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>Subject: [Surveillance-L] Fwd: WG: Ethics and Intelligence Collection:
> Technology and the Future of Spying
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>*Von:*Philosophy in Europe
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] *Im Auftrag
>von *jaigalliott .
>*Gesendet:* Montag, 4. November 2013 05:26
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>*Betreff:* CFA: Ethics and Intelligence
>Collection: Technology and the Future of Spying
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>*Call**for Abstracts*
>
>/Ethics and Intelligence Collection: Technology and the Future of Spying/
>
>/Edited by Jai Galliott (MQ) and Warren Reed
>(CQU and ex-Australian Secret Intelligence
>Service)/
>
>/Please distribute widely. Apologies for cross-posting./
>
>Foreign and domestic intelligence agencies have
>received an exponential increase in their levels
>of funding and public support in the decade
>after the September 11 terrorist attacks but
>have now entered a period of broad public
>scrutiny and skepticism. This is because despite
>the huge investment in the human and financial
>resources of the United States Central
>Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its data
>collection partners abroad, the large majority
>of Western nations remain vulnerable to
>unconventional threats. On a number of fronts -
>interrogation, torture, the privatisation of
>national security, drone strikes and electronic
>surveillance - critics from both inside and
>outside government are now starting to question
>the purpose, reach and moral authority of the
>United States led intelligence establishment.
>Abstracts pertaining to the above topics are
>welcomed for inclusion in this proposed
>volume/./ Subsequent papers must be
>philosophically rigorous but accessible to
>policy makers and upper-level
>students.//Possible themes and topics might
>include, but are certainly not limited to, the
>following:
>
>- What is Espionage?
>
>- The History of Intelligence Ethics
>
>- Current Trends: An Engineer's Perspective on Progress and Prospects
>
>- Intelligence and Preventative/Preemption Distinction
>
>- Just War Theory and Lessons for the Intelligence Community
>
>- The Limits of Intelligence Gathering: Who Should We Watch?
>
>- The Preliminary Case for 'Enhanced' Interrogation
>
>- Does Torture Work? A View from Afghanistan
>
>- The Strategic Implications of Torture
>
>- Spies for Hire: The Challenges Posed by Contractors
>
>- Privatised Information Gathering: Morality and Just War Theory
>
>- Military-Industrial Complex and Privacy
>
>- Drones Wars: The CIA and Remote Surveillance
>
>- Ethics, Distance and the Twenty-First Century Intelligence Analyst
>
>- Asymmetric Force and Terroristic 'Blowback'
>
>- Spying on the Homefront: The NSA and Warrantless Wiretapping
>
>- The Ethics of Cyberwarfare
>
>- Super Spies: Bio-Enhanced Intelligence Officers
>
>- A Better Secret Court: Improving Ethical Oversight of U.S. FISA Courts
>
>- WikiLeaks: Whistleblowing, Morality and the State
>
>- Guiding Intelligence Professions: A Code of Ethics
>
>- Any other relevant topic (we're open to suggestion)
>
>*Submission Guidelines & Notes:*
>
>1. Submission deadline for abstracts (200-500
>words) and CV(s): *December 4, 2013. Late
>submissions will not be accepted.*
>
>2. Selected abstracts will be reviewed by the
>editors and forwarded to Routledge who will
>review the collection with a view to contracting
>the project. There's also some scope to publish
>under one the editor's new Emerging Technologies
>series with Ashgate, depending on the final
>makeup of papers.
>
>3. Authors will receive a response roughly 8
>weeks after the closing date for submissions.
>
>4. Tentative submission deadline for drafts of
>accepted papers (approx. 5000 words): late 2014.
>
>5. All submissions (in Word format) and
>inquiries should be directed to Jai Galliott at
>Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia via
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