Intelligence without Essence: Rejecting the Classical Theory of Definition

Gaspard, Jules

doi:10.1080/08850607.2017.1263527

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence

2017

DOI: 10.1080/08850607.2017.1263527

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Intelligence without Essence: Rejecting the Classical Theory of Definition

Jules Gaspard

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Always in control? Sovereign states in cyberspace

Mainwaring

2020

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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For well over twenty years, we have witnessed an intriguing debate about the nature of cyberspace. Used for everything from communication to commerce, it has transformed the way individuals and societies live. But how has it impacted the sovereignty of states? An initial wave of scholars argued that it had dramatically diminished centralised control by states, helped by a tidal wave of globalisation and freedom. These libertarian claims were considerable. More recently, a new wave of writing has argued that states have begun to recover control in cyberspace, focusing on either the police work of authoritarian regimes or the revelations of Edward Snowden. Both claims were wide of the mark. By contrast, this article argues that we have often misunderstood the materiality of cyberspace and its consequences for control. It not only challenges the libertarian narrative of freedom, it suggests that the anarchic imaginary of the Internet as a ‘Wild West’ was deliberately promoted by states in order to distract from the reality. The Internet, like previous forms of electronic connectivity, consists mostly of a physical infrastructure located in specific geographies and jurisdictions. Rather than circumscribing sovereignty, it has offered centralised authority new ways of conducting statecraft. Indeed, the Internet, high-speed computing, and voice recognition were all the result of security research by a single information hegemon and therefore it has always been in control.

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Intelligence without Essence: Rejecting the Classical Theory of Definition

Cited by 13 publications

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Always in control? Sovereign states in cyberspace

Always in control? Sovereign states in cyberspace

The governance of covert action: asymmetric power and the British plan to overthrow Saddam

A fundamental re-conceputalization of intelligence: cognitive activity and the pursuit of advantage

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