Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence by David Omand (English) Ha

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The knotty question of secret intelligence - and how far it should be allowed to go in a democratic society.

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The question of how far a state should authorise its agents to go in seeking and using secret intelligence is one of the big unresolved issues of public policy for democracies today. The tension between security and privacy sits at the heart of broader debates concerning the relationship between the citizen and the state. The public needs-and wants-protection from the very serious threats posed by domestic and international terrorism, from serious criminality, tobe safe in using cyberspace, and to have active foreign and aid policies to help resolve outstanding international problems. Secret intelligence is widely accepted to be essential to these tasks, andto be a legitimate function of the nation state, yet the historical record is that it also can pose significant ethical risks. Principled Spying lays out a framework for thinking about public policy in this area by clarifying the relationship between ethics and intelligence, both human and technical. In this book, intelligence expert Mark Phythian teams up with the former head of Britain's GCHQ signals and intelligence agency to try to resolve the knotty questionof secret intelligence-and how far it should be allowed to go in a democratic society.

Author Biography

Sir David Omand GCB is a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department, King's College London and at Sciences-Po, Paris and is an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He served for seven years on the UK Joint Intelligence Committee and was previously UK Intelligence and Security Coordinator, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, Director of GCHQ (the UK Signals Intelligence and Cyber Security Agency) and before that Deputy Under Secretary ofState for Policy in the Ministry of Defence. He has written extensively on security and intelligence matters. His first book, Securing the State was published by Hurst (UK) and Oxford University Press(US) in 2010. Mark Phythian is Professor of Politics in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. He is the author or editor of a number of books on intelligence themes, including: Intelligence Theory: Key Questions and Debates (edited with Peter Gill & Stephen Marrin; Routledge, 2008); Intelligence in an Insecure World (with Peter Gill; 2nd edition, Polity Press, 2012); and Understanding the Intelligence Cycle(Routledge, 2013); as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is co-editor of the leading intelligence journal, Intelligence and National Security, a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal ofIntelligence, Security and Public Affairs and the Journal of Intelligence History, an Associate Editor of Crime, Law and Social Change, and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction: Why Ethics Matters in Secret Intelligence1: Thinking About the Ethical Conduct of Secret Intelligence2: Ethics, Intelligence and the Law3: From Just War to Just Intelligence?4: Secret Agents and Covert Human Sources5: Digital Intelligence and Cyberspace6: The Ethics of Using Intelligence7: Building Confidence Through Oversight and AccountabilityConclusion: Towards a Safe and Sound FutureSelect BibliographyIndex

Review

This is a work of the highest seriousness. It is a teasing out, in Platonic dialogue form, of what ethical spine a spy should in a democracy, must have. * John Lloyd, Financial Times *Omand brings to the subject mature experience, deep thought and high seriousness. It is difficult to imagine anyone better qualified. * Rodric Braithwaite, Survival *A provocative work by an intelligence mandarin and senior scholar, both committed to ethical discourse and principles. * Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, author of We Know All about You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America *

Long Description

The question of how far a state should authorise its agents to go in seeking and using secret intelligence is one of the big unresolved issues of public policy for democracies today. The tension between security and privacy sits at the heart of broader debates concerning the relationship between the citizen and the state. The public needs-and wants-protection from the very serious threats posed by domestic and international terrorism, from serious criminality, tobe safe in using cyberspace, and to have active foreign and aid policies to help resolve outstanding international problems. Secret intelligence is widely accepted to be essential to these tasks, and to be a legitimate function of the nation state, yet the historical record is that it also can posesignificant ethical risks.Principled Spying lays out a framework for thinking about public policy in this area by clarifying the relationship between ethics and intelligence, both human and technical. In this book, intelligence expert Mark Phythian teams up with the former head of Britain's GCHQ signals and intelligence agency to try to resolve the knotty question of secret intelligence-and how far it should be allowed to go in a democratic society.

Review Quote

A provocative work by an intelligence mandarin and senior scholar, both committed to ethical discourse and principles.

Feature

Ethics, surveillance and secret intelligence: one of the central public policy issues of our timeHow to resolve the crucial tension between security and privacy- from domestic and international terrorism to serious criminality in cyberspace and everyday online securityIntelligence expert Mark Phythian teams up with former head of Britain's GCHQ to resolve the knotty question of secret intelligence-and how far it should be allowed to go in a democratic societyClarifies the relationship between ethics and intelligence, both human and technical

Details ISBN0198785593 Author Mark Phythian Pages 304 Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 0198785593 ISBN-13 9780198785590 Format Hardcover Media Book Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle The Ethics of Secret Intelligence Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King's College, London Publication Date 2018-06-28 DEWEY 172.42 Short Title Principled Spying Language English UK Release Date 2018-06-28 NZ Release Date 2018-06-28 Audience General AU Release Date 2018-06-27 We've got this

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