Time and Narrative in Intelligence Analysis

A New Framework for the Production of Meaning
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-03295-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Studies in Intelligence

This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics.

The U.S. Intelligence Community is guided by a conviction that its practitioners are engaged in the scientific pursuit of fact-based evidence and its institutions uphold a set of tradecraft skills based on objectivity, timeliness and non-politicization that serve to define professionalism. That approach is counterintuitive to the way analysts actually seek to use language and rhetoric to convince and persuade readers, and counterproductive to the future recruitment and retention of subject matter experts. This book re-examines the assumptions and biases that underlie the intelligence profession in America and its increasing turn toward Artificial Intelligence, with case studies of declassified analytical products on Argentina, China, Iraq, Italy and South Africa.

This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence, national security, philosophy, US politics and foreign policy.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yaphe, Joshua

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Quality and Standards  Chapter 1: Establishing a Framework Chapter 2: Apartheid in South Africa, 1952  Part II: Theory and Practice  Chapter 3: Definitions of Intelligence Analysis Chapter 4: Elections in Italy, 1953  Part III: Sense-Making and Signification  Chapter 5: Allowing for Subjective Experience Chapter 6: Saddam Hussein’s Survival, 1992  Part IV: Narrative and Storytelling  Chapter 7: Reconceiving the Intelligence Cycle Chapter 8: Sino-Soviet Split, 1949  Part V: Time and Historical Consciousness  Chapter 9: Objective and Subjective Time Chapter 10: Cultural Revolution in China, 1966  Part VI: Bias and Empathy  Chapter 11: Understanding Intelligence Failures Chapter 12: Juan Perón’s Argentina, 1955  Part VII: Humans and Algorithms  Chapter 13: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Yaphe is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest in Washington, DC, and a regular contributor to its journal, The National Interest. He has a PhD from American University and served as Senior Analyst for the Arabian Peninsula at the US Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).