Unpacking Trust in International Intelligence Cooperation
(2023)- 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 article argues that to properly unpack the dynamics of trust underpinning international intelligence cooperation, we need to consider both dimensions of trust. Drawing on literature on interorganizational trust and citizen’s trust in authorities, this article introduces the novel concept of ‘trust games’. Using the case of SIGINT... (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 article argues that to properly unpack the dynamics of trust underpinning international intelligence cooperation, we need to consider both dimensions of trust. Drawing on literature on interorganizational trust and citizen’s trust in authorities, this article introduces the novel concept of ‘trust games’. Using the case of SIGINT intelligence cooperation in Sweden, a ‘high trust country’, to illustrate and empirically unpack the intersecting dynamics of trust, the article shows how the trust generated though ‘moves’ by different actors (intelligence agencies, national states, oversight institutions, whistleblowers and citizens) in one setting may contribute to generating trust or exacerbating distrust within a different set of relations, giving rise to a complex dynamic of trust. (Less)
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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 article argues that to properly unpack the dynamics of trust underpinning international intelligence cooperation, we need to consider both dimensions of trust. Drawing on literature on interorganizational trust and citizen’s trust in authorities, this article introduces the novel concept of ‘trust games’. Using the case of SIGINT intelligence cooperation in Sweden, a ‘high trust country’, to illustrate and empirically unpack the intersecting dynamics of trust, the article shows how the trust generated though ‘moves’ by different actors (intelligence agencies, national states, oversight institutions, whistleblowers and citizens) in one setting may contribute to generating trust or exacerbating distrust within a different set of relations, giving rise to a complex dynamic of trust.}},
author = {{Ördén, Hedvig}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{06}},
title = {{Unpacking Trust in International Intelligence Cooperation}},
year = {{2023}},
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