INTELLIGENCE IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF A STATE
INTELLIGENCE IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF A STATE

Summary/Abstract: The successful implementation of the state foreign policy goals also implies a high quality diplomatic or intelligence service within it. Intelligence capabilities are essential as diplomatic missions usually do not have enough assets to obtain specific and useful information on their own as diplomatic resources are needed for international communication and maintaining good relations. Foreign policy achieves its national interests towards other countries and international organizations by timely planning and realization of its strategies and goals. The realization of strategies and goals important for foreign policy decision making process is hard to even imagine without good intelligence work – data collection, analysis, production and assessment. Nowadays, not only do intelligence and diplomacy interweave and complement each other, but they are also highly complementary and represent part of a continuous cycle contributing to the functioning of state foreign policy. This work aims to highlight that intelligence work contributes to the accomplishment of foreign policy tasks through reliable and useful intelligence. In this regard, the dynamic global developments accompanied by the accelerated development of new technologies will require a certain transformation of some methods of intelligence work in terms of timely information and increasing the value of foreign policy analyses and assessments.

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