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Intelligence Analysis

About Intelligence Analysis

Certain types of information may be of crucial importance for a government’s successful conduct of international negotiations, when staking out a new course of foreign policy or in combating terrorism, organized crime and the illegal intelligence activities of foreign states. Worldwide, governments invest significant resources to acquire and interpret such information. Measures taken by states to secure it may include clandestine activities that may be highly dubious from a political and ethical perspective. The consequences for international peace and security can be significant.

Intelligence Studies is an inter-disciplinary subject that addresses various aspects of states’ intelligence activities – how the collection and analysis of intelligence is organized; under what circumstances states fail to foresee and prevent threats; how totalitarian states, historically and in present time, use their security services to maintain power through the repression of their own people; and how democratic states pursue parliamentary oversight of the intelligence authorities. So-called business intelligence also constitutes part of the field of the Intelligence Studies.

Research in Intelligence Analysis

Publications from our researchers: 

Education in Intelligence Analysis

Courses (only in Swedish):

Research Group

Underrättelseanalys | Statsvetenskapliga institutionen (lu.se) (only on the Swedish site)

Staff

Contact

Johan Matz
Senior lecturer
Telephone: 046-222 89 29
E-mail: johan [dot] matz [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (johan[dot]matz[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)