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)  
  Seminars / Tutorials   11 Hours. (1 x 1 hour seminar followed by 5 x 2 hour seminar fortnightly)  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Exam2 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.

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:

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