JEAN-PAUL BRODEUR, PETER GILL, DENNIS TÖLLBORG (EDS.), DEMOCRACY, LAW AND SECURITY: INTERNAL SECURITY SERVICES IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
10 Colum. J. Eur. L. 585 (2004) Victoria V. Koroteyeva. This book is the result of symposia on security services in nine European countries and Canada held in Gothenburg, Sweden. The chapters describe each country’s security apparatus, its budget and personnel, the mandate and powers conferred on it by legislation or executive orders, and consider the often uneasy relationship between the activities of national security services, and democratic control and human rights. The authors concentrate on internal security rather than military intelligence or foreign espionage, because it is in domestic policies that the tension between democracy and secret state activities […]