Intelligence in Democracies: Dynamic or Dormant

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Democracies continually face security challenges both externally and internally. As the current war in Europe demonstrated democratic countries intelligence services played a critical role supporting Ukraine prior to and following the Russian attacks. Domestically, many democracies intelligence services face criticism from political leaders who feel they have been politicized by their opponents. Our panel explores these issues.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Intelligence Studies Group

Individual Presentations

• A Typology of Entities Practicing Intelligence - Andrew Macpherson, University of New Hampshire; Frederic Baron, National Intelligence University

• Fusion Centers in Germany: Cases of Successfully Failing Organizations? - Eckhard Schroeter, German University of the Police

• Gold Nuggets? The Puzzling Tolerance of Official Cover Espionage - Thomas M. Dolan, University of Central Florida

Chair

• Manolis Priniotakis National Intelligence University

Discussant

• David Patrick Oakley University of South Florida