93342 - Power, Information And Intelligence In International Policy

Learning outcomes

The course provides advanced knowledge on the role of intelligence as a decision-making process and as an institution. At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand: what is intelligence analysis, useful for preventing threats to national security; the complex relationships between the intelligence community and political authorities; the role of new technologies and the human factor in intelligence activities.

Course contents

INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS

- Intelligence as a profession, an organization, an academic discipline
- Political Cycle and Intelligence Cycle
- Decision-making in conditions of risk and uncertainty

TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE

- Human Intelligence (HUMINT)
- Image intelligence (IMINT) and Geo-spatial intelligence (GEOINT)
- Signal intelligence (SIGINT) and Communications intelligence (COMINT)
- Measurements and signature Intelligence (MASINT)
- Technological intelligence (TECHINT)
- Intelligence of free sources (Open Source) (OSINT)

INTELLIGENCE AND INFOSPHERE

- New threats
- Privacy and security
- Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity
- Psychology and politics of fear

INTELLIGENCEIN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD

- Geo-political actors, Community of Intelligence and international law
- International Intelligence Organizations. Counterintelligence
- eDiplomacy
- Information war and political destabilization
- Risk and Disaster management

STUDY CASES

Readings/Bibliography

Basic reference

- Salvatori P. (2018). L'intelligence nel sistema di sicurezza internazionale. La Lepre ed.

- Giannulli A. (2018). Come i servizi segreti stanno cambiando il mondo: Le strutture e le tecniche di nuovissima generazione al servizio delle guerre tradizionali, economiche, cognitive, informatiche. Ponte alle Grazie ed. (chapters: 4, 5)

Research work: a word taken from

- AA.AA. (2013). Quaderno di Intelligence, Gnosis, vol 1 (Available online)

Digital learning materials will be provided during the course.

 

Teaching methods

Lectures, webinars, and research work. Each student (individually or in a team) will do practice during the whole course, for both theory and case studies.

Assessment methods

The exam is divided into three parts: laboratories, open-ended tests and a final oral exam relating to the research work

Teaching tools

Digital presentations, videos, webinars, a publication of lecture notes, the use of a forum for ongoing questions and clarifications, collaborative writing and communication

Office hours

See the website of Luisa Dall'Acqua