2014 IIHA Annual Conference: 2-4 May 2014, Tutzing, Germany
The IIHA is glad to invite you to its 20th Annual Conference which takes place at the Academy for Civic Education in Tutzing on May 2-4, 2014. Please find the conference program and further details below. The registration deadline is April 25, 2014.
Intelligence, Democracy
and Transparency:
No Room for Secret Intelligence?
2014 Annual Conference of the
International Intelligence History Association (IIHA)
in Cooperation with the
Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing
Friday, May 2, 2014
14.00 h Arrival, Registration, Coffee and Tea in the Main Lobby
14.30 h Welcome and Greetings
Michael MAYER
Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing
Shlomo SHPIRO
Chairman of the IIHA
15.00 h Panel I: Historical Perspectives
Chair: Shlomo SHPIRO
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Can Peasants be Spies? Habsburg Military Intelligence during the Türkenkrieg of 1683-1699. The Campaign of 1688-1690 as Case Study
Ivan PARVEV
University of Sofia, Bulgaria
On the Defence of the Realm: fundamental differences between democratic and non-democratic states
Chikara HASHIMOTO
Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
William F. Friedman: A Man and his Collection
Rose Mary SHELDON
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington (Virginia)
16.30 h Coffee and Tea Break
17.00 h Panel II: Intelligence, Democracy and Cold War
Chair: Wolfgang KRIEGER
Marburg University, Germany
Where Twin Obsessions Collide: The Communism-Empire Nexus and British State Surveillance of Basil Davidson
Mark PHYTHIAN
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
About a Friendship That Didn’t Exist: The Ministry for State Security in the GDR and the Polish Ministry of Interior, 1974-1990
Tytus JASKULOWSKI
Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Intelligence in Finland during the Cold War
Jukka SEPPINEN
University of Helsinki, Finland
18.30 h Dinner
19.30 h Celebration Ceremony of the 20th Anniversary of the IIHA
Keynote Speaker: Wolfgang KRIEGER
Saturday, May 3, 2014
8.15 h Breakfast
9.00 h Panel III: Challenges of Intelligence and Democracy
Chair: John NOMIKOS
Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS), Athens, Greece
Intelligence and Building Democracy in Jordan
Antonia DIMOU
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
1964 – A Watershed Year for Israel’s Intelligence. From the Founding Fathers to Democratic State-Oriented Intelligence Services
Ephraim LAPID
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
How to Balance between the Secrecy Nature of Intelligence Collecting and the Openess of Democracy in Times of Change: The Case of USA’s POWs in Vietnam
Adi FRIMARK
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
10.30 h Break
11.00 h Panel IV: Transformation Process and Changes in Intelligence
Chair: Anna ABELMANN
Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
Not above the Law – Israel Security Agency’s Democratization and Legalization Process
Eyal PASCOVICH
University of Haifa, Israel
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Bavaria – Founding, Structure and Working Fields in the 1950s and 1960s
Susanne MEINL
University of Trier, Germany
Monster in the Box: The Transformation of Switzerland’s Intelligence Information System, 1989-1994
Hannes MANGOLD
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
12.30 h Lunch
14.30 h Panel V: Intelligence in Democracies: Transparency, Security and Accountability
Chair: Michael WALA
Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
Enhancing Parliamentary Oversight: Can it Solve the Dilemma of Security vs. Privacy?
Wolfgang KRIEGER
Does Transparency Lead to Greater Accountability of Secret Services? The Netherlands, 1975-1995
Eleni BRAAT
Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), Den Haag, Netherlands
Parliamentary Oversight of the Intelligence Agencies: A Comparative Study: The Case of United States, the EU and Israel
Ephraim KAHANA
Western Galilee College, Acre, Israel
16.00 h Coffee and Tea Break
16.20 h Panel VI: Intelligence History and Intelligence in History
Chair: Anna DAUN
University of Cologne, Germany
People’s Republic of China Intelligence History Today
Michael SCHOENHALS
Lund University, Sweden
The Italian Secret Services in the Recent Italian Academic Literature
Lucio MARTINO
CeMISS, Rome
A License to Kill? Myth-Making and Intelligence Services
Eva JOBS
University of Marburg, Germany
17.50 h Annual Membership Meeting
18.30 h Dinner
Sunday, May 4, 2014
8.15 h Breakfast
9.00 h Panel VII: Intelligence, Governance and Media
Chair: Sigurd HESS
German Society for Maritime and Naval History, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Do We Need Rules of Engagement for Information and Media Operations?
Gordan AKRAP
University of Zagreb, Croatia
The Acknowledged Influence of State Leaders on the Functioning of Intelligence Communities
Barak BEN ZUR
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
Public Image of Intelligence and Security Services in France, United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium
Coline FERRO
University Paris II-Panthéon-Assas, France
10.30 h Break
11.00 h Panel VIII – Young Researchers Forum: Work in Progress – Praxis of Intelligence Studies
Chair: Charlotte BACKERRA
University of Mainz, Germany
DISCUSSION ROUND
12.00 h Lunch and Departure