Intelligence and Globalisation

Intelligence and Globalisation

No longer the missing dimension of history?

Intelligence in the papers - every day for a decadebut not covered in a sophisticated way

The Strange World of Baylis & Smith?

Intell - a subset of Foreign Policy Analysis

The deck chair school of intelligence studies

Amy ZegartSpying Blind

What did intell miss between 1989 and 2003?

‘Targettism’ - The search for the next target

Jim Woolsey DCI

22 Feb 1993

Economic intelligence

“hottest current topic”

The New Terrorism – 1989? 1993? 2001?

Other people of interest in the 1990sOrganized crime kills more than war or terror

What does globalization do to the intell environment?

1. Cult/Econ provocation – diverse enemies

2. Provides provoked with new weapons

3. Removes boundaries – states then need

intel-led policy

4. ‘Risk societies’ want pre-emption/cover

5. Toilet cleaners of globalization

6. But not prestigious – dirty agents

What does globalization do to the intelligence environment?

1. Complexity makes collection much harder

2. Requires counter-intuitive sharing

3. Enforcement – hunters not gatherers

4. Trashes tac int cycle? – David Omand

5. Dissolves foreign/domestic boundary

6. Corodes state secrecy – reverse gaze

7. Towards Knowledge Intensive Security???

What does globalization do to intell services?

The World of Knowledge Intensive Security

1. What was intelligence in 1970/1990/2000

2. David Omand’s “Protected Info”

3. Pressure for wholesale surveillance IMP?

4. Or Data-veillance – many little brothers

5. The pleasure of self-surveillance

6. No longer just 3 agencies in gov - Locals

7. Businesses – airlines banks ISPs

8. How do we incorporate the citizen? - PNJ

Globalization conjures up a new ecology knowledge-intensive security?

Intelligence and the nation-state system

1. The Westphalian system- cake and eat it

2. Strong global civil society = Dana Priest

3. KIS = lots of data about int services

4. Shift from political regulation to law

5. Whistle-blowing - Shield Law Rep –R/dems

6. Over the last 20 years business

7. How to engage with society? Trust ?

Globalization also conjures up regulation by revelation ???

Intelligence and two worlds of globalization?

Tin Foil Hat Cat says “thank you for listening”