The geopolitical economy of state-led intelligence-commerce

Two examples from Iraq and West Germany

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12716670
AutoresSophia Hoffmann (0000-0002-6128-5535, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Páginas1-17
Fecha de publicación2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2022.2075527
OpenAlexW4281947226
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas60

This article argues that intelligence agencies are actors in the global political economy. Two key arguments are advanced: firstly, that states use intelligence-commerce to secretly pursue economic, strategic aims, which they have to publicly shun for political or normative reasons. Secondly, that states' specific use of intelligence-commerce is related to their structural position within the international political economy. To demonstrate that the use of intelligence-commerce exceeds regime-type and straddles the presumed, strict boundary of ‘democratic' and ‘authoritarian' intelligence, this article uses Iraqi and West German intelligence-commerce as two, related empirical examples. The article applies an understanding of the state as a bundle of practices organized around the hegemonic principles of nationalism and raison d’etat, which manifest both discursively and materially in intelligence agencies, and discusses research methodologies in the data-scarce context of intelligence scholarship

Authoritarianism · Business Intelligence · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Economics · Economy · Geopolitics · Hegemony · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law