ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews some recent discussions concerning intelligence theory and suggestions that we are in the midst of a revolution in intelligence affairs. It suggests that the sociology of policing literature offers a useful touchstone in thinking about the reorientation of transnational security issues. The chapter argues that human security doctrine offers a way out of the impasse that the now-dominant paradigm persists in. The national security intelligence imagination remains within specific parameters, but those parameters are interesting. At a United Nations summit in September 2005 a portion of the human security agenda was accepted into the discourse on 'humanitarian intervention' – that portion which aims at 'security first' and 'freedom from fear'. The responsibility to protect, as defined in this document, was limited to a concern with populations at risk from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
