Mistry / Gurman Whistleblowing Nation

The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55068-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines, Whistleblowing Nation is a pathbreaking history of national security disclosures and state secrecy from World War I to the present. The contributors explore the complex politics, motives, and ideologies behind the revelation of state secrets that challenge the status quo.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mistry, Kaeten

Gurman, Hannah

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Korruption
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman
1. The Paradox of National Security Whistleblowing: Locating and Framing a History of the Phenomenon, by Hannah Gurman and Kaeten Mistry
2. From Censorship to Classification: The Evolution of the Espionage Act, by Sam Lebovic
3. The Devil’s Advocate: Leonard B. Boudin, Civil Liberties, and the Legal Defense of Whistleblowing, by Julia Rose Kraut
4. Celebrity Hero: Daniel Ellsberg and the Forging of Whistleblower Masculinity, by Lida Maxwell
5. The Rise and Fall of Anti-Imperial Whistleblowing in the Long 1970s, by Kaeten Mistry
6. Winter Soldiers of the Dark Side: CIA Whistleblowers and National Security Dissent, by Jeremy Varon
7. From the Mundane to the Absurd: The Advent and Evolution of Prepublication Review, by Richard H. Immerman
8. The Public Sphere Hero: Representations of Whistleblowing in U.S. Culture, by Timothy Melley
9. Creating Uncertainty, Casting Doubt: U.S. Intelligence Leaks from Reform to Spyware for Sale, by Matthew L. Jones
10. Unfit to Print: The Press and the Contragate Whistleblowers, by Hannah Gurman
11. The Challenge of Journalism and the Truth in Our Times: James Risen, Judith Miller, and National Security Reporting, by Lloyd C. Gardner
Coda: Edward Snowden, National Security Whistleblowing, and Civil Disobedience, by David Pozen
Conclusion, by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman
Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mistry Kaeten:

Kaeten Mistry is senior lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Waging Political Warfare: The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War, 1945-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and editor of “Reforms, Reflections and Reappraisals: The CIA and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1947” (Intelligence and National Security, 2011). His writing has appeared in Cold War History, Diplomatic History, and the Washington Post.Kaeten Mistry is senior lecturer in American history at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The United States, Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare, 1945–1950 (2014) and editor of Reforms, Reflections, and Reappraisals: The CIA and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1947 (2011).

Hannah Gurman is associate professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond (Columbia, 2012) and editor of A People’s History of Counterinsurgency (2013).