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The correlation between the failure of intelligence structures and conflict: The Cabo Delgado case in Northern Mozambique
Ali, Neyma Mildred Mahomed ; Karásek, Tomáš (vedoucí práce) ; Fitzgerald, James (oponent)
TITLE: The Correlation Between the Failure of Intelligence Structures and Conflict: The Cabo Delgado Case in Northern Mozambique. SUBTITLE: The Study of Organisational Deficiencies of the Intelligence Agency in Mozambique culminating in Intelligence Failure: The Cabo Delgado Case ABSTRACT This paper addresses the intelligence failure of SISE (the State Information and Security Service- Mozambican intelligence agency which is rooted in the organisational defects of the agency. The case study further establishes how this failure contributed to the protracted Islamic insurgency in Cabo Delgado province by failing to prevent the insurgency. In light of this, this dissertation attempts to fill a gap in the literature, analysing and evaluating intelligence failure in the African context. The theoretical assumptions of organisational failure pursued in Amy Zegart's work highlighting structural malfunctions, cultural pathologies and "perverse" incentives ( Zegart, 2007) with regards to organisational failure will be utilised as the conceptual and theoretical framework as it is the most relevant in evaluating the SISE. These organisational disorders utilised as a structured operational framework in this thesis intend to a) determine what kind of deficiencies of the organisational structure and management are...
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Securitising biology: Biological threats and state preparedness in the wake of a pandemic
Artico, Chiara ; Karásek, Tomáš (vedoucí práce) ; Butler, Eamonn (oponent)
64053643 SECURITISING BIOLOGY: BIOLOGICAL THREATS AND STATE PREPAREDNESS IN THE WAKE OF A PANDEMIC ABSTRACT The management of infectious diseases in the realm of public health has shown increasingly overlapping areas with biological warfare preparedness. While the acknowledgement of these common elements is not only frequent but also codified in an international treaty and subject to distinct regulations, research into how these two fields connect is scarce. Potential deliberate use of biological weapons typically leads to intense political mobilisation and ensuing dedication of financial resources. Contrarily, the management of health crises over the last decades has been severely flawed, and no country in the world is considered fully prepared to a pandemic, according to the Global Health Security Index. The current COVID-19 pandemic has recently been further proof of the inadequacy of state-level prevention and preparedness capabilities. This dissertation aims at bridging the existing conceptual gap and policy divide between biological warfare and infectious disease preparedness, and to analyse elements that can be mutually applicable and potentially beneficial. It will do so by establishing analytical equivalence between the securitisation of an artificial biothreat and a nature-borne infectious disease...
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Subversive narratives and dangerous fictions: The securitisation of (dis)information in strategic discourses
O'Reilly, Oisín ; Cheskin, Ammon (vedoucí práce) ; Karásek, Tomáš (oponent)
'Disinformation', false information disseminated with the intent to mislead or cause harm, is a difficult topic to study. To be used properly as an analytical category it is necessary to prove both falsity and intent - akin to proving a lie. Like its close counterpart "fake news", it is also normatively charged and tends to be reduced to a label for inconvenient information. I argue that these normative and epistemological issues are not sufficiently dealt with in existing studies of disinformation. Furthermore, these studies make implicit positivist ontological assumptions about the objectivity of the information threat and hence fail to engage with the choices of how to specifically construct disinformation as a threat. By applying Copenhagen School Securitisation Theory to disinformation, this study joins a nascent literature applying similar constructivist frameworks to the issue. The objective of this dissertation is to explain the securitisation of disinformation (and information more broadly) within the strategic documents of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the Russian Federation. This study aims to uncover the overarching themes and ideas that shape the manner in which NATO and Russia securitise the issue of disinformation. How similar (or different) are these...
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