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Making sense of transnational threats : workshop reports / Gregory F. Treverton

Author:
Treverton, Gregory F.
Published:
Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2005.
Physical Description:
xiv, 51 pages ; 28 cm.
Additional Creators:
Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division, Rand Corporation, and United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of Intelligence
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Contents:
Workshop I: The Analytic Challenges Posed by Terrorism and Other Transnational Issues -- Workshop II: Dealing with Analytic Biases Borne of Cognition, Culture and Small-Group Processes -- Workshop III: Adapting Organizations -- Workshop IV: Communicating with Consumers.
Summary:
Global Futures Partnership, part of the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, and the RAND Corporation convened a series of four one-day workshops from February to September 2003 to examine how to better integrate alternative analysis into the analytic process. The basic assumption of the workshops was that "transnational" issues, such as terrorism, present a different set of analytic challenges than more traditional intelligence topics targeted primarily on nation states. This document contains the reports from those four workshops. Participants in the first workshop probed how transnational issues differ analytically from "traditional" state-centric issues. The second session examined the difficulties that transnational issues pose at the individual-analyst and small-working-group level. The third session was focused on the following question: Does the existing shape of intelligence organizations advance or impede analysis of transnational issues? The concluding workshop focused on how to deal and communicate with intelligence's consumers, from law enforcement officials, to foreign states, to the American public.
Report Numbers:
RAND/CF-200
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ISBN:
0833037250
Note:
"National Security Research Division."
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Other Forms:
Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
Funding Information:
Rand Corporation, National Security Research Division. ONA05 5201
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