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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"intelligence agencies"”.
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Intelligence-policy relations and the problem of politicization
… and mediate international signals. The study of intelligence-policy relations fits naturally into this mold, because intelligence agencies are specifically designed to collect and interpret information about the international environment. This study provides a general framework for theorizing …
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Electronic evidence in criminal proceedings
… powers of law enforcement and security and intelligence agencies to obtain electronic evidence, and (ii) its subsequent admissibility in criminal proceedings? Written with an emphasis on South African law, but also taking into account aspects of foreign and international law, the thesis …
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British intelligence and threats to national security, c.1941-1951
This dissertation studies the way that Britain's intelligence services changed priorities from the Second World War to the early Cold War. It stretches from the point when the Soviet Union entered the Second World War as Britain's ally in 1941, to the moment a decade later in 1951, when the Cold …
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Spying: A Normative Account of the Second Oldest Profession
… second argument is that the law-enforcement and intelligence officials who employ these principles should not alone determine how they apply in particular cases - the principles should be institutionalized.</p><p>In chapter three I demonstrate that the five principles are supported by widespread …
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Information selection in intelligence processing
In many intelligence agencies, the processing of data into usable information ready for analysis poses a significant bottleneck. Typically, much more data is available than what can be processed in the limited time available for processing. We formulate the problem faced by an intelligence …
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The Appropriate Use of Human Intelligence in Combating Terrorism
… planned terror activities by a well developed intelligence network. It seems that to establish a good intelligence collection system an approach in which HUMINT and TECHINT are interdependent with each other is necessary. By using a combination of human and technical intelligence collection …
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The Use of Intelligence in Indonesian Counter-Terrorism Policing
… most pressing issues confronting law enforcement agencies today concerns responding to and preventing terrorism. In general, counter-terrorism (CT) efforts fall into two categories: pre-crime and post-crime. Unlike post-crime efforts that respond to terrorist acts that have already occurred, …
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Dysfunction junction intelligence, peacekeeping, and the United Nations
… 2007. The UN, however, lacks the institutional intelligence capacity to provide guidance, high-level assessments, and tactical/operational intelligence support for the over 100,000 peacekeepers around the world. The UN's lack of focused capabilities is particularly surprising in the post-9/11 …
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Intelligence architecture in the Hungarian Special Operations Forces
… dominance. Information gathered by human intelligence becomes even more important in asymmetric warfare. The role of the SOF in the collection of important information in theater requires a robust intelligence architecture at the unit level. The final goal should be the complete …
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Sooner is better : covert action to prevent realignment
… covert action as a result of bias on the part of intelligence agencies. Nor do they use it to add to their power. Rather, states act covertly when they fear international realignment.
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Are Cyber Operations Having an Impact on State Electoral Processes?
… between the attacks and Russia’s state intelligence services became apparent. Further research revealed Russian intelligence agencies’ historic use of covert ‘active measures’ and their current efforts to incorporate cyber operations within those measures, thus increasing active …
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International regulation of foreign intelligence liaison
… quantity of classified and top - secret foreign intelligence in history. The leak revealed the extent of pervasive global government surveillance that has been and continues to be conducted by foreign intelligence agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States and the …
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The Legal Accountability of the UK Intelligence Services
… of debate regarding the accountability of the intelligence agencies. However, much of the debate may have approached the subject from a one-sided perspective. Either the discussion has tended to be weighted in favour of the ideological values integral to the civil liberties agenda or it has …
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Testing One Framework for Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age
… that would be useful to the United States' intelligence agencies as they attempt to determine which states will likely become prominent actors on the international stage, and the broader goal of allowing an evaluation of one or two countries rather than a mere rank ordering of states based …
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Understanding Russian Hybrid Warfare: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Soviet Active Measures and Russian New Generation Warfare
… and other unconventional tactics used by Soviet intelligence agencies, the Kremlin deploys comparable strategies for directly targeting its adversaries in the twenty-first century without requiring conventional forces, but implements the stages that allow a conventional deployment. This research …
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Backdoor encryption policies : a legal dilemma
… The discussion emerging from law enforcement and intelligence agencies revolves around the concern that these agencies have in respect of their inability to access encrypted data online due to the use of encryption and which consequently prohibits them from exercising the powers given to them by …
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Living in the shadow: Britain and the USSR’s nuclear weapon delivery systems 1949-62
This thesis examines British intelligence collection efforts against the Soviet Union’s nuclear bombers and long-range nuclear ballistic missiles during the period 1949 until 1962. It also analyses the serious intelligence collection problems that were encountered concerning this topic and how …
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Content and end-state-based alteration in the practice of political violence since the end of cold war: the difference between the terrorism of the cold war and the terrorism of al Qaeda: the rise of the "transcendental terrorist"
… Additionally a threat was posed by the intelligence agents and subversives of the other bloc. As a result the domestic element of this threat was responded to with counter-intelligence agencies. Externally: The threat of a conventional war (World War III) meant that the armed forces of …
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National cybersecurity capacity building framework for counties in a transitional phase.
… Affairs Authority, the oil and gas sector and intelligence agencies. A set of objectives was derived from these studies to identify the key initiatives for the development of national cybersecurity capacity in the country. This research also used secondary data sources such as government …
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Person of interest rapid identification and tracking (POIRIT) assistance system
… In response, Pakistan's armed forces and intelligence agencies successfully cleared affected areas of terrorist presence, ushering in a semblance of peace. However, this progress gave rise to new issues, as terrorist and militant factions covertly infiltrated cities, engaging in both acts …