INTELLIGENCE ACADEMIC – CONCEPT PLURIVALENT
ACADEMIC INTELLIGENCE – A PLURIVALENT CONCEPT

Summary/Abstract: In the current article we intend to analyze one of the concepts that has been increasingly debated in the international intelligence studies scholarship, but yet too scarcely presented in the scientific debates taking place in Romania – namely academic intelligence. Recently, Ion Grosu, Deputy Director of the Romanian Intelligence Service, has tackled this subject within a volume written by practitioners in the intelligence field, and identified three meanings of the concept: 1. leveraging the knowledge of researchers and other experts outside the intelligence community; 2. best practices and methodologies pertaining to different disciplines that have been adopted and adapted to the intelligence field; 3. the development of research and education in the intelligence field and the development of an intelligence academic discipline. Starting from the three meanings of the term that have been previously presented, we will then analyze different points of view of practitioners and scholars, evolutions and good practices, in an effort to underline the importance of the concept for the intelligence community and for improving the defense of the national security.

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