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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789448403321

Titolo

Secret intelligence in the European states system, 1918-1989 / / edited by Jonathan Haslam and Karina Urbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-8891-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

HaslamJonathan

UrbachKarina

Disciplina

327.124009/04

Soggetti

Intelligence service - Europe - History - 20th century

Secret service - Europe - History - 20th century

Europe Foreign relations 1918-1945

Europe Foreign relations 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.