Module Identifier IP33320  
Module Title INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY  
Academic Year 2000/2001  
Co-ordinator Dr Peter Jackson  
Semester Semester 1  
Course delivery Lecture   10 Hours 10 x 1 hour  
  Seminars / Tutorials   6 Hours 6 x 2 hour  
Assessment Exam   2 Hours   70%  
  Essay   1 x 2,000 word essay   30%  

Brief description
Intelligence has been described as the `missing dimension? in the study of international affairs. Yet the period since 1870 has witnessed the development of permanent and professional intelligence agencies within the government bureaucracies of most states. In recent years, intelligence studies has emerged as a significant field of scholarship, casting new light on key events and issues related to decision making and political culture. Yet, at the same time, the study of intelligence faces considerable methodological challenges.

Aims
The aim of this course is to examine the role of intelligence in national security policy making from the Napoleonic era to the end of the Second World War in 1945. This is done by tracing the evolution of permanent and professional intelligence organisations in international society and by focusing on key events and issues in the international history of this period.

Objectives
By the end of the module students should be able to:

10 ECTS Credits

Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
Michael Herman. Intelligence, Power in Peace and War.