Ethics and the Future of Spying

This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral, and social questions thereby raised. Intelligence officers—whether gatherers, analysts, or some combination thereof—are operating in a sea of social, political, scientific, and technological change. This book examines the new challenges faced by the intelligence community as a result of these changes. It looks not only at how governments employ spies as a tool of state and how the ultimate outcomes are judged by their societies, but also at the mindset of the spy.

In so doing, this volume casts a rare light on an often ignored dimension of spying: the essential role of truth and how it is defined in an intelligence context. The book offers insights into the workings of the intelligence community and aims to provide the first comprehensive, unifying analysis of the relevant moral, legal, and social questions, with a view toward developing policy that may influence real‑world decision making. The contributors analyze the ethics of spying across a broad canvas—historical, philosophical, moral, and cultural—with chapters covering interrogation and torture, intelligence’s relation to war, remote killing, cyber surveillance, responsibility, and governance. In the wake of the phenomenon of WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden revelations, the intelligence community has entered an unprecedented period of broad public scrutiny and skepticism, making this volume a timely contribution. This book will be of great interest to students of ethics, intelligence studies, security studies, foreign policy, and international relations in general.

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