By Adam D.M. Svendsen

This publication presents an in-depth research of UK-US intelligence cooperation within the post-9/11 international. looking to attach an research of intelligence liaison with the broader realm of Anglo-American family, the booklet attracts on a variety of interviews and consultations with key actors in either international locations. The ebook is concentrated round severe and empirical case experiences, targeting the interactions at the key problems with counterterrorism and guns of mass destruction (WMD) counter-proliferation. those case reviews supply major insights right into a variety of interactions resembling 9-11, the 7/7 London bombings, the A.Q. Khan nuclear community, the prelude to the 2003 Iraq warfare, striking rendition and certain forces deployments. Drawing on over 60 interviews performed within the united kingdom and US with favorite decision-makers and practitioners, those concerns are tested within the modern historic context, with the focus being at the years 2000-05. This booklet should be of a lot curiosity to scholars of intelligence experiences, international coverage, safeguard experiences and diplomacy regularly. Adam Svendsen has a Phd in foreign heritage from the collage of Warwick. He has been a vacationing pupil on the middle for Peace and protection stories, Georgetown collage, and has contributed to the overseas safeguard Programme at Chatham residence and to the paintings of IISS, London.