Intelligence Prioritisation in an Age of Mid-Tier Powers

Information Requirements for a Globalised UK
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-02502-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Studies in Intelligence

This book examines how UK intelligence and national security priorities can best inform foreign policy strategy in the emerging geopolitical order.

It analyses the impact on the UK intelligence community of an emerging world order characterised by an unbalanced multipolarity, in which mid-tier powers use diverse levers of power autonomously, leveraging greater influence than previously. In particular, the book uses the requirements and priorities processes to analyse which structures have best served UK decision-makers. A new framework is also employed to investigate the cost-effectiveness of different categories of intelligence requirements, and case studies at the national and transnational levels are used to examine the range of actors now relevant to policy outcomes. The book considers these in the context of the increasingly globalised and networked world order, and asks what sort of requirements system can best deal with the resulting complexity and uncertainty, and whether current UK processes are adequate. It thereby provokes wider questions about strategy and what support UK governments might need when crafting policy.

This book will be of interest to students of intelligence studies, foreign policy, British politics and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomson, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Intelligence Needs Under a New World Order Chapter 2: The Changing Drivers of Intelligence Requirements and Priorities Chapter 3: Government, Requirements and Priorities: The Mechanics of an Intelligence Mandate Chapter 4: The National Level: The Different Requirements of Saudi Arabia and Iran Chapter 5: Amongst Other Powers: UK Intelligence Requirements and Transnational Issues Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks: Setting Intelligence Requirements and Priorities in an Age of Mid-Tier Powers

Über Autor(innen)

James Thomson has worked within the intelligence and security spheres in the Middle East for many years. He received his PhD from Brunel University and is the author of Conflict and Cooperation in Intelligence and Security Organisations: An Institutional Costs Approach (2021).