Swedish Military Intelligence: Producing Knowledge - Softcover

Erikkson, Gunilla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474432581 ISBN 13: 9781474432580

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

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Builds a revisionary theoretical framework for researching intelligence knowledge and applies it to the Swedish Military and Security Directorate

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Gunilla Eriksson is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of War Studies at the Swedish National Defense University. She holds a PhD in political science from Örebro University, Sweden, Prior to her academic career, she was an intelligence analyst at the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST).

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‘This book is a remarkable achievement in a field with a chronic shortage of contemporary in-depth empirical studies. Her investigation of the knowledge production process within the walls of an intelligence machinery offers unique insights, far beyond the ordinary handbook literature, personal recollections and historical accounts.’Wilhelm Agrell, Lund UniversityExamining how styles of thought can influence intelligence analysis and thwart objectivityIntelligence produces knowledge on security issues such as conflicts, wars and complex political processes in order for policy makers to generate informed decisions. Intelligence knowledge production is often held as objective, value neutral, and with the intention of ‘speaking truth onto power’, but this study holds that such a perspective requires significant revision. Gunilla Eriksson argues for the existence of an implicit interpretive framework that continuously influences knowledge production, thereby making it dependent on one accepted and specific perspective contrary to the intentional objectivity. This inherited frame of interpretation, as well as the socialised norm of staying within the existing accepted frameworks of behaviour, ends up fostering conformity to the established ‘logic of appropriateness’. Utilising unpublished primary intelligence material and adopting a critical policy analysis approach, Erikkson offers an original, critical view of the conditions surrounding the production of intelligence knowledge.Gunilla Eriksson is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of War Studies at the Swedish National Defense University. Prior to her academic career, she was an intelligence analyst at the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service.Cover image: © Omelchenko/shutterstock.comCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1344-2Barcode

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1474432581
• ISBN 13: 9781474432580
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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