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Intelligence and the liberal conscience / Phythian, Mark   Journal Article
Phythian, Mark Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The question of how to reconcile the practice of national security intelligence with the values on which liberal democracies are understood to be based was very much present at the creation of Intelligence Studies. At a time when the conceptual landscape of Intelligence Studies has broadened, this article represents a revisiting of these first principles. In it, I explain the normative tension between the requirements of liberal democratic orders and the practice of national security intelligence as arising from three sources. First, the confusions that arise from liberalism itself as an ideology. Second, the constraining effect of the international. Third, the constraining ‘problem’ of the nature of the liberal democratic state. In light of these and contemporary anxieties about the implications of intelligence practice for liberal values, I discuss how far it is possible or useful to think in terms of ‘liberal intelligence’ and what its core characteristics might be held to be.
Key Words Intelligence  Liberal Conscience 
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Terror and the liberal conscience: political fiction and Jihad-the novel response to 9/11 / Jones, David Martin; Smith, M L R   Journal Article
Jones, David Martin Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract After the attacks on the World Trade Center and Washington, D.C. in 2001 the Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication devised a new classification. The category, September 11 Terrorist Attacks 2001-Fiction, responds to a distinct genre of political novels. In the light of the philosopher Richard Rorty's contention that the Western novel can clarify the moral and political options that confront the West, the article examines what insight, if any, into the motive for violence, and the capacity to recuperate a sense of liberal progressive purpose, the novels of 11 September afford?
Key Words Jihad  Terror  9/11  Political Fiction  Liberal Conscience 
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