2026/04/28 by Artur Gruszczak · 1 voice · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence #European Criminal Justice and Data Protection #Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
paper · doi:10.1080/02684527.2026.2664489
openalex publication_date 2026/04/28 · openalex created_date 2026/04/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
This article examines the objectives, activities, and outcomes of the Intelligence College in Europe (ICE) from the perspective of reciprocal trust-building. It focuses on ICE’s efforts to bridge the gap between the intelligence community’s culture of secrecy and the culture of openness found in academia and civil society. The paper adopts a neofunctionalist framework to argue that trust-building through ICE has involved intelligence stakeholders in a heterogeneous organisational network aimed at fostering trust and mutual confidence. This synergetic, education- and professionalisation-driven approach seeks to enhance intelligence cooperation in addressing security risks and threats facing European states and societies. The research presented is based on interviews with senior ICE officials and representatives of EU and national intelligence authorities, as well as a survey conducted among scholars with expertise in international intelligence cooperation.