Rahul Sagar

Broschiertes Buch

Secrets and Leaks

The Dilemma of State Secrecy

Beschreibung

Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy. State secrecy is vital for national security, but it can also be used to conceal wrongdoing. How then can we ensure that this power is used responsibly? Typically, the onus is put on lawmakers and judges, who are expected to oversee the executive. Yet because these actors lack access to the relevant information and the ability to determine the harm likely to be caused by its disclosure, they often defer to the executive's claims about the need for secrecy. As a result, potential abuses are more often exposed by unauthorized disclosures published in the press.

Autor

Rahul Sagar is Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at New York University in Abu Dhabi and Washington Square Fellow at New York University in New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780691168180
• ISBN-10: 0691168180
• Artikelnr.: 42518475

Rezensionen

Were Snowden's leaks justified? Rahul Sagar's Secrets and Leaks sheds important light on the question. In carefully argued and lucid prose, Sagar, a professor of politics at Princeton, argues that secrets are inevitable, as are leaks--and that leaks have an important if precarious part in checking secrecy abuse.--David Cole, New York Review of Books