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The International Intelligence Ethics Association (IIEA) and Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies present the 5th International Conference on the Ethics of National Security Intelligence (March 11-12, 2010, USA). Read more.

RIEAS’s director, John M. Nomikos had a meeting with Mr. M. Aynul Islam, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Jagannath University in Bangladesh. Prof. M. Aynul Islam focuses his academic research on: Radicalism, Terrorism and Security in South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan and India).

GORDON THOMAS SECRET WARS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE (St. Martin’s Press, 2009)

By Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis

Note: Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis (joe [at] intelNews.org) teaches politics, history and intelligence at King College, USA. He is Senior Editor at www.intelNews.org.

Gordon Thomas’ Secret Wars (St. Martin’s Press, 2009), whose publication coincides with the centennial year of Britain’s intelligence and security services, is a useful historical narrative of MI5 and MI6. The book’s strength rests on Thomas’ skilled storytelling, which, coupled with some interesting new information, will appeal to both popular enthusiasts and scholarly devotees of intelligence history. The latter, however, will have to overcome the surprising absence of any source notes in the book. Thomas attempts to make up for this by naming approximately half of his primary information sources. Noticeably, however, of the author’s 44 named primary sources, 12 are Israelis and only 11 are British.

Dr. Andrew Liaropoulos, (RIEAS Senior Analyst) will participate in the EUISS-Cambridge Summer School Programme 2009, from the 14th until the 18th of July 2009. The title of the programme is “A Summer Course on European Security and National Traditions.” Some of the issues that will be studied are the “debate on Securitization”, “working groups on national perspectives on European Security Culture.”
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