Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft: Accountability and Governance of Civil-Intelligence Relations Across the Five Eyes Security Community - the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

This book offers the only systematic comparison of the world’s most powerful intelligence alliance, colloquially known as the Five Eyes: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. As a book in comparative intelligence studies, however, its preoccupation is not intelligence tradecraft per se; rather, the book examines developments and mechanisms in holding each country’s intelligence community accountable. Each chapter provides a succinct overview of the country’s intelligence community, the strategic environment that informed its development, and the intelligence accountability architecture. In the process, the book takes up some of the most controversial debates in reconciling democratic and security imperatives.