Quantitative Approaches to Political Intelligence: The CIA Experience

Bridging the gap between the scientific approach to international relations and the intuitive analysis of the government foreign affairs specialist, this book reports on a concerted effort by the CIA to apply modern social science methods to problems confronted by political intelligence analysts. Quantitative Approaches to Political Intelligence reports on a concerted effort by the CIA to apply modern social science methods to problems confronted by political intelligence analysts and bridges the gap between the scientific approach to international relations and the intuitive analysis of the government foreign affairs specialist.