Strategic analysis in support of international policy making case studies in achieving analytical relevance

Broader thematic reflections on strategic analysis are combined with innovative case studies of how organizations have worked to successfully produce relevant analysis. The first section of the book explores challenges to achieving relevance at the level of the analyst, while the remainder of the bo...

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Other Authors: Juneau, Thomas (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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Table of Contents:
  • Making strategic analysis matter / Jeremy Ghez and Gregory F. Treverton
  • When the dominant discourse encounters small state realities : strategic analysis in New Zealand and the theory-policy gap / Robert Ayson
  • How intelligence analysis education tries to improve strategic analysis / Tim Walton
  • Here (very likely) be dragons : the challenges of strategic forecasting / Rex Brynen
  • The US National Intelligence Council's global trends : both more and less than meets the eye / Mat Burrows
  • The Bureau of Intelligence and Research in the State Department / Tom King
  • The role of strategic analysis in operations : a case study from Afghanistan / Paul Dickson
  • How to create an "institutional think tank" within a ministry of defence (and make it last) : France's Institut d'etudes strat{acute}egiques de l'ecole militaire (IRSEM) / Fr{acute}ed{acute}eric Charillon
  • The practice of open intelligence : the experience of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service / Jean-Louis Tiernan
  • NATO defense college : navigating between critical analysis, strategic education and partnerships / Trine Villumsen Berling and Brooke A. Smith-Windsor
  • Stratfor : merging intelligence and geopolitics / Kamran Bokhari
  • Strategic thinking or thinking strategically? : the ambiguous role of American think tanks / Donald Abelson
  • Balancing responsiveness, relevance and expertise : lessons from the history of strategic analysis in the Canadian Department of National Defence / Michael Roi and Paul Dickson