Security intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world: individuals, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable intelligence in order to increase their sense of security. But what exactly is intelligence? Who seeks to develop it and to what ends? How can we ensure that intelligence is not abused? In this third edition of their classic text, Peter Gill and Mark Phythian set out a comprehensive framework for the study of intelligence, discussing how states organize the collection and analysis of information in order to produce intelligence, how it is acted upon, why it may fail and how the process should be governed in order to uphold democratic rights. Fully revised and updated throughout, the book covers recent developments, including the impact of the Snowden leaks on the role of intelligence agencies in Internet and social media surveillance and in defensive and offensive cyber operations, and the legal and political arrangements for democratic control. The role of intelligence as part of ‘hybrid’ warfare in the case of Russia and Ukraine is also explored, and the problems facing intelligence in the realm of counterterrorism is considered in the context of the recent wave of attacks in Western Europe. Intelligence in an Insecure World is an authoritative and accessible guide to a rapidly expanding area of inquiry – one that everyone has an interest in understanding.
Author(s): Peter Gill, Mark Phythian
Publisher: Polity Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
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Pages: 358
Tags: Intelligence, Insecure World
Cover......Page 2
Copyright......Page 10
Preface to the Third Edition......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 14
Towards a Definition of Intelligence......Page 18
The Evolution of Intelligence......Page 25
Organizing Our Thinking about Intelligence: Beyond the Intelligence Cycle......Page 35
The Nature of Intelligence Studies......Page 42
Notes......Page 49
Introduction......Page 60
Critical Realism......Page 61
The Critique of Positivism and Challenge of Postmodernism......Page 62
Intelligence as Surveillance: Knowledge and Power......Page 67
Explaining Intelligence......Page 72
Levels of Surveillance......Page 75
Conclusion: A Map for Theorizing and Researching Intelligence......Page 77
Notes......Page 82
Introduction: Security Intelligence Networks......Page 91
State Sector......Page 93
Corporate Sector......Page 107
Non-State Sovereignty Sector......Page 110
Intelligence Networks......Page 111
Making Security Intelligence Networks Work......Page 113
Notes......Page 117
Introduction......Page 128
OSINT: Open Source Intelligence......Page 131
IMINT: Imagery Intelligence......Page 132
HUMINT: Human Intelligence......Page 135
SIGINT: Signals Intelligence......Page 144
Conclusion......Page 158
Notes......Page 161
Introduction......Page 170
Analysis......Page 171
Dissemination: Security versus Sharing......Page 180
Conclusion......Page 188
Notes......Page 189
When Intelligence Becomes Action: The Intensification of Surveillance......Page 197
Intelligence and Military Action......Page 203
Policing and Covert Action......Page 205
Intelligence Action in the Cyber Realm......Page 207
Assassination......Page 216
Use of Armed Drones......Page 217
Notes......Page 221
Introduction......Page 230
The Limits of Intelligence......Page 231
Approaches to Identifying the Causes of Intelligence Failure......Page 232
The Policymaker–Intelligence Interface as a Site of Intelligence Failure......Page 239
Politicization of Intelligence......Page 244
The 9/11 Commission Report: Explaining Intelligence Failure?......Page 249
The Iraq WMD Failure......Page 253
Terrorist Attacks and Intelligence Failure......Page 259
Conclusion......Page 263
Notes......Page 264
Introduction......Page 273
Defining Control and Oversight......Page 276
The Legal and Ethical Bases for Democratic Control and Oversight......Page 277
Organizing Oversight, Internally and Externally......Page 282
Extra-parliamentary Oversight......Page 287
Ad Hoc Inquiries......Page 294
Media and Civil Society......Page 296
The Challenge of Controlling and Overseeing Intelligence Networks......Page 300
Conclusion......Page 307
Notes......Page 308
9 Intelligence for a More Secure World?......Page 318
Notes......Page 327
Books......Page 331
Index......Page 335
End User License Agreement......Page 358
