Time and Narrative in Intelligence Analysis: A New Framework for the Production of Meaning

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Joshua Yaphe

Time and Narrative in Intelligence Analysis

A New Framework for the Production of Meaning

Joshua Yaphe

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English

Routledge
11 July 2025

Cognition & cognitive psychology; International relations; Theory of warfare & military science; Military intelligence

Series: Studies in Intelligence

This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics.

The US Intelligence Community is guided by a conviction that its practitioners are engaged in the scientific pursuit of fact-based evidence and its institutions uphold a set of tradecraft skills based on objectivity, timeliness and non-politicization that serve to define professionalism. That approach is counterintuitive to the way analysts actually seek to use language and rhetoric to convince and persuade readers, and counterproductive to the future recruitment and retention of subject matter experts. This book re-examines the assumptions and biases that underlie the intelligence profession in America and its increasing turn toward Artificial Intelligence, with case studies of declassified analytical products on Argentina, China, Iraq, Italy and South Africa.

This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence, national security, philosophy, US politics and foreign policy.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

By: Joshua Yaphe
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781041032953
ISBN 10: 1041032951
Series: Studies in Intelligence
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 11 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joshua Yaphe is Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest in Washington, DC, and a regular contributor to its journal, The National Interest. He has a PhD from American University and served as Senior Analyst for the Arabian Peninsula at the US Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).