Özet:

It is critically important to the nation’s well being that how states’ foreign, defense, and other national security policies are developed, coordinated and implemented. This process begins with the national agencies responsible for national security and intelligence, culminate with the decision making authorities within the country. To perform such a critic function, the decision makers need a defined and smoothly functioning policy development and decision-making process. It is evaluated that better to produce laws or regulations directing how policy decisions should be made other than an extremely broad outline of who should participate in the process, since much depends upon personalities, and the strengths and weaknesses of the people who work in the intelligence sector, as well as the personality and management style of the decision makers themselves. This article provides an alternative approach to the national security decision-making process of the governments and furthermore analyzes how the process may be evolved. It describes the current national security organizational structures and processes and including intelligence analyzers particularly also defines the roles of the key departments and agencies, furthermore, when necessary, discusses how the interagency process is incorporating the relatively new organizational structures associated with security bodies of the state.

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