RESEARCH
INTELHUB is committed to examine various aspects of intelligence-related issues. Here are some examples:
Intelligence Practices in High-Trust Societies: Scandinavian Exceptionalism?
The INTELHUB research team has edited and contributed to a volume examining the dynamics of intelligence practices in the Scandinavian culture of high social cohesion and high trust.
How is intelligence accountability studied and what are the consequences?
Melanie Sofia Hartvigsen investigates the conceptualisation of accountability in the Intelligence Studies literature, distinguishing between accountability as a mechanism and a virtue, and questions the predominant emphasis on the former.
Digitalized police practices
How does the police adapt to online arenas? How are the necessary social, technological and informational developments for modern policing ensured? These questions are likewise a broad interest of INTELHUB.
Which implications do cooperation with foreign services have for the legitimacy of the Danish services?
Adam Diderichsen analyses the central role that the cooperation with the American intelligence community plays for and in the Danish intelligence services.
Is intelligence services and their oversight bodies fighting on an institutional battlefield?
Melanie Sofia Hartvigsen, Mia Hartmann and Adam Diderichsen investigates the 2020 conflict between the Danish Defence Intelligence Service and the Danish Intelligence Oversight Board by merging the literature on intelligence accountability and institutional logics.
How do intelligence services build competence when faced with emergent technologies?
In her empirical research on OSINT in law enforcement, Mia Hartmann examines how OSINT criminal investigators and their managers acquire new technological competencies despite organizational inertia to adapt to emergent technologies.