Beyond States and Spies: The Security Intelligence Services of the Private Sector

Name: Beyond States and Spies: The Security Intelligence Services of the Private Sector
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
Author: Lewis Sage-Passant
ISBN: 9781399543668

by Lewis Sage-Passant

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Examines how corporations use intelligence to shape and navigate the world.Scholars have long viewed intelligence as the preserve of nation states. Where the term 'private sector intelligence' is used, the focus has been overwhelmingly on government contractors. As such, a crucial aspect of intelligence power has been overlooked: the use of intelligence by corporations to navigate and influence the world. Where there has been academic scrutiny of the field, it is seen as a post-9/11 phenomenon, and that a state monopoly of intelligence has been eroded. Beyond States and Spies demonstrates - through original research - that such a monopoly never existed. Private sector intelligence is at least as old as the organised intelligence activities of the nation state. The book offers a comparative examination of private and public intelligence, and makes a compelling case for understanding the dangers posed by unregulated intelligence in private hands. Overall, this casts new light on a hitherto under investigated academic space.