Why Is The Analyst-Policymaker Relationship Important?

Question 1 Evaluate the analyst - policymaker relationship. What must be done to improve it? Why is this relationship important?

The relationship between the policymaker and the analyst can be challenging, this challenge comes from the difficult task of defining the products and validating the information, while at the same time presenting the information so the policy maker can ascertain the information is relevant and to the current situation. Sherman Kent who understood these challenges, once stated that he, “experienced frustrations as well as successes”, with what he saw as “the central professional challenge of simultaneous service to two demanding masters—analytic integrity and policy clients…” Because there is a constant problem with either being to close or too distant from the policy maker it has been understood by both agencies that being too distant can create an atmosphere where the policymaker can mistrust the motives and findings of analysts or being too close which can sway decisions though influence and can affect the analytical integrity of the information that is being presented, which in turn may create an
They are created to address key issue about possible course of events that other countries may take that could have negative implications to our national interest and security. What has been discovered is the NIEs have lost it impact as a document of information and over a period of time; the product has been dismissed as neither relevant in content nor timely with its insight to strategic problems. What has impacted the value of the NIE’s is some policy makers were completely unaware of the NIE existed altogether. Additionally, the NIEs was criticized as a product that seemed to have little value because the information within it appeared watered down and rated low for actionable