Brent Durbin (Massachusetts Smith College)

The CIA and the Politics of Us Intelligence Reform

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the political foundations of American intelligence policy, this book develops a theory of intelligence adaptation to explain major instances of US intelligence reform since the founding of the CIA. It will be valuable to scholars of intelligence studies, American politics, US national security, US foreign policy, and American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 165mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781107187405
• ISBN-10: 1107187400
• Artikelnr.: 48400517

Autorenporträt

Brent Durbin is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Smith College, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Politics, the CIA, and the pathology of intelligence reform
2. Understanding intelligence reform
Part I. Adapting to the Early Cold War: 3. The founding of US Central Intelligence, 1941-1946
4. US Intelligence and the early Cold War, 1947-1953
Part II. Adapting to the Collapse of the Cold War Consensus: 5. US Intelligence at the advent of détente, 1968-1974
6. Politicizing US Intelligence, 1974-1978
Part III. Adapting to the End of the Cold War: 7. Intelligence for a New World Order, 1989-1992
8. Scandal, study, and stasis, 1992-1996
Part IV. Adapting to the Post-9/11 Era: 9. Intelligence reform after 9/11, 2001-2004
10. Intelligence in an age of terror, 2004-2015
11. What have we learned?