Intelligence management in the Americas / Russell G. Swenson and Carolina Sancho Hirane, editors.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Swenson, Russell George, editor.

Hirane, Carolina Sancho, editor.

National Intelligence University (U.S.), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--Government policy.

Intelligence service.

Intelligence service--Law and legislation.

Intelligence service--Central America.

Intelligence service--Latin America.

Intelligence service--North America.

Intelligence service--South America.

Central America.

Latin America.

North America.

South America.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 530 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : NI Press, Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, National Intelligence University, 2015.

Summary:

Brings together the perspectives of 22 authors from across the Americas. They outline and assess the status and promise of intelligence oversight legislation and actions, and develop various arguments for preserving the best aspects of intelligence autonomy. This book builds on the findings made in two earlier books, Intelligence professionalism in the Americas (2003 and 2004) and Democratización de la función de inteligencia: el nexo de la cultura nacional y la inteligencia estratégica (2009).

Contents:

Introduction : Management of national intelligence / Russell G. Swenson. Section One : Intelligence oversight in democratic context : legislative, ethical and legal dimensions. Commentary on Section One / Marco Cepik

Intelligence laws in Peru and Latin America

historical, legal, and institutional evolution / Andres Gomez de la Torre Rotta with Arturo Medrano Carmona

Intelligence laws of North, Central, and South America (table) / Liza Zuniga

Watching the watchers : oversight of intelligence services in democratic regimes / Joanisval Brito Goncalves

Status of oversight over intelligence services (table) / Russell G. Swenson and Carolina Sancho Hirane

Ethics and intelligence : review of European and North American experience and its application in Latin America / Carlos Maldonado Prieto

Human rights and intelligence ethics : case studies from cinema / Moira Nakousi Salas and Daniel Soto Muñoz

Intelligence, communications media, and political discourse / Manuel I. Balcazar Villareal.

Section Two : Intelligence management within the executive branch of government. Presidential decisionmaking process and intelligence

exploring an open question / Guillermo Holzmann

Improving producer-consumer relationships at the executive level : a continuing challenge / Manuel I. Balcazar Villareal

Between fear and need : an essay on historical interpretation / Jorge L. Jouroff

Strategic intelligence requirements for the security of Latin America / Mariano Bartolome

Economic intelligence : an examination of its status in the Andean countries / Alvaro Jose Venegas Gonzalez

Intelligence resource management / Dan Elkins

Changing paradigms in military intelligence

civil affairs operations and the threat of militarily capable criminal groups / G.M. Capo and M.A. Duarte

Intelligence cooperation in the framework of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) : possibilities and limitations / Carolina Sancho Hirane.

Section Three : Intelligence community management of privacy and security issues. Intelligence community management of conflicting privacy and security issues / Jose Manuel Ugarte

Comments on the essays in Section Three / Thomas C. Bruneau

Institutional challenges in the integration of the Brazilian public security intelligence system / Priscila Carlos Brandao

Intelligence

from the prison environment to the national security system / Liza Zuniga Collado

Intelligence autonomy, accountability, and internal security : foundations for oversight / Russell G. Swenson and Zulia Yanzadig Orozco Reynoso.

Section Four : Managing intelligence integration : a challenge for intelligence services. Commentary : intelligence education and integration : a symbiotic relationship / Anne Daugherty Miles

The education of a strategic intelligence professional : fulfilling national expectations / Jose Gabriel Paz

Managing intelligence information for multinational cyberspace security

approaches by the United States and Brazil / Robin M. Rogers

Harnessing security sector intellectual capital : transforming advisor situational awareness into sociopolitical understanding in a smart power environment / William S. Brei, Nathalie J. Frensley and Killaurin O. Roberts. Conclusion / Carolina Sancho Hirane.

Notes:

"June 2015."

Also available in Spanish (differs slightly). Address as of 11/2/15: http://ni-u.edu/ni_press/pdf/Intel_en_las_Americas.pdf

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-499) and index.

Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (NIU, viewed October 29, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version: Intelligence management in the Americas

ISBN:

9781932946437

1932946438

OCLC:

915081759