Reforming the Intelligence Sector Through Academic Education. Implications for the Military and Civilian Higher Education Cover Image

Reformarea domeniului de intelligence prin intermediul educaţiei universitare. Implicaţii asupra învăţământului militar si civil superior
Reforming the Intelligence Sector Through Academic Education. Implications for the Military and Civilian Higher Education

Author(s): Claudia Cristescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: intelligence education; intelligence studies curriculum; academic outreach of intelligence; knowledge organization; intelligence community (IC); academic community (AC)

Summary/Abstract: Without claiming exhaustiveness with respect to the approached subject, the research aims at providing a theoretical and empirical perspective regarding the “knowledge partnerships” between the Intelligence Community, the civil academic environment and the higher military education, invoking (1) the requirement for academic outreach of the intelligence and security analysis; (2) the benefits of exploiting social science for the purpose of intelligence analysis and the process of drafting and executing strategic military decisions, taking into consideration the development of the international security environment, the characteristics of the current operational environment and the doctrine innovations operated by the security sector structures in the Euro-Atlantic area; and (3) arguing the necessity for the institutionalisation of the intelligence education within the civilian university curriculum towards the valorisation of intelligence services as a defining component of the democratic state construction, by means of correcting the knowledge deficit regarding the role and activities developed by the national intelligence agencies, the mystified public perception regarding the intelligence agencies or their image which has been altered by belletristic or cinematic productions, as well as the often distorted journalistic representation.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 113-136
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Romanian
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