Commissions of inquiry and national security
Subtitle: comparative approaches
By: Stuart Farson and Mark Phythian, editors
Series: Praeger security international
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313384684; 9780313384691
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward the comparative study of national security commissions of inquiry / Stuart Farson and Mark Phythian; title: Influence without power : commissions of inquiry and the Australian intelligence community / Andrew O'Neil; title: Public inquiries in Canada : making espionage, organizational culture, wrongdoing and mass murder more transparent / Stuart Farson and Reg Whitaker; title: The politics of commissions of inquiry into security and intelligence controversies in Britain / Mark Phythian; title: Inquiring into dirty wars : a "huge smokescreen of humbug"? / Peter Gill; title: The role of judges / Ian Leigh; title: The politics of US national security commissions / Kenneth Kitts; title: Investigative oversight of the American intelligence community : promise and performance / Glenn Hastedt; title: Commissions of inquiry as agents of change in the Israeli intelligence community / Shlomo Shpiro; title: Legislative commissions of inquiry in Spain / Antonio M. Diaz Fernandez; title: Cover up or dig up? : inquiries into security services in welfare states : the cases of Norway, Sweden and Denmark / Janne Flyghed; title: Commissions of inquiry in South Africa's intelligence history, 1960-2005 / Kevin A. O'Brien; title: Commissions of inquiry into national security and defence affairs in the southern cone : the cases of Argentina and Chile / Jose Manuel Ugarte; title: European parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe inquiries into intelligence and security issues / Aidan Wills; title: The United Nations Iraq oil-for-food inquiry / Reid Morden; title: Inside a national security inquiry : the Aspin-Brown Commission at work / Loch K. Johnson.