Description du projet
Comprendre la coopération informelle en matière de renseignement antiterroriste
La menace terroriste en Europe a conduit à une coopération antiterroriste accrue qui repose sur le partage de renseignements antiterroristes. Le projet LINSEC, financé par l’UE, examinera les facteurs qui motivent et soutiennent la coopération antiterroriste informelle en Europe. Il améliorera notre compréhension de la logique d’une coopération informelle en matière de sécurité. Le projet combinera des études de sécurité, des études d’histoire internationale et des études de renseignement, en s’appuyant sur les connaissances de l’université du Danemark du Sud en matière d’études dans le domaine de la sécurité, sur des entretiens avec des officiels du renseignement et sur plus de 30 000 dossiers de renseignement couvrant la période de 1971 à 1979. Le projet LINSEC analysera les facteurs internes et externes déterminant la coopération, les réactions des agences aux menaces pour la sécurité et les conditions suggérant une coopération informelle en matière de sécurité. Enfin, il comparera la coopération informelle en matière de contre-terrorisme des années 1970 avec celle d’aujourd’hui.
Objectif
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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