Building A Secure Nation

Author : Vincent Boucher,Charles-Philippe David,Karine Prémont
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228004288

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National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy by Vincent Boucher,Charles-Philippe David,Karine Prémont Pdf

Since the advent of the contemporary US national security apparatus in 1947, entrepreneurial public officials have tried to reorient the course of the nation's foreign policy. Acting inside the National Security Council system, some principals and high-ranking officials have worked tirelessly to generate policy change and innovation on the issues they care about. These entrepreneurs attempt to set the foreign policy agenda, frame policy problems and solutions, and orient the decision-making process to convince the president and other decision makers to choose the course they advocate. In National Security Entrepreneurs and the Making of American Foreign Policy Vincent Boucher, Charles-Philippe David, and Karine Prémont develop a new concept to study entrepreneurial behaviour among foreign policy advisers and offer the first comprehensive framework of analysis to answer this crucial question: why do some entrepreneurs succeed in guaranteeing the adoption of novel policies while others fail? They explore case studies of attempts to reorient US foreign policy waged by National Security Council entrepreneurs, examining the key factors enabling success and the main forces preventing the adoption of a preferred option: the entrepreneur's profile, presidential leadership, major players involved in the policy formulation and decision-making processes, the national political context, and the presence or absence of significant opportunities. By carefully analyzing significant diplomatic and military decisions of the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton administrations, and offering a preliminary account of contemporary national security entrepreneurship under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, this book makes the case for an agent-based explanation of foreign policy change and continuity.

Author : Keith W. Mines
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781640122826

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Why Nation-Building Matters by Keith W. Mines Pdf

Why Nation-Building Matters establishes a framework for building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blends soft and hard power into a deployable and effective package.

Author : Roger D. Long,Gurharpal Singh,Yunas Samad,Ian Talbot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317448198

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State and Nation-Building in Pakistan by Roger D. Long,Gurharpal Singh,Yunas Samad,Ian Talbot Pdf

Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests, operationalized through violence, ethnic identity, and power through successive regimes has created a system of ‘authoritarian clientalism.’ This book offers comparative, historicist, and multidisciplinary views on the role of identity politics in the development of Pakistan. Bringing together perspectives on the dynamics of state-building, the book provides insights into contemporary processes of national contestation which are crucially affected by their treatment in the world media, and by the reactions they elicit within an increasingly globalised polity. It investigates the resilience of landed elites to political and social change, and, in the years after partition, looks at the impact on land holdings of population transfer. It goes on to discuss religious identities and their role in both the construction of national identity and in the development of sectarianism. The book highlights how ethnicity and identity politics are an enduring marker in Pakistani politics, and why they are increasingly powerful and influential. An insightful collection on a range of perspectives on the dynamics of identity politics and the nation-state, this book on Pakistan will be a useful contribution to South Asian Politics, South Asian History, and Islamic Studies.

Author : James Dobbins
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833039880

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The Beginner's Guide to Nation-building by James Dobbins Pdf

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States, NATO, the United Nations, and a range of other states and nongovernmental organizations have become increasingly involved in nation-building operations. This volume presents a comprehensive history of best practices in nation-building and serves as an indispensable reference for planning future interventions.

Author : National Defense University (U S ),National Defense University (U.S.),Institute for National Strategic Studies,Sheila R. Ronis
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security ? by National Defense University (U S ),National Defense University (U.S.),Institute for National Strategic Studies,Sheila R. Ronis Pdf

On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.

Author : Michael Robert Shurkin,John Gordon,Bryan Frederick,Christopher G. Pernin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0833097415

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Building Armies, Building Nations by Michael Robert Shurkin,John Gordon,Bryan Frederick,Christopher G. Pernin Pdf

This report proposes an alternative approach to Security Force Assistance (SFA) derived from an interpretation of nation-building and legitimacy formation grounded in history.

Author : Stephanie Carvin,Thomas Juneau,Craig Forcese
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487536664

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Top Secret Canada by Stephanie Carvin,Thomas Juneau,Craig Forcese Pdf

National security in the interest of preserving the well-being of a country is arguably the first and most important responsibility of any democratic government. Motivated by some of the pressing questions and concerns of citizens, Top Secret Canada is the first book to offer a comprehensive study of the Canadian intelligence community, its different parts, and how it functions as a whole. In taking up this important task, contributors aim to identify the key players, explain their mandates and functions, and assess their interactions. Top Secret Canada features essays by the country’s foremost experts on law, foreign policy, intelligence, and national security, and will become the go-to resource for those seeking to understand Canada’s intelligence community and the challenges it faces now and in the future.

Author : Benjamin Fordham
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472108875

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Building the Cold War Consensus by Benjamin Fordham Pdf

DIVExplains the basis in domestic politics of the political consensus in support of large defense spending in the early stages of the Cold War /div

Author : Vandra Harris,Andrew Goldsmith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136806698

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Security, Development and Nation-Building in Timor-Leste by Vandra Harris,Andrew Goldsmith Pdf

Despite Timor-Leste’s high expectations when it became independent from Indonesia in 2002, the country is ranked among the least developed countries in the world. This book draws together the perspectives of practitioners, policy-makers and academics on the international efforts to rebuild the world’s newest nation.

Author : Cynthia A. Watson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015059118011

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Nation-Building by Cynthia A. Watson Pdf

Examines both the civilian and military contributions to rebuilding war-torn nations such as Iraq and Afghanistan and analyzes the problems and challenges from conflict to the role of democracy around the world.

Author : David H. McIntyre
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538125755

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How to Think about Homeland Security by David H. McIntyre Pdf

Volume 1:The Imperfect Intersection of National Security and Public Safetyexplains homeland security as a struggle to meet new national security threats with traditional public safety practitioners. It offers a new solution that reaches beyond training and equipment to change practitioner culture through education. This first volume represents a major new contribution to the literature by recognizing that homeland security is not based on theories of nuclear response or countering terrorism, but on making bureaucracy work. The next evolution in improving homeland security is to analyze and evaluate various theories of bureaucratic change against the national-level catastrophic threats we are most likely to face. This synthesis provides the bridge between volume 1 (understanding homeland security) and the next in the series (understanding the risk and threats to domestic security). All four volumes could be used in an introductory course at the graduate or undergraduate level. Volumes 2 and 3 are most likely to be adopted in a risk management (RM) course which generally focus on threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences, while volume 4 will get picked up in courses on emergency management (EM).

Author : United States. Transportation Security Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : National security
ISBN : OCLC:70117645

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Building a Secure Nation by United States. Transportation Security Administration Pdf

Author : Douglas Stuart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691155470

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Creating the National Security State by Douglas Stuart Pdf

For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and bureaucratic struggles that surrounded the passage and initial implementation of the law. Focusing on the critical years from 1937 to 1960, Douglas Stuart shows how disputes over the lessons of Pearl Harbor and World War II informed the debates that culminated in the legislation, and how the new national security agencies were subsequently transformed by battles over missions, budgets, and influence during the early cold war. Stuart provides an in-depth account of the fight over Truman's plan for unification of the armed services, demonstrating how this dispute colored debates about institutional reform. He traces the rise of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the transformation of the CIA, and the institutionalization of the National Security Council. He also illustrates how the development of this network of national security institutions resulted in the progressive marginalization of the State Department. Stuart concludes with some insights that will be of value to anyone interested in the current debate over institutional reform.

Author : Jeremi Suri,Benjamin A. Valentino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190611484

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Sustainable Security by Jeremi Suri,Benjamin A. Valentino Pdf

Sustaining security : rethinking American national security strategy / Jeremi Suri and Benjamin Valentino -- Dollar diminution and new macroeconomic constraints on American power / Jonathan Kirshner -- Does American military power attract foreign investment? / Daniel Drezner and Nancy Hite-Rubin -- Preserving national strength in a period of fiscal restraint / Cindy Williams -- State finance and national power : Great Britain, China, and the United States in historical perspective / Jeremi Suri -- Reforming American power : civilian national security institutions in the early cold war and beyond / William Inboden -- To starve an army : how great power armies respond to austerity / John W. Hall -- Climate change and US national security : sustaining security amidst unsustainability / Joshua William Busby -- At home abroad : public attitudes towards America's overseas commitments / Benjamin Valentino -- The right choice for NATO / William Wohlforth -- The United States and the Middle East : interests, risks, and costs / Daniel Byman and Sara Bjerg Moller -- Keep, toss, or fix? : assessing US alliances in East Asia / Jennifer Lind -- Terminating the interminable? / Sumit Ganguly -- Neutralization as a sustainable approach to Afghanistan / Audrey Kurth Cronin -- Conclusion / Jeremi Suri and Benjamin Valentino

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.