Conflict and Cooperation in Intelligence and Security Organisations
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Conflict and Cooperation in Intelligence and Security Organisations

An Institutional Costs Approach

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Conflict and Cooperation in Intelligence and Security Organisations

An Institutional Costs Approach

About this book

This book provides an institutional costs framework for intelligence and security communities to examine the factors that can encourage or obstruct cooperation.

The governmental functions of security and intelligence require various organisations to interact in a symbiotic way. These organisations must constantly negotiate with each other to establish who should address which issue and with what resources. By coupling adapted versions of transaction costs theories with socio-political perspectives, this book provides a model to explain why some cooperative endeavours are successful, whilst others fail. This framework is applied to counterterrorism and defence intelligence in the UK and the US to demonstrate that the view of good cooperation in the former and poor cooperation in the latter is overly simplistic. Neither is necessarily more disposed to behave cooperatively than the other; rather, the institutional costs created by their respective organisational architectures incentivise different cooperative behaviour in different circumstances.

This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, organisational studies, politics and security studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Abbreviations and acronyms
  12. 1 Introduction
  13. 2 The development of an institutional costs framework for security and intelligence
  14. 3 Counterterrorism and cooperative success and failure in the intelligence and security spheres
  15. 4 Counterterrorism, collaboration, and direction and oversight
  16. 5 The paradoxical case of cooperative success and failure in military and defence intelligence
  17. 6 The relative management of institutional costs in the upper levels of defence intelligence in the United Kingdom and the United States
  18. 7 Conclusion
  19. Index