US Intelligence and Al Qaeda by Peter De Werd
This book fills a gap in intelligence studies by setting out a new analytic methodology of analysis by contrasting narratives (ACN) defining an enemy and attempting to counter threats potentially can also contribute to the manifestation of the threat and applies it to the problem the US faced in understanding and responding to the phenomenon of Al Qaeda in the 1990s. de Werd demonstrates how this approach can fill a gap in intelligence studies by enhancing the understanding of complex intelligence problems and strengthening the practice of intelligence analysis. Adopting a reflexivist theoretical stance, the book underlines the importance of an integrated approach to interpretation and action, and of a continuous dialogue between intelligence and policy.
This highly ambitious and deeply impressive book sets out a new analytic methodologyIt links debates in Security Studies and Intelligence Studies and represents a major statement (indeed, one of the major statements to date) in the development of a Critical Intelligence Studies, understood as a comparable approach to intelligence as those of Critical Security Studies and Critical Terrorism Studies in their respective fields. In its careful exposition of the ACN methodology via the al Qaeda case studies and in its reflection on the professional and academic relevance and utility of this approach, US Intelligence and Al Qaeda represents a significant contribution to the Intelligence Studies literature. -- Mark Phythian, University of Leicester
Peter de Werd is Assistant Professor of Intelligence and Security at the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474478076 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474478077 |
| Title | US Intelligence and Al Qaeda |
| Author | Peter De Werd |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2022-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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