Gunilla Eriksson is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of War Studies at the Swedish National Defense University. She holds a PhD in political science from Örebro University, Sweden, Prior to her academic career, she was an intelligence analyst at the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST).

• Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsPart I1: IntroductionIntelligence – A Special Kind of KnowledgeIntelligence and KnowledgePolicy and KnowledgeInvestigating Intelligence Knowledge ProductionOutline of the Book2: Framework for Researching Intelligence KnowledgeIn Search of TheoryA View on InstitutionalismA View on KnowledgeSocial and Textual Discursive PracticeThe Framework AppliedPart II3 Intelligence in Swedish Political CultureThe Specificities of Swedish Political CultureA Culture of Compromise and Consensus4: The Institutional SettingTask and Legal FrameworkThe Process of Tasking and DirectingThe Formalised Intelligence Work Process5: The Swedish Military Intelligence DirectorateBefore 1945From 1945 Until 1989From Cold War until TodaySummaryPart III6: Practice for Producing KnowledgeMaking Intelligence AnalysisPhase One: Getting the Question RightPhase Two: Reading UpPhase Three: the Thinking ProcessPhase Four: Aligning and Creating SupportPhase Five: Releasing the AssessmentSummary7: Practice for Creating KnowledgeDirecting the Intelligence KnowledgeThe Literary StyleConsistency and ContradictionsThe Ethic ComponentSummaryPart IV8: The Intelligence WorldviewPolitical RealismRealism in the EstimatesSummary9: The Representation of NATOConstructing NATOThe Representation of NATONATO in an International ContextSummary10: The Representation of RussiaConstructing RussiaThe Representation of RussiaRussia in an International ContextSummary11: The Representation of TerrorismThe Early YearsAfter the Re-Emergence of TerrorismRecentlySummary12: The Intelligence DiscourseLanguage PracticeTerms and ConceptsFacts, Arguments and AssumptionsSummaryPart V13: The Intelligence ‘Style of Thought’ and ‘Collective of Thought’Intelligence Social PracticeIntelligence Social Discursive PracticeIntelligence Textual Discursive PracticeIntelligence Knowledge DiscourseConcluding Reflections and SuggestionsBibliographyLiteratureArticlesPublic InquiriesIntelligence Estimates and Policy DocumentsInterviewsObservations

This book is a remarkable achievement in a field with a chronic shortage of contemporary in-depth empirical studies. Her investigation of the knowledge production process within the walls of an intelligence machinery offers unique insights, far beyond the ordinary handbook literature, personal recollections and historical accounts.