveillance, and CVE: Bridging Conceptual Divides
The Prevent Strategy: Recognising the Actors, Sites, and Practices of Everyday Intelligence
Diffusing Intelligence Gathering in Everyday Life
Conclusion: The Ever-Expanding Frontline
Note
References
5. Prison Intelligence in France: An Empirical Investigation of the Emergence of Counter-radicalisation Professionals
Introduction
French Prison in the Face of Terrorism: The Rise of New Professionals of Intelligence
Towards a Critical Political Sociology of Intelligence? What the Expansion of Prison Intelligence Tells Us about the Diffusion of Intelligence Logics in Public Institutions
Conclusion
Notes
References
6. Manufacturing Intelligence: Police and Intelligence Services in Germany
Introduction
Manufacturing Intelligence: The Global Architecture
Police Forces and Specialised Services
German Intelligence Services
Manufacturing Intelligence: The Case of the Bavarian LKA (BLKA)
Threat Analysis
Automated Collection and Primary Analysis: The IGVP-IGWEB and GLADIS Platforms
The EASY Platform
The AKIS Platform
The BLKA Control Room
Digitised Intelligence and Police labour: Considerations and Limits
Reconstructing the Field of German Intelligence
Conclusion
Notes
References
7. Transversal Practices of Everyday Intelligence Work in New Zealand: Transnationalism, Commercialism, Diplomacy
Introduction
New Zealand's Intelligence and Security Agencies
Transnationalism
Commercialism
Conclusion
Notes
References
8. The Techno-Legal Boundaries of Intelligence: NSA and FRA's Collaborations in Transatlantic Mass Surveillance
Introduction
The Signals Intelligence Practice in Sweden and Its Transnational Dimensions
FRA and NSA's Cooperation Read Through the Snowden Files
A Transatlantic Guild Organised Around Techno-legal Capabilities?
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part III: Conceptual Reconsiderations of Intelligence
9. Regulating the Internet in Times of Mass Surveillance: A Universal Global Space with Universal Human Rights?
Introduction
National Legislations with Transnational Effects? Examples from the United States, Brazil, and Italy
United States Jurisdiction and Case Law, or How the Internet Became What It Is Today
Brazil's Internet Bill of Rights: Setting the Stage for Internet Users' Rights
Italy's Declaration of Internet Rights: Enshrining Rights Across Scales
An Internet of Human Rights: Transforming the Conflation of Territoriality, Citizenship, and the State?
Conclusion
Note
References
10. After Cambridge Analytica: Rethinking Surveillance in the Age of (Com)Modification
Introduction
From Watching to Modification: Surveillance Practices Transformed
Practices of Watching and the Threat to Privacy
Practices of Modification and the Threat to Agency
From Snowden to Cambridge Analytica: Surveillance Subjectivity Transformed
Edward Snowden's Permanent Record
Chris Wylie's Mindf*ck
Conclusion
Note
References
11. Violence Performed in Secret by State Agents: For an Alternative Problematisation of Intelligence Studies
Introduction
Violence Performed in Secret by State Authorities: The Other Face of the Social Contacts
Intelligence Studies: Forgetting Violence?
Legitimate Research? Waiting for Disclosure and the Role of Historians
Intelligence Studies and the Sociology of Secret Organisations
An Interpretation of Contemporary Configurations of Secret Service Practices based on an International Relational Sociology
Conclusions
Notes
References
Part IV: Conclusion
12. Conclusion: Towards New Intelligence Studies
Introduction
Expanding the Analysis of Intelligence: From the Local to the Global to the Relational and Transversal
Emerging Themes in New Intelligence Studies
Final Words
References
Index
