Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies -- Part I: The Drive to Transparency -- 1 The Janus Face of Transparency: Balancing Openness and Secrecy in Democratic Decision-Making -- 2 Freedom of Information in Europe: Creation, Context, and Conflict -- Part II: Transparency and Secrecy: Day-to-Day Trade-offs -- 3 The Ambiguity of Leaks: Transparency and Secrecy in the EU -- 4 European Secrecy and Post-9/11 Security Practice
5 "What the Eye Cannot See": Justifying Limits to Freedom of Information in the Diplomatic Context -- 6 Self-Reinforcing Secrecy: Cultures of Secrecy within Intelligence Agencies -- 7 Paradoxical Secrecy in British Freedom of Information Law -- Part III: Oversight and Accountability -- 8 Secrecy and the Preservation of the Democratic State -- the Concept of Raison D'état in the German Bundestag -- 9 State Secrecy in the Age of Terror: The Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective -- 10 Political Whistleblowing in Europe: Official Secrets, Freedom of Expression, and the Rule of Law -- Index
