The legitimacy of intelligence surveillance: the fight against terrorism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Kovanič, Martin; Coufalová, Aneta

doi:10.1080/02684527.2019.1634389

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“…where v is the bullet velocity and s its trajectory in the substitute medium block, we calculate the bullet velocity at nodal points, i.e. at points on the bullet trajectory, which lie at the boundaries of the intervals and at which the specific energy is calculated (these intervals are most often chosen between 2.5 or 5 cm) 1 .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the organized crime poses extraordinary security risks, threatening the stability of the world economic and political system. Organized crime is an evil threatening humanity, which has to be fought hard by all available means and constantly worked on their development, and it is not enough just to know them, but to understand their nature and functioning [1].…”

Section: Sociological Content and Perspectives Of Security Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is about a societal problem and it is therefore necessary to put the interests of the whole community above the interests of the individual in the fight against criminal structures, because it is in the interests of all. Organized crime is essentially a product of the society, and therefore it is up to the people of this planet how the situation will develop in future [1].…”

Section: Sociological Content and Perspectives Of Security Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Methods of Indirect Identification in the Hand of a Crisis Manager in the Context of Sociological Aspects

Juříček¹,

Bočková²,

Zapletal³

et al. 2022

SAR Journal

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This paper aims to describe the basic methodological approaches in experimental wounding ballistics, which are methods of indirect identification, especially with an emphasis on the sociological content and perspectives of current trends in security management. The outputs and conclusions presented in the paper result from a thorough analysis of threats and security risks identified in the research work in the context of the IGA project No. 007DTI / 2019 realized at DTI University in Dubnica nad Váhom, arising from the actual security situation in society using conventional weapons systems against human beings, and from the analyze of existing quantitative evaluation criteria for the bullets wounding potential. The main theoretical and experimental output is the conceptual proposal of own bullets wounding potential evaluation criterion.

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Methods of Indirect Identification in the Hand of a Crisis Manager in the Context of Sociological Aspects

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Bočková²,

Zapletal³

et al. 2022

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“…Such guarantees can also contribute to increased protection of human rights. The goal of this chapter is to discuss the barriers against overcoming the culture of secrecy in the area of surveillance (Kovanic and Coufalova 2019) with particular focus on Poland, where debates about the Snowden revelations have not succeeded in making surveillance practices more transparent (Gruszczak 2017).…”

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Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance

Viola¹,

Laidler²

2021

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Investigating the theoretical and empirical relationships between transparency and trust in the context of surveillance, this volume argues that neither transparency nor trust provides a simple and self-evident path for mitigating the negative political and social consequences of state surveillance practices.Dominant in both the scholarly literature and public debate is the conviction that transparency can promote better-informed decisions, provide greater oversight, and restore trust damaged by the secrecy of surveillance. The contributions to this volume challenge this conventional wisdom by considering how relations of trust and policies of transparency are modulated by underlying power asymmetries, sociohistorical legacies, economic structures, and institutional constraints. They study trust and transparency as embedded in specific sociopolitical contexts to show how, under certain conditions, transparency can become a tool of social control that erodes trust, while mistrust-rather than trust-can sometimes offer the most promising approach to safeguarding rights and freedom in an age of surveillance.The first book addressing the interrelationship of trust, transparency, and surveillance practices, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of surveillance studies as well as appeal to an interdisciplinary audience given the contributions from political science, sociology, philosophy, law, and civil society.

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The construction of threats by intelligence agencies: analysing the language of official documents in Slovakia

Kovanič

2021

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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Intelligence agencies play a prominent role in the production of knowledge about national security threats and their evaluation. This function is not just a value-neutral technical activity, but a social and political action. The purpose of this article is to explore the ways in which the Slovak Information Service, an intelligence agency responsible for the protection of national security, discursively constructs security threats and assigns enemy images to specific actors. The analysis was conducted on the publicly available parts of the agency's Annual Reports. It utilised qualitative document analysis, supplemented by quantitative analysis of the frequency of use of specific keywords. The analysis, which identified the main threats connected to internal security, is constructed in a manner which connects terrorism with migration and the Muslim faith, assigning terror identities to specific groups. The agency's constructions of internal threats were also utilised in the political discourse. Moreover, securitisation rhetoric was used in connection to the movements promoting human rights and fighting fascism, labelling them as left-wing extremists. In the field of foreign threats, their construction depends on both international developments and domestic political dynamics.

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The legitimacy of intelligence surveillance: the fight against terrorism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Methods of Indirect Identification in the Hand of a Crisis Manager in the Context of Sociological Aspects

Methods of Indirect Identification in the Hand of a Crisis Manager in the Context of Sociological Aspects

Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance

The construction of threats by intelligence agencies: analysing the language of official documents in Slovakia

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