Global Data Shock
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Global Data Shock

Strategic Ambiguity, Deception, and Surprise in an Age of Information Overload

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Global Data Shock

Strategic Ambiguity, Deception, and Surprise in an Age of Information Overload

About this book

Intelligence and security communities have access to an overwhelming amount of information. More data is better in an information-hungry world, but too much data paralyzes individual and institutional abilities to process and use information effectively. Robert Mandel calls this phenomenon "global data shock." He investigates how information overload affects strategic ambiguity, deception, and surprise, as well as the larger consequences for international security. This book provides not only an accessible framework for understanding global data shock and its consequences, but also a strategy to prepare for and respond to information overload.

Global Data Shock explores how information overload facilitates deception, eroding international trust and cooperation in the post-Cold War era. A sweeping array of case studies illustrates the role of data shock in shaping global events from the 1990 Iraqi attack on Kuwait to Brexit. When strategists try to use an overabundance of data to their advantage, Mandel reveals, it often results in unanticipated and undesirable consequences. Too much information can lead to foreign intelligence failures, security policy incoherence, mass public frustrations, curtailment of democratic freedoms, and even international political anarchy. Global Data Shock addresses the pressing need for improved management of information and its strategic deployment.

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Global
Information
Overload 
19
•
Multiplicity
of
information
sources
on
global
predicaments,
even
in
re
-
mote 
undercovered 
parts 
of 
the 
world
•
Difficulty
in
determining
credibility
of
original
sources
from
which
new
information 
derives
•
Increased
“datafication”
of
otherwise
immeasurable
political,
economic,
and 
social 
phenomena
90
•
Increasing
global
desire
by
private
citizens
for
more
government
trans
-
parency 
in 
foreign 
relations
•
Greater
global
information
dependence
reflecting
much
greater
global
technology 
dependence
•
Accelerating
pace
of
change
in
global
predicaments,
facilitated
by
the
speed 
of 
communication 
and 
information 
transmission
•
Emergence
of
complex
global
threats
cutting
across
national
boundaries
requiring 
broader 
profiling 
and 
modeling
•
Globalization-induced
needs
for
both
states
and
nonstate
groups
to
share 
information 
with 
others 
so 
as 
to 
jointly 
tackle 
common 
problems
DATA 
QUANTITY 
OR
QUALITY 
DISTORTIONS 
STIMULUS
Escalating 
information 
overload 
Security 
information 
unreliability 
SYSTEM 
VALUE
HETEROGENEITY
CONTEXT
RECEIVER 
PROCESSING
LIMITATIONS 
RESPONSE
Human 
cognitive 
frailty 
Organizational 
decision 
inflexibility 
Global 
cultural 
diversity 
International 
political 
anarchy 
STRATEGIC 
MANIPULATION
POTENTIAL
OUTCOME
Increased 
capacity 
to 
initiate 
manipulation 
of 
others 
on 
foreign 
security 
issues 
Increased 
vulnerability 
to 
become 
a 
victim
of 
outside 
manipulation 
on 
foreign 
security 
issues 
Figure 
1.1.
Information 
interpretation 
barriers

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures and Tables
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 Global Information Overload
  7. 2 Global Strategic Manipulation
  8. 3 Global Data Shock Case Studies
  9. 4 Emerging Case Patterns
  10. 5 Managing Global Data Shock
  11. Conclusion
  12. Notes
  13. Index