An Ethical Framework for Economic Intelligence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20184808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ross W Bellaby (0000-0002-6975-0681, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 241-266 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-0607 • E-ISSN: 1521-0561 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08850607.2023.2299015 |
| OpenAlex | W4391425497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
It can be argued that intelligence activity has ethical value through its important role in detecting, preventing, and countering threats that would cause harm to the political community and its members. What has been relatively overlooked, however, is the potentially (un)ethical role of intelligence in the economic sphere-that is, whether secret intelligence acts of economic espionage and economic covert action can be used against another (potentially aggressive) state's economy or economic actors as a means of protecting one's own economic, social, and military security. Economic intelligence works to create a competitive economic or political advantage, but this can cause harm that is more likely to be disproportionate and inflicted on those who have done nothing to warrant it. The harms caused by economic intelligence can be widely spread across society and against those who are unjustified targets. To account for this, additional care needs to be given to questions of proportionality and discrimination
Business · Counterintelligence · Political science · Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Psychology
Just and Unjust Wars
Fuel poverty and human health
Complicity and Causality
Redefining the security paradigm to create an intelligence ethic
An Ethical Framework for Economic Intelligence
Development as Freedom
On Complicity and Compromise
Spying Through a Glass Darkly
The Relationship between Energy Poverty and Individual Development
On the Moral Equality of Combatants
For the President's Eyes Only
Too Many Secrets? When Should the Intelligence Community be Allowed to Keep Secrets
Killing the Innocent in Self‐Defense
Women and Human Development
Cosmopolitanism, just war theory and legitimate authority
Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
Moving Towards a Capability for Meaningful Labor
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |