7 February 2024 - 7 February 2024
2:00PM - 5:00PM
Cosin's Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
Free
Stealing secrets is routinely seen as the world’s second oldest profession. Combining diverse approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives across politics, security, history, philosophy, and law, the team investigates how best to theorise intelligence in the Liberal International Order at a time of transition, and how an open society perspective can protect core values and principles both in and through intelligence.
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This workshop, over two days, brings together leading UK-based experts from politics, security, history, philosophy, and law, to scope how theorising intelligence can advance both IR and intelligence studies at a time of purported crisis in the Liberal International Order. Furthermore, it will engage how open societies think of intelligence and espionage to enable effective debate over intelligence. There is unprecedented uncertainty over disruptive actors and technologies, making both a general theory of intelligence in contemporary international order and an effective framework for its democratic debate exceptionally important.
The objectives of the workshop are:
Timings
07 February - Day 1: 2.00-5.00pm
08 February - Day 2: 09.00am-1.00pm
Places are limited and so please contact Professor John Williams (j.c.williams@durham.ac.uk) for further information.