LAURENT, Sebastien

doi:10.1080/02684527.2013.789634

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LAURENT, Sebastien

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Intelligence and National Security. 2013-06-01, vol. 28, n° 3, p. 299-312

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The lack of academic interest in intelligence in France partly explains the prevalence of many preconceived ideas about French Intelligence. This article deals with the slow building of France's intelligence machinery in the nineteenth century, as part of a study of the modern French State. At this time, intelligence practices were transformed by the appearance of several intelligence bureaucracies. Studying three dimensions of the development – informal practices, formal organizations and statutory rules – the article demonstrates the closeness of intelligence to politics. Doing so it suggests that intelligence needs to be considered not only as an instrument of policy-making but as an actor at the centre of the modern French state, a part of its very essence.< Réduire

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Is there Something Wrong with Intelligence in France? The Birth of the Modern Secret State

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