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 Academic Year: |
2014/5 |
| Owning Department/School: |
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies |
| Credits: |
6 |
| Level: |
Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| Assessment Summary: |
CW 33%, ES 67% |
| Assessment Detail: |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: |
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| Description: |
Aims: This unit provides students with the ability to evaluate the impact of intelligence, counterespionage, and covert action policies on national security policy and international politics. Learning Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this unit will: 1) understand the main theoretical and scholarly debates surrounding the role of intelligence in international relations and foreign policy; 2) have a good knowledge of a range of major contemporary United States and allied intelligence and counter-intelligence policy issues; 3) understand the role of covert action in international politics; 4) be able to think critically and theoretically about the nature of intelligence failures and their impact on international politics; 5) have demonstrated skills in research, analysis and communication. Skills: Skills in critical analysis, precision in the use of written and spoken language, exercise of independent judgement, reasoned argument, effective communication, teamwork and the planning/conduct/reporting of non-quantitative research are developed and assessed in this unit. Content: The unit will consider: 1) the major actors in the intelligence community; 2) the U.S. intelligence agenda during the Cold War, and how that agenda has changed since its end; 3) the major steps in the intelligence process are studied and types of intelligence and collection methods; 4) specific problems associated with analysis, with emphasis placed on historical cases; 5) counterintelligence issues and problems; 6) the use of covert action and paramilitary means to advance national security policy as well as the international political consequences of intelligence operations and covert action; and 7) the difficulties of learning the right lessons from intelligence failures and successes, and the cases of 9/11 and the 2003 Iraq War. |
| Programme availability: |
PL30885 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
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