Descripción del proyecto
Comprender la cooperación informal en materia de inteligencia antiterrorista
La amenaza del terrorismo en Europa ha llevado a una mayor cooperación antiterrorista que se basa en el intercambio de información sobre la lucha contra el terrorismo. El proyecto LINSEC, financiado con fondos europeos, explorará qué favorece y sostiene la cooperación antiterrorista informal en Europa. Ayudará a comprender mejor la lógica de la cooperación informal en materia de seguridad. El proyecto combinará estudios de seguridad, estudios de historia internacional y estudios de inteligencia apoyándose en los conocimientos de la Universidad de Dinamarca del Sur en materia de estudios de seguridad, en entrevistas con funcionarios de inteligencia y en más de 30 000 registros de inteligencia de 1971 a 1979. LINSEC analizará los factores internos y externos que determinan la cooperación, las reacciones de los organismos ante las amenazas a la seguridad y las condiciones que indican que existe una cooperación informal en materia de seguridad. Por último, comparará la cooperación antiterrorista informal en los años setenta del siglo pasado y en la actualidad.
Objetivo
This MSCA research project on the logic of informal security cooperation (LINSEC) combines the research fields of security studies, IR, international history, and intelligence studies to answer the project’s overarching research question: What drives and sustains informal counterterrorism cooperation? To answer this question, LINSEC builds on the University of Southern Denmark’s (SDU) expertise in security studies, my research experience in history and intelligence studies, interviews with intelligence officers, and my recently obtained unprecedented access to over 30,000 intelligence records from 1971 to 1979. These records are from a counterterrorism intelligence-sharing framework called the Club de Berne, which is still today’s main cooperation platform for informal intelligence-sharing on terrorism. To understand the logic of informal security cooperation, the project analyses four different aspects. (1) The prerequisites: what internal and external factors determine whether policymakers seek informal security cooperation. (2) Cooperation mechanism: how agencies react to terrorist threats and adapt their habits and modes of security cooperation. (3) Formal versus informal: the conditions under which these actors prefer informal over formal security cooperation, and how informal counterterrorism cooperation ties in or comes into conflict with formal alliances. (4) Continuity over time: what made informal counterterrorism cooperation effective in the 1970s and what makes it effective today? Each of these elements form one objective, which then contain a corresponding research, training, and dissemination subobjective.
This project aligns squarely with the Horizon 2020 security research area and its aim of fostering secure European societies. Providing a better understanding of the factors that enhance interstate security cooperation will benefit scholars, security professionals, and policymakers alike.
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