This book offers a new research agenda for intelligence studies in contemporary times.

Hager Ben Jaffel is a Research Associate at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France.

Sebastian Larsson is an Associate Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, Sweden.

PART 1: Reconstructing the Object of Intelligence 1. Introduction: What's the Problem with Intelligence Studies? Outlining a New Research Agenda on Contemporary Intelligence 2. Towards a Reflexive Study of Intelligence Accountability 3. Tracing Pre-Emptive Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP): Immigration, Classification Struggles, and the Expansion of Intelligence Logics in British Policing PART 2: The Practical Transformations of Contemporary Intelligence 4. Citizen-Led Intelligence Gathering under UK's Prevent Duty 5. Prison Intelligence in France: An Empirical Investigation of the Emergence of Counter-Radicalisation Professionals 6. Manufacturing Intelligence: Police and Intelligence Services in Germany 7. Transversal Practices of Everyday Intelligence Work in New Zealand: Transnationalism, Commercialism, Diplomacy 8. The Techno-Legal Boundaries of Intelligence: NSA and FRA's Collaborations in Transatlantic Mass Surveillance PART 3: Conceptual Reconsiderations of Intelligence 9. Regulating the Internet in Times of Mass Surveillance: A Universal Global Space with Universal Human Rights? 10. After Cambridge Analytica: Rethinking Surveillance in the Age of (Com)Modification 11. Violence Performed in Secret by State Agents: For an Alternative Problematisation of Intelligence Studies PART 4: Conclusion 12. Conclusion: Towards New Intelligence Studies