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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.
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.
This book examines how key developments in international relations
in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their
oversight. Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies
have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing security
environment. This book addresses the impact of three factors on
intelligence oversight: the growth of more complex terror threats,
such as those caused by the rise of Islamic State; the colder
East-West climate following Russia's intervention in Ukraine and
annexation of Crimea; and new challenges relating to the
large-scale intelligence collection and intrusive surveillance
practices revealed by Edward Snowden. This volume evaluates the
impact these factors have had on security and intelligence services
in a range of countries, together with the challenges that they
present for intelligence oversight bodies to adapt in response.
With chapters surveying developments in Norway, Romania, the UK,
Belgium, France, the USA, Canada and Germany, the coverage is
varied, wide and up-to-date. This book will be of much interest to
students of intelligence studies, security studies and
International Relations.
This book examines how key developments in international relations
in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their
oversight. Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies
have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing security
environment. This book addresses the impact of three factors on
intelligence oversight: the growth of more complex terror threats,
such as those caused by the rise of Islamic State; the colder
East-West climate following Russia's intervention in Ukraine and
annexation of Crimea; and new challenges relating to the
large-scale intelligence collection and intrusive surveillance
practices revealed by Edward Snowden. This volume evaluates the
impact these factors have had on security and intelligence services
in a range of countries, together with the challenges that they
present for intelligence oversight bodies to adapt in response.
With chapters surveying developments in Norway, Romania, the UK,
Belgium, France, the USA, Canada and Germany, the coverage is
varied, wide and up-to-date. This book will be of much interest to
students of intelligence studies, security studies and
International Relations.
Christianity and Constitutionalism offers innovative and thoughtful
analyses of the relationship between religious thought and
constitutional law. Part I features contributions from historians,
recounting how the relationship between the Christian faith and
fundamental ideas about law, justice, and government has evolved
from era to era. Part II provides analyses from constitutional
lawyers on the normative implications of Christianity for
particular themes in constitutional law, including sovereignty, the
rule of law, democracy, the separation of powers, human rights,
conscience, and federalism. Part III rounds out the study with
theologians focused on particular Christian doctrines, exploring
their constructive and sometimes critical implications for
constitutionalism. As a whole, Christianity and Constitutionalism
breaks new ground by offering wide-ranging, interdisciplinary
contributions to the study of the relationship between the
Christian religion and constitutional law.
The first volume of its kind, Christianity and Constitutionalism
explores the contribution of Christianity to constitutional law and
constitutionalism as viewed from the perspectives of history, law,
and theology. The authors examine a wide range of key figures,
including Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Moses, Martin Luther, and
Roger Williams, offering innovative and thoughtful analyses of the
relationship between religious thought and constitutional law. Part
I features contributions from historians and is focused on the
historical influence of Christianity on constitutionalism,
recounting how the relationship between the Christian faith and
fundamental ideas about law, justice, and government has evolved
from era to era. Part II offers the analyses of constitutional
lawyers, focusing on the normative implications of Christianity for
particular themes or topics in constitutional law. The chapters in
this section orbit around several central doctrines and principles
of this field-including sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy,
the separation of powers, human rights, conscience, and
federalism-evaluating them from a range of Christian perspectives.
Part III rounds out the study with theologians focused on
particular Christian doctrines, exploring their constructive and
sometimes critical implications for constitutionalism. As a whole,
Christianity and Constitutionalism breaks new ground by offering
wide-ranging, interdisciplinary contributions to the study of the
relationship between the Christian religion and constitutional law.
More than five years after the commencement of the Human Rights Act
1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus
of Making Rights Real is on the extent to which the Act has
delivered on the promise to 'bring rights home'. To that end the
book considers how the judiciary, parliament and the executive have
performed in the new roles that the Human Rights Act requires them
to play and the courts' application of the Act in different legal
spheres. This account cuts through the rhetoric and controversy
surrounding the Act, generated by its champions and detractors
alike, to reach a measured assessment. The true impact in public
law, civil law, criminal law and on anti-terrorism legislation are
each considered. Finally, the book discusses whether we are now
nearer to a new constitutional settlement and to the promised new
'rights culture'.
The proper role of government is among the most politically contentious issues of our time. Behind the legal technicalities of recent reforms and disputes in the courts lie issues of profound significance for local democracy. This book shows how fundamental disagreements over the nature of local government and politics permeate the law and how law, in turn, shapes and influences local politics.
Examining the law and public policy relating to religious liberty
in Western liberal democracies, this book contains a detailed
analysis of the history, rationale, scope, and limits of religious
freedom from (but not restricted to) an evangelical Christian
perspective. Focussing on United Kingdom, the United States,
Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and EU, it studies the interaction
between law and religion at several different levels, looking at
the key debates that have arisen. Divided into three parts, the
book begins by contrasting the liberal and Christian rationales for
and understandings of religious freedom. It then explores central
thematic issues: the types of constitutional frameworks within
which any right to religious exercise must operate; the varieties
of paradigmatic relationships between organized religion and the
state; the meaning of 'religion'; the limitations upon individual
and institutional religious behaviour; and the domestic and
international legal mechanisms that have evolved to address
religious conduct. The final part explores key subject areas where
current religious freedom controversies have arisen: employment;
education; parental rights and childrearing; controls on
pro-religious and anti-religious expression; medical treatment; and
religious group (church) autonomy. This new edition is fully
updated with the growing case law in the area, and features
increased coverage of Islam and the flashpoint debates surrounding
the accommodation of Muslim beliefs and practices in Anglophone
nations.
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