James Thomson has worked within the intelligence and security spheres for over 30 years, and he has received his PhD from Brunel University, UK.

1. Introduction 2. The Development of an Institutional Costs Framework for Security and Intelligence 3. Counterterrorism and Cooperative Success and Failure in the Intelligence and Security Spheres 4. Counterterrorism, Collaboration, and Direction and Oversight 5. The Paradoxical Case of Cooperative Success and Failure in Military and Defence Intelligence 6. The Relative Management and Cooperation of the Upper Levels of Defence Intelligence in the United Kingdom and the United States 7. Conclusion

This book provides an institutional costs framework for intelligence and security communities to examine the factors that can encourage or obstruct cooperation.