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The Intelligence Threat - An analysis of the concept of security in Swedish policies

Levin, Kristoffer LU (2021) FKVK02 20211
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This study set out to investigate the concept of security and the intelligence threat set in a Swedish context regarding its national and intelligence security policies. The aim of this paper is to examine whether or not there is any ambiguity of the concept of security. By applying Baldwin’s conceptual framework “The Concept of Security”, a set of dimensions is used to analyse the Swedish national security policies, as well as the annual reports of the Swedish intelligence agencies. The dimensions studied include threats, referent objects, values, means, cost, time and how much security that should be attained. The findings show that only three of these dimensions is clearly specified, one is partially specified, and the remaining three... (More)
This study set out to investigate the concept of security and the intelligence threat set in a Swedish context regarding its national and intelligence security policies. The aim of this paper is to examine whether or not there is any ambiguity of the concept of security. By applying Baldwin’s conceptual framework “The Concept of Security”, a set of dimensions is used to analyse the Swedish national security policies, as well as the annual reports of the Swedish intelligence agencies. The dimensions studied include threats, referent objects, values, means, cost, time and how much security that should be attained. The findings show that only three of these dimensions is clearly specified, one is partially specified, and the remaining three lack a clear specification of their respective dimensions regarding security. The conclusion of the thesis is that the policies fail to define a set of crucial dimensions, and thus risk being an ambiguous concept. (Less)
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author
Levin, Kristoffer LU
supervisor
organization
course
FKVK02 20211
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Concept of Security, Baldwin, Sweden, National security policy, Intelligence threat
language
English
id
9063073
date added to LUP
2021-09-27 13:46:40
date last changed
2021-09-27 13:46:40
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  abstract     = {{This study set out to investigate the concept of security and the intelligence threat set in a Swedish context regarding its national and intelligence security policies. The aim of this paper is to examine whether or not there is any ambiguity of the concept of security. By applying Baldwin’s conceptual framework “The Concept of Security”, a set of dimensions is used to analyse the Swedish national security policies, as well as the annual reports of the Swedish intelligence agencies. The dimensions studied include threats, referent objects, values, means, cost, time and how much security that should be attained. The findings show that only three of these dimensions is clearly specified, one is partially specified, and the remaining three lack a clear specification of their respective dimensions regarding security. The conclusion of the thesis is that the policies fail to define a set of crucial dimensions, and thus risk being an ambiguous concept.}},
  author       = {{Levin, Kristoffer}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Intelligence Threat - An analysis of the concept of security in Swedish policies}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}