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International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability
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ABSTRACT
This book examines how international intelligence cooperation has come to prominence post-9/11 and introduces the main accountability, legal and human rights challenges that it poses.
Since the end of the Cold War, the threats that intelligence services are tasked with confronting have become increasingly transnational in nature – organised crime, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. The growth of these threats has impelled intelligence services to cooperate with contemporaries in other states to meet these challenges. While cooperation between certain Western states in some areas of intelligence operations (such as signals intelligence) is longstanding, since 9/11 there has been an exponential increase in both their scope and scale.
This edited volume explores not only the challenges to accountability presented by international intelligence cooperation but also possible solutions for strengthening accountability for activities that are likely to remain fundamental to the work of intelligence services. The book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, security studies, international law, global governance and IR in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Introduction
part |2 pages
Part II Challenges
chapter 4|26 pages
The collateral casualties of collaboration: The consequences for civil and human rights of transnational intelligence sharing
chapter 6|25 pages
Intelligence cooperation in international operations: Peacekeeping, weapons inspections, and the apprehension and prosecution of war criminals
part |2 pages
Part III Oversight and review
chapter 8|29 pages
Fit for purpose? Accountability challenges and paradoxes of domestic inquiries
chapter 9|30 pages
International responses to the accountability gap: European inquiries into illegal transfers and secret detentions
part |2 pages
Part IV The role of law
chapter 11|23 pages
International law: Human rights law and state responsibility
part |2 pages
Part V Conclusion