- Docente: Luisa Dall'Acqua
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs (cod. 9247)
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
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.