Why Intelligence? Why do We Need to Include the Word Intelligence in the Romanian Language Dictionary?

In: Analele Universității București: Annals of the University of Bucharest = ˜Lesœ Annales de l'Université de Bucarest. Științe politice = Political science series = Série Sciences politiques, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 65-80

Abstract

This paper advocates the introduction of the concept of intelligence in the Romanian language, in order to fill the current methodological gap. The need for a new concept emerged in the activity of Romanian intelligence services over a decade ago, when "intelligence" started to be used in parallel with "information" in external and internal missions.Our approach is focused on three dimensions, which we consider fundamental for our demarche: formulating a definition of intelligence, establishing its position in relation with other key-concepts from the cognitive field: data, information, intelligence and knowledge and underlining the differences between the four and finally making a brief presentation of the intelligence types, both in the military and intelligence field, and its extension to the business and academic sector in the last two or three decades.