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National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country’s history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Latvia, Montenegro), the work provides insight into a number of rarely discussed national intelligence agencies to allow for comparative study, offering hard to find information into one volume. In their chapters, the contributors, who are all experts from the countries discussed, address the intelligence community rather than focus on a single agency. They examine the environment in which an organization operates, its actors, and cultural and ideological climate, to cover both the external and internal factors that influence a nation’s intelligence community. The result is an exhaustive, unique survey of European intelligence communities rarely discussed.

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations
Introduction (Bob de Graaff & James M. Nyce)
Albania: Change and Continuity (Arjan Dyrmishi)
Austria: An Intelligence Hub Coming Out of the Shadows (Siegfried Beer)
Belgium: A Modern Legal and Policy Framework for Intelligence Services with a Long Tradition (Dirk van Daele)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Historical Development of the Intelligence and Security System (Maid Pajevic)
Bulgaria: A Centenary Unknown History (Jordan Baev)
Croatia: Construction and Deconstruction of the Croatian Intelligence Community (1990-2014) (Gordan Akrap & Miroslav Tudman)
Czech Republic: The Czech Parth Between Totalitarianism and Democracy (Prokop Tomek)
Denmark: From State Security to Security State. The Invention of Preventive Security (Lars Erslev Andersen)
Estonia: Intelligence and Security in the 20th Century (Iero Medijainen)
Finland: The Intelligence Services in a Cultural and Historical Context (Juho Kotakallio)
France: The Intelligence Services’Historical and Cultural Context (Eric Denécé)
Germany: An Intelligence Community with a Fraught History (Wolfgang Krieger)
Greece: The Need for Modernization in an Unstable Environment (John Nomikos)
Iceland: a Small State Learning the Intelligence Ropes (Jakob Thor Kristjansson)
Ireland: Plus Ca Change, 1945-2015 (Eunan O’Halpin)
Italy: From Secret Services to Intelligence (Marco Lombardi & Laris Gaiser)
Lithuania: The Challenge of Merging the Present and the Past (Vaidotas Urbelis)
Luxembourg: A Country Which Did Not Need an Intelligence Service? (Gérald Arboit)
Montenegro: Trends and Patterns in the intelligence sector (Dražen Cerovic, Nenad Koprivica & Danijela Vujoševic)
The Netherlands: Allmost Full Circle (Bob de Graaff)
Norway and the intelligence community: Peaceful State, Crucial Geography, Upheaval and Reform (Njord Wegge)
Poland: The Special Services since the Independence (Artur Gruszczak)
Portugal: Peculiarities of the Portuguese Intelligence Services (Teresa Rodrigues and JoséDuarte de Jesus)
Romania: An Introduction to its Intelligence Services (Larry L. Watts)
Serbia: An Awkward Legacy (Predrag Petrovic)
Slovakia: State Security and Intelligence since 1945 (Matej Medvecký, JergušSivoš)
Slovenia: The Intelligence System, Its Development, and Some Key Challenges (Iztok Prezelj)
Spain: Intelligence in Context Today (Antonio M. Díaz-Fernández)
Sweden: Delicate Liaison (Wilhelm Agrell and Gunilla Eriksson)
Switzerland: Intelligence in the New Security Paradigm (Jacques Baud)
Ukraine: KGB to Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) (Taras Kuzio)
United Kingdom: Organization and Oversight after Snowden (Peter Gill)

Product details

Published Aug 02 2016
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 496
ISBN 9781442249417
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 32 b/w photos
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Bob de Graaff

Anthology Editor

James M. Nyce

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