Intelligence and U.S. foreign policy : Iraq, 9/11, and misguided reform / Paul R. Pillar.

By:

Pillar, Paul R

Language: English Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press , c2011.Description: xvi, 413 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

978-0-231-15792-6

Other title:

Intelligence and United States foreign policy

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Contents:

A comforting explanation for calamity -- Weapons of mass destruction and the Iraq war -- Alternative visions of the Iraq war -- Congress and the politics of the Iraq war -- Great decisions and the irrelevance of intelligence -- Politicization -- Scapegoats and spectator sport -- The never-ending issue -- Catharsis and 9/11 -- Responses to catharsis -- The illusion of reform -- Real reform -- Adapting policy to uncertainty.

Abstract: Discusses the interaction between intelligence gathering and policy making, showing how little policy-making is guided by intelligence and what intelligence reform will do (and has done) to the creation of policy.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monografías	Biblioteca Central del MAEC Depósito	46124	Available		1049749

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Discusses the interaction between intelligence gathering and policy making, showing how little policy-making is guided by intelligence and what intelligence reform will do (and has done) to the creation of policy.