Transatlantic Intelligence Cooperation and the Global War on Terrorism
ResearchPosted on rand.org 2007Published in: Cooperating Against Terrorism: EU-US Relations Post September 11--Conference Proceedings (Stockholm, Sweden: Swedish National Defence College, 2007), p. 31-40
The purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, it will provide a broad overview of international intelligence cooperation, a phenomenon also known as intelligence liaison. Second, it will discuss key aspects of post-9/11 intelligence collaboration in the global war on terrorism. Finally, the paper will explore some of the challenges to intelligence cooperation since the attacks of 11 September 2001. It focuses exclusively on post-9/11 counterterrorism collaboration between civilian intelligence services.
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