Overview

This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics. The U.S. Intelligence Community is guided by a conviction that its practitioners are engaged in the scientific pursuit of fact-based evidence and its institutions uphold a set of tradecraft skills based on objectivity, timeliness and non-politicization that serve to define professionalism. That approach is counterintuitive to the way analysts actually seek to use language and rhetoric to convince and persuade readers, and counterproductive to the future recruitment and retention of subject matter experts. This book re-examines the assumptions and biases that underlie the intelligence profession in America and its increasing turn toward Artificial Intelligence, with case studies of declassified analytical products on Argentina, China, Iraq, Italy and South Africa. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence, national security, philosophy, US politics and foreign policy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Author:   Joshua Yaphe
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781041032953

ISBN 10:   1041032951
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   06 August 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Part I: Quality and Standards Chapter 1: Establishing a Framework Chapter 2: Apartheid in South Africa, 1952 Part II: Theory and Practice Chapter 3: Definitions of Intelligence Analysis Chapter 4: Elections in Italy, 1953 Part III: Sense-Making and Signification Chapter 5: Allowing for Subjective Experience Chapter 6: Saddam Hussein’s Survival, 1992 Part IV: Narrative and Storytelling Chapter 7: Reconceiving the Intelligence Cycle Chapter 8: Sino-Soviet Split, 1949 Part V: Time and Historical Consciousness Chapter 9: Objective and Subjective Time Chapter 10: Cultural Revolution in China, 1966 Part VI: Bias and Empathy Chapter 11: Understanding Intelligence Failures Chapter 12: Juan Perón’s Argentina, 1955 Part VII: Humans and Algorithms Chapter 13: Conclusion

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Joshua Yaphe is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest in Washington, DC, and a regular contributor to its journal, The National Interest. He has a PhD from American University and served as Senior Analyst for the Arabian Peninsula at the US Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).

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