| ID | 164181 |
| Title Proper | Intelligence expertise in the age of information sharing |
| Other Title Information | public–private ‘collection’ and its challenges to democratic control and accountability |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Petersen, Karen Lund ; Tjalve, Vibeke Schou |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The emergence of a more elusive and uncertain threat environment has transformed the nature of intelligence, increasing its reliance on civil society partners. Once the work of an insular and carefully select few, intelligence production is now a networked, partially open and extensively public–private enterprise. Most poignantly, new practices of public–private ‘collection’ face Western intelligence services with novel questions about control and accountability – questions to which the services have responded with hopes that by standardizing ‘methodologies’, central command may be retained. Suggesting a more complex picture, this article argues that ‘managing uncertainty’ imply forms of interpretation and choices which cannot be pre-empted by rule-regulation: more than Weber’s ideal of the procedural and rule-bound, it may be his (once central, yet largely marginalized) emphasis on institutional and individual capacities for critical ‘judgment’ that is of relevance today. |
| `In' analytical Note | Intelligence and National Security Vol. 33, No.1; Jan 2018: p. 21-35 |
| Journal Source | Intelligence and National Security Vol: 33 No 1 |
| Key Words | Democratic Control ; Intelligence Expertise ; Public – Private Enterprise |