Intelligence Leadership and Governance - Building Effective Intelligence Communities in the 21st Century

This book explores the challenges leaders in intelligence communities face in an increasingly complex security environment and how to develop future leaders to deal with these issues.

As the security and policy-making environment becomes increasingly complicated for decision-makers, the focus on intelligence agencies 'to deliver' more value will increase. This book is the first extensive exploration of contemporary leadership in the context of intelligence agencies, principally in the 'Five Eyes' nations (i.e. Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand). It provides a grounded theoretical approach to building practitioner and researcher understanding of what individual and organisational factors result in better leadership. Using interviews from former senior intelligence leaders and a survey of 208 current and former intelligence leaders, the work explores the key challenges that leaders will likely face in the twenty-first century and how to address these. It also explores what principles are most likely to be important in developing future leaders of intelligence agencies in the future.

This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, strategic studies, leadership studies, security studies, and international relations.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Intelligence and Leadership 3. Tasking and Coordination 4. Collection 5. Analysis 6. Information and Communication Technologies 7. Human Resources 8. The Future IC Leader and Governance Challenges 9. Leadership Development 10. Conclusion

About the author

Patrick F. Walsh is an Associate Professor in Intelligence and Security Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia, and is a former intelligence analyst.

Summary

This book explores the challenges leaders in intelligence communities face in an increasingly complex security environment and how to develop future leaders to deal with these issues.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick F. Walsh, Patrick F. (Charles Sturt University Walsh, Walsh Patrick F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781138290853
• ISBN: 978-1-138-29085-3
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Studies in Intelligence; Studies in Intelligence
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Economics, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, Politics & government, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation, Politics and government, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Peace studies & conflict resolution