Anthony Glees

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Anthony Glees (2019)

Anthony Glees (born June 8, 1948 ) is a British contemporary historian and political scientist .

Life

Glees is the son of the German neuroanatomist Paul Glees (1909–1999), who was a professor in Oxford and Göttingen. He studied history and German at the University of Oxford (St. Catherine's College, St. Antony's College), where he also received his doctorate, and taught at the University of Warwick and, from 1975, at Brunel University , where he was professor of political science and taught for around three decades. Most recently he was director of the Brunel Center for Intelligence and Security Studies. He then became a professor at the University of Buckingham , a Margaret Thatcher- sponsored private university in Buckingham in 2008 , where he heads the Center for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS).

He deals with security and intelligence issues and researched the history of the British secret service, the Stasi activities in Great Britain and the activities of the British secret services against communists during the Cold War. He is also a specialist in contemporary German history, deals with the EU and issues of terrorism and Islamism and how to combat them. He also published an essay on the recruitment of Islamists at British universities.

He serves on the editorial boards of Intelligence and National Security , The Journal for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism, and The Journal of Intelligence Ethics .

He is on the advisory board of the Center for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism at Macquarie University , the Asia-Pacific Foundation in London, the Research Institute for European and American Studies in Athens and the Oxford Intelligence Group . From 1988 to 1990 he was an advisor to the British Home Office for war crimes investigations, advised the British Parliament and the EU Parliament on security issues, and in 2010 he became a Liaison Officer for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation .

On Deutschlandfunk in September 2015, he criticized the opening of the borders in Germany to refugees from Syria as being contrary to EU rules and as undemocratic because it was not agreed with the EU partners. According to Glee's impression, Germany appears to be a “hippie state that is only guided by feelings” . While the German government is staying out of the military fight against the Islamic State in Syria, it is circumventing fundamental EU rules with the opening of the border in 2015, which would be perceived as a call for even greater migration. "Many Britons thought that the Germans had lost their brain" . Furthermore, on July 12, 2016, Glees once again expressed himself critical of Angela Merkel's refugee policy on Deutschlandfunk and said she was complicit in the so-called Brexit .

Fonts

  • Exile Politics during the Second World War: The German Social Democrats in Britain , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982
  • The Secrets of the Service: British Intelligence and Communist Subversion, 1939–51 , London: Jonathan Cape, 1987 and New York: Carroll & Graf, 1987
  • Reinventing Germany: German Political Development since 1945 , Oxford and Washington: Berg, 1996
  • The Stasi Files: The UK Operations of the East German Intelligence and Security Service , London and New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003
  • with P. Davies: Spinning the Spies: Intelligence, Open Government and the Hutton Inquiry , London: Social Affairs Unit, 2004
  • with J. Morrison, P. Davies: The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain's Intelligence and Security Committee , London: Social Affairs Unit, 2006

Web links

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References and comments

  1. ^ Obituary for Paul Glees ( Memento from October 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Anthony Glees, Chris Pope: When Students Turn to Terror: Terrorist and Extremist Activity on British Campuses, Social Affairs Unit, 2005
  3. ^ "Like a hippie state guided by feelings" Deutschlandfunk, September 8, 2015, interview with Tobias Armbrüster.
  4. ↑ "Cameron thinks everyone else is idiots" Deutschlandfunk, July 12, 2016, interview with Martin Zagratta.
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SURNAME Glees, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British contemporary history historian and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1948