This book explores how potential bio-threats and risks may evolve post 9/11 given the rapid changes in biotechnology and synthetic biology. It also explores what role intelligence communities can play in understanding threats and risks. It argues that although bio-threats and risks are largely low probability and high impact in nature, intelligence in 'Five Eyes' countries remain insufficiently prepared to understand them. This book identifies key areas where intelligence reforms need to take place including a more strategic and systematic collaboration between national security/law enforcement intelligence and the scientific community. It is aimed at intelligence analysts, those in the scientific community working on health security threats, policy makers and researchers working on biosecurity and bioterrorism threats and risks.

Asks: what role should intelligence play in the prevention, detection, disruption and containment of contemporary and emerging biothreats? Explores how intelligence can bring in other disciplines to help it understand bio-threats and risks, for example using epidemiologists, researchers and forensic specialists Examines how intelligence assets can prevent and manage biosecurity threats Speaks accessibly to intelligence analysts in particular and to those studying to become intelligence analysts

Autorentext

Patrick F. Walsh is a former intelligence analyst and has worked in Australia's national security and law enforcement environments. He is Associate Professor in Intelligence and Security Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Biosecurity Environment.- Chapter 3 Intelligence Tasking and Coordination.- Chapter 4. Collection.- Chapter 5. Analysis.- Chapter 6. Intelligence Governance.- Chapter 7. Intelligence and Stakeholders.- Chapter 8. Oversight and Accountability.- Chapter 9. Conclusion