| ID | 149469 |
| Title Proper | Democracy and the depth of intelligence sharing |
| Other Title Information | why regime type hardly matters |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Brown, Jonathan N ; Farrington, Alex |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | What explains variation in the depth of intelligence sharing? Realism provides the standard answer: shared threat motivates deeper cooperation. In a recent article, Ryan Bock offers a liberal antidote to this conventional view, leveraging insights on domestic regime type to explain why Anglo-Soviet sharing remained shallow despite the German threat during 1941–5. Several shortcomings in Bock’s innovative study undermine his main arguments and findings. A reevaluation of the Anglo-Soviet case and a cursory examination of nine other intelligence-sharing relationships during the Second World War reveal a spread of variation in the depth of cooperation that cannot be explained by a liberal regime-type argument, a realist threat perspective, or other prevailing International Relations paradigms. Marrying insights from interdisciplinary scholarship on gossip and embedded exchange, we propose a novel alternative framework that suggests plausible solutions to puzzles left behind by other accounts, thus opening a new line of inquiry for future research on intelligence cooperation. |
| `In' analytical Note | Intelligence and National Security Vol. 32, No.1; Jan 2017: p.68-84 |
| Journal Source | Intelligence and National Security Vol: 32 No 1 |
| Key Words | Democracy ; Intelligence Sharing ; Depth of Intelligence Sharing ; Anglo-Soviet Sharing |