1st Edition
Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity Who Will Watch the Watchers?
Introduction
Didier Bigo, Emma Mc Cluskey and Félix Tréguer
1. From radical contention to deference: A sociogenesis of intelligence oversight in the United States (1967-1981)
Félix Tréguer
2. Transformations of the transnational field of secret services: The Reasons for a systemic crisis of legitimacy?
Didier Bigo
3. The code of silence: Transnational autonomy and oversight of signals intelligence
Ronja Kniep
4. From abuse to trust and back again: Intelligence scandals and the quest for oversight
Emma Mc Cluskey and Claudia Aradau
5. An analysis of post-Snowden civil society accountability
Bernardino León-Reyes
6. Transversal intelligence oversight in the United States: Squaring the circle?
Arnaud Kurze
7. The anatomy of political impunity in New Zealand
Damien Rogers
8. Liberty, equality, and counter-terrorism in France
François Thuillier
9. Intelligence oversight collaboration in Europe
Thorsten Wetzling
10. Torture and security service mass surveillance
Elspeth Guild and Sophia Soares
Biography
Didier Bigo is a professor of International Political Sociology at Sciences-Po Paris-CERI, France, and a part-time professor at King’s College London, Department of War Studies. He is the author or editor of many books, including Data Politics (2019) and Extraordinary Rendition (2018), most recently.
Emma Mc Cluskey is a lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster, London. She is the author of From Righteousness to Far Right; An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies (2019) and co-editor of Security, Ethnography and Discourse (2022).
Félix Tréguer is an associate researcher at the CNRS Center for Internet and Society and a former postdoctoral fellow for the GUARDINT project at CERI-Sciences Po. He is a founding member of La Quadrature du Net, an advocacy group dedicated to the defence of human rights in relation to digital technologies.
