Format:
1 online resource (252 pages)
ISBN:
9780804792691
Content:
Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors-and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have for reforming intelligence and espionage. Examining espionage, counterintelligence, and covert action, the book argues that, contrary to prevailing views, the information revolution is increasing the power of states relative to non-state actors and threatening privacy more than secrecy. Arguing that intelligence organizations may be taken as the paradigmatic organizations of the information age, author David Tucker shows the limits of information gathering and analysis even in these organizations, where failures at self-knowledge point to broader limits on human knowledge-even in our supposed age of transparency. He argues that, in this complex context, both intuitive judgment and morality remain as important as ever and undervalued by those arguing for the transformative effects of information. This book will challenge what we think we know about the power of information and the state, and about the likely twenty-first century fate of secrecy and privacy.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Intelligence, Information, Power -- 2. Espionage -- 3. Counterintelligence and Covert Action -- 4. Intelligence and Warfare -- 5. Intelligence and Irregular Warfare -- 6. Principals and Agents -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Surprise and the Importance of an Information Advantage -- Appendix B: Information and the Power of Nonstate Actors -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804790420
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804790420
Language:
English
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