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Cognitive Bias in Intelligence Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Cognitive Bias in Intelligence Analysis

This book critiques the reliance of Western intelligence agencies on the use of a method for intelligence analysis developed by the CIA in the 1990s, the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH).

The Academic-Practitioner Divide in Intelligence Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

The Academic-Practitioner Divide in Intelligence Studies

Internationally, the profession of intelligence continues to develop and expand. So too does the academic field of intelligence, both in terms of intelligence as a focus for academic research and in terms of the delivery of university courses in intelligence and related areas. To a significant extent both the profession of intelligence and those delivering intelligence education share a common aim of developing intelligence as a discipline. However, this shared interest must also navigate the existence of an academic-practitioner divide. Such a divide is far from unique to intelligence – it exists in various forms across most professions – but it is distinctive in the field of intelligence because of the centrality of secrecy to the profession of intelligence and the way in which this constitutes a barrier to understanding and openly teaching about aspects of intelligence. How can co-operation in developing the profession and academic study be maximized when faced with this divide? How can and should this divide be navigated? The Academic-Practitioner Divide in Intelligence provides a range of international approaches to, and perspectives on, these crucial questions.

The Regulation of Intelligence Activities under International Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

The Regulation of Intelligence Activities under International Law

  • Categories: Law

Presenting a thorough examination of intelligence activities in international law, Sophie Duroy provides theoretical and empirical justifications to support the cutting-edge claim that states’ compliance with international law in intelligence matters serves their national security interests. This book theorises the regulation of intelligence activities under international law, identifying three layers of regulation: a clear legal framework governing intelligence activities (legality); a capacity to enforce state responsibility (accountability); and the integration of legality and accountability into responsive regulation by the international legal order (compliance).

President's Kill List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

President's Kill List

From Fidel Castro to Qassem Soleimani, the US government has been involved in an array of assassinations and assassination attempts against foreign leaders and officials. The President's Kill List reveals how the US government has relied on a variety of methods, from the use of poison to the delivery of sniper rifles, and from employing hitmen to simply laying the groundwork for local actors to do the deed themselves. It shows not only how policymakers decided on assassination but also the level of Presidential control over these decisions. Tracing the history of the US government's approach to assassination, the book analyses the evolution of assassination policies and, for the first time, reveals how successive administrations - through private justifications and public legitimations - ensured assassination remained an available tool.

International Law's Invisible Frames
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

International Law's Invisible Frames

  • Categories: Law

This innovative edited collection uncovers the invisible frames which form our understanding of international law. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it investigates how social cognition and knowledge production processes affect decision-making, and inform unquestioned beliefs about what international law is, and how it works.

Beyond States and Spies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Beyond States and Spies

Scholars have long viewed intelligence as the preserve of nation states. Where the term 'private sector intelligence' is used, the focus has been overwhelmingly on government contractors. As such, a crucial aspect of intelligence power has been overlooked: the use of intelligence by corporations to navigate and influence the world. Where there has been academic scrutiny of the field, it is seen as a post-9/11 phenomenon, and that a state monopoly of intelligence has been eroded. Beyond States and Spies demonstrates - through original research - that such a monopoly never existed. Private sector intelligence is at least as old as the organised intelligence activities of the nation state. The book offers a comparative examination of private and public intelligence, and makes a compelling case for understanding the dangers posed by unregulated intelligence in private hands. Overall, this casts new light on a hitherto under investigated academic space.

The Marriage Registers of St. Dunstan's Stepney, in the County of Middlesex: 1697-1719
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328
Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester, 1689 to 1837
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 494
Mark Brewster of Hull, England and Allied Families in America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Mark Brewster of Hull, England and Allied Families in America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Mark Brewster (1822-1917) was born in Waltham, Lincolnshire, England, the son of John Brewster and Elizabeth Hardy. He married Jane Ann Atkey in 1851. They had ten children, of whom one, Theophilus Atkey, emigrated to the United States.