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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. Foreword Helga Hernes Part 1: Introduction 1. Accountability and Intelligence Cooperation: Framing the Issue Ian Leigh 2. International Intelligence Cooperation in Practice Richard Aldrich Part 2: Challenges 3. Blacklisting and Financial Sanctions against Suspected Terrorists Iain Cameron 4. The Collateral Casualties of Collaboration: The Consequences for Civil and Human Rights of Transnational Intelligence Sharing Craig Forcese 5. Rendition, Torture and Intelligence Cooperation Silvia Borelli 6. Intelligence Cooperation in International Operations: Peacekeeping, Weapons Inspections, and the Apprehension and Prosecution of War Criminals Simon Chesterman Part 3: Oversight and Review 7. National Oversight of International Intelligence Cooperation Philippe Hayez 8. Fit for purpose? Accountability Challenges and Paradoxes of Domestic Inquiries Andrea Wright 9. International responses to the accountability gap: European inquiries into illegal transfers and secret detentions Hans Born and Aidan Wills Part 4: The Role of Law 10. National Courts and Intelligence Cooperation Ian Leigh 11. International Law: Human Rights Law and State Responsibility Martin Scheinin and Mathias Vermeulen Part 4: Conclusion 12. International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability: Formidable Challenges and Imperfect Solutions Aidan Wills and Hans Born Hans Born is a Senior Fellow at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Switzerland. Ian Leigh is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre at Durham University. Aidan Wills is Project Coordinator, Research Division at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Switzerland.

\"This book investigates everyday practices of intelligence cooperation in anti-terrorism matters, with a specific focus on the relationship between Europe and Britain. The volume examines the effective involvement of British anti-terrorism efforts in European cooperation arrangements, which until now have been overshadowed by the UK-US 'special relationship' and by political debates that overstate the divide between Britain and continental Europe. In arguing that British intelligence has always had a European dimension, it provides a distinct perspective to the study of intelligence cooperation and the role of British intelligence therein. Mobilizing a 'field theory' approach, the book provides an original contribution to the understanding of intelligence cooperation by investigating everyday bureaucratic practices of 'ground-level' security professionals and police forces, embedded in a European 'field' structured around the exchange of anti-terror intelligence. It also accounts for the drivers behind cooperation by using 'field analysis', which explains the trajectory and positioning of actors according to their 'capitals' rather than necessities dictated by threats or state decisions. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, International Political Sociology, intelligence studies and International Relations in general\"-- Provided by publisher.

This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers and responding to their first-hand international security cooperation experiences. The resulting chapters provide original theoretical perspectives on evolving international security cooperation practices. Beginning with the premise that intelligence cooperation-domestically between agencies, internationally between states, and transnationally among states, sub-state and non-state actors-is essential in order to successfully counter the evolving transnational nature of security threats, the authors explore the transnationalization in states' responses to a transnational security threat like 'global' terror. They assess whether early signs of a \"statist transnationalism\" for a new global security cooperation regime can be identified, and look at the use of extraordinary rendition and police liaisons as means for the development and growth of transnational security cooperation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, terrorism, security, policing and intelligence. 1. Introduction Part 1. Two Worlds at War: The International vs. the Transnational 2. Statist Transnationalism for a Security Cooperation Regime Ersel Aydinli Part 2.Visions for Transnational Intelligence Cooperation: Challenges and Prospects 3. Beyond the State: The Impact of Transnational Terrorist Threats on Security and Intelligence Cooperation Derek Reveron 4. Intelligence Sharing and United States Counter-Terrorism Policy James I. Walsh 5. Rendition in a Transnational Insecurity Environment Peter Gill Part 3. Pioneers of Post-International Security Governance 6. Is the UK Stepping Towards Transnationalization? The Serious Organised Crime Agency Glen Segell 7. Structure and Agency in Transnational Cooperation in the Fields of Security Otwin Marenin 8. Police Liaisons as Builders of Transnational Security Cooperation Hasan Yon 9. First Preventers: The Necessity of Globalizing and Localizing Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Sharing Brian Nussbaum 10. Police and Counter-Terrorism: A Sociological Theory of International Cooperation Mathieu Deflem 11. Adaptive States and the New Transnational Security Regime Ersel Aydinli ‘Emerging Transnational (In)security Governance provides a significant contribution to the social science literatures on terrorism, transnational organised crime, security governance, and the nexus between these topics. Written by a team of subject experts and edited by a highly respected scholar, Ersel Aydinli, the chapters in this study deliver thought-provoking and rigorous analysis of the current landscape of and future prospects for transnational security governance. The great strength of the study is that it relates existing mechanisms designed to facilitate domestic and transnational cooperation in the fight against crime to the urgent task of countering the threat of transnational terrorism. This is valuable reading for students and researchers of terrorism and transnational governance.’ - Alex Braithwaite, University College London, UK ‘This edited volume is unusually coherent in its intellectual setup and offers a bonanza of insights into various aspects of international and transnational security governance.’ - Joerg Friedrichs, University Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford, UK 'With the popular Arab Spring revolutions also impacting regional alliances, this edited volume should become essential reading to anyone interested in the transformation of Middle Eastern politics specifically and transnational security cooperation more broadly.' - Neophytos Loizides, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 19, 1, January 2012 Ersel Aydinli is Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Turkey. He was a post-doctorate research fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He has taught at universities in North America and in Turkey, and is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. His works include articles in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, International Studies Perspectives, Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Security Dialogue, and he is the co-editor with James N. Rosenau of Paradigms in Transition: Globalization, Security and the Nation State (SUNY Press, 2005).

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It was an event of major historic and global dimensions, yet it took the entire world totally by suprise. In this book, the authors interview dozens of people who dealt with Soviet affairs in the 1980s, all of who admit to having been caught off guard.

Argues that Canada & the European Union could greatly benefit by increasing their intelligence sharing agreements & that such partnerships should continue to grow. However, it is argued that while these partnerships are likely, they will not necessarily equate to increased relations between Canada & EU. In this light, the nature of the Canadian & EU intelligence communities are contrasted to indicate the level at which these agreements are relevant to each community & to show the role of each community in their states. The development of current Canadian-EU intelligence agreements is then analyzed, & their effectiveness evaluated in terms of operational capability. The relevance of each agreement is demonstrated in the context of the contemporary international security environment, & their actual success is compared to assess their potential for increasing Canadian-EU relations. Adapted from the source document.

\"Everything was finally in place. The scientists stood in their observation bunker in the Alamogordo desert, staring through the lenses of their protective glasses at the tower five miles away where the world's first atomic device awaited an electric pulse for detonation. It was 5:29 a.m. on July 19, 1945. The previous evening, one of the smartest persons in the world had decided it was time to lighten things up a bit. Enrico Fermi glanced round at his fellow scientists and said, in his heavy Italian accent, \"Now, let's make a bet whether the atmosphere will be set on fire by this test.\"1 He wondered aloud whether this would incinerate only New Mexico or spread to the entire planet. Laughter followed, some of it nervous. A few people took him up on it\"-- Provided by publisher.

[Purpose/Significance] The paper aims to identify and evaluate the top experts of international cooperation of artificial intelligence (AI) in China, so as to provide references for further international cooperation on AI in China. [Method/Process] The top AI experts whose H index is greater than 40 are selected as the research object. Based on Aminer platform, this paper identifies top AI experts for international cooperation in China, and uses Topsis method to evaluate academic level of these experts. [Results/Conclusions] The results show that: (1) The cooperation of top experts between China and the United States is more frequently than that between China and other countries combined. (2) Top experts are mainly male, and the proportion of women is extremely low. (3) The institutions of top experts are distributed in 22 countries (regions) around the world, and the distribution of institutions is generally consistent with the situation of science & technology and economic strength of each region. (4) Some of top experts have the dual identities of university researchers and enterprise scientists. (5) Chinese and American top experts play a leading role in international cooperation in the field of academic papers. International migration of AI scientists reflects in Chinese scholars studying or working abroad, while the main international expert recruits in China are American experts. Meanwhile，although international AI cooperation has been fully carried out in China, it still has not established effective interflow and direct cooperation with some top experts, which include some leading AI experts.