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The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and ongoing debates about the future of intelligence.
List of contents
Introduction: What is intelligence? 1. Wanted: A de¿nition of 'intelligence'
Michael Warner 2. Ideas of intelligence: Divergent national concepts and institutions
Philip Davies Part 1: The Intelligence Cycle Summary The collection of intelligence 3. Observations on Successful Espionage
Joseph Wippl 4. All glory is ¿eeting: SIGINT and the ¿ght against international terrorism
Matthew Aid 5. Introducing Social Media Intelligence
Sir David Omand, James Bartlett and Carl Miller 6. The Increasing Value of Open Source
Stevyn Gibson The analysis of intelligence 7. Surprise despite warning: Why sudden attacks succeed
R.K. Betts 8. Is Politicization Ever a Good Thing?
Joshua Rovner Intelligence at the top: Producer-consumer linkage 9. American Presidents and their intelligence communities
C.M Andrew 10. Squaring the circle: Dealing with intelligence-policy breakdowns
K.L. Gardiner Liaison: International Intelligence co-operation 11. International intelligence co-operation: An inside perspective
Stephen Lander 12. 'Foreign Intelligence Liaison: Devils, Deals, and Details'
Jennifer Sims Part 2: Intelligence, Counter-Terrorism and Security Summary Intelligence and 9/11 13. The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: A Failure of Policy Not Strategic Intelligence Analysis
Stephen Marrin 14. Deja Vu? Comparing Pearl Harbor and September 11
James J. Wirtz Intelligence and WMD 15. Reports, politics, and intelligence failures: The case of Iraq
Robert Jervis 16. British Intelligence Failures and Iraq
John Morrison Security intelligence and counter-terrorism 17. Intelligence and strategy in the war on Islamist terrorism
John R. Schindler 18. Intelligence in Northern Ireland
B. Bamford Counter-intelligence 19. Counterintelligence: The broken triad
Frederick L. Wettering 20. Delayed Disclosure: National Security, Whistle-Blowers and the Nature of Secrecy
Richard J. Aldrich and Christopher Moran Part 3: Ethics, Accountability and Control Summary The problems of oversight and accountability 21. The British experience with intelligence accountability
Mark Phythian 22. The role of news media in intelligence oversight
Claudia Hillebrand The problem of surveillance and civil liberties 23. High policing in the security control society
James Sheptycki 24. Needles in Haystacks: Law, Capability, Ethics, and Proportionality in Big Data Intelligence-Gathering
Julian Richards Intelligence and ethics 25. Ethics and intelligence after September 2001
Michael Herman 26. 'As Rays of Light to the Human Soul'? Moral Agents and Intelligence Gathering
Toni Erskine Torture and assassination 27. Can the torture of terrorist suspects be justi¿ed?
Maureen Ramsay 28. Torture - The Case for Dirty Harry and against Alan Dershowitz
Uwe Steinhoff Part 4: Intelligence and the New Warfare Summary Covert action 29. Covert action and the Pentagon
Jennifer D Kibbe 30. Secret Intelligence, Covert Action and Clandestine Diplomacy
Len Scott Intelligence, deception and military operations 31.Netcentric warfare, C4ISR and information operations
John Ferris 32. The New Frontier: Cyberespionage and Cyberwar
Lewis Herrington Intelligence, counter-insurgency and peacekeeping 33. Intelligence and Counter-insurgency
Rory Cormac 34. Intelligence and UN peacekeeping
Hugh Smith Reform and New Directions 35. Intelligence and the Global South; China, Africa and South America
Zakia Shiraz and John Kasuku 36. Learning to live with intelligence
Wesley K. Wark
About the author
Christopher Andrew is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and former Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University.
Richard J. Aldrich is Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick, and a former Director of the Institute of Advanced Study. He is Leverhulme Major Research Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Wesley K. Wark is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of Trinity College and an Associate of the Munk Centre for International Studies. He is also a Visiting Research Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.
Summary
The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and ongoing debates about the future of intelligence.
