Hager Ben Jaffel – författare

Beyond Five Eyes Intelligence takes readers inside one of the world’s most secretive networks, revealing how it operates and why it matters for global politics – and for the future of democracy.Drawing on declassified archives and whistleblower testimony, Hager Ben Jaffel and Srdjan Vucetic debunk three myths about the Five Eyes: that it is a closed alliance of five nations, that it operates under meaningful democratic oversight, and that it serves only the political agendas of national leaders. They uncover a strikingly different reality. No longer confined to its founding members, Five Eyes collaboration reaches beyond intelligence and counterespionage to counterterrorism, cybersecurity, and other areas. Accompanying this new political configuration is a growing role of technology corporations and their unchecked powers.Beyond Five Eyes Intelligence exposes how this alliance embeds its own politics, shaped by the manifold social relations that structure international politics – from imperial entanglements and bureaucratic feuding to clashes with rival governments and transnational movements. The network emerges not as a relic of Cold War espionage but as a formidable, enduring, and deeply influential force shaping the modern world.

This book investigates everyday practices of intelligence cooperation in anti-terrorism matters, with a specific focus on the relationship between Europe and Britain.The volume examines the effective involvement of British anti-terrorism efforts in European cooperation arrangements, which until now have been overshadowed by the UK-US ‘special relationship’ and by political debates that overstate the divide between Britain and continental Europe. In arguing that British intelligence has always had a European dimension, it provides a distinct perspective to the study of intelligence cooperation and the role of British intelligence therein. Mobilizing a ‘field theory’ approach, the book provides an original contribution to the understanding of intelligence cooperation by investigating everyday bureaucratic practices of ‘ground-level’ security professionals and police forces, embedded in a European ‘field’ structured around the exchange of anti-terror intelligence. It also accounts for the drivers behind cooperation by using ‘field analysis,’ which explains the trajectory and positioning of actors according to their ‘capitals’ rather than necessities dictated by threats or state decisions.This book will be of much interest to students of Security Studies, International Political Sociology, Intelligence Studies, and International Relations in general.

This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times.In contrast to Intelligence Studies (IS), whose aim has largely been to improve the performance of national security services and assist in policy making, this book takes the investigation of the new professionals and everyday practices of intelligence as the immediate point of departure. Starting from the observation that intelligence today is increasingly about counter-terrorism, crime control, surveillance, and other security-related issues, this book adopts a transdisciplinary approach for studying the shifting logics of intelligence, how it has come to involve an expanding number of empirical sites, such as the police, local community, prison and the Internet, as well as a corresponding multiplicity of new actors in these domains. Shifting the focus away from traditional spies and Anglo-American intelligence services, this book addresses the transformations of contemporary intelligence through empirically detailed and theoretically innovative analyses, making a key contribution to existing scholarship. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, critical security studies, foreign policy, and International Relations.

This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times.In contrast to Intelligence Studies (IS), whose aim has largely been to improve the performance of national security services and assist in policy making, this book takes the investigation of the new professionals and everyday practices of intelligence as the immediate point of departure. Starting from the observation that intelligence today is increasingly about counter-terrorism, crime control, surveillance, and other security-related issues, this book adopts a transdisciplinary approach for studying the shifting logics of intelligence, how it has come to involve an expanding number of empirical sites, such as the police, local community, prison and the Internet, as well as a corresponding multiplicity of new actors in these domains. Shifting the focus away from traditional spies and Anglo-American intelligence services, this book addresses the transformations of contemporary intelligence through empirically detailed and theoretically innovative analyses, making a key contribution to existing scholarship. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, critical security studies, foreign policy, and International Relations.