Anglický jazyk

Secrets and Spies

Vydavateľstvo: RLPG/Galleys
Rok vydania: 2020
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780815737971

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O knihe

How can democratic governments hold intelligence and security agencies accountable when what they do is largely secret? Secrets and Spies provides the first systematic exploration of how accountability is understood inside-and outside-the intelligence agencies. Based on new interviews with current and former UK intelligence practitioners, as well as extensive research into Britain's intelligence machinery, Secrets and Spies is the first detailed analysis of how intelligence professionals view their role and how far external overseers can govern their work.

The UK is an important actor on the global intelligence scene, gathering material that helps inform international decisions on issues such as nuclear proliferation, terrorism, transnational crime, and breaches of humanitarian law. But the UK was also a major contributor to the intelligence failures leading to the Iraq War in 2003, and its agencies were complicit in the widely discredited U.S. practices of torture and "rendition" of terrorism suspects. The issues explored in this book have important implications for researchers, intelligence professionals, overseers, and the public when it comes to understanding and scrutinizing intelligence practice.