INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE LIAISON: A PRIMER
INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE LIAISON: A PRIMER

Summary/Abstract: This article, through adopting mainly a briefing and review approach,provides several insights into the phenomenon of foreign or internationalintelligence liaison as it occurs in the early twenty-first century. Building in a‘research retrospective’ manner on 10 years of research conducted by AdamSvendsen, the article examines how international intelligence liaison can be, first,conceptualised, and then, second, analysed. By way of granting insights into itscore characteristics, a multi-level approach towards its evaluation is presented,followed by a systems approach towards its analysis, including referencing systemof systems dynamics. Before coming to some overall conclusions, involvingexamining the question of whether there is an increasingly challenging future forinternational intelligence liaison, key processes closely associated withinternational intelligence liaison are detailed, namely discernible regionalisation,globalisation and professionalization trends

• Details
• Contents