IP35620 - INTELLIGENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Module Identifier

IP35620

Module Title

INTELLIGENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Academic Year

2005/2006

Co-ordinator

Dr John P Maddrell

Semester

Semester 1

Mutually Exclusive

HY37030

Course delivery

Lecture

(1 x 1 hour per week)

Seminars / Tutorials

(1 x 1 hour seminar followed by 5 x 2 hour seminar fortnightly)

Assessment

Assessment Type	Assessment Length/Details	Proportion
Semester Exam	2 Hours	60%
Semester Assessment	2500 word essay	40%
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 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

Lectures

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

The module gives students the opportunity of developing, practising and testing a wide range of subject-specific skills which help them to understand, evaluate and discuss ideas and issues arising in the module. These skills include:
¿ 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 Lists

Books
Michael Herman (2001) Intelligence Services in the Information Age : Theory and Practice Frank Cass
Christopher Andrew (1985) Secret Service Scepter
Christopher Andrew (2000) The Mitrohkin Archive Penguin
Abram Shulsky (2002) Silent Warfare - Understanding the World of Intelligence Brasseys US

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6