This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis. Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet this development raises a host of ethical and national security problems, such as privacy; autonomy; threats to national security and democracy by foreign states; and accountability for liberal democracies. This volume provides a comprehensive set of in-depth ethical analyses of these problems by combining contributions from both ethics scholars and intelligence practitioners. It provides the reader with a practical understanding of relevant operations, the issues that they raise and analysis of how responses to these issues can be informed by a commitment to liberal democratic values. This combination of perspectives is crucial in providing an informed appreciation of ethical challenges that is also grounded in the realities of the practice of intelligence. This book will be of great interest to all students of intelligence studies, ethics, security studies, foreign policy and international relations.

本卷探讨了因国家安全情报收集和分析而产生的伦理问题。强大的新技术使国家安全数据的收集、交流和分析达到了前所未有的规模。数据收集现在在情报实践中发挥着核心作用，但这一发展引起了一系列的伦理和国家安全问题，如隐私；自主权；外国对国家安全和民主的威胁；以及对自由民主国家的责任。本卷通过结合伦理学学者和情报工作者的贡献，对这些问题进行了全面深入的伦理分析。它为读者提供了对相关行动的实际理解，这些行动引起的问题，以及对如何通过对自由民主价值观的承诺来应对这些问题的分析。这种观点的结合对于提供对伦理挑战的知情理解至关重要，而这种理解也是建立在情报实践的现实之上的。所有从事情报研究、伦理学、安全研究、外交政策和国际关系的学生都会对这本书产生极大的兴趣。