Abstract:

The aim of this research is to compare the intelligence training programs of Turkey and the United States at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This study was designed in a qualitative research pattern and used document review and descriptive content analysis. Document analysis is a systematic method of evaluating and examining both written and electronic materials. In this research, the undergraduate and graduate level intelligence education programs of Turkey’s; National Defense University, Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy, Police Academy, Istanbul Aydin University, and in United States; Citadel Military Collage of South Carolina, American Military University, The Institute of World Politics, and Mercyhurst University’s programs are studied. The findings obtained as a result of the study are as follows: While there are many specific universities in the United States that mainly focused on providing intelligence education including the undergraduate level, there are no specific universities in Turkey that mainly focused on providing intelligence education directly at the undergraduate level, and intelligence education at the undergraduate level is provided within the University. On the graduate level, universities that provides intelligence education is umpteen in the United States however, in Turkey, only four universities provide intelligence education on the graduate level. Apart from that United States’ undergraduate and graduate level intelligence education focuses on United States’ world politics and homeland security, in case of Turkey, undergraduate and graduate level intelligence education predominantly focused on homeland security threats.

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