Umfang:
x, 297 Seiten
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Illustrationen, 1 Karte
ISBN:
9780367706395
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9780367706418
Serie:
Studies in intelligence
Inhalt:
This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers. Intelligence agencies are producers and providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the social, cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge production, processing and distribution. This volume starts from the assumption that during the Cold War, these core activities of information services underwent decisive changes, of which scientization and computerisation are essential. With a focus on the emerging alliances between intelligence agencies, science and (computer) technology, the chapters empirically explore these transformations and are characterised by innovative combinations of intelligence history with theoretical considerations from the history of science and technology and the history of knowledge. At the same time, the book challenges the bipolarity of Cold War history in general and of intelligence history in particular in favour of comparative and transnational perspectives. The focus is not only the Soviet Union and the United States, but also Poland, Turkey, the two German states and Brazil. This approach reveals surprising commonalities across systems: time and again, the expansion and use of intelligence knowledge came up against the limits that resulted from intelligence culture itself. The book enriches our global understanding of knowledge of the state and contributes to a historical framework for the past decade of debates about the societal consequences of intelligence data processing.
Anmerkung:
Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
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The knowledge of intelligence agencies in the Cold War world : an introduction
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Compromised cooperation : scholarly experts on Eastern Europe in the service of West German intelligence in the early Cold War
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Dogma versus progress : KGB’s technological and scientific (in-)capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s
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Sublimation without domination : exploring the knowledge of U.S. strategic intelligence during the Cold War
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American security databases and the production of space, 1967-1974 : enhancing or obscuring patterns?
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Knowledge transfer and technopolitics : the CIA, the West German intelligence service and the digitisation of information processing in the 1960s
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Information technology is power : the intelligence service’s grab for the IT sector in Brazil
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The computer as document shredder : video terminals and the dawn of a new era of knowledge production in Brazil’s Serviço Nacional de Informações
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Turkish intelligence, surveillance and the secrets of the Cold War : blocked modernisation?
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Solid modernity : data storage and information circuits in the communist security police in Poland
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Eliminating the human factor? : perceptions of digital computers at the German domestic intelligence service
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Global war academics : intelligence schools during the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil
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Intelligence for the masses : the annual reports on the protection of the constitution in West Germany
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Conclusion
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781003147329
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Intelligence agencies, technology and knowledge production New York : Routledge, 2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Geheimdienst
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Ost-West-Konflikt
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Verwissenschaftlichung
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Informationsverarbeitung
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Datenverarbeitung
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Wissensproduktion
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Geschichte 1945-2020
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.4324/9781003147329
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