Do intelligence services stabilise or destabilise the international system?
Intelligence agencies have always been a vital part of the protection of nations. Through Intelligence agencies the benefits tend to outweigh the disadvantages. Intelligence agencies have known to provide analysis in national security, give early warning of impending crisis, protect secrets, and serve domestic and international crisis management by helping to discern the intentions of the current or potential opponent. These are the services which intelligence has provided national and international communities so what happens when a national system affects an international system. In this essay, I will discuss and compare intelligence services and how they stabilise or destabilise the international system.
Intelligence agencies serve to protect the wellbeing and safety of national and international systems. Warner (2002) has argued that intelligence is a particular form of information that allows policy-makers, or operational commanders, to make more efficient decisions. In 2002 the Howard government deployed Australian troops to Iraq alongside the United States and Britain with the collaboration they joined in support of the
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The European Union has its satellite and sees intelligence as an essential component of a Common Foreign and Security Policy. The rise of the United Nations (UN) as a significant military actor has resulted in the need for intelligence to support the UN peacekeeping operations and hence interfacing with a small group of Western states with the required experience and global capabilities (Chesterman, 2006, p. 151).Terrorist attacks have been on the increase since the 9/11 attack on the twin towers through the cooperation of Intelligence services throughout the world the growth in security measures was