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Article Review 152 on “To Disclose or Deceive? Sharing Secret Information between Aligned States.”

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 By James Igoe Walsh

States in competition with each other have powerful incentives to engage in deception.  Adversaries use deception to convince each other that their resolve is high and that they possess powerful military capabilities.[1] More puzzling is why states that are aligned with each other—which is understood as “a set of mutual expectations between two or more…

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Roundtable 12-8 on In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World.

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 By Austin Carson, Stephanie Carvin, Jon R. Lindsay, Ryan Scoville

Researching covert action is not easy.  States pursue such operations to influence events without revealing their handiwork.  Doing this successfully requires limiting the number of officials in the know, and enforcing secrecy measures to avoid leaving an incriminating paper trail. The documentary record is deliberately porous as a result, which complicates any effort to test…

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Forum 4 on “An INS Special Forum: Implications of the Snowden Leaks”

February 3, 2015September 14, 2020 By H-Diplo

From the very beginning of the nation’s history, intelligence has been set aside as a conspicuous exception to James Madison’s advocacy of checks-and-balances, spelled out in his Federalist Paper No. 51. The ‘auxiliary precautions’ that this key participant at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 (and later America’s fourth President) — the safeguards he had helped…

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