Fragile Friendships: Partnerships Between the Academy and Intelligence

摘要

Formal university and college Intelligence Studies degree programs have experienced a pronounced growth in recent years, exhibiting a richness in diversity and engagement in both institutional type and instructional delivery. At face value American academia seems about to embark on a new era of cooperation and understanding with the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). But in seeking to determine whether progress in this development is as significant as is hoped in Washington, DC, this study reveals a persisting historical concern and academic bias that constrains the latent collaboration. With concerns are over where to house the academic major, how to support campus visits from intelligence representatives, pursue government grants, or how to assess the IC's influence on specific types of student bodies, Intelligence Studies as a formal degree still faces battles and skepticism on campus. Finally, this work ascertains the impact-positive or negative-these fragile friendships now have on American national security interests and on the future of newly emergent IC personnel.