Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 15 Hours. (1 x 1 hour per week) |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 11 Hours. (1 x 1 hour seminar followed by 5 x 2 hour seminar fortnightly) |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 2500 word essay | 40% |
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours | 60% |
| Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module, normally during the supplementary examination period. For further clarification please contact the Academic Administrator in the Department of International Politics. |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. analyse the role of intelligence in key aspects of national security policy-making since 1900
2. evaluate the implications of the end of the Cold War for intelligence and intelligence services
3. evaluate the role of intelligence in the military history of two world wars
4. evaluate the efficacy and morality of 'covert operations' in international politics
5. possess insight into the nature of treachery
6. assess the role of espionage in the Cold War
7. demonstrate understanding of the relationship between intelligence and counter-intelligence
8. evaluate the implications of the end of the Cold War for intelligence and intelligence services
Brief description
This module will give students an understanding of the history of the development of intelligence as a factor in international relations and state security.
Aims
The aim of this module is to give students an understanding of the central ideas and issues in the study of intelligence. This aim is achieved by studying the historical development of intelligence as a factor in international relations and state security.
Content
- Introduction to intelligence and national security: ideas and issues
- Intelligence and the First World War
- State security and intelligence in the USSR, 1917-1941
- The Nazi Party and its security and intelligence services, 1933-1945
- The Nazi security services and the Holocaust
- Soviet espionage against the West, 1917-1951
- Soviet espionage against the West, 1951-1991
- Signals intelligence before and during the Second World War
- Western espionage against the USSR during the Cold War
- Western technical intelligence collection on the USSR during the Cold War
- The Soviet security and intelligence services, the Communist Party and the Soviet peoples, 1941-1991; the East German Stasi
- Covert action, Soviet-style: Soviet security operations and active measures outside the USSR
- Covert action, Western-style
- Counter-espionage, Treachery and Molehunts
- Issues in Intelligence Failure
- Post-Cold War intelligence
Transferable skills
- reading and understand much varied information, using a variety of sources
- evaluating competing perspectives on the history of intelligence
- demonstrating subject-specific research techniques
- applying a variety of methodologies to complex problems
Reading List
Abram Shulsky (2002) Silent Warfare - Understanding the World of Intelligence Brasseys US Primo search Christopher Andrew (1985) Secret Service Scepter Primo search Christopher Andrew (2000) The Mitrohkin Archive Penguin Primo search Michael Herman (2001) Intelligence Services in the Information Age : Theory and Practice Frank Cass Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6