Commissions of Inquiry and National Security
Comparative Approaches
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Commissions of Inquiry and National Security
Comparative Approaches
About this book
This text presents a comparative, international study of commissions of inquiry that have been convened in response to extraordinary failures and scandals. In recent years, commissions of inquiry have been common to the politics of the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. Recent years have seen a much wider range of states establish commissions of inquiry into intelligence and security issues, and they have also played important roles in transitions in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Commissions of inquiry are no longer even the exclusive preserve of states, as transnational institutions such as the United Nations and European Union have begun to convoke them. This groundbreaking book comprehensively examines commissions of inquiry around the world, which have become important and increasingly invoked tools to discover truth, curb abuses, and reconcile national security imperatives with the constraints of law and human rights. It offers timely insights for national security analysts, government officials, diplomats, lawyers, scholars, human rights monitors, students, and citizens.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- 1 Toward the Comparative Study of National Security Commissions of Inquiry
- 2 Influence without Power: Commissions of Inquiry and the Australian Intelligence Community
- 3 Public Inquiries in Canada: Making Espionage, Organizational Culture, Wrongdoing, and Mass Murder More Transparent
- 4 The Politics of Commissions of Inquiry into Security and Intelligence Controversies in Britain
- 5 Inquiring into Dirty Wars: A “Huge Smokescreen of Humbug”?
- 6 The Role of Judges
- 7 The Politics of U.S. National Security Commissions
- 8 Investigative Oversight of the American Intelligence Community: Promise and Performance
- 9 Commissions of Inquiry as Agents of Change in the Israeli Intelligence Community
- 10 Legislative Commissions of Inquiry in Spain
- 11 Cover Up or Dig Up? Inquiries into Security Services in Welfare States: The Cases of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
- 12 Commissions of Inquiry in South Africa’s Intelligence History 1960–2005
- 13 Commissions of Inquiry into National Security and Defense Affairs in the Southern Cone: The Cases of Argentina and Chile
- 14 European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Inquiries into Intelligence and Security Issues
- 15 The United Nations Iraq Oil-for-Food Inquiry
- 16 Inside a National Security Inquiry: The Aspin-Brown Commission at Work
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors