Jai Galliott is Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He holds a PhD in military ethics from Macquarie University, Australia, and was formerly a Naval Officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He is the author of Military Robots: Mapping the moral landscape (2015).
Warren Reed is a former intelligence officer with the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). Trained by MI6 in London, he served for ten years in Asia and the Middle East. He is a regular commentator on intelligence matters, industrial espionage and terrorism.
Introduction, Jai Galliott and Warren Reed PART I: THE MORAL CASE FOR SPYING 1. The Virtues of Bond and Vices of Bauer: An Aristotelian Defence of Espionage, Mark Jensen 2. The Limits of Intelligence Gathering: Gianni Vattimo and the Need to Monitor 'Violent' Thinkers, Matthew Harris 3. The Epistemology of Intelligence Ethics, Alexander Factic PART II: INTERROGATION, TORTURE AND TERRORISM 4. The Human Costs of Torture, Matthew Beard 5. The Implications of Spying and Torture on Human Freedom from a Sartrean Point of View, Martine Berenpas 6. Predictive Markets as an Alternative to One More Spy, Dan Weijers PART III: SPYING AS WAR: CLASSIFICATORY PROBLEMS 7. Persons, Personhood and Proportionality: Building on a Just War Approach to Intelligence Ethics, Kevin McNish 8. Just War, Cyberwar and Cyber-Espionage, Matthew Beard 9. A Dilemma for Indiscriminate Pre-emptive Spying, Nicolas Tavaglione 10. The Morality of Unconventional Force, Thomas Simpson PART IV: REMOTE SURVEILLANCE AND KILLING 11. I, Spy Robot: The Ethics of Robots in National Intelligence Activities, Patric Lin and Shannon Ford 12. Emerging Technologies, Asymmetric Force and Terrorist Blowback, Jai Galliott 13. Targeting Thresholds: The Impact of Intelligence Capability on Ethical Requirements for High-Value Targeting Operations, John Hardy PART V: LEAKS AND SECRETS 14. The NSA Leaks, Edward Snowden and the Ethics and Accountability of Intelligence-Collection, Seumas Miller and Patrick Walsh 15. WikiLeaks and Whistleblowing: Privacy and Consent in an Age of Surveillance, Jeremy Wisnewski PART VI: RESPONSIBILITY AND GOVERNANCE 16. Ethics for Intelligence Officers, Michael Falgoust and Brian Roux 17. 'Due-Care' or a 'Duty-to-Care'? Codes of Ethics in Intelligence Gathering, Jill Hernandez 18. Conclusion: A Spy's Perspective, Warren Reed
This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a.comprehenisve analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised.