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Unpacking Trust in International Intelligence Cooperation : SIGINT Trust Games in Denmark and Sweden

Ördén, Hedvig LU (2024) In Routledge New Intelligence Studies
Abstract
In recent years, trust has emerged as a topic of interest for scholars aiming to understand the mechanisms enabling transnational intelligence cooperation and focusing on relations of trust between intelligence agencies. The potential dynamics between the trust facilitating transnational intelligence cooperation and the public trust in intelligence agencies on a national level, however, remains unexplored. This chapter argues that to properly unpack the dynamics of trust underpinning international intelligence cooperation, we need to consider both dimensions of trust. Drawing on the literature on interorganizational trust and citizen’s trust in authorities, this chapter introduces the novel concept of “trust games”. Using the case of... (More)
In recent years, trust has emerged as a topic of interest for scholars aiming to understand the mechanisms enabling transnational intelligence cooperation and focusing on relations of trust between intelligence agencies. The potential dynamics between the trust facilitating transnational intelligence cooperation and the public trust in intelligence agencies on a national level, however, remains unexplored. This chapter argues that to properly unpack the dynamics of trust underpinning international intelligence cooperation, we need to consider both dimensions of trust. Drawing on the literature on interorganizational trust and citizen’s trust in authorities, this chapter introduces the novel concept of “trust games”. Using the case of SIGINT intelligence cooperation in Sweden and Denmark – two “high trust countries” with high levels of international SIGINT collaboration – to illustrate and empirically unpack the intersecting dynamics of trust, the chapter shows how the trust generated through “moves” by different actors in one setting may contribute to generating trust or exacerbating distrust within a different set of relations, giving rise to a complex dynamic. (Less)
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Intelligence Practices in High-Trust Societies : Scandinavian Exceptionalism? - Scandinavian Exceptionalism?
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Routledge New Intelligence Studies
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Kira, Vrist Rønn ; Adam, Diderichsen ; Mia, Hartmann and Melanie, Hartvigsen
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