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Avramov / Adair

Comparative Foreign Intelligence Services

Framing Policy and Threat Perception

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-032-56624-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Erscheinungstermin: 19.10.2026
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. Oktober 2026

This edited volume develops a comparative theory of post-Cold War intelligence liaison between the U.S. intelligence community and its international counterparts.

It presents the U.S. perspective on these liaisons and moves beyond simple ally–adversary classifications, showing how cooperation is influenced by strategic threat perception, material power, access to intelligence, and institutional culture. The core of the book rests on a dual framework that combines neoclassical realism and intelligence studies: states pursue liaison not only due to formal alliances or power but also because threat perceptions, institutional culture, and intelligence access interact to create or limit decision advantages. Additionally, the volume advances our understanding of strategic institutional intelligence culture – the patterns through which intelligence agencies influence threat perception, policy interaction, secrecy management, and oversight. It classifies U.S. intelligence relationships along a spectrum: enduring partnerships, wary alliances, and transactional exchanges. The empirical section applies this framework to case studies including British–American and Israeli–American cooperation; Chinese and Russian intelligence under near-peer competition; and Cuban and Iranian systems influenced by regime security, revolutionary ideology, and gray-zone tactics. Examining the nature, type, and quality of interactions with intelligence agencies worldwide, along with an understanding of these interactions, is key to effective and smart intelligence practices.

This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, national security, foreign policy, and international relations, as well as practitioners.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781032566245
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-032-56624-5
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis
  • Erscheinungstermin: 19.10.2026
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2026
  • Serie: Studies in Intelligence
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Seiten: 224
  • Format (B x H): 156 x 234 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Foreword by Stephen Slick  Section I. Introduction and Method  Chapter 1. Methodology and Comparative Framework, Bianca L. Adair and Kiril Avramov  Section II. Enduring Partnerships  Chapter 2. British and American Intelligence: A Close Collaboration, Calder Walton  Chapter 3. Israeli Intelligence: Organizational Structure, Threat Perception, and Strategic Culture, Itai Shapira  Section III. Wary Alliances  Chapter 4. Chinese Intelligence Services in the Era of Strategic Competition: Institutional Architecture, Strategic Culture, and Power Projection, Paul Charon  Chapter 5. Re-engaging with the “Main Enemy”: Post-Soviet Intelligence Agencies' Institutional Frameworks, Threat Perceptions, Power Projection, and Gray-Zone Tactics, Kiril Avramov  Section IV. Transactional Exchanges  Chapter 6. Cuba’s Intelligence Apparatus: Ubiquitous at Home and “Unseen” Abroad, Florina Cristiana (Cris) Matei  Chapter 7. Guardians of the Revolution: Structure, Strategy, and Power in Iran’s Intelligence Apparatus, Nakissa Jahanbani  Chapter 8. Conclusion, Kiril Avramov