Speaker
Description
This study determines strategic interest’s impact on the character of interstate intelligence diplomacy. Focused on clandestine diplomacy and intelligence liaison as specific variants, the study examines why the character of intelligence diplomacy deviates from anticipated trajectories when pursued as a tool of statecraft. It does so through three case studies: Israel’s clandestine diplomacies as part of its ‘Peripheral Alliance’ strategy (1957-1979), intra-EU intelligence sharing mechanisms (1991-2016), preferences surrounding and uses of informal/formal intelligence liaison mechanisms within the European Union (EU), and Anglo-Soviet liaison during the Second World War (1941-1945). Empirical insights subsequently drawn are used to explain such behaviour through theory-building pursued as part of a preliminary plausibility probe. It does so through hypothesis-testing conducted via foreign policy analysis (FPA), and by incorporating inputs from ‘intelligence power’ – the deployment of national intelligence architectures and capacities to exercise power – under an overarching cybernetic framework. The study seeks to serve a policy-relevant purpose by way of historical analysis, blending secondary research with consultation of primary data in the form of archival research/interviews. It draws attention to the expanded obligations of national intelligence services supplementing their traditional mandates, and of equipping them with greater urgency to meet these kinetically-oriented responsibilities in contemporary geopolitics.
| If you are submitting an Open Panel proposal, have you included all four abstracts in attachment? | Yes, I have included all required information (see below). |
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| Would you like to be considered for travel funding through the NetSec COST Action? | Yes |
| Are you a member of the NetSec Management Committee? | No |
| What discipline or branch of humanities or social sciences do you identify yourself with? | International Relations, Security Studies, Intelligence Studies |
| Which of the following best describes your stage of the career? | PhD Candidate |
| In which country is your home institution? | United Kingdom |
| What is your gender? | Male |