Author(s): Adam D. M. SVENDSEN
Publication name: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
Publisher name: Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
Publication type: Journal article
Publication date: June 30, 2016
Pagination:
Issue/ Volume: 15/2016
DOI:
Abstract:
This article, through adopting mainly a briefing and review approach,
provides several insights into the phenomenon of foreign or international
intelligence liaison as it occurs in the early twenty-first century. Building in a
“research retrospective” manner on 10 years of research conducted by Adam
Svendsen, the article examines how international intelligence liaison can be, first,
conceptualised, and then, second, analysed. By way of granting insights into its
core characteristics, a multi-level approach towards its evaluation is presented,
followed by a systems approach towards its analysis, including referencing system
of systems dynamics. Before coming to some overall conclusions, involving
examining the question of whether there is an increasingly challenging future for
international intelligence liaison, key processes closely associated with
international intelligence liaison are detailed, namely discernible regionalisation,
globalisation and professionalisation trends.
Keywords: intelligence liaison, international, globalisation of intelligence,
information.
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