Book launch - Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence

Summary:

“Principled Spying: The ethics of secret intelligence” explores how to strike a balance between intelligence activities necessary to keep us safe and protecting democratic values by developing a new framework of ethics. The book is structured as an engaging debate between a former national security practitioner and an intelligence scholar.  Throughout the book they pose key questions to each other and the reader and offer contrasting perspectives to stimulate further discussion. The chapters in the book cover key areas including human intelligence, surveillance, acting on intelligence, and oversight and accountability

Speakers:

Sir David Omand GCB is a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and at PSIA Sciences Po in Paris.  His posts in government service included UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator in the Cabinet Office, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, Director of GCHQ, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Policy in the MOD and Principal Private Secretary of the Secretary of State for Defence. He is the Senior Independent Director of Babcock International Group plc and a senior adviser to Paladin Capital Group, investing in the cybersecurity sector. He is the author of Securing the State (CUP and Hurst 2010)

Professor Mark Phythian, University of Leicester, author of  Understanding the Intelligence Cycle 2013 Routledge

Chair:

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman was the official historian of the Falklands Campaign, and a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War (the Chilcot Inquiry).  He has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the Cold War, and comments regularly on contemporary security issues.  His most recent book, "Strategy" was a Financial Times and Economist book of the year; "A Choice of Enemies: America confronts the Middle East"  won the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize and Duke of Wellington Medal for Military Literature. His most recent publication is "The Future of War: A History" 2017.

The book launch will be followed by a reception.