Time and Narrative in Intelligence Analysis: A New Framework for the Production of Meaning [Hardcover]

Part I: Quality and Standards??Chapter 1: Establishing a Framework? Chapter 2: Apartheid in South Africa, 1952??Part II: Theory and Practice??Chapter 3: Definitions of Intelligence Analysis? Chapter 4: Elections in Italy, 1953??Part III: Sense-Making and Signification??Chapter 5: Allowing for Subjective Experience? Chapter 6: Saddam Husseins Survival, 1992??Part IV: Narrative and Storytelling??Chapter 7: Reconceiving the Intelligence Cycle? Chapter 8: Sino-Soviet Split, 1949??Part V: Time and Historical Consciousness??Chapter 9: Objective and Subjective Time? Chapter 10: Cultural Revolution in China, 1966??Part VI: Bias and Empathy??Chapter 11: Understanding Intelligence Failures? Chapter 12: Juan Per?ns Argentina, 1955??Part VII: Humans and Algorithms??Chapter 13: Conclusion? ? ? ? ? ? ??

This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics.

This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics.

The US Intelligence Community is guided by a conviction that its practitioners are engaged in the scientific pursuit of fact-based evidence and its institutions uphold a set of tradecraft skills based on objectivity, timeliness and non-politicization that serve to define professionalism. That approach is counterintuitive to the way analysts aclÓ0