The professionalization of intelligence cooperation: fashioning method out of mayhem

Abstract

Providing an in-depth insight into the subject of intelligence cooperation (officially known as liason), this book explores the complexities of this process in its international dimensions. Towards facilitating a general understanding of the professionalization of intelligence cooperation, Svendsen's analysis includes risk management and encouragement of the realisation of greater resilience. Svendsen discusses the controversial, mixed and uneven characterisations of this process and argues for a degree of 'fashioning method out of mayhem' through greater operational-to-strategic shaping.