Counternetwork

Author : Angel Rabasa,Christopher M. Schnaubelt,Peter Chalk,Douglas Farah,Gregory Midgette,Howard J. Shatz
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780833095329

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Counternetwork by Angel Rabasa,Christopher M. Schnaubelt,Peter Chalk,Douglas Farah,Gregory Midgette,Howard J. Shatz Pdf

Through an analysis of transnational criminal networks originating in South America, this report presents operational characteristics of these networks, strategic alliances they have established, and the multiple threats that they pose to U.S. interests and to the stability of the countries where they operate. It also identifies U.S. government policies and programs to counter these networks and examines the military’s role in that context.

Author : Angel Rabasa,Christopher M. Schnaubelt,Peter Chalk,Douglas Farah,Gregory Midgette,Howard J. Shatz
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833094773

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Counternetwork by Angel Rabasa,Christopher M. Schnaubelt,Peter Chalk,Douglas Farah,Gregory Midgette,Howard J. Shatz Pdf

This report presents operational characteristics of transnational criminal networks originating in South America, identifies U.S. government policies and programs to counter these networks, and examines the military's role in that context.

Author : David Tucker
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804792691

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The End of Intelligence by David Tucker Pdf

Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors—and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have for reforming intelligence and espionage. Examining espionage, counterintelligence, and covert action, the book argues that, contrary to prevailing views, the information revolution is increasing the power of states relative to non-state actors and threatening privacy more than secrecy. Arguing that intelligence organizations may be taken as the paradigmatic organizations of the information age, author David Tucker shows the limits of information gathering and analysis even in these organizations, where failures at self-knowledge point to broader limits on human knowledge—even in our supposed age of transparency. He argues that, in this complex context, both intuitive judgment and morality remain as important as ever and undervalued by those arguing for the transformative effects of information. This book will challenge what we think we know about the power of information and the state, and about the likely twenty-first century fate of secrecy and privacy.

Author : Luigi Achilli,David Kyle
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781421447520

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Global Human Smuggling by Luigi Achilli,David Kyle Pdf

Completely revised and updated: an essential edited collection of essays on global human smuggling. Migrant smuggling is now more entrenched than ever in many regions around the world, with efforts to combat it both largely unsuccessful and often counterproductive. In Global Human Smuggling, editors Luigi Achilli and David Kyle bring together up-to-date contributions from a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars on the most important issues related to this global phenomenon. Contributors explore human smuggling in several nuanced forms across diverse regions, examining its deep historical, social, economic, and cultural roots as well as its broad political consequences. This volume represents a cutting-edge chronicle of the state of human smuggling today, its many complexities not easily reduced to simple moral narratives, and how researchers uncover the lives it affects, both directly and indirectly. Just as migrants cross borders for a variety of reasons, many of those involved in migrant smuggling activities have an equally diverse set of motivations and organizations, ranging from those helping people escape persecution and violence to transnational criminal syndicates preying on the vulnerabilities of migrants attempting to leave their countries. Building on the pioneering work of its previous two editions, this new volume introduces contributions organized by the themes of control, complexity, and creativity. Spanning issues around the world, the essays in this essential collection cover topics such as global migrant smuggling networks, government responses, multinational initiatives against human trafficking for sexual exploitation, representations of human smuggling in mainstream narratives of migration, and more. With nineteen new contributors, the third edition of Global Human Smuggling represents the progress of human smuggling research on every continent and offers a rare research-based and conceptual framework for the study of this critical global issue.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1556 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : National security
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050682041

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Department of Homeland Security Appropriations for 2016 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security Pdf

Author : Susan Falls
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781496202697

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White Gold by Susan Falls Pdf

Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States. Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing "white gold"--seen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substance--is a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values. Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.

Author : Erin McKenna,Andrew Light
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0253216931

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Animal Pragmatism by Erin McKenna,Andrew Light Pdf

What does American pragmatism contribute to contemporary debates about human-animal relationships? Does it acknowledge our connections to all living things? Does it bring us closer to an ethical treatment of all animals? What about hunting, vegetarianism, animal experimentation, and the welfare of farm animals? While questions about human relations with animals have been with us for millennia, there has been a marked rise in public awareness about animal issues—even McDonald's advertises that they use humanely treated animals as food sources. In Animal Pragmatism, 12 lively and provocative essays address concerns at the intersection of pragmatist philosophy and animal welfare. Topics cover a broad range of issues, including moral consideration of animals, the ethics of animal experimentation, institutional animal care, environmental protection of animal habitat, farm animal welfare, animal communication, and animal morals. Readers who interact with animals, whether as pets or on a plate, will find a robust and fascinating exploration of human-nonhuman relationships. Contributors are James M. Albrecht, Douglas R. Anderson, Steven Fesmire, Glenn Kuehn, Todd Lekan, Andrew Light, John J. McDermott, Erin McKenna, Phillip McReynolds, Ben Minteer, Matthew Pamental, Paul Thompson, and Jennifer Welchman.

Author : Phil Haun,Colin Jackson,Tim Schultz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108839228

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Air Power in the Age of Primacy by Phil Haun,Colin Jackson,Tim Schultz Pdf

Analyzes the effectiveness of post-Cold War air wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against terrorist groups.

Author : Kathleen Nolan,Jennifer Tupper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350086418

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Social Theory for Teacher Education Research by Kathleen Nolan,Jennifer Tupper Pdf

Traditionally, teacher education research theory and practice have had a technical-rational focus on productions of knowledge, skills, performance and accountability. Such a focus serves to (re)produce current educational systems instead of noticing and critiquing the wider modes of domination that permeate schools and school systems. In Social Theory for Teacher Education Research, Kathleen Nolan, Jennifer Tupper and the contributors make arguments for drawing on social theories to inform research in teacher education - research that moves the agenda beyond technical-rational concerns toward building a critically reflexive stance for noticing and unpacking the socio-political contexts of schooling. The theories discussed include Actor-Network Theory (ANT), Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and la didactique du plurilinguisme, and social theorists covered include Barad, Bernstein, Bourdieu, Braidotti, Deleuze, Foucault, Heidegger, and Nussbaum. The chapters in this book make explicit how innovative social theory-driven research can challenge and change teacher education practices and the learning experiences of students.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : National security
ISBN : IND:30000137987321

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Department of Homeland Security Appropriations for 2016: Annual performance report; Budget overview; Departmental management and operations - overview; Departmental management and operations - working capital fund; Analysis and operations; Office of Inspector General; U.S. Customs and Border Protection by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1540 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : National security
ISBN : IND:30000153055110

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Department of Homeland Security Appropriations for 2017 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Homeland Security Pdf

Author : Kathryn J. Strom,Tammy Mills,Linda Abrams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000848724

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Non-Linear Perspectives on Teacher Development by Kathryn J. Strom,Tammy Mills,Linda Abrams Pdf

Despite the multifaceted complexity of teaching, dominant perspectives conceptualize teacher development in linear, dualistic, transactional, human-centric ways. The authors in this book offer non-linear alternatives by drawing on a continuum of complex perspectives, including CHAT, complexity theory, actor network theory, indigenous studies, rhizomatics, and posthuman/neomaterialisms. The chapters included here illuminate how different ways of thinking can help us better examine how teachers learn (relationally, with human, material, and discursive elements) and offer ways to understand the entangled nature of the relationship between that learning and what emerges in classroom instructional practice. They also present situated illustrations of what those entanglements or assemblages look like in the preservice, induction, and inservice phases, from early childhood to secondary settings, and across multiple continents. Authors provide evidence that research on teacher development should focus on process as much (if not more than) product and show that complexity perspectives can support forward-thinking, assets-based pedagogies. Methodologically, the chapters encourage conceptual creativity and expansion, and support an argument for blurring theory-method and normalising methodological hybridity. Ultimately, this book provides conceptual, theoretical, and methodological tools to understand current educational conditions in late capitalism and imagine otherwise. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Professional Development in Education.

Author : Ladelle McWhorter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253213258

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Bodies and Pleasures by Ladelle McWhorter Pdf

Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereotypes by which the forces of normalization hold us and judge us. In Bodies and Pleasures, Ladelle McWhorter reads Foucault from an original and personal angle, motivated by the differences this experience has made in her life. At the same time, her analysis advances discussion of key issues in Foucault scholarship: the genealogical critique, the status of the subject and humanism, essentialism versus social construction, and the relationships between identity, community, and political action. Weaving her own experience of coming to grips with her lesbian sexual identity into her readings of Foucault's most recent writings on sexuality and power, McWhorter argues compellingly that Foucault's texts should be read less for the arguments they advance and more for their transformative effect. By exploring bodies and pleasures—gardening, line dancing, or doing philosophy, for example—McWhorter shows that it isn't necessary to conform with socially recognized sexual identities. Bodies and Pleasures takes the reader beyond unexplored norms and imposed identities as it points the way toward a personal politics, ethics, and style that challenges our sexual selves.

Author : Jason W. Warren
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813177601

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Landpower in the Long War by Jason W. Warren Pdf

War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation, and a continuing drawdown of troops with perhaps a future force increase proposed by the Trump administration, the role of landpower in US grand strategy will continue to evolve with changing geopolitical situations. Landpower in the Long War: Projecting Force After 9/11, edited by Jason W. Warren, is the first holistic academic analysis of American strategic landpower. Divided into thematic sections, this study presents a comprehensive approach to a critical aspect of US foreign policy as the threat or ability to use force underpins diplomacy. The text begins with more traditional issues, such as strategy and civilian-military relations, and works its way to more contemporary topics, such as how socio-cultural considerations effect the landpower force. It also includes a synopsis of the suppressed Iraq report from one of the now retired leaders of that effort. The contributors—made up of an interdisciplinary team of political scientists, historians, and military practitioners—demonstrate that the conceptualization of landpower must move beyond the limited operational definition offered by Army doctrine in order to encompass social changes, trauma, the rule of law, acquisition of needed equipment, civil-military relationships, and bureaucratic decision-making, and argue that landpower should be a useful concept for warfighters and government agencies.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822038349270

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Steps Needed for a Successful 2014 Transition in Afghanistan by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf