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oapen-20.500.12657-882702024-03-28T14:02:52Z The Ethics of National Security Intelligence Institutions Henschke, Adam Miller, Seumas Alexandra, Andrew Walsh, Patrick F. Bradbury, Roger ethical institutions;best practice;intelligence services;new technologies;just war model thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTU Peace studies and conflict resolution thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology This book explores the ethics of national security intelligence institutions operating in contemporary liberal democracies. Intelligence collection by agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and Mossad involves practices that are apparently inconsistent with the principles of ordinary morality – practices such as lying, spying, manipulation, and covert action. However, in the defence of national security, such practices may not only be morally permissible, but may also under some circumstances be morally obligatory. One approach to the ethics of national security intelligence activity has been to draw from the just war tradition (so-called ‘just intelligence theory’). This book identifies significant limitations of this approach and offers a new, institutionally based, teleological normative framework. In doing so, it revises some familiar principles designed for application to kinetic wars, such as necessity and proportionality, and invokes some additional ones, such as reciprocity and trust. It goes on to explore the applications of this framework and a revised set of principles for national security intelligence institutions and practices in contemporary and emerging political and technological settings. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, ethics, security studies and International Relations. 2024-03-11T14:57:51Z 2024-03-11T14:57:51Z 2024 book 9781003106449 9781040022023 9780367617561 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88270 eng Studies in Intelligence application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781040021958.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003106449 10.4324/9781003106449 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb fd53808a-cdec-480e-bf85-f52973f603b7 9781003106449 9781040022023 9780367617561 Routledge 249 University of Oxford Oxford University open access
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This book explores the ethics of national security intelligence institutions operating in contemporary liberal democracies.
Intelligence collection by agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and Mossad involves practices that are apparently inconsistent with the principles of ordinary morality – practices such as lying, spying, manipulation, and covert action. However, in the defence of national security, such practices may not only be morally permissible, but may also under some circumstances be morally obligatory. One approach to the ethics of national security intelligence activity has been to draw from the just war tradition (so-called ‘just intelligence theory’). This book identifies significant limitations of this approach and offers a new, institutionally based, teleological normative framework. In doing so, it revises some familiar principles designed for application to kinetic wars, such as necessity and proportionality, and invokes some additional ones, such as reciprocity and trust. It goes on to explore the applications of this framework and a revised set of principles for national security intelligence institutions and practices in contemporary and emerging political and technological settings.
This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, ethics, security studies and International Relations.
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