Democracy Vs National Security

Author : Laurence Lustgarten,Ian Leigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032593058

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In from the Cold by Laurence Lustgarten,Ian Leigh Pdf

Security and intelligence agencies are granted unparalleled powers, human rights are restricted, governments keep secrets from their citizens, and huge sums of public money are spent, all in the name of 'national security'. Beginning with a critical theoretical examination of 'national security' and arguing that this concept should be infused with values of democracy and human rights, the authors go on to discuss many important topics, including telephone tapping, bugging, and the collection and retention of personalinformation on file. Other issues analysed include employment vetting and security, detention and deportation, restrictions on the press, and the use of criminal law to stifle criticism. Finally, the mandate, powers, and mechanisms for executive and ministerial control of the security and intelligence agencies are scrutinized, the nearly-completed Scott Inquiry is considered, and the Intelligence Services Act 1994 is analysed in a detailed Coda. This comparative study draws upon a wide range of sources, and, uniquely, upon numerous interviews with security officials in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In From the Cold is a timely and comprehensive treatment of issues which continue to pose the greatest challenge to democratic states.

Author : Russell A. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134064441

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US National Security, Intelligence and Democracy by Russell A. Miller Pdf

This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee (‘Church Committee’) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the current ‘war on terror’. This report remains the most thorough public record of America’s intelligence services, and many of the legal boundaries operating on US intelligence agencies today are the direct result of reforms proposed by the Church Committee, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Church Committee also drew attention to the importance of constitutional government as a Congressional body overseeing the activities of the Executive branch. Placing the legacy of the Church Committee in the context of the contemporary debate over US national security and democratic governance, the book brings together contributions from distinguished policy leaders and scholars of law, intelligence and political science.

Author : Marcus G. Raskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315489155

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Essays of a Citizen: From National Security State to Democracy by Marcus G. Raskin Pdf

First Published in 1992. This volume includes Raskin's political essays on true democracy in running a nation's security affairs. He explores the arrogance of power, offers a commitment to constructive critique of government policy and alternative proposals to resolve problems of a nation trying to live up to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

Author : Sudha Setty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107130623

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National Security Secrecy by Sudha Setty Pdf

This book considers how excessive national security secrecy undercuts democracy and the rule of law, necessitating comparative and critical analysis toward potential reforms.

Author : Bruce M. Russett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015018337744

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Controlling the Sword by Bruce M. Russett Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134079919

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Democracy and Security by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary William Kinsman,Dieter K. Buse,Mercedes Steedman
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781896357256

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Whose National Security? by Gary William Kinsman,Dieter K. Buse,Mercedes Steedman Pdf

Would you believe that RCMP operatives used to spy on Tupperware parties? In the 1950s and '60s they did. They also monitored high school students, gays and lesbians, trade unionists, left-wing political groups, feminists, consumer's associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereignists. The establishment of a tenacious Canadian security state came as no accident. On the contrary, the highest levels of government and the police, along with non-governmental interests and institutions, were involved in a concerted campaign. The security state grouped ordinary Canadians into dozens of political stereotypes and labelled them as threats. Whose National Security? probes the security state's ideologies and hidden agendas, and sheds light on threats to democracy that persist to the present day. The contributors' varied approaches open up avenues for reconceptualizing the nature of spying. Including: * "APEC Days at UBC: Student Protests and National Security in an Era of Trade Liberalization," Karen Pearlston * "Remembering Federal Police Surveillance in Quebec, 1940s-70s," Madeleine Parent * "The Red Petticoat Brigade: Mine Mill Women's Auxiliaries and the Threat from Within, 1940s-70s," Mercedes Steedman * "Spymasters, Spies, and their Subjects: The RCMP and Canadian State Repression, 1914-39," Gregory S. Kealey * "In Whose Public Interest? The Canadian Union of Postal Workers and National Security," Evert Hoogers

Author : Kasey McCall-Smith,Andrea Birdsall,Elisenda Casanas Adam
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789909890

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Human Rights in Times of Transition by Kasey McCall-Smith,Andrea Birdsall,Elisenda Casanas Adam Pdf

This timely book explores the extent to which national security has affected the intersection between human rights and the exercise of state power. It examines how liberal democracies, long viewed as the proponents and protectors of human rights, have transformed their use of human rights on the global stage, externalizing their own internal agendas.

Author : Leonard Weinberg,Elizabeth Francis,Eliot Assoudeh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317628026

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Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Security by Leonard Weinberg,Elizabeth Francis,Eliot Assoudeh Pdf

This handbook explores how democracies around the world seek to balance democratic values with the requirement to protect their citizens from the threat of politically motivated violence. Over the past few decades, the majority of the world’s democracies have had to confront serious security threats, and in many instances these challenges have not come from rival states but from violent groups. This volume offers readers an overview of how some democracies have responded to such threats. It examines the extent to which authorities have felt compelled to modify laws to evade what would ordinarily be regarded as protected rights, such as personal privacy, freedom of movement and freedom of speech. Grounded in historical analysis, each of the sections addresses past and emerging security threats; legal and legislative responses to them; successful and unsuccessful efforts to reconcile democracy and security; and a range of theoretical questions. The case studies provided vary in terms of the durability of their democratic systems, level of economic development and the severity of the threats with which they have been confronted. The volume is divided into three thematic parts: Strong democracies: United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and Israel Challenged democracies: India, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina and Romania Fragile democracies: the Philippines and Nigeria. This book will be of much interest to students of democracy, security studies, political philosophy, Asian politics, Middle Eastern politics, African politics, West European politics and IR in general.

Author : Conor Gearty
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745669984

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Liberty and Security by Conor Gearty Pdf

All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what Conor Gearty calls our 'neo-democratic' world, the proclamation of universal liberty and security is mocked by facts on the ground: the vast inequalities in supposedly free societies, the authoritarian regimes with regular elections, and the terrible socio-economic deprivation camouflaged by cynically proclaimed commitments to human rights. Gearty's book offers an explanation of how this has come about, providing also a criticism of the present age which tolerates it. He then goes on to set out a manifesto for a better future, a place where liberty and security can be rich platforms for everyone's life. The book identifies neo-democracies as those places which play at democracy so as to disguise the injustice at their core. But it is not just the new 'democracies' that have turned 'neo', the so-called established democracies are also hurtling in the same direction, as is the United Nations. A new vision of universal freedom is urgently required. Drawing on scholarship in law, human rights and political science this book argues for just such a vision, one in which the great achievements of our democratic past are not jettisoned as easily as were the socialist ideals of the original democracy-makers.

Author : Alison Brysk,Gershon Shafir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520098602

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National Insecurity and Human Rights by Alison Brysk,Gershon Shafir Pdf

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Author : Robert Pee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317572596

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Democracy Promotion, National Security and Strategy by Robert Pee Pdf

This book investigates the relationship between democracy promotion and US national security strategy through an examination of the Reagan administration’s attempt to launch a global campaign for democracy in the early 1980s, which culminated in the foundation of the National Endowment for Democracy in 1983, and through an analysis of the early political interventions of the Endowment until 1986. A case study of the formation and early operations of the National Endowment for Democracy under the Reagan administration, based on primary documents from both the national security bureaucracy and the private sector, shows that while democracy promotion provided a new tactical approach to the conduct of US political warfare operations, these operations remained tied to the achievement of traditional national security goals such as destabilising enemy regimes and building stable and legitimate friendly governments, rather than being guided by a strategy based on the universal promotion of democracy. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of US Foreign Policy, Democracy Promotion and for those seeking to gain a better understanding of the Reagan Administration.

Author : Julian Zelizer
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781458760456

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Arsenal of Democracy by Julian Zelizer Pdf

It has long been a truism that prior to George W. Bush, politics stopped at the water's edge - that is, that partisanship had no place in national security. In Arsenal of Democracy, historian Julian E. Zelizer shows this to be demonstrably false: partisan fighting has always shaped American foreign policy and the issue of national security has always been part of our domestic conflicts. Based on original archival findings, Arsenal of Democracy offers new insights into nearly every major national security issue since the beginning of the cold war: from FDR's masterful management of World War II to the partisanship that scarred John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, from Ronald Reagan's fight against Communism to George W. Bush's controversial War on Terror. A definitive account of the complex interaction between domestic politics and foreign affairs over the last six decades, Arsenal of Democracy is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of national security.

Author : Michael P. Colaresi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199389797

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Democracy Declassified by Michael P. Colaresi Pdf

Recent scandals like WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA documents have brought public debates over government accountability and secrecy bubbling to the surface. How can modern democracies balance the need for privacy in delicate foreign policy matters with the necessity of openness in gaining and maintaining the trust of citizens? Democracies keep secrets from potential enemies and their citizens. This simple fact challenges the surprisingly prevalent assumption that foreign policy successes and failures can be attributed to public transparency and accountability. In fact, the ability to keep secrets has aided democratic victories from the European and Pacific theatres in World War II to the global competition of the Cold War. At the same time, executive discretion over the capacity to classify information created the opportunity for abuse that contributed to Watergate, as well as domestic spying and repression in France, Norway and Canada over the past forty years. Therefore, democracies face a secrecy dilemma. Secrecy is useful, but once a group or person has the ability to decide what information is concealed from a rival, citizens can no longer monitor that information. How then can the public be assured that national security policies are not promoting hidden corruption or incompetence? As Democracy Declassified shows, it is indeed possible for democracies to keep secrets while also maintaining useful national security oversight institutions that can deter abuse and reassure the public. Understanding secrecy and oversight in democracies helps us explain not only why the Maginot Line rose and the French Republic fell, or how the US stumbled but eventually won the Cold War, but more generally how democracies can benefit from both public consent and necessary national security secrets. At a time when ubiquitous debates over the issue of institutional accountability and transparency have reached a fever pitch, Democracy Declassified provides a grounded and important view on the connection between the role of secrecy in democratic governance and foreign policy-making.

Author : Gabriel Marcella,Orlando J. Pérez,Brian Fonseca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000459098

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Democracy and Security in Latin America by Gabriel Marcella,Orlando J. Pérez,Brian Fonseca Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for governments to generate the necessary capacity to address important security and institutional challenges; this volume deepens our understanding of the nature and extent of state governance in Latin America. State capacity is multidimensional, with all elements interacting to produce stable governance and security. As such, a collection of scholars and practitioners use an explicit interdisciplinary approach, drawing on the contributions of history, political science, economics, public policy, military studies, and other fields to gain a rounded understanding of the link between security and democracy. Democracy and Security in Latin America is divided in two sections: Part 1 focuses on the challenges to governance and key institutions such as police, courts, armed forces. and the prison system. Part 2 features country case studies that illustrate particularly important security challenges and various means by which the state has confronted them. Democracy and Security in Latin America should appeal not only to those seeking to learn more about the capacity of the democratic state in Latin America to effectively provide public security in times of stress, but to all those curious about the reality that a democracy must have security to function.