The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence

This handbook provides a detailed analysis of threats and risk in the international system and of how governments and their intelligence services must adapt and function in order to manage the evolving security environment. This environment, now and for the foreseeable future, is characterised by complexity. The development of disruptive digital technologies; the vulnerability of critical national infrastructure; asymmetric threats such as terrorism; the privatisation of national intelligence capabilities: all have far reaching implications for security and risk management. The leading academics and practitioners who have contributed to this handbook have all done so with the objective of cutting through the complexity, and providing insight on the most pressing security, intelligence, and risk factors today. They explore the changing nature of conflict and crises; interaction of the global with the local; the impact of technological; the proliferation of hostile ideologies and the challenge this poses to traditional models of intelligence; and the impact of all these factors on governance and ethical frameworks. The handbook is an invaluable resource for students and professionals concerned with contemporary security and how national intelligence must adapt to remain effective.

Table of Contents

• The Quest for a Theory of Intelligence
• Rapid Urbanisation and Security: Holistic Approach to Enhancing Security of Urban Spaces
• Energy Security
• Evolving Biosecurity Frameworks
• Resilience and National Security
• Proxy Wars and the Contemporary Security Environment
• Resilience and Critical Infrastructure: Origins, Theories, and Critiques
• Intelligence and Organised Crime – Paradigms and Paradoxes
• Cyber Security
• Securing State Secrets
• The Rise of Smart Machines: The Unique Peril of Intelligent Software Agents in Defense and Intelligence
• ‘The More Things Change’: HUMINT in the Cyber Age
• Drones – Opportunities, Threats and Challenges
• Invisible Battlegrounds: On Force and Revolutions, Military and Otherwise
• Globalisation and Intelligence
• Capacity Building and Security Sector Reform
• Privatisation
• Criminality, Terrorism and the Changing Nature of Conflict: The Dynamics of the Nexus Between Crime and Terrorism
• Secret Interventions and Clandestine Diplomacy
• Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT)
• Corporate Intelligence
• The Ethics of Intelligence
• Risk, Security and International Law
• The Changing Media
• Terrorism and the News Media: Symbiosis, Control and Framing
• Two Worlds, One Common Pursuit: Why Greater Engagement with the Academic Community Could Benefit the UK’s National Security
• The Ethics of Whistleblowing, Leaking and Disclosure