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The politics of intelligence failures: power, rationality, and the intelligence process
Swedish Defence University, Department of Political Science and Law, Political Science Division.
2023 (English)In: Intelligence and national security, ISSN 0268-4527, E-ISSN 1743-9019, Vol. 38, no 5, p. 726-739Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article develops a new approach to analysing intelligence failures. Rather than looking for their causes, intelligence failures are here analysed as part of a politics seeking to reify the value of rationality and the taming of power. To analyse this politics, the article draws on Bent Flyvbjerg’s notion of an asymmetrical relation of power/rationality, according to which power has a productive role that is inseparable from claims to rationality. The asymmetrical relation of power/rationality is used in order to challenge the instrumentalist language that pervades much of the literature on intelligence failures and what can be learned from them.

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2023. Vol. 38, no 5, p. 726-739
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-11168DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2022.2148866OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-11168DiVA, id: diva2:1716272
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