In the 1990s, judgments in the European Court of Human Rights concerning state
surveillance forced many West European countries to introduce new parliamentary bodies …

Universities have long played a significant intelligence role in the security of nation states. At
Oriel College, University of Oxford, in 2017, I convened an international Colloquium on …

In their path toward democratic consolidation, emerging democracies endeavor to ensure
the democratic transfer of political power, bring changes in the legal framework, transform …

The reporting practice of domestic intelligence services is one of the sparse researched
areas of democracy protection in European constitutional states. This article aims to lay a …

The activities of intelligence services and the expansion of their powers have moved to the
center of public debates since the terrorist attacks in Europe. Major discussions have been …

Romania represents one of the paradigmatic cases where security sector reform proceeded
quickly after the collapse of the communist regime in 1989. The former Securitate was one of …

United States (US) civilian and military intelligence services increasingly have engaged with
local intelligence services, either in an advisory role or direct coordination or liaison. In many …

The intelligence literature little addresses why national leaders purge their intelligence
agencies as a variety of 'reform'. Motives and consequences have varied dramatically over …

Croatia's accession to NATO, and soon the European Union, presupposes that its
intelligence system has already been the subject of in-depth reforms based on sound …

On the operational and epistemological domain, universities feature particularly strongly
across the agencies in identifying related recruitment needs in knowledge terms for cross …