Module Information
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 15 Hours. (2 x 1 hour per week) |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 10 Hours ( 5 x 2 hour seminar fortnightly) |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 x3,000 word essay | 50% |
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours (1 x 2 hour exam) | 50% |
| Supplementary Exam | Resit opportunities for this module will be available in the Supplementary examination period. F resit: The student will re-sit the module by examination only for a capped pass mark (40). H resit: The student will submit missing coursework elements and/or re-sit by examination in the upplementary exam period in lieu of a missed/failed exam for full marks. Students re-sitting elements of failed coursework are required to select a different essay/assignment title and must not submit re-written versions of the original essay/assignment. |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. analyse the role of intelligence in key aspects of national security policy-making since 1900
2. evaluate the implications of the end of the Cold War for intelligence and intelligence services
3. evaluate the efficacy and morality of 'covert operations' in international politics
4. possess insight into the nature of treachery
5. assess the role of espionage in the Cold War
6. demonstrate understanding of the relationship between intelligence and counter-intelligence
7. evaluate the implications of the end of the Cold War for intelligence and intelligence services
Brief description
This module will give students an understanding of the history of the development of intelligence as a factor in international relations and state security.
Aims
The aim of this module is to give students an understanding of the central ideas and issues in the study of intelligence. This aim is achieved by studying the historical development of intelligence as a factor in international relations and state security.
Content
1. Introduction: Intelligence in International Relations
2. The Origins and Structures of Intelligence
3. The Disciplines of Intelligence Collection
4. Analysis and Dissemination
5. Intelligence and Strategic Deception
6. Espionage and Counter-Espionage in the Cold War
7. Cover Action
8. Ethical and Moral Issues in Intelligence
9. Producers and Consumers: Politicization, or the Use and Abuse of Intelligence
10. Intelligence and The End of the Cold War
11. Counterterrorism and Intelligence
12. Intelligence Accountability and Oversight
13. Intelligence Failures
14. International Intelligence Cooperation
15. Where Next? New Challenges and Issues
Seminars
1. Introduction: Intelligence and Policy-Making
2 Covert Action
3. Ethics and Intelligence
4. Intelligence Cooperation in the Field of Counterterrorism
5. Intelligence Failures
Transferable skills
- reading and understand much varied information, using a variety of sources
- evaluating competing perspectives on the history of intelligence
- demonstrating subject-specific research techniques
- applying a variety of methodologies to complex problems
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6