This comprehensive volume discusses the various challenges of establishing and maintaining accountable and democratically controlled intelligence services, drawing both from states with well-established democratic systems and those emerging from authoritarian systems and in transition towards democracy.
Excerto: Controlling and Overseeing Intelligence Services in Democratic States
What is Intelligence? [I]s the collection and analysis of information, presented to policy-makers in a form that will help them in their decision-making process and their choice of policy options. Intelligence can be directed externally towards foreign entities such as other states and non-state actors. It can also be directed against perceived domestic threats to the security of the state and society, which is traditionally known as security or security intelligence.
