Description
Book SynopsisThe CIA, the KGB, MI5, Mossad, Boss, Savak, Dina - the names read like a rollcall of the seamier side of history in the years following the Second World War. Today the Cold War is dead; there are fewer dictatorships; and 9/11 has created a whole new
raison d'etre for covert action.
This book explains how the war on terrorism provides a wholly new context for the murky world secret services and intelligence agencies operate in, and describes in detail how ultra-modern new technologies have vastly increased their power to spy abroad and eavesdrop at home.
This up-to-date account raises important issues, including the new roles the secret services have found for themselves as they target 'rogue states', 'the war on drugs', and 'terrorists'. Most important of all, its authors explore the unsolved contradiction between the world of these secretive and unaccountable agencies operating on the fringes of the law, and the requirements of a free and democratic society. There is, they conclude, 'no easy walk to freedom'.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Intelligence after 9-11 - A New Internationalism?
- Defining the Threat
- After the Berlin Wall
- Intelligence Agencies Today
- So, Why is the Issue of Intelligence and Security Still Important?
- Part I: 'Terrorism' - The Dark Side of Globalisation
- 1. Terrorism and Intelligence - Siamese Twins?
- 2. Islam and the Myth of Confrontation
- 3. A New Internationalism? The US Experience Before and After 9-11
- 4. Western Europe - Rolling the New Bandwagon
- 5. Israel - 'Manipulating the Bush Doctrine'
- 6. A Clash of Bandwagons?
- Part II. Technologies of Surveillance
- 7. Overview
- 8. The Panoptic View - Satellite Surveillance on a Global Scale
- 9. Echelon - Who's on the Watch List?
- 10. Encryption and 'Backdoors'
- 11. The Economic Backdoor - State Surveillance and the Private Sector
- 12. The Third World, Human Rights and the Internet
- 13. Intelligence and Law Enforcement - Breaking Down the Firewall
- 14. The Dark Glass - Into the Future
- Part III. US Intelligence: Back to the Future?
- 15. The Gulf War and After: Grasping the 'Unipolar Moment'
- 16. 'Redefining National Security' - Clinton and the Rise of Economic Intelligence
- 17. Blowback 1: Iraq - 'Enormous Market Potential'
- 18. Blowback 2 - Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Legacy of William Casey
- 19. Latin America - Business as Usual?
- 20. Intelligence Without Policy or Policy Without Intelligence?
- Part IV: The European Union - New Purpose, Old Methods?
- 21. The UK
- 22. France
- 23. Germany and the European Union
- Part V: Russia: from KGB to FSB and Back Again?
- 24. The FSB: Two Coups and a Demise Exaggerated
- 25. The SVR - 'Still in the Big Four'
- 26. FAPSI
- Part VI: Israel: the Living Security Dilemma?
- 27. The Main Services
- 28. The Toll of 'Targeted Killings'
- 29. Mossad's Global Reach
- 30. The US Connection: 'Codenamed Jumbo'
- Part VII: Intelligence in the South: the Growth of the Virtual State
- 31. The Middle East: the Hidden Hand Syndrome
- 32. Syria: the Rise of the Mukhabarat State
- 33. Iraq: 'a Sort of Frenzy'
- 34. Palestine
- 35. India and Pakistan: the Democratic Deficit
- 36. Burma: Opposition and Micro-Management
- 37. South Africa: the Democratic Chance
- Part VIII: Concluding Perspectives: Knowledge, Power and Accountability
- 38. The New Iron Triangle
- 39. Intelligence and Accountability: Bucking the Trend?
- 40. Looking to the Future
- 41. Annex: How to Research Your Intelligence Agency
- Index
