9781626165601

Principled Spying

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781626165601

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Overview

Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy. Principled Spying explores how to strike a balance between necessary intelligence activities and protecting democratic values by developing a new framework of ethics.

David Omand and Mark Phythian structure this book as an engaging debate between a former national security practitioner and an intelligence scholar. Rather than simply presenting their positions, throughout the book they pose key questions to each other and to the reader and offer contrasting perspectives to stimulate further discussion. They demonstrate the value for both practitioners and the public of weighing the dilemmas of secret intelligence through ethics. The chapters in the book cover key areas including human intelligence, surveillance, acting on intelligence, and oversight and accountability. The authors disagree on some key questions, but in the course of their debate they demonstrate that it is possible to find a balance between liberty and security. This book is accessible reading for concerned citizens, but it also delivers the sophisticated insights of a high-ranking former practitioner and a distinguished scholar.


ISBN-13

9781626165601

ISBN-10

1626165602

Weight

1.25 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.75 x 9.00 In

List Price

$34.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

304 pages

Publisher

Georgetown University Press

Published On

2018-04-02



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