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Researching national security intelligence : multidisciplinary approaches /

Researchers in the rapidly growing field of intelligence studies face unique and difficult challenges ranging from finding and accessing data on secret activities, to sorting through the politics of intelligence successes and failures, to making sense of complex socio-organizational or psychological...

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Other Authors: Coulthart, Stephen (Editor), Landon-Murray, Michael (Editor), Van Puyvelde, Damien (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
National security > Research > Congresses.
Military intelligence > Research > Congresses.
Intelligence service > Research > Congresses.
National security > Study and teaching > Congresses.
Military intelligence > Study and teaching > Congresses.
Intelligence service > Study and teaching > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a pluralistic approach to intelligence scholarship / Stephen Coulthart, Michael Landon-Murray, and Damien Van Puyvelde
  • Framing intelligence research
  • Framing the challenges and opportunities of intelligence studies research / Mark Phythian
  • Confessions of an intelligence historian / John Ferris
  • Data source and the study of national security intelligence
  • The why, who, and how of using qualitative interviews to research intelligence practices / Damien van Puyvelde
  • The use of structured behavioral observation systems to address research questions in intelligence / Misty Duke
  • A sociological approach to intelligence studies / Bridget Rose Nolan
  • Multidisciplinary perspectives on national security intelligence research
  • Enhancing political science contributions to american intelligence studies / Stephen Marrin
  • Can decision science improve intelligence?
  • David R. Mandel
  • Charting a research agenda for intelligence studies using public administration and organization theory scholarship / Rick Caceres-Rodriguez and Michael Landon-Murray
  • How the field of communication can contribute to the understanding and study of national security intelligence / RubĂ©n Arcos
  • Beyond the ivory tower : the research and practice of intelligence
  • Bridging the gap the scholar-practitioner divide in intelligence / Brent Durbin
  • The ivory tower and the fourth estate / Paul Lashmar
  • The ethics of intelligence research / Ross Bellaby
  • Conclusion : the past, present, and future of intelligence research / Stephen Coulthart, Michael Landon-Murray, and Damien van Puyvelde
  • List of contributors.