Problematising intelligence studies : towards a new research agenda / edited by Hager Ben Jaffel and Sebastian Larsson.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

©2022.

x, 266 pages ; 25 cm.

"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 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 counterterrorism, 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 organisation, local community, prison, and the Internet, as well as well 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Problematising intelligence studies Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022

English

October 20, 2022

Routledge new intelligence studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cross-cultural studies.