Spy chiefs. / Volume 2, : Intelligence leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia / / Paul Maddrell [and three others], editors ; foreword by Sir Richard Dearlove.
Throughout history and across cultures, the spy chief has been an essential advisor for heads of state and the leader of the state security apparatus. In democracies, the spy chief has become a public figure, and intelligence activities have been largely brought under the rule of law. In authoritari...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Washington, DC : : Georgetown University Press,, [2018] 2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Notes: | This book grew out of two academic meetings. The first was a panel, organized by Paul Maddrell, on Intelligence Leaders in International Relations at the 55th annual convention of the International Studies Association in Toronto, Canada, in March 2014. This led to a second, a conference entitled Spy Chiefs: Intelligence Leaders in History, Culture and International Relations, which was organized by Christopher Moran and his colleagues at Warwick University and held at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava in Venice, Italy, in May of that year. The purpose of these meetings was to discuss the leadership of intelligence and security agencies; what good leadership of such agencies is and what impact it has had on the performance of the agencies concerned--Preface to volume 1. |
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