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A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domain The idea of
“cyber war” has played a dominant role in both academic and
popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber
domain. However, this lens of war and its expectations for death
and destruction may distort rather than help clarify the nature of
cyber competition and conflict. Are cyber activities actually more
like an intelligence contest, where both states and nonstate actors
grapple for information advantage below the threshold of war? In
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive, Robert Chesney and Max Smeets argue
that reframing cyber competition as an intelligence contest will
improve our ability to analyze and strategize about cyber events
and policy. The contributors to this volume debate the logics and
implications of this reframing. They examine this intelligence
concept across several areas of cyber security policy and in
different national contexts. Taken as a whole, the chapters give
rise to a unique dialogue, illustrating areas of agreement and
disagreement among leading experts and placing all of it in
conversation with the larger fields of international relations and
intelligence studies. Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive is a must read
because it offers a new way for scholars, practitioners, and
students to understand statecraft in the cyber domain.
A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domain The idea of
“cyber war” has played a dominant role in both academic and
popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber
domain. However, this lens of war and its expectations for death
and destruction may distort rather than help clarify the nature of
cyber competition and conflict. Are cyber activities actually more
like an intelligence contest, where both states and nonstate actors
grapple for information advantage below the threshold of war? In
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive, Robert Chesney and Max Smeets argue
that reframing cyber competition as an intelligence contest will
improve our ability to analyze and strategize about cyber events
and policy. The contributors to this volume debate the logics and
implications of this reframing. They examine this intelligence
concept across several areas of cyber security policy and in
different national contexts. Taken as a whole, the chapters give
rise to a unique dialogue, illustrating areas of agreement and
disagreement among leading experts and placing all of it in
conversation with the larger fields of international relations and
intelligence studies. Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive is a must read
because it offers a new way for scholars, practitioners, and
students to understand statecraft in the cyber domain.
This sweeping history of the development of professional,
institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the
fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond. During
the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two
superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas a
century ago, many states could aspire to be competitive at these
dark arts. Today, larger states have lost their monopoly on
intelligence skills and capabilities as technological and
sociopolitical changes have made it possible for private
organizations and even individuals to unearth secrets and influence
global events. Historian Michael Warner addresses the birth of
professional intelligence in Europe at the beginning of the
twentieth century and the subsequent rise of US intelligence during
the Cold War. He brings this history up to the present day as
intelligence agencies used the struggle against terrorism and the
digital revolution to improve capabilities in the 2000s.
Throughout, the book examines how states and other entities use
intelligence to create, exploit, and protect secret advantages
against others, and emphasizes how technological advancement and
ideological competition drive intelligence, improving its
techniques and creating a need for intelligence and
counterintelligence activities to serve and protect policymakers
and commanders. The world changes intelligence and intelligence
changes the world. This sweeping history of espionage and
intelligence will be a welcomed by practitioners, students, and
scholars of security studies, international affairs, and
intelligence, as well as general audiences interested in the
evolution of espionage and technology.
This sweeping history of the development of professional,
institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the
fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond. During
the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two
superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas a
century ago, many states could aspire to be competitive at these
dark arts. Today, larger states have lost their monopoly on
intelligence skills and capabilities as technological and
sociopolitical changes have made it possible for private
organizations and even individuals to unearth secrets and influence
global events. Historian Michael Warner addresses the birth of
professional intelligence in Europe at the beginning of the
twentieth century and the subsequent rise of US intelligence during
the Cold War. He brings this history up to the present day as
intelligence agencies used the struggle against terrorism and the
digital revolution to improve capabilities in the 2000s.
Throughout, the book examines how states and other entities use
intelligence to create, exploit, and protect secret advantages
against others, and emphasizes how technological advancement and
ideological competition drive intelligence, improving its
techniques and creating a need for intelligence and
counterintelligence activities to serve and protect policymakers
and commanders. The world changes intelligence and intelligence
changes the world. This sweeping history of espionage and
intelligence will be a welcomed by practitioners, students, and
scholars of security studies, international affairs, and
intelligence, as well as general audiences interested in the
evolution of espionage and technology.
This book studies force, the coercive application of power against
resistance, building from Thomas Hobbes' observation that all
self-contained political orders have some ultimate authority that
uses force to both dispense justice and to defend the polity
against its enemies. This cross-disciplinary analysis finds that
rulers concentrate force through cooperation, conveyance, and
comprehension, applying common principles across history. Those
ways aim to keep foes from concerting their actions, or by
eliminating the trust that should bind them. In short, they make
enemies afraid to cooperate, and now they are doing so in
cyberspace as well.
Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated
second edition, assesses the state of the profession of
intelligence analysis from the practitioners point of view. The
contributors-most of whom have held senior positions in the US
intelligence community-review the evolution of the field, the rise
of new challenges, pitfalls in analysis, and the lessons from new
training and techniques designed to deal with 21st century national
security problems. This second edition updates this indispensable
book with new chapters that highlight advances in applying more
analytic rigor to analysis, along with expertise-building,
training, and professional development. New chapters by
practitioners broaden the original volume's discussion of the
analyst-policymaker relationship by addressing analytic support to
the military customer as well as by demonstrating how structured
analysis can benefit military commanders on the battlefield.
Analyzing Intelligence is written for national security
practitioners such as producers and users of intelligence, as well
as for scholars and students seeking to understand the nature and
role of intelligence analysis, its strengths and weaknesses, and
steps that can improve it and lead it to a more recognizable
profession. The most comprehensive and up-to-date volume on
professional intelligence analysis as practiced in the US
Government, Analyzing Intelligence is essential reading for
practitioners and users of intelligence analysis, as well as for
students and scholars in security studies and related fields.
"The English Literatures of America" redefines colonial American
literatures. Sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West
Indies and Guiana, This anthology survey the emergence of
Anglo-American cultures in the first dramatic period of the
European empires.
The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and
stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period.
Placing the literary culture of the settlements in the context of
other colonies as well as the growing cosmopolitan culture of the
British empire itself, this lively reader contains numerous
dialogues across the Englis Atlantic world. While historically
sound and thorough, thi anthology responds to current interests,
for example, the global context of national cultures; the relation
between colonial histories and cosmopolitan culture; or the
omissions and margins of the literary record.
"The English Literatures of America" offers a wide range of voices,
including women writers on both sides of the ocean, early
English-language texts of Native Americans, and writings of
Africans both slave and free, in London as well as in the American
colonies. It includes texts from elite as well as common cultures,
Puritans in New England as well as Puritans in the West Indies,
regional cultures in the colonial South as well as the grand
cosmopolitan culture of imperial London. The organization of "The
English Literatures of America" involves a thorough rethinking of
colonial American literature while retaining the standards of the
American canon. American literatures are for the first time
presented in an international and colonial context. Not only do new
texts appear; familiar ones have newsignificance. The Puritans can
be read as they understood themselves, i.e., as New "English."
Many texts are collected here for the first time in any anthology.
Others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and
American--that for the first time can be read in their Atlantic
context. Here, for example, are Francis Bacon, Andrew Marvell,
Alexander Pope and Adam Smith, as well as Bradstreet, Wheatley,
Edwards and Franklin. Despite the unparalleled scope of this
anthology, many texts are given complete rather than in snippets.
These include Hariot's "Brief and True Report of the New Found Land
of Virginia," Aphra Behn's play "The Widow Ranter," numerous essays
by Benjamin Franklin and others. By emphasizing the culture of
empire and by representing a transatlantic dialogue, "The English
Literatures of" "America" allows a new way to understand colonial
literature both in the United States and abroad.
When fifth-grader, Dane Sheridan, gets caught mistreating his
foster sister Abby, again, the principal gives him a book on the
Titanic. He thinks that his punishment will be to write a report.
Then the principal tells him that he needs a game...a big game...a
Titanic game. Dane learns a life-changing lesson when the magic
book transports the two of them back to the doomed ship, and he
must save them both from diaster.
An investigation of how the idea of a public as a central fiction
of modern life informs our literature, politics, and culture. Most
of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or
comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of
our world? We are related to them as transient participants in
common publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible
to imagine a social world without publics. In the eight essays in
this book, Michael Warner addresses the question: What is a public?
According to Warner, the idea of a public is one of the central
fictions of modern life. Publics have powerful implications for how
our social world takes shape, and much of modern life involves
struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelations. The
idea of a public contains ambiguities, even contradictions. As it
is extended to new contexts, politics, and media, its meaning
changes in ways that can be difficult to uncover. Combining
historical analysis, theoretical reflection, and extensive case
studies, Warner shows how the idea of a public can reframe our
understanding of contemporary literary works and politics and of
our social world in general. In particular, he applies the idea of
a public to the junction of two intellectual traditions:
public-sphere theory and queer theory.
The Boys' Club is the must-read inside story behind the power and
politics of the AFL, Australia's biggest sport. Revealing how a
fledgling state administrative body evolved into the Australian
Football League and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest
and most powerful organisations in the land, award-winning
investigative journalist Mick Warner delivers a fascinating insight
into key figures and their networks. Tracking the rise of the AFL
and its supremos, The Boys' Club lifts the lid on the scandals,
secrets and deal-making that have shaped this iconic Australian
game. 'Cannot recommend this book highly enough ... The Boys' Club
reaches far and wide.' Paul Kennedy
This anthology surveys the emergence of Anglo-American cultures in the first period of the European empires. It offers a wide range of voices from both sides of the ocean: early texts of Native Americans, texts from elite as well as common cultures, Puritans in New England as well as the grand cosmopolitan culture of imperial London. This anthology includes the work of Francis Bacon, Adam Smith, Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope as well as that of Wheatley and Edwards.
This book studies force, the coercive application of power against
resistance, building from Thomas Hobbes' observation that all
self-contained political orders have some ultimate authority that
uses force to both dispense justice and to defend the polity
against its enemies. This cross-disciplinary analysis finds that
rulers concentrate force through cooperation, conveyance, and
comprehension, applying common principles across history. Those
ways aim to keep foes from concerting their actions, or by
eliminating the trust that should bind them. In short, they make
enemies afraid to cooperate, and now they are doing so in
cyberspace as well.
This second edition of The National Security Enterprise provides
practitioners' insights into the operation, missions, and
organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies
and other institutions that shape the US national security
decision-making process. Unlike some textbooks on American foreign
policy, it offers analysis from insiders who have worked at the
National Security Council, the State and Defense Departments, the
intelligence community, and the other critical government entities.
The book explains how organizational missions and cultures create
the labyrinth in which a coherent national security policy must be
fashioned. Understanding and appreciating these organizations and
their cultures is essential for formulating and implementing it.
Taking into account the changes introduced by the Obama
administration, the second edition includes four new or entirely
revised chapters (Congress, Department of Homeland Security,
Treasury, and USAID) and updates to the text throughout. It covers
changes instituted since the first edition was published in 2011,
implications of the government campaign to prosecute leaks, and
lessons learned from more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and
Iraq. This up-to-date book will appeal to students of US national
security and foreign policy as well as career policymakers.
"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?" This
apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and
complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as
a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of
religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that
scientistic explanations of the world tend to neglect. In Varieties
of Secularism in a Secular Age, a prominent and varied group of
scholars chart the conversations in which A Secular Age intervenes
and address wider questions of secularism and secularity. The
distinguished contributors include Robert Bellah, Jose Casanova,
Nilufer Goele, William E. Connolly, Wendy Brown, Simon During,
Colin Jager, Jon Butler, Jonathan Sheehan, Akeel Bilgrami, John
Milbank, and Saba Mahmood. Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
succeeds in conveying to readers the complexity of secularism while
serving as an invaluable guide to a landmark book.
A collection of key declassified laws, Executive Orders,
Intelligence Directives, and policy documents which chronicle the
role and growth of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1945 to
2000.
The publication of The 9/11 Commission Report, the war in Iraq, and
subsequent negotiation of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
Prevention Act of 2004 have provoked the most intense debate over
the future of American intelligence since the end of World War II.
For observers of this national discussion-as well as of future
debates that are all but inevitable-this paper offers a historical
perspective on reform studies and proposals that have appeared over
the course of the US Intelligence Community's evolution into its
present form. We have examined the origins, context, and results of
14 significant official studies that have surveyed the American
intelligence system since 1947. We explore the reasons these
studies were launched, the recommendations they made, and the
principal results that they achieved. It should surprise no one
that many of the issues involved-such as the institutional
relationships between military and civilian intelligence
leaders-remain controversial to the present time. For this reason,
we have tried both to clarify the perennial issues that arise in
intelligence reform efforts and to determine those factors that
favor or frustrate their resolution. Of the 14 reform surveys we
examined, only the following achieved substantial success in
promoting the changes they proposed: the Dulles Report (1949), the
Schlesinger Report (1971), the Church Committee Report (1976), and
the 9/11 Commission Report (2004). Having examined these and other
surveys of the Intelligence Community, we recognize that much of
the change since 1947 has been more ad hoc than systematically
planned. Our investigation indicates that to bring about
significant change, a study commission has had to get two things
right: process and substance. Two studies that had large and
comparatively rapid effects-the 1949 Dulles Report and the 1971
Schlesinger Report-were both sponsored by the National Security
Council. The 9/11 Commission, with its public hearings in the midst
of an election season, had even more impact, while the Church
Committee's effects were indirect but eventually powerful. It's
perhaps worth noting that a study commission whose chairman later
became DCI, as in the case of Allen Dulles and James Schlesinger,
is also likely to have a lasting influence. Finally, studies
conducted on the eve of or during a war, or in a war's immediate
aftermath, are more likely to lead to change. The 1947 National
Security Act drew lessons from World War II, and it was the
outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 that brought about the
intelligence reforms the Dulles Report had proposed over a year
earlier. The 1971 Schlesinger Report responded to President Nixon's
need to cut spending as he extracted the United States from the
Vietnam War. The breakdown of the Cold War defense and foreign
policy consensus during the Vietnam War set the scene for the
Church Committee's investigations during 1975-76, but the fact that
US troops were not in combat at the time certainly diminished the
influence of its conclusions. In contrast, the 9/11 Commission
Report was published at the height of a national debate over the
War on Terror and the operations in Iraq, which magnified its
salience. Finally, in the substance of these reports, one large
trend is evident over the years. Studies whose recommendations have
caused power in the Intelligence Community to gravitate toward
either the Director of Central Intelligence or the Office of the
Secretary of Defense-or both-have generally had the most influence.
This pattern of increasing concentration of intelligence power in
the DCI and Secretary of Defense endured from the 1940s through the
1990s, whether Democrats or Republicans controlled the White House
or Congress. When a new pattern of influence and cooperation forms,
we are confident that future reform surveys will not hesitate to
propose ways to improve it.
A number of countries have recently discovered and are developing
oil and gas reserves. Policy makers in such countries are anxious
to obtain the greatest benefits for their economies from the
extraction of these exhaustible resources by designing appropriate
policies to achieve desired goals. One important theme of such
policies is the so-called local content created by the sector the
extent to which the output of the extractive industry sector
generates further benefits to the economy beyond the direct
contribution of its value-added, through its links to other
sectors. While local content policies have the potential to
stimulate broad-based economic development, their application in
petroleum-rich countries has achieved mixed results. This paper
describes the policies and practices meant to foster the
development of economic linkages from the petroleum sector, as
adopted by a number of petroleum-producing countries both in and
outside the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Examples of policy objectives, implementation tools, and reporting
metrics are provided to derive lessons of wider applicability. The
paper presents various conclusions for policy makers about the
design of local content policies."
The History Staff is publishing this new collection of declassified
documents in conjunction with the Intelligence History Symposium,
"The Origin and Development of the CIA in the Administration of
Harry S. Truman," which CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence
is cosponsoring in March 1994 with the Harry S. Truman Presidential
Library and its Institute. This is the third volume in the CIA Cold
War Records series that began with the 1992 publication of CIA
Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, and continued with the
publication in 1993 of Selected Estimates on the Soviet Union,
1950-1959. These three volumes of declassified documents ---and
more will follow--- result from CIA's new commitment to greater
openness, which former Director of Central Intelligence Robert M.
Gates first announced in February 1992, and which Director R. James
Woolsey has reaffirmed and expanded since taking office in February
1993. The Center for the Study of Intelligence, a focal point for
internal CIA research and publication since 1975, established the
Cold War Records Program in 1992. In that year the Center was
reorganized to include the History Staff, first formed in 1951, and
the new Historical Review Group, which has greatly extended the
scope and accelerated the pace of the program to declassify
historical records that former Director William J. Casey
established in 1985. Dr. Michael Warner of the History Staff
compiled and edited this collection of documents and all of its
supporting material. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Dr.
Warner took a history M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1984
and received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in
1990. Before joining the History Staff in August 1992, Dr. Warner
served as an analyst in CIA's Directorate of Intelligence.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg clearly
identified the corporate sector as one of the key actors in the
delivery of national and international poverty reduction targets in
developing countries. "Partnerships" between government, civil
society and business were proposed as one means whereby these
poverty reduction targets were to be achieved. Despite the
rhetoric, there was less consideration of how such partnerships
could work in practice, the outcomes that could be achieved, or the
relative merits of partnerships over other, more traditional
approaches to development. This book is about partnerships between
the private sector, government and civil society. Its objective is
to share practical experiences in establishing and implementing
such partnerships and to show how partnerships work. The focus is
on the oil, gas and mining industries, as these sectors have tended
to be the primary drivers of foreign investment in developing
countries. These corporations increasingly operate in regions
characterised by poor communities and fragile environments. The
more effective use of external relationships to ensure the
effective contribution of these investments to poverty reduction
and local environmental management is critical, for the companies,
for government, and for the poor. Putting Partnerships to Work is
based on the work of the Secretariat of the Natural Resources
Cluster (NRC) of Business Partners for Development (BPD). This
major research programme, which ran from 1998 to 2002, aimed to
enhance the role of oil, gas and mining corporations in
international development. The programme objective was to produce
practical guidance, based on the experience of specific natural
resource operations around the world, on how partnerships involving
companies, government authorities and civil-society organisations
can be an effective means of reducing investment risks and of
promoting community and regional development. The programme
encompassed partnerships in Colombia, Nigeria, India, Venezuela,
Bolivia, Zambia, Azerbaijan, Indonesia and Tanzania. The specific
projects that were implemented included not only "traditional"
development projects such as the provision of water, healthcare or
infrastructure but also themes as diverse as conflict prevention,
regional development, micro-enterprise development and managing oil
spill compensation. Based on the experience of establishing and
implementing effective partnerships, the NRC identified good
practice, and developed replicable guidelines, tools and training
materials. This book is not only about good practice; it presents
both the positive outcomes and lessons from the programme, as well
as the risks and costs, and where things went wrong. It also
provides evidence not only of the viability of partnerships (i.e.
that partnerships "can work") but also evidence that partnership
approaches can provide substantially better outcomes for all
parties than can more traditional approaches to development or
corporate social responsibility. For example, a road in India was
constructed at 25% of the cost to government; it took just 11
months for a community health centre in Venezuela to become
operational and with its long-term financial future assured; and
primary education enrolment rates in the vicinity of a gold mine in
Tanzania have jumped from a historic level of 60-80% to almost 100%
(as a consequence of improved infrastructure and community
awareness of the importance of education). These development and
public-sector benefits have been accompanied by substantial
business benefits, including significant reductions in the cost of
community development initiatives and/or the leverage of additional
resources, greater sustainability and viability of development
projects and significant improvements to corporate reputation and
their local "social licence to operate" with communities. The book
argues that to achieve these benefits requires all parties to
invest time and effort in first exploring the best design for the
partnership, understanding the motivations of their potential
partners and, once the partnership has been established, continuing
to actively support the partnership and ensure its ongoing
viability. Partnerships that engage the strengths of companies,
government and civil society can, under the right conditions, yield
better (and more sustainable) results for communities and for
business than traditional approaches to development. The authors
argue that, because it is built on the central idea of each partner
"doing what they do best", the partnership approach offers an
opportunity to rethink the way in which companies view they
contributions to the livelihoods of local communities. Through
partnerships it is possible that community development will be seen
less as an "add-on" or "cost" to the company but more an integral
part of business strategy providing significant commercial and
other benefits. Perhaps most importantly, partnerships offer the
potential for regional operating companies to change the
perceptions of government and of civil society that the company
will take the primary responsibility for local development. Rather,
partnerships enable companies to locate themselves as one of (but
not the only) agent of development in the local region.
Partnerships enable communities to take charge of their own
development needs, interacting with government to jointly design
and maintain public services. They also allow government to play
its proper role of fulfilling its public mandate, delivering
necessary services and ensuring the quality and sustainability of
development impacts. The challenges of poverty reduction in the
developing world are so great that no one sector can address them
on its own. Partnerships between business, government and civil
society are a means of addressing this most fundamental of truths.
It is hoped that this book will provide a road map for all those
working towards making the elimination of poverty a reality.
In recent years, lesbians and gay men have developed a new,
aggressive style of politics. At the same time, innovative
intellectual energies have made queer theory an explosive field of
study. In "Fear of a Queer Planet", Michael Warner draws on
emerging new queer politics, and shows how queer activists have
come to challenge basic assumptions about the social and political
world. Existing traditions of theory - Marxism, cultural studies,
psychoanalysis, anthropology, legal theory, nationalism, and
antinationalism - have too often presupposed a heterosexual
society, as the essays in this volume demonstrate. "Fear of a Queer
Planet" suggests a new agenda for social theory. It moves beyond
the idea that lesbians and gay men share a minority identity and
special interests and that their issues can be subordinated to more
general social conflicts. Instead, Warner and the other
contributors to this volume show that queer sexualities take many
forms, are the subject of many kinds of conflict and struggles, and
must be taken as a starting point in thinking about cultural
politics. This collection explores the impact of ACT UP, Queer
Nation, multiculturalism, the new religious right, outing,
queerness, postmodernism, and other shifts in the politics of
sexuality. The authors featured speak from different backgrounds of
gender, race, nationality, and discipline. Together, they show how
struggles over sexuality have profound implications for progressive
politics, social theory, and cultural studies. Michael Warner has
written extensively on censorship and the public sphere, the
construction of American literary history, and the social and
political implication of literary theories. He is author of "The
Letter of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in
Eighteenth-Century America" and co-editor of "The Origins of
Literary Studies in America: A Documentary Anthology".
The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation.
America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of
reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one's place
as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of
letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of
printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread
use of print media transformed the relations between people and
power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of
government we have inherited. Examining books, pamphlets, and
circulars, he merges theory and concrete analysis to provide a
multilayered view of American cultural development.
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