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Comparative Foreign Intelligence Services: Framing Policy and Threat Perception

Comparative Foreign Intelligence Services: Framing Policy and Threat Perception

Avramov, Kiril
Adair, Bianca L.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Intelligence

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 19, 2026

ISBN10: 103256623X
ISBN13: 9781032566238
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 19 2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This edited volume develops a comparative theory of post-Cold War intelligence liaison between the U.S. intelligence community and its international counterparts.

It presents the U.S. perspective on these liaisons and moves beyond simple ally-adversary classifications, showing how cooperation is influenced by strategic threat perception, material power, access to intelligence, and institutional culture. The core of the book rests on a dual framework that combines neoclassical realism and intelligence studies: states pursue liaison not only due to formal alliances or power but also because threat perceptions, institutional culture, and intelligence access interact to create or limit decision advantages. Additionally, the volume advances our understanding of strategic institutional intelligence culture - the patterns through which intelligence agencies influence threat perception, policy interaction, secrecy management, and oversight. It classifies U.S. intelligence relationships along a spectrum: enduring partnerships, wary alliances, and transactional exchanges. The empirical section applies this framework to case studies including British-American and Israeli-American cooperation; Chinese and Russian intelligence under near-peer competition; and Cuban and Iranian systems influenced by regime security, revolutionary ideology, and gray-zone tactics. Examining the nature, type, and quality of interactions with intelligence agencies worldwide, along with an understanding of these interactions, is key to effective and smart intelligence practices.

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