Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Journeys in Twilight Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes and Martin S. Alexander 2. The Future of Intelligence: Seeking Perfection in an Imperfect World? Len Scott and R. Gerald Hughes 3. Global Intelligence Co-operation versus Accountability: New Facets to an Old Problem Richard J. Aldrich 4. ‘The Internationalism of Islam’: The British Perception of a Muslim Menace, 1840–1951 John Ferris 5. Security Intelligence and Human Rights: Illuminating the ‘Heart of Darkness’? Peter Gill 6. Rise, Fall and Regeneration: From CIA to EU Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 7. Intelligence Cooperation Meets International Studies Theory: Explaining Canadian Operations in Castro’s Cuba Don Munton 8. From Saigon to Baghdad: The Vietnam Syndrome, the Iraq War and American Foreign Policy Andrew Priest

About the Author

Len Scott is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies at Aberystwyth University. His recent publications include, as co-editor (with R. Gerald Hughes) Intelligence, Crises and Security: Prospects and Retrospects (2008) and (with R. Gerald Hughes and Peter Jackson) Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State (2008).


R. Gerald Hughes is Lecturer in Military History in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, an associate fellow of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security and reviews editor for Intelligence and National Security. Among his recent publications is Britain, Germany and the Cold War: The Search for a European Détente 1949-1967 (2007).


Martin S. Alexander is Professor of International Relations and was Director of the Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies at Aberystwyth University from 2007-9. A specialist on French defence planning and civil-military relations, he has written, edited or co-edited numerous books including (with Kenneth Mouré) Crisis and renewal: France 1918-1962 (Berghahn 2002); and (with John F.V. Keiger) France and the Algerian War, 1954-1962: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy (Frank Cass, 2002). He is currently preparing a book on the performance of the French armies in 1940.