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Intelligence Prioritisation in an Age of Mid-Tier Powers: Information Requirements for a Globalised UK book cover

1st Edition

Intelligence Prioritisation in an Age of Mid-Tier Powers Information Requirements for a Globalised UK

By James Thomson Copyright 2027
160 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines how UK intelligence and national security priorities can best inform foreign policy strategy in the emerging geopolitical order. It analyses the impact on the UK intelligence community of an emerging world order characterised by an unbalanced multipolarity, in which mid-tier powers use diverse levers of power autonomously, leveraging greater influence than previously. In... Read more

Chapter 1: Intelligence Needs Under a New World Order  Chapter 2: The Changing Drivers of Intelligence Requirements and Priorities  Chapter 3:  Government, Requirements and Priorities: The Mechanics of an Intelligence Mandate  Chapter 4: The National Level: The Different Requirements of Saudi Arabia and Iran  Chapter 5: Amongst Other Powers: UK Intelligence Requirements and Transnational Issues  Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks: Setting Intelligence Requirements and Priorities in an Age of Mid-Tier Powers

Biography

James Thomson has worked within the intelligence and security spheres in the Middle East for many years. He received his PhD from Brunel University and is the author of Conflict and Cooperation in Intelligence and Security Organisations: An Institutional Costs Approach (2021).

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