Table des matières

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Andrew W. Neal

Introduction

• Security in small nations
• This project
• The context
• Conclusion

Juliet Kaarbo et Daniel Kenealy

1. Perspectives on Small State Security in the Scottish Independence Debate

• The Yes vision of independent Scottish foreign and security policy
• The No vision of a weak independent Scotland
• Small states in world politics: the debate in International Relations scholarship
• Conclusion

Baldur Thorhallsson et Alyson J. K. Bailes

2. Do Small States Need ‘Alliance Shelter’? Scotland and the Nordic Nations

• Alliance shelter theory
• Nordic states’shelter
• Shelter in NATO and the US
• Shelter in the EU
• Shelter in Nordic cooperation
• Scottish shelter options
• Shelter in NATO, the US and the remnant UK
• Shelter in the EU
• Shelter in the Nordic family
• Conclusion

Charles D. Raab

3. Security, Privacy and Oversight

• The question of oversight
• Understanding security and privacy
• Policy, oversight and technology
• Conclusion

Hugh Bochel et Andrew Defty

4. Parliamentary Oversight of Intelligence Agencies: Lessons from Westminster

• Legislative oversight of intelligence agencies
• Parliamentary oversight of intelligence in the UK
• Establishing legislative oversight of intelligence: lessons from the UK Parliament

Colin Atkinson, Nick Brooke et Brian Harris

5. Scotland and the Politics of Intelligence Accountability

• Examining the proposed measures for intelligence accountability in an independent Scotland
• Comparison with accountability mechanisms in other jurisdictions
• Norway
• Belgium
• Reflections on the Scottish case
• Post-referendum politics and intelligence accountability
• Conclusion

Sandy Hardie

6. ‘Hardly a Moment’s Discussion’? Intelligence and the Scottish Referendum

Eamonn P. O’Neill

7. Press Scrutiny and the Proposals for Security and Intelligence in an Independent Scotland

• News categories and shifting rules
• The media and Scottish security pre-referendum
• Conclusions

Andrew W. Neal

8. To Speak Security or Not to Speak Security? Responsibility and Deference in the Scottish Independence Debate

• The dilemma of speaking security
• The dilemma of not speaking security
• Elite security discourse and silence
• Silence, deference, and recognition in the history of British security politics
• Security politics in Scotland by comparison
• Conclusion

Thierry Balzacq

Concluding Remarks: The Narrative of Security and Pathways of Transition

• Narratives
• Politics
• Ambiguity
• Conclusion