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In a constantly changing environment, the inability to adapt will eventually lead to failure. In the high-stakes, fiercely competitive domain of national security and intelligence, the lack of adaptive capacity can lead to disastrous consequences, affecting not just the intelligence apparatus itself but the society it is meant to safeguard.
Today s complex security environment poses a tremendous challenge for intelligence organisations and wider governance structures. Bringing together academics and practitioners, this multidisciplinary volume explores the various facets of adaptation in intelligence. Drawing on theoretical and empirical research, it examines the mechanisms that facilitate and impede adaptation in intelligence, and assesses the significance of adaptability in the wider national security context.
The book will appeal to scholars and students of intelligence studies, public administration, political science and international relations as well as national security policymakers.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Adaptability of Intelligence and Contemporary Security Environments.- 2. Adapting to Change: The Evolution and Reformation of Intelligence Agencies.- 3. Anticipatory Systems and the Intelligence Function: Transnational Anticipatory Systems and Adaptability.- 4. Intelligence as Complex Adaptive System.- 5.Human Factors and Adaptation in Intelligence Organizations.- 6. Comparing the Dynamics of Organizational Adaptability of Intelligence, War and Business Domains.- 7. Adaptation in the Intelligence Workforce.- 8. Space-Based Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems: Growing Role of Commercial Capabilities.- 9. Adaptation of US Intelligence Communities to Evolving Economic Espionage.- 10. Safeguarding National Security in Times of Uncertainty: Reciprocal Relationships Between Resilience and Adaptation.- 11. Contemporary Grand Strategy: The Role of Intelligence for Organizing Intranational Resource Management.- 12. Enabling Strategic Adaptation Through Foresight: The Case of NISTEP in Japan.
About the author
Petri Uusikyla
is Research Director at the University of Vaasa, Finland and Adjunct Professor at the University of Eastern Finland.
Markus Peltola
is a senior defence expert, and Doctoral Researcher at the National Defence University, Finland.
Summary
In a constantly changing environment, the inability to adapt will eventually lead to failure. In the high-stakes, fiercely competitive domain of national security and intelligence, the lack of adaptive capacity can lead to disastrous consequences, affecting not just the intelligence apparatus itself but the society it is meant to safeguard.
Today’s complex security environment poses a tremendous challenge for intelligence organisations and wider governance structures. Bringing together academics and practitioners, this multidisciplinary volume explores the various facets of adaptation in intelligence. Drawing on theoretical and empirical research, it examines the mechanisms that facilitate and impede adaptation in intelligence, and assesses the significance of adaptability in the wider national security context.
The book will appeal to scholars and students of intelligence studies, public administration, political science and international relations as well as national security policymakers.
