'A Profoundly Disruptive Force': The CIA, Historiography and the Perils of Globalization
'A Profoundly Disruptive Force': The CIA, Historiography and the Perils of Globalization
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“一股极具破坏性的力量”：中央情报局、史学和全球化的危险
DOI：
10.1080/02684527.2011.559139
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Aldrich R
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作者：
Aldrich R
本文认为，自 1989 年以来，中央情报局在理解全球化对其作为情报机构的活动的变革性影响方面进展缓慢。尽管中央情报局花费了大量时间研究全球趋势，作为其广义战略分析工作的一部分，但它对全球化将如何改变其自身业务的思考却缺乏先见之明。这个问题可以用历史学上关于中央情报局的争论的方式来解释。虽然情报研究作为一门学科已成功融入主流国际历史，但它未能与国际关系建立同样的联系。结果，那些争论情报如何改变的人往往只关注官僚组织问题，而对全球政治兴趣有限。这与那些致力于恐怖主义和反恐主题的人们形成鲜明对比，他们参与了有关世界事务的更广泛的辩论。这种情况需要改变，因为全球化的危险仍然是中央情报局未来十年的首要挑战。
This essay argues that, since 1989, the CIA has been slow to understand the transformative impact of globalization upon its own activities as an intelligence agency. While the CIA spent considerable time examining global trends as part of its work on generalized strategic analysis, its thinking about how globalization would change its own business was less prescient. This problem is explained in terms of the way in which debates over the CIA have been framed historiographically. While intelligence studies as a subject has been successfully integrated into mainstream international history, it has failed to make the same connections with international relations. As a result, those debating how intelligence might change have tended to focus quite narrowly on matters of bureaucratic organization and have taken only limited interest in global politics. This is stark contrast to those working on the subject of terrorism and counter-terrorism, who have engaged in wider debates about world affairs. This needs to change, since the perils of globalization remain the over-arching challenge for the CIA over the next ten years.