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Title Secret intelligence in the European states system, 1918-1989 / edited by Jonathan Haslam and Karina Urbach
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (255 pages)
Contents "Humint" by default and the problem of trust : Soviet intelligence, 1917/1941 / by Jonathan Haslam -- Barbarossa and the bomb : two cases of Soviet intelligence in World War II / by David Holloway -- Seeking a scapegoat : intelligence and grand strategy in France, 1919/1940 / by Stephen Schuker. -- French intelligence about the East, 1945/1968 / by Georges Soutou -- British intelligence during the Cold War / by Richard Aldrich -- The Stasi confronts Western subversion, 1966/1975 / by Oliver Bange -- The West German secret services during the Cold War / by Holger Afflerbach
Summary 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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Intelligence service -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Secret service -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
HISTORY -- Military -- Strategy.
Diplomatic relations
Intelligence service
Secret service
SUBJECT Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045683
Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045684
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Haslam, Jonathan, editor.
Urbach, Karina, editor.
ISBN 9780804788915
080478891X