- One Nation Under Surveillance
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One Nation Under Surveillance 
Cover of One Nation Under SurveillanceAuthor(s) Simon Chesterman Language English Subject(s) Intelligence
Espionage
National security
PrivacyPublisher Oxford University Press Publication date 2011 Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-958037-8 One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty is a book by Simon Chesterman, a law professor at the National University of Singapore and global professor at the New York University School of Law.
Oxford University Press published the book in March 2011. It examines what links — if any — should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the name of national security.[1]
Advance praise includes a quote from former CIA Inspector-General Frederick Hitz:
- "This book squarely faces the taboo subject of domestic privacy in an era of Islamist terrorism. Our enemies are not nation-states, so the targets of the intelligence services seeking to pre-empt terrorist attacks must be individuals. The casualty will be individual privacy. People will struggle against heightened surveillance, Chesterman notes, 'but the war will be lost.'"[2]
Gareth Evans, president emeritus of Crisis Group and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Australia has written:
- "This is an important book, breaking new ground in the sweep of its analysis, its analytical insights, and the policy implications it draws out. It shows just how often foreign and domestic intelligence gathering in the major democracies has been insensitive to public accountability, legality, and its consequences for individuals, to the detriment of both liberty and security--and how this can and must change. Simon Chesterman writes, as always, with compelling clarity and authority." [3]
References
Further reading
- Review in Times Higher Education by Gary T. Marx
- Review by Chris Gilson in British Politics and Policy at LSE blog
- Review by Thomas Dreier, JIPITEC 162, para. 1.
External links
Categories:- 2011 books
- Non-fiction books about espionage
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