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In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing,
all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like
pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and
what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of
intelligence? This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens
our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign
affairs and national security in the United States and United
Kingdom from the early 1940s to the present. The figures profiled
range from famous spy chiefs such as William Donovan, Richard
Helms, and Stewart Menzies to little-known figures such as John
Grombach, who ran an intelligence organization so secret that not
even President Truman knew of it. The volume tries to answer six
questions arising from the spy-chief profiles: how do intelligence
leaders operate in different national, institutional, and
historical contexts? What role have they played in the conduct of
international relations and the making of national security policy?
How much power do they possess? What qualities make an effective
intelligence leader? How secretive and accountable to the public
have they been? Finally, does popular culture (including the media)
distort or improve our understanding of them? Many of those
profiled in the book served at times of turbulent change, were
faced with foreign penetrations of their intelligence service, and
wrestled with matters of transparency, accountability to
democratically elected overseers, and adherence to the rule of law.
This book will appeal to both intelligence specialists and general
readers with an interest in the intelligence history of the United
States and United Kingdom.
Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country
started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear
something about the Office of Strategic Services in World War II or
the National Security Act of 1947 and the formation of the Central
Intelligence Agency. What you almost certainly will not hear is
anything about World War I. In World War I and the Foundations of
American Intelligence, Mark Stout establishes that, in fact, World
War I led to the realization that intelligence was indispensable in
both wartime and peacetime.After a lengthy gestation that started
in the late nineteenth century, modern American intelligence
emerged during World War I, laying the foundations for the
establishment of a self-conscious profession of intelligence.
Virtually everything that followed was maturation, reorganization,
reinvigoration, or reinvention. World War I ushered in a period of
rapid changes. Never again would the War Department be without an
intelligence component. Never again would a senior American
commander lead a force to war without intelligence personnel on
their staff. Never again would the United States government be
without a signals intelligence agency or aerial reconnaissance
capability. Stout examines the breadth of American intelligence in
the war, not just in France, not just at home, but around the world
and across the army, navy, and State Department, and demonstrates
how these far-flung efforts endured after the Armistice in 1918.
For the first time, there came to be a group of intelligence
practitioners who viewed themselves as different from other
soldiers, sailors, and diplomats. Upon entering World War II, the
United States had a solid foundation from which to expand to meet
the needs of another global hot war and the Cold War that followed.
Throughout history and across cultures, the spy chief has been a
leader of the state security apparatus and an essential adviser to
heads of state. In democracies, the spy chief has become a public
figure, and intelligence activities have been brought under the
rule of law. In authoritarian regimes, however, the spy chief was
and remains a frightening and opaque figure who exercises secret
influence abroad and engages in repression at home. This second
volume of Spy Chiefs goes beyond the commonly studied spy chiefs of
the United States and the United Kingdom to examine leaders from
Renaissance Venice to the Soviet Union, Germany, India, Egypt, and
Lebanon in the twentieth century. It provides a close-up look at
intelligence leaders, good and bad, in the different political
contexts of the regimes they served. The contributors to the volume
try to answer the following questions: how do intelligence leaders
operate in these different national, institutional and historical
contexts? What role have they played in the conduct of domestic
affairs and international relations? How much power have they
possessed? How have they led their agencies and what qualities make
an effective intelligence leader? How has their role differed
according to the political character of the regime they have
served? The profiles in this book range from some of the most
notorious figures in modern history, such as Feliks Dzerzhinsky and
Erich Mielke, to spy chiefs in democratic West Germany and India.
Save when you purchase Volumes 1 and 2 in a bundle! The first
volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our understanding of the
role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and national
security in the United States and United Kingdom from the early
1940s to the present. The figures profiled range from famous spy
chiefs such as William Donovan, Richard Helms, and Stewart Menzies
to little-known figures such as John Grombach, who ran an
intelligence organization so secret that not even President Truman
knew of it. The volume tries to answer six questions arising from
the spy-chief profiles: how do intelligence leaders operate in
different national, institutional, and historical contexts? What
role have they played in the conduct of international relations and
the making of national security policy? How much power do they
possess? What qualities make an effective intelligence leader? How
secretive and accountable to the public have they been? Finally,
does popular culture (including the media) distort or improve our
understanding of them? Many of those profiled in the book served at
times of turbulent change, were faced with foreign penetrations of
their intelligence service, and wrestled with matters of
transparency, accountability to democratically elected overseers,
and adherence to the rule of law. This book will appeal to both
intelligence specialists and general readers with an interest in
the intelligence history of the United States and United Kingdom.
The second volume of Spy Chiefs goes beyond the commonly studied
spy chiefs of the United States and the United Kingdom to examine
leaders from Renaissance Venice to the Soviet Union, Germany,
India, Egypt, and Lebanon in the twentieth century. It provides a
close-up look at intelligence leaders, good and bad, in the
different political contexts of the regimes they served. The
contributors to the volume try to answer the following questions:
how do intelligence leaders operate in these different national,
institutional and historical contexts? What role have they played
in the conduct of domestic affairs and international relations? How
much power have they possessed? How have they led their agencies
and what qualities make an effective intelligence leader? How has
their role differed according to the political character of the
regime they have served? The profiles in this book range from some
of the most notorious figures in modern history, such as Feliks
Dzerzhinsky and Erich Mielke, to spy chiefs in democratic West
Germany and India.
In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing,
all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like
pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and
what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of
intelligence? This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens
our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign
affairs and national security in the United States and United
Kingdom from the early 1940s to the present. The figures profiled
range from famous spy chiefs such as William Donovan, Richard
Helms, and Stewart Menzies to little-known figures such as John
Grombach, who ran an intelligence organization so secret that not
even President Truman knew of it. The volume tries to answer six
questions arising from the spy-chief profiles: how do intelligence
leaders operate in different national, institutional, and
historical contexts? What role have they played in the conduct of
international relations and the making of national security policy?
How much power do they possess? What qualities make an effective
intelligence leader? How secretive and accountable to the public
have they been? Finally, does popular culture (including the media)
distort or improve our understanding of them? Many of those
profiled in the book served at times of turbulent change, were
faced with foreign penetrations of their intelligence service, and
wrestled with matters of transparency, accountability to
democratically elected overseers, and adherence to the rule of law.
This book will appeal to both intelligence specialists and general
readers with an interest in the intelligence history of the United
States and United Kingdom.
Throughout history and across cultures, the spy chief has been a
leader of the state security apparatus and an essential adviser to
heads of state. In democracies, the spy chief has become a public
figure, and intelligence activities have been brought under the
rule of law. In authoritarian regimes, however, the spy chief was
and remains a frightening and opaque figure who exercises secret
influence abroad and engages in repression at home. This second
volume of Spy Chiefs goes beyond the commonly studied spy chiefs of
the United States and the United Kingdom to examine leaders from
Renaissance Venice to the Soviet Union, Germany, India, Egypt, and
Lebanon in the twentieth century. It provides a close-up look at
intelligence leaders, good and bad, in the different political
contexts of the regimes they served. The contributors to the volume
try to answer the following questions: how do intelligence leaders
operate in these different national, institutional and historical
contexts? What role have they played in the conduct of domestic
affairs and international relations? How much power have they
possessed? How have they led their agencies and what qualities make
an effective intelligence leader? How has their role differed
according to the political character of the regime they have
served? The profiles in this book range from some of the most
notorious figures in modern history, such as Feliks Dzerzhinsky and
Erich Mielke, to spy chiefs in democratic West Germany and India.
Save when you purchase Volumes 1 and 2 in a bundle! The first
volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our understanding of the
role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and national
security in the United States and United Kingdom from the early
1940s to the present. The figures profiled range from famous spy
chiefs such as William Donovan, Richard Helms, and Stewart Menzies
to little-known figures such as John Grombach, who ran an
intelligence organization so secret that not even President Truman
knew of it. The volume tries to answer six questions arising from
the spy-chief profiles: how do intelligence leaders operate in
different national, institutional, and historical contexts? What
role have they played in the conduct of international relations and
the making of national security policy? How much power do they
possess? What qualities make an effective intelligence leader? How
secretive and accountable to the public have they been? Finally,
does popular culture (including the media) distort or improve our
understanding of them? Many of those profiled in the book served at
times of turbulent change, were faced with foreign penetrations of
their intelligence service, and wrestled with matters of
transparency, accountability to democratically elected overseers,
and adherence to the rule of law. This book will appeal to both
intelligence specialists and general readers with an interest in
the intelligence history of the United States and United Kingdom.
The second volume of Spy Chiefs goes beyond the commonly studied
spy chiefs of the United States and the United Kingdom to examine
leaders from Renaissance Venice to the Soviet Union, Germany,
India, Egypt, and Lebanon in the twentieth century. It provides a
close-up look at intelligence leaders, good and bad, in the
different political contexts of the regimes they served. The
contributors to the volume try to answer the following questions:
how do intelligence leaders operate in these different national,
institutional and historical contexts? What role have they played
in the conduct of domestic affairs and international relations? How
much power have they possessed? How have they led their agencies
and what qualities make an effective intelligence leader? How has
their role differed according to the political character of the
regime they have served? The profiles in this book range from some
of the most notorious figures in modern history, such as Feliks
Dzerzhinsky and Erich Mielke, to spy chiefs in democratic West
Germany and India.
Description: A Fellowship of Baptism is a critical rereading of
Karl Barth's ecclesiology, arguing that reading his ecclesiology
through the lens of his mature view of baptism best enables one to
understand Barth's view of the church. Barth's insistence on
believer's baptism is connected to the free-church ecclesiology he
develops in the Church Dogmatics. The church, for Barth, is a
gathered, concrete community formed by the Holy Spirit. The result
of believer's baptism should be a community that is free from
cultural and political control so that it can serve the world and
witness to it. At the same time, questions are raised about Barth's
rejection of the sacramental nature of baptism and the implications
this has for ecclesiology. The strengths of believer's baptism and
the weakness of his non-sacramental view are both seen in his
writings on the church and are brought into conversation with one
another. Reading Barth's ecclesiology and doctrine of baptism
together helps to show the interdependence of baptism and
ecclesiology in Barth as well as in all church teaching and
practice. Endorsements: ""Considering Barth's view of Baptism,
Tracey Stout helpfully demonstrates how and why Baptism,
Ecclesiology, Christology, Pneumatology, and Ethics are all
intimately connected. Stout judiciously maintains that, despite
Barth's later tendency to separate the church's sacramental actions
from the action of the Holy Spirit, we can still learn from Barth
how and why it is important to understand that divine action
enables free human action and thus encourages Christians to develop
an appropriate Ecclesiology, Ethics, and Political Theology. This
book serves its subject well and deserves to be widely read.""
--Paul D. Molnar Professor of Systematic Theology St. John's
University, New York ""Even the most vigorous of Karl Barth
enthusiasts often remain perplexed at his late turn concerning
baptism, as he rejected infant baptism in favor of believers'
baptism. In this masterly study of Barth on baptism, Tracey Stout
demonstrates that Barth's drastic shift was not made in opposition
to Christian sacramentalism so much as for the sake of Christian
freedom, most especially for the liberty of the church. For Barth,
it is only when the entire Body of Christ makes its intentional
witness to the world that it can become God's truly confessional
community. Stout's treatment of this crucial matter will thus
garner the interest of students and professors, of pastors and
laypeople alike."" --Ralph C. Wood University Professor of Theology
and Literature Baylor University About the Contributor(s): Tracey
Mark Stout is Associate Professor of Christian Studies at Bluefield
College in Bluefield, Virginia.
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