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Secret intelligence in the European states system, 1918-1989 / edited by Jonathan Haslam and Karina Urbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--Europe--History--20th century.
- Intelligence service.
- Secret service--Europe--History--20th century.
- Secret service.
- Europe--Foreign relations--1918-1945.
- Europe.
- Europe--Foreign relations--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume brings together a collection of essays that analyse the recent evidence concerning the history of the European states system of the last century. The essays offer an array of insight across countries and across time. Together they highlight the critical importance of the prevailing domestic circumstances - technological, governmental, ideological, cultural, financial - in which intelligence operates.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 “Humint” by Default and the Problem of Trust
- 2 Barbarossa and the Bomb
- 3 Seeking a Scapegoat
- 4 French Intelligence About the East, 1945–1968
- 5 British Intelligence During the Cold War
- 6 The Stasi Confronts Western Strategies for Transformation, 1966–1975
- 7 The West German Secret Services During the Cold War
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780804788915
- 080478891X
- OCLC:
- 868973205
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