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National Security and Intelligence

National Security and Intelligence

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Course Description

Explain and understand: the role of intelligence (counterintelligence) in multisectoral model of national security, traditional and postmodern intelligence, relationship of politics and intelligence, the legal regulation of the intelligence system, the relationship of ethics and intelligence, intelligence ethics; analyze and understand the modalities of modern intelligence operations.

Study Programmes

undergraduate
Infantry - course
Elective course for the 7th semester MLM-Infantry study (7. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Explain the role of the intelligence community in the national security system
  2. Formulate ethical issues related to intelligence activities
  3. Adopt the principles of intelligence ethics
  4. Understand ovesight system of the intelligence community
  5. Encourage and create mutual trust in the intelligence community between professional intelligence organizations and society
  6. Understand intelligence processes, tactics and procedures
  7. Compare traditional and postmodern intelligence
  8. Understand counterintelligence processes, tactics and procedures
  9. Understand the organization and operation of the intelligence system of the Republic of Croatia
  10. Critically evaluate case studies

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Seminars and workshops

Independent assignments

Multimedia and the internet

Other

diskusije, studije slučaja

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: Introduction to the course, a description of the content and objectives of the course, the structure of the course, an introduction to the seminar, review of the literature Exercises: Shadow people: documentary film
  2. Lectures: Introduction to intelligence: intelligence systems and services/agencies Exercises: Shadow people: documentary film
  3. Lectures: The role of the intelligence community in support of national security policy Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (Cold War)
  4. Lectures: Managing intelligence community: legal regulation Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (Cold War)
  5. Lectures: Managing intelligence systems: functional aspects Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (Cold War)
  6. Lectures: Ethics and intelligence Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (Cold War)
  7. Lectures: Intelligence ethics Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (defectors)
  8. Lectures: Traditional and postmodern intelligence Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (defectors)
  9. Lectures: Counterterrorism and intelligence: socio-political aspects, dilemmas and consequences Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (defectors)
  10. Lectures: Counterterrorism and intelligence: functional aspects Exercises: Counterintelligence operations: case study (deception)
  11. Lectures: Republic of Croatia: history of intelligence system Exercises: Counterintelligence operations: case study (double-cross systems)
  12. Lectures: Republic of Croatia: organization of intelligence system Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (traditional counterterrorism)
  13. Lectures: Intelligence system of the Republic of Croatia and Euro-Atlantic integration Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (counterterrorism/War on Terror)
  14. Lectures: Republic of Croatia: intelligence oversight Exercises: Intelligence operations: case study (counterterrorism/War on Terror)
  15. Lectures: Review of the overall teaching and preparing students (through discussion) for final oral exam Exercises: Intelligence operations: project proposal

Literature

(.), George, Z.R.; Kline, D.R. (2005.)(eds.), Intelligence and the National Security Strategists: Enduring Issues and Challenges, Lanham/New York/Oxford: Rowman Littlefield Publishers.,
(.), Herman, M. (1996.) Intelligence: Power in Peace and War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.,
(.), Goldman, J. (2006.)(ed.) Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional, Lanham/ Toronto/Oxford: The Scarecrow Press.,

For students

General

ID 282216
  Winter semester
5.0 ECTS
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
30 Seminar