HUMAN SUBJECTIVITY AND SECURITY

Topics regarding national security are increasingly present in scientific and public space and lately they are characterized by the multiplication of its analyzed dimensions. Intelligence analysis has also become an important area of these approaches and variables that influence its products are considered more and more. In this article we emphasize how important is for intelligence analysts to acknowledge their subjectivity and also we underline the impact that human subjectivity can have on analytical process. To reveal such a premise of human subjectivity we will analyze the history of theories addressing man as a rational agent ( borrowed from economics ) and the failure suffered by these theories. We will also highlight several dimensions for the manifestation of subjectivity in the analytical process and also some ideas regarding the limitation of their effects.