Theme: Government & Parliament | Content Type: Book review

Review: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms. The History and Future of American Intelligence, by Amy B. Zegart

John W. Dumbrell

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Carol M. Highsmith

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Amy Zegart offers us a tour d'horizon of the state of American intelligence gathering and analysis. Despite its subtitle, Spies, Lies, and Algorithms is far less rooted in history than in present and future analysis. According to Zegart, ‘intelligence has gone from a world of information scarcity to information overload’.

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Includes a collection on 'The Political Economy of Tourism', edited by Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni. Contributions include a piece on climate change in tourism-intensive Alpine regions by Valentina Ausserladscheider; Fathimath Musthaq's comparison between restrictions on tourism in the Seychelles and the Maldives; and Lorenzo Mascioli's investigation into how public policy can be used to make local tourism more sustainable. In our opening commentary, Deborah Mabbett reflects that good policy making is often a tedious process. Other articles include Thomas Quinn, Nicholas Allen and John Bartle on Labour's "Red–Green electoral threat"; Eda Bektas, Korhan Mühürcüoğlu on the paradox of power in Turkey; and Nikhil Datta and Amrita Kulka on Labour's home-building plans. Book reviews include Stephen Coleman's assessment of Matthew Goodwin's latest book, 'Suicide of a Nation'.

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