Giangiuseppe Pili
Biographic Data
| ID | 4279737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giangiuseppe Pili |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giangiuseppe |
| FAMILY NAME | Pili |
| SIGNATURE | PILI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7360-6826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War: Andrew Monaghan, Manchester University Press, 2025
Ethics in Practice: A Pragmatist Approach to Intelligence
This article offers a new approach to intelligence ethics grounded in practice. Drawing on pragmatist ethics and a survey of intelligence professionals, we analyze how practitioners resolve moral dilemmas. Three findings stand out: legal deference often replaces ethical reasoning; analysts prioritize special obligations over general moral principles, especially familial ties; and, despite its prominence, the language of just intelligence is absen…
A Military Intelligence Leader: Major General Jack J. Leide (ret.): Professional Courage—My Journey in Military Intelligence through Peace, Crisis, and War Independent Publishing, 2023, 460 p., $29.00…
Since Wesley K. Wark’s early academic works on intelligence, memoirs have played a central part in the global literature of intelligence, as they allow readers access to insights to otherwise inacc
Root values and root skills: A new model for intelligence education
This paper argues for an educational approach that merges the epistemic openness of education from public research universities with the applied focus of closed professional intelligence education in colleges. Following a comprehensive review of existing literature on educational practices, we propose a new educational model that focuses on root values and root skills. This proposed paradigm emphasises the importance of STEM, both metaphorically …
Special Forum on intelligence and theory
The literature on intelligence and theory has developed considerably in recent years. This Special Forum takes as its point of departure four recent publications that have made a particular contrib
A new theory of surprise – unraveling the logic of uncertainty and knowledge
Intelligence is judged by its ability to avoid surprises. Unfolding the dry logic of uncertainty shows how intelligence failures caused by surprises are unavoidable. This is done by the systematic study of the general conditions that trigger the different kinds of surprise, categorized according to their different epistemological nature. Five conceptual categories of surprise are analyzed: lack of expectations; insufficient evidence between two o…
Social dominance orientation predicts civil and military intelligence analysts’ utilitarian responses to ethics-of-intelligence dilemmas
What is the real ethical framework of an intelligence analyst? We addressed this question by presenting a group of civil and military intelligence analysts ( N = 41), and a control group of non-professionals ( N = 41), with a set of dilemmas depicting intelligence agents facing the decision whether to violate a deontological rule where that would benefit their work (ethics-of-intelligence dilemmas). Participants judged how much violating the rule…
Deciphering intelligence analysis: The synthetic nature of the core intelligence function
Intelligence analysis is one of the most explored topics in intelligence studies. However, decoding its nature is still challenging. A unifying question must be considered: ‘Is intelligence analysis – analysis?’ Unfolding the problem leads to an extreme conclusion: intelligence analysis is a way to structure sensory data collection and reduction. It is, namely, synthesis. A systematic scrutiny of the general nature of analysis is considered to co…
The Balance of Power Between Russia and Nato in the Arctic and High North
The resurgence of Russian power in the Arctic and High North will be a key consideration for NATO planners. The Alliance’s northern flank represents both a potential vulnerability due to its relative isolation and an area in which NATO enjoys options for horizontal escalation in a conflict. Moreover, as the effects of climate change create opportunities for both navigation and resource extraction, peacetime control over the Northern Sea Route (NS…
Integrating intelligence theory with philosophy: Introduction to the special issue
The purpose of this Special Issue is to integrate intelligence theory within philosophy, an amalgamation absent from prior collective efforts to provide intelligence studies with a complete theoretical dimension. This integration is crucial, as not only is philosophy unavoidable, in its focus on first order knowledge, but in its absence intelligence theory is diminished. The special issue intends to amplify the theoretical endeavour of intelligen…
Balance of Power Between Russia and Nato in the Arctic and High North
Italian Intelligence Studies Literature - Understanding the State of Play - A Comparative Perspective
Contributions to the Italian intelligence studies literature have seen an expansion since the major reform of Italian intelligence introduced in 2007. Italian civil society also increasingly recognizes the importance of intelligence. This paper first explores Italian intelligence studies literature as it stands today before considering the academic research. The six main categories of Italian intelligence literature are presented within: history,…
What Happened? After-Effects of the 2007 Reform Legislation of the Italian Intelligence Community
What happened to the Italian Intelligence Community (IC)? The IC underwent a major reform in 2007, 30 years after its previous one, in 1977, the first since 1945 and positioned between the end of W
Toward a Philosophical Definition of Intelligence
What is intelligence? A short question, which is difficult to answer. In fact, there is no general agreement on the definition of intelligence. A good philosophical analysis starts with intuitions, which can be found in the literature. After the recollection of these intuitions and their discussion, it is necessary to add some rational justifications of them. I want to express a general definition of intelligence, whose formulation is indebted to…
Epistemology and Intelligence – Some Philosophical Problems to be Solved
I want to consider puzzles that must be solved to formulate a theory of epistemology of intelligence. My aim is not to build a theory. I want to create the foundations of a good approach to an epistemological theory of intelligence. To reach this step, unsolved problems must be considered; I formulate them in an analytical manner, that is, I consider them as philosophical puzzles, similar to epistemology. This is the preliminary step toward a new…
Italian Intelligence Studies Literature - Understanding the State of Play - A Comparative Perspective
Contributions to the Italian intelligence studies literature have seen an expansion since the major reform of Italian intelligence introduced in 2007. Italian civil society also increasingly recognizes the importance of intelligence. This paper first explores Italian intelligence studies literature as it stands today before considering the academic research. The six main categories of Italian intelligence literature are presented within: history,…
Epistemology and Intelligence – Some Philosophical Problems to be Solved
I want to consider puzzles that must be solved to formulate a theory of epistemology of intelligence. My aim is not to build a theory. I want to create the foundations of a good approach to an epistemological theory of intelligence. To reach this step, unsolved problems must be considered; I formulate them in an analytical manner, that is, I consider them as philosophical puzzles, similar to epistemology. This is the preliminary step toward a new…
Toward a Philosophical Definition of Intelligence
What is intelligence? A short question, which is difficult to answer. In fact, there is no general agreement on the definition of intelligence. A good philosophical analysis starts with intuitions, which can be found in the literature. After the recollection of these intuitions and their discussion, it is necessary to add some rational justifications of them. I want to express a general definition of intelligence, whose formulation is indebted to…
What Happened? After-Effects of the 2007 Reform Legislation of the Italian Intelligence Community
What happened to the Italian Intelligence Community (IC)? The IC underwent a major reform in 2007, 30 years after its previous one, in 1977, the first since 1945 and positioned between the end of W
Italian Intelligence Studies Literature - Understanding the State of Play - A Comparative Perspective
Contributions to the Italian intelligence studies literature have seen an expansion since the major reform of Italian intelligence introduced in 2007. Italian civil society also increasingly recognizes the importance of intelligence. This paper first explores Italian intelligence studies literature as it stands today before considering the academic research. The six main categories of Italian intelligence literature are presented within: history,…
The Balance of Power Between Russia and Nato in the Arctic and High North
The resurgence of Russian power in the Arctic and High North will be a key consideration for NATO planners. The Alliance’s northern flank represents both a potential vulnerability due to its relative isolation and an area in which NATO enjoys options for horizontal escalation in a conflict. Moreover, as the effects of climate change create opportunities for both navigation and resource extraction, peacetime control over the Northern Sea Route (NS…
Integrating intelligence theory with philosophy: Introduction to the special issue
The purpose of this Special Issue is to integrate intelligence theory within philosophy, an amalgamation absent from prior collective efforts to provide intelligence studies with a complete theoretical dimension. This integration is crucial, as not only is philosophy unavoidable, in its focus on first order knowledge, but in its absence intelligence theory is diminished. The special issue intends to amplify the theoretical endeavour of intelligen…
Balance of Power Between Russia and Nato in the Arctic and High North
Social dominance orientation predicts civil and military intelligence analysts’ utilitarian responses to ethics-of-intelligence dilemmas
What is the real ethical framework of an intelligence analyst? We addressed this question by presenting a group of civil and military intelligence analysts ( N = 41), and a control group of non-professionals ( N = 41), with a set of dilemmas depicting intelligence agents facing the decision whether to violate a deontological rule where that would benefit their work (ethics-of-intelligence dilemmas). Participants judged how much violating the rule…
Deciphering intelligence analysis: The synthetic nature of the core intelligence function
Intelligence analysis is one of the most explored topics in intelligence studies. However, decoding its nature is still challenging. A unifying question must be considered: ‘Is intelligence analysis – analysis?’ Unfolding the problem leads to an extreme conclusion: intelligence analysis is a way to structure sensory data collection and reduction. It is, namely, synthesis. A systematic scrutiny of the general nature of analysis is considered to co…
Root values and root skills: A new model for intelligence education
This paper argues for an educational approach that merges the epistemic openness of education from public research universities with the applied focus of closed professional intelligence education in colleges. Following a comprehensive review of existing literature on educational practices, we propose a new educational model that focuses on root values and root skills. This proposed paradigm emphasises the importance of STEM, both metaphorically …
Special Forum on intelligence and theory
The literature on intelligence and theory has developed considerably in recent years. This Special Forum takes as its point of departure four recent publications that have made a particular contrib
A new theory of surprise – unraveling the logic of uncertainty and knowledge
Intelligence is judged by its ability to avoid surprises. Unfolding the dry logic of uncertainty shows how intelligence failures caused by surprises are unavoidable. This is done by the systematic study of the general conditions that trigger the different kinds of surprise, categorized according to their different epistemological nature. Five conceptual categories of surprise are analyzed: lack of expectations; insufficient evidence between two o…
Ethics in Practice: A Pragmatist Approach to Intelligence
This article offers a new approach to intelligence ethics grounded in practice. Drawing on pragmatist ethics and a survey of intelligence professionals, we analyze how practitioners resolve moral dilemmas. Three findings stand out: legal deference often replaces ethical reasoning; analysts prioritize special obligations over general moral principles, especially familial ties; and, despite its prominence, the language of just intelligence is absen…
A Military Intelligence Leader: Major General Jack J. Leide (ret.): Professional Courage—My Journey in Military Intelligence through Peace, Crisis, and War Independent Publishing, 2023, 460 p., $29.00…
Since Wesley K. Wark’s early academic works on intelligence, memoirs have played a central part in the global literature of intelligence, as they allow readers access to insights to otherwise inacc
Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War: Andrew Monaghan, Manchester University Press, 2025
Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Intelligence analysis (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (4 works)