Intelligence Oversight In The Twenty First Century

Author : Ian Leigh,Njord Wegge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351188777

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Intelligence Oversight in the Twenty-First Century by Ian Leigh,Njord Wegge Pdf

This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight. Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing security environment. This book addresses the impact of three factors on intelligence oversight: the growth of more complex terror threats, such as those caused by the rise of Islamic State; the colder East-West climate following Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea; and new challenges relating to the large-scale intelligence collection and intrusive surveillance practices revealed by Edward Snowden. This volume evaluates the impact these factors have had on security and intelligence services in a range of countries, together with the challenges that they present for intelligence oversight bodies to adapt in response. With chapters surveying developments in Norway, Romania, the UK, Belgium, France, the USA, Canada and Germany, the coverage is varied, wide and up-to-date. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, security studies and International Relations.

Author : Zachary K. Goldman,Samuel J. Rascoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190458089

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Global Intelligence Oversight by Zachary K. Goldman,Samuel J. Rascoff Pdf

In a world that is increasingly unstable, intelligence services like the American CIA and the United Kingdom's MI6 exist to deliver security. Whether the challenge involves terrorism, cyber-security, or the renewed specter of great power conflict, intelligence agencies mitigate threats and provide decisional advantage to national leaders. But empowered intelligence services require adequate supervision and oversight, which must be about more than the narrow (if still precarious) task of ensuring the legality of covert operations and surveillance activities. Global Intelligence Oversight is a comparative investigation of how democratic countries can govern their intelligence services so that they are effective, but operate within frameworks that are acceptable to their people in an interconnected world. The book demonstrates how the institutions that oversee intelligence agencies participate in the protection of national security while safeguarding civil liberties, balancing among competing national interests, and building public trust in inherently secret activities. It does so by analyzing the role of courts and independent oversight bodies as they operate in countries with robust constitutional frameworks and powerful intelligence services. The book also illuminates a new transnational oversight dynamic that is shaping and constraining security services in new ways. It describes how global technology companies and litigation in transnational forums constitute a new form of oversight whose contours are still undefined. As rapid changes in technology bring the world closer together, these forces will complement their more traditional counterparts in ensuring that intelligence activities remain effective, legitimate, and sustainable.

Author : Peter Jackson,L.V. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135769734

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Understanding Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century by Peter Jackson,L.V. Scott Pdf

Intelligence has never been more important in world politics than it is now at the opening of the twenty-first century. The terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, along with the politics and diplomacy of the Second Gulf War, have brought intelligence issues to the forefront of both official and popular discourse on security and international affairs. The need for better understanding of both the nature of the intelligence process and its importance to national and international security has never been more apparent. The aim of this collection is to enhance our understanding of the subject by drawing on a range of perspectives, from academic experts to journalists to former members of the British and American intelligence communities.

Author : Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community,Warren B. Rudman,Harold Brown
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : 9780788131790

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Preparing for the 21st Century by Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community,Warren B. Rudman,Harold Brown Pdf

A comprehensive review of U.S. Intelligence. The result of a 12 month study; testimony was taken from 84 witnesses and an additional 200 people were interviewed. Covers: the role of intelligence; the need for policy guidelines; the need for a coordinated response to global crime; the CIA; improving intelligence analysis; military intelligence; space reconnaissance and the management of technical collection; international cooperation; cost of intelligence; accountability and oversight, and more. Evolution of the U.S. intelligence community, an historical overview.

Author : Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022050582

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Preparing for the 21st Century by Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community Pdf

Author : Loch K. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135986872

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Handbook of Intelligence Studies by Loch K. Johnson Pdf

This topical volume offers a comprehensive review of secret intelligence organizations and activities. Intelligence has been in the news consistently since 9/11 and the Iraqi WMD errors. Leading experts in the field approach the three major missions of intelligence: collection-and-analysis; covert action; and counterintelligence. Within each of these missions, the dynamically written essays dissect the so-called intelligence cycle to reveal the challenges of gathering and assessing information from around the world. Covert action, the most controversial intelligence activity, is explored, with special attention on the issue of military organizations moving into what was once primarily a civilian responsibility. The authors furthermore examine the problems that are associated with counterintelligence, protecting secrets from foreign spies and terrorist organizations, as well as the question of intelligence accountability, and how a nation can protect its citizens against the possible abuse of power by its own secret agencies. The Handbook of Intelligence Studies is a benchmark publication with major importance both for current research and for the future of the field. It is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and scholars of intelligence studies, international security, strategic studies and political science in general.

Author : Amy B. Zegart
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817912864

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Eyes on Spies by Amy B. Zegart Pdf

Amy Zegart examines the weaknesses of US intelligence oversight and why those deficiencies have persisted, despite the unprecedented importance of intelligence in today's environment. She argues that many of the biggest oversight problems lie with Congress—the institution, not the parties or personalities—showing how Congress has collectively and persistently tied its own hands in overseeing intelligence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:265830797

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Twenty-first Century Intelligence by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Government publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111209800

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IC21, Intelligence Community in the 21st Century by United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Pdf

Author : Wesley K. Wark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135175474

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Twenty-First Century Intelligence by Wesley K. Wark Pdf

Twenty-First Century Intelligence collects the thinking of some of the foremost experts on the future of intelligence in our new century. The essays contained in this volume are set against the backdrop of the transforming events of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Intelligence plays a central and highly visible role in the global war on terror, and in new doctrines of global pre-emption of threats. Yet the challenges for intelligence services are great as the twenty-first century unfolds. This collection will inform and stimulate new thinking about the current strengths and weaknesses of intelligence services, and about the future paths that they may follow. Behind the controversies of the present over intelligence performance, lie critical questions about how the past and future of an often mysterious but critical arm of the state are linked. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Intelligence and National Security.

Author : Didier Bigo,Emma Mc Cluskey,Félix Tréguer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003821212

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Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity by Didier Bigo,Emma Mc Cluskey,Félix Tréguer Pdf

This book adopts a critical lens to look at the workings of Western intelligence and intelligence oversight over time and space. Largely confined to the sub-field of intelligence studies, scholarly engagements with intelligence oversight have typically downplayed the violence carried out by secretive agencies. These studies have often served to justify weak oversight structures and promoted only marginal adaptations of policy frameworks in the wake of intelligence scandals. The essays gathered in this volume challenge the prevailing doxa in the academic field, adopting a critical lens to look at the workings of intelligence oversight in Europe and North America. Through chapters spanning across multiple disciplines – political sociology, history, and law – the book aims to recast intelligence oversight as acting in symbiosis with the legitimisation of the state’s secret violence and the enactment of impunity, showing how intelligence actors practically navigate the legal and political constraints created by oversight frameworks and practices, for instance by developing transnational networks of interdependence. The book also explores inventive legal steps and human rights mechanisms aimed at bridging some of the most serious gaps in existing frameworks, drawing inspiration from recent policy developments in the international struggle against torture. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, sociology, security studies, and international relations.

Author : Tom Røseth,John Michael Weaver
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030340066

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Intelligence Relations in the 21st Century by Tom Røseth,John Michael Weaver Pdf

This book analyzes intelligence relations in an unsecure world and provides contributions on intelligence processes, interstate intelligence relations and hybrid warfare. Tactical, operational and strategic intelligence relations, both within and between intelligence agencies, and between states, are essential to support decision makers. This book ties together how intelligence adapts to security changes, global power shifts and the trend from globalization to a more nationalistic approach. During such changes, there is a need to analyze intelligence sharing relationships. Bringing together practitioners and academics, the book presents a plurality of approaches relative to intelligence relations that seek to advance the debate in the field.

Author : American Bar Association. Working Group on Intelligence Oversight and Accountability
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043882112

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Oversight and Accountability of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies by American Bar Association. Working Group on Intelligence Oversight and Accountability Pdf

This work assesses the efficacy and appropriateness of existing structures for oversight and accountability of intelligence agencies in the U.S.

Author : Zachary K. Goldman,Samuel J. Rascoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190458096

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Global Intelligence Oversight by Zachary K. Goldman,Samuel J. Rascoff Pdf

In a world that is increasingly unstable, intelligence services like the American CIA and the United Kingdom's MI6 exist to deliver security. Whether the challenge involves terrorism, cyber-security, or the renewed specter of great power conflict, intelligence agencies mitigate threats and provide decisional advantage to national leaders. But empowered intelligence services require adequate supervision and oversight, which must be about more than the narrow (if still precarious) task of ensuring the legality of covert operations and surveillance activities. Global Intelligence Oversight is a comparative investigation of how democratic countries can govern their intelligence services so that they are effective, but operate within frameworks that are acceptable to their people in an interconnected world. The book demonstrates how the institutions that oversee intelligence agencies participate in the protection of national security while safeguarding civil liberties, balancing among competing national interests, and building public trust in inherently secret activities. It does so by analyzing the role of courts and independent oversight bodies as they operate in countries with robust constitutional frameworks and powerful intelligence services. The book also illuminates a new transnational oversight dynamic that is shaping and constraining security services in new ways. It describes how global technology companies and litigation in transnational forums constitute a new form of oversight whose contours are still undefined. As rapid changes in technology bring the world closer together, these forces will complement their more traditional counterparts in ensuring that intelligence activities remain effective, legitimate, and sustainable.

Author : Christian Leuprecht,Hayley McNorton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192893949

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Intelligence As Democratic Statecraft by Christian Leuprecht,Hayley McNorton Pdf

"It was well known to the Greeks that the phenomenon of vagueness in natural language gives rise to hard problems and paradoxes, yet more than two millennia passed before Philosophy began to pay any degree of concerted attention to the challenges of vagueness to match the effort expended, for example, on the Liar paradox and its kin. This situation changed dramatically in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when the Sorites paradox in particular began to provoke a dramatic intensification of research and publication. Crispin Wright has been in the international vanguard of the resulting modern debates that have attracted some of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers of logic and language. The Riddle of Vagueness collects together fourteen of Wright's highly influential publications in this field. The chapters together encompass almost half a century of evolving thought on the central problems and challenges which vagueness poses: what exactly is vagueness, what does its pervasiveness in natural language show about the nature of language mastery, is it desirable to modify classical logic and semantics in the face of the Sorites and, if so, what form should the modifications take? Richard Kimberly Heck contributes a substantial introduction to the volume, providing an invaluable summary of these fundamental issues, and an overview and evaluation in depth of the evolving course of Wright's ideas about them."--Publisher's description