Reforming Intelligence: Democracy and Effectiveness

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Boraz, Steven C.
Bruneau, Thomas C.
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2006-07
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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One of the most difficult and least explored challenges confronting new democracies is that of reforming their intelligence services. Even for long-established democracies, the need for civilian agencies dedicated to protecting national security through the gathering and analysis of intelligence (as well as occasional covert action on the basis of such intelligence) poses serious problems. Democracy requires openness in the flow of information and discussion, while intelligence work often demands secrecy. Maintaining agencies to do such work in the midst of a generally open political culture is a challenge for any democracy. Democratizing or newly democratic countries, however, must deal with the even more arduous task of transforming intelligence bureaucracies that once served undemocratic regimes.
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National Security Affairs (NSA)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Journal of Democracy, Volume 17, Number 3, July 2006
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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