Beschreibung:
Didier Bigo is a professor of International Political Sociology at Sciences-Po Paris-CERI, France, and a part-time professor at King's College London, Department of War Studies. He is the author or editor of many books, including Data Politics (2019) and Extraordinary Rendition (2018), most recently.
This book adopts a critical lens to look at the workings of Western intelligence and intelligence oversight over time and space.
Introduction 1. From radical contention to deference: A sociogenesis of intelligence oversight in the United States (1967-1981) 2. Transformations of the transnational field of secret services: The Reasons for a systemic crisis of legitimacy? 3. The code of silence: Transnational autonomy and oversight of signals intelligence 4. From abuse to trust and back again: Intelligence scandals and the quest for oversight 5. An analysis of post-Snowden civil society accountability 6. Transversal intelligence oversight in the United States: Squaring the circle? 7. The anatomy of political impunity in New Zealand 8. Liberty, equality, and counter-terrorism in France 9. Intelligence oversight collaboration in Europe 10. Torture and security service mass surveillance