Security and Intelligence in a Changing World: New Perspectives for the 1990s

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This book, first published in 1991, examines the changes to security and intelligence agencies envisioned in the uncertain world at the end of the Cold War. While the central focus is on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, its history, function and future, there are also comparative studies of the British, Soviet, American and Australian systems. Contents Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Part One: International Perspectives on Intelligence 1. Introduction: The Fin-de-siècle Phenomenon • Wesley K. Wark 2. The British View of Securityand Intelligence • Christopher Andrew 3. The Soviet System of Security and Intelligence • John J. Dziak 4. Strategic Intelligence: An American Perspective • Loch K. Johnson Part Two: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives 5. Introduction • David Stafford 6. The Evolution of the Security Intelligence Debate in Canada since 1976 • Peter Gill 7. Review versus Oversight • John Starnes 8. Accountability and the Australian Security Intelligence Organization: A Brief History • Frank Cain 9. The Canadian Security and Intelligence System: Fighting the Last War or the Next? • Reg Whitaker Part Three: Some Major Issues for the Future 10. Introduction • A. Stuart Farson 11. The CSIS, Gorbachev and Global Change: Canada’s Internal Security and Intelligence Requirements in Transition • Franklyn Griffiths 12. Strategic Intelligence and Effective Policy • Robert Jervis 13. Countering Terrorism in Canada • Jean-Paul Brodeur Notes on the Contributors