Decolonizing Global Intelligence

Towards Inclusive Interstellar Statecraft
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-31673-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

From 9/11 to the calamitous withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Western intelligence has failed to negotiate the largest military and humanitarian crises across the world. This book proposes to decolonize global intelligence from the peripheries of the Global South and put forward a new intelligence practice of ‘inclusive interstellar statecraft’.

It shows how dominant Western intelligence systems have failed to protect the very ideas they promised to uphold, and the discrepancy between the West’s ‘Responsibility to Protect (R2P)’ liberalist doctrine and the realist on-the-ground complex reality as observed by the ‘Failure to Protect (F2P)’ scholarships. Drawing theoretical insights and empirical (both historical and contemporary) materials from a wide array of case studies of Western and non-Western intelligence settings and practices as well as their interactions, it argues that the next generation of global security and intelligence practitioners will necessitate genuine inter-racial, non-anthropocentric and cross-cultural inclusivity, especially the capability to take the non-Western intelligence cultures and their realist strategic thoughts seriously.

This book will not just add new knowledge to the larger field of security and intelligence studies, but will also pioneer the relatively underdeveloped fields of comparative intelligence cultures, and interstellar intelligence/cultural studies. It will be indispensable for policymakers, bureaucrats and government officials.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nung Wong, Pak

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Theory and Method 1. Introduction: Towards Inclusive Intelligence in Perpetual Conflicts 2. Decolonizing Intelligence from Peripheries: Lessons from Afghanistan and Neighbouring Countries 3. Subversive Ontology: Approaching Japanese Intelligence Culture as Non-Western Intelligence Practice Part II Emerging Intelligence Trends 4. Realist Liberation: Persistent Trends in Human Intelligence Operations 5. Five Eyes’ Decoupling from China’s Non-Traditional Intelligence Interdependency: Changing Security Intelligence Landscapes in American and British Universities (2007-2024) 6. Double Agents’ Predicaments: Inter-Cultural Mediation in Midst of Changing Australia-China Intelligence Interdependency 7. Saving ‘China Hands’: Germany Walks Tightrope in Midst of U.S.-China Global Intelligence Competition Part III Decolonizing Global Intelligence 8. Outline of Inclusive Intelligence Practice: Addressing the Islamic State’s Global-Localization Strategy in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines 9. Decolonizing Global Intelligence: Lebanon’s Coloniality of Power, Hezbollah’s Rise, and Iran’s ‘Shia Crescent’ Decolonization Project 10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Pak Nung Wong (D.Phil Oxon) teaches politics and international relations at the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath, United Kingdom. His books include: Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia: Sovereignty, State-Building and the Chinese in the Philippines (2024), Techno-Geopolitics: US-China Tech War and the Practice of Digital Statecraft (2022), Logic of the Powers: Towards an Impact-driven Practice of Futurist Statecraft (2022), Destined Statecraft: Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts (2018); Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia: A Treatise on Christian Statecraft (2016). He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal, Bandung: Journal of the Global South. His research interests are statecraft and geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region.