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Why is there no IR scholarship on intelligence agencies? Some ideas for a new approach
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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
Abstract Scholarship on intelligence studies suffers three key limitations: 1) it fails to grasp that the knowledge-production of agencies is value-laden and thus political in itself; 2) scholarship disregards most of the non-English speaking world and 3) focuses nearly exclusively on foreign intelligence. I... mehr
Scholarship on intelligence studies suffers three key limitations: 1) it fails to grasp that the knowledge-production of agencies is value-laden and thus political in itself; 2) scholarship disregards most of the non-English speaking world and 3) focuses nearly exclusively on foreign intelligence. I suggest that these limitations are due to a broader theoretical poverty of intelligence studies, and present three concepts through which a richer analysis may emerge: 1) "security" in the sense of understanding the meaning of security that intelligence agencies use as a basis for operating; 2) "secrecy" to investigate the concrete measures that agencies use to create and manage secrecy and 3) "bureaucracy" to investigate the day-to-day work done by the bulk of intelligence employees. These concepts turn the gaze towards the concrete, institutional processes of intelligence production, rather than towards abstract models such as the intelligence cycle, which dominate current scholarship. Intelligence studies needs to borrow from the rich tradition of organizational sociology and critical IR to develop a more thorough understanding of what intelligence agencies actually do, and what their effect on international politics is.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Geheimdienst; Stipendium; Wissensproduktion; Sicherheit; Geheimhaltung; Bürokratie; institutionelle Faktoren; Organisationssoziologie; internationale Beziehungen
Klassifikation
Organisationssoziologie, Militärsoziologie
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Forschung, Forschungsorganisation
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
14 S.
Schriftenreihe
ZMO Working Papers, 23
ISSN
2191-3897
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung