This book is the product of a seminar series funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council entitled ‘Security in Scotland, with or without constitutional change’, which ran from 2013-2015 at the University of Edinburgh (grant reference ES/L00139X/1). The Reports from this seminar series can be read and downloaded below:
Notes on Contributors
Introduction by Andrew W. Neal
1. Perspectives on Small State Security in the Scottish Independence Debate by Juliet Kaarbo and Daniel Kenealy
2. Do Small States Need ‘Alliance Shelter’? Scotland and the Nordic Nations by Baldur Thorhallsson and Alyson J. K. Bailes
3. Security, Privacy and Oversight by Charles D. Raab
4. Parliamentary Oversight of Intelligence Agencies: Lessons from Westminster by Hugh Bochel and Andrew Defty
5. Scotland and the Politics of Intelligence Accountability by Colin Atkinson, Nick Brooke and Brian Harris
6. ‘Hardly a Moment’s Discussion’? Intelligence and the Scottish Referendum by Sandy Hardie
7. Press Scrutiny and the Proposals for Security and Intelligence in an Independent Scotland by Eamonn P. O’Neill
8. To Speak Security or Not to Speak Security? Responsibility and Deference in the Scottish Independence Debate by Andrew W. Neal
Concluding Remarks: The Narrative of Security and Pathways of Transition by Thierry Balzacq