Module Identifier |
IP35620 |
Module Title |
INTELLIGENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY |
Academic Year |
2007/2008 |
Co-ordinator |
Dr John P Maddrell |
Semester |
Semester 1 |
Other staff |
Mr Tristan John Price |
Mutually Exclusive |
HY37030 |
Course delivery |
Lecture | 15 Hours. (1 x 1 hour per week) |
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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 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. | |
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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.
Content
Lectures
1. Introduction to intelligence and national security: ideas and issues
2. State security in the USSR, 1917-1941
3. The Nazi Party and its security and intelligence services, 1933-1945
4. The Nazi security services and the Holocaust
5. Soviet espionage against the West, 1917-1991
6. Signals intelligence before and during the Second World War
7. Human, imagery and other intelligence during the Second World War
8. Western human intelligence collection on the USSR during the Cold War
9. Western technical intelligence collection on the USSR during the Cold War
10. Social control in Communist states in the post-Stalin era, 1953-1991: the KGB and the East German Stasi
11. Covert action, Soviet-style: Soviet security operations and active measures outside the USSR
12. Covert action, American-style
13. Counter-espionage and Treachery
14. Issues in Intelligence Failure
15. Post-Cold War intelligence
Seminars:
1. Introduction: what is intelligence?
2. Soviet espionage against the West; counter-espionage
3. Security services and state control in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
4. Intelligence in the Second World War
5. Western intelligence collection during and after the Cold War
6. Covert action during and after the Cold War
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.
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:
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reading and understand much varied information, using a variety of sources
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evaluating competing perspectives on the history of intelligence
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demonstrating subject-specific research techniques
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applying a variety of methodologies to complex problems
Reading Lists
Books
Abram Shulsky (2002) Silent Warfare - Understanding the World of Intelligence
Brasseys US
Christopher Andrew (1985) Secret Service
Scepter
Christopher Andrew (2000) The Mitrohkin Archive
Penguin
Michael Herman (2001) Intelligence Services in the Information Age : Theory and Practice
Frank Cass
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6