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Author: Robert Dover
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2022-11-04
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1800378807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Research Agenda explores the academic field of intelligence studies and how it is developing into an increasingly international and diverse area of study.
Author: Hager Ben Jaffel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-06-14
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1000591360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times. In contrast to Intelligence Studies (IS), whose aim has largely been to improve the performance of national security services and assist in policy making, this book takes the investigation of the new professionals and everyday practices of intelligence as the immediate point of departure. Starting from the observation that intelligence today is increasingly about counter-terrorism, crime control, surveillance, and other security-related issues, this book adopts a transdisciplinary approach for studying the shifting logics of intelligence, how it has come to involve an expanding number of empirical sites, such as the police, local community, prison and the Internet, as well as a corresponding multiplicity of new actors in these domains. Shifting the focus away from traditional spies and Anglo-American intelligence services, this book addresses the transformations of contemporary intelligence through empirically detailed and theoretically innovative analyses, making a key contribution to existing scholarship. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, critical security studies, foreign policy, and International Relations.
Author: Lara A. Frumkin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2023-02-14
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1789909104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsking vital questions concerning the future directions of terrorism research, this topical Research Agenda dives into the current state, emerging methodologies and key trends of this emotive and controversial field.
Author: Marta B. Calás
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2023-01-20
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1800881274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplaining why contemporary problematic phenomena require a more expansive understanding than what is allowed in conventional organizational studies scholarship, this forward-looking Research Agenda brings insights from recent feminist new materialisms and critical posthumanist theorizing into the field of organization studies.
Author: Barry Rider
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2022-12-06
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1802201343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this timely Research Agenda, Barry Rider has assembled a cast of internationally renowned experts to identify the most pressing questions and issues around financial crime, helping to inform our understanding of how best to protect our economies and financial institutions.
Author: Heike Mayer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2022-12-13
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1800887124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Exploring current debates on the topic, this book maps out an agenda for theory, research and practice about the role and function of small and medium-sized towns in various contexts and at different territorial scales. Chapters highlight new insights and approaches to studying small and medium-sized towns, moving beyond the ‘urban bias’ to provide nuanced thought on these spaces both in terms of their relation to larger cities, and in terms of implications related to their size.
Author: Michael Adler
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2022-12-06
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1800886330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely book utilises the specialised insights and experiences of those who have carried out research on different aspects of social welfare law and policy to construct an innovative post-Brexit and post-Covid 19 research agenda that identifies what needs to be studied and how this should be carried out.
Author: Stephen Coulthart
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2019-11-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1626167052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearchers in the rapidly growing field of intelligence studies face unique and difficult challenges ranging from finding and accessing data on secret activities, to sorting through the politics of intelligence successes and failures, to making sense of complex socio-organizational or psychological phenomena. The contributing authors to Researching National Security Intelligence survey the state of the field and demonstrate how incorporating multiple disciplines helps to generate high-quality, policy-relevant research. Following this approach, the volume provides a conceptual, empirical, and methodological toolkit for scholars and students informed by many disciplines: history, political science, public administration, psychology, communications, and journalism. This collection of essays written by an international group of scholars and practitioners propels intelligence studies forward by demonstrating its growing depth, by suggesting new pathways to the creation of knowledge, and by identifying how scholarship can enhance practice and accountability.
Author: Saura, Jose Ramon
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2022-03-18
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1799896110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn today’s global culture where the internet has established itself as a main tool of communication, the global system of economy and regulations, as well as data and decisions based on data analysis, have become essential for public actors and institutions. Governments need to be updated and use the latest technologies to understand what society’s demands are, and user behavioral data, which can be pulled by intelligent applications, can offer tremendous insights into this. The Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence in Government Practices and Processes identifies definitional perspectives of behavioral data science and what its use by governments means for automation, predictability, and risks to privacy and free decision making in society. Many governments can train their algorithms to work with machine learning, leading to the capacity to interfere in the behavior of society and potentially achieve a change in societal behavior without society itself even being aware of it. As such, the use of artificial intelligence by governments has raised concerns about privacy and personal security issues. Covering topics such as digital democracy, data extraction techniques, and political communications, this book is an essential resource for data analysts, politicians, journalists, public figures, executives, researchers, data specialists, communication specialists, digital marketers, and academicians.
Author: Mary Manjikian
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 3030398943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first work to engage with intelligence studies through the lens of queer theory. Adding to the literature in critical intelligence studies and critical international relations theory, this work considers the ways in which both the spy, and the activities of espionage can be viewed as queer. Part One argues that the spy plays a role which represents a third path between the hard power of the military and the soft power of diplomacy. Part Two shows how the intelligence community plays a key role in enabling leaders of democracies to conduct covert activities running counter to that mission and ideology, in this way allowing a leader to have two foreign policies—an overt, public policy and a second, closeted, queer foreign policy.
