Democracy and Effectiveness: Adapting Intelligence for the Fight Against Terrorism

Abstract

Several countries in South America have recently undertaken reforms of their intelligence systems, and other countries in the region are now beginning similar reforms. While in most cases the initial motivation was to bring the intelligence agencies under democratic civil control as one of the last phases of democratic consolidation, civilian governments and military leaders are today increasingly motivated to reform their intelligence systems in order to better respond to threats from organized crime and terrorism.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA484633

Entities

People

  • Thomas C. Bruneau

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Democracy
  • Governments
  • Hispanics
  • Instructors
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • International Organizations
  • Law
  • Man Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • Social Sciences
  • Terrorism
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design