Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration?National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that
"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily se
"This book collects chapters written by leading experts working in the trenches of U.S.-Mexico policy issues. Topics covered include immigration, drug flow and conflict, gun-running, money-laundering
This report chronicles intelligence community efforts over more than half a decade to improve community-wide workforce planning and management. The tools described will help decisionmakers maintain wo
At a time when issues of international engagement are again at the fore of foreign policy, this book tells the story of how America's apparatus for public diplomacy came to be in disarray. Using newly
Imagining a State Department as effective as the US militaryConventional wisdom in Washington in recent years has maintained that the US State Department is dramatically undernourished for the work re
Raymond Smith, a former employee for the State Department who spent decades doing political analysis, offers a thin guide to doing --writing and orally performing -- political analysis for diplomats.
As National Security Advisor to President Gerald Ford, advisor to President Ronald Reagan, and as National Security Advisor to President George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft was at the center of the ong
Keeping U.S. Intelligence Effective: The Need for a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs explores whether the U.S. intelligence enterprise will be able to remain effective in today's security environmen
Are good and bad outcomes significantly affected by the decision-making process itself? Indeed they are, in that certain decision-making techniques and practices limit the ability of policymakers to a
"Nancy Snow pulls the curtain on the US Information Agency and shows it to be just another front for corporate America."—Jim Hightower, author of There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road bu
Are good and bad outcomes significantly affected by the decision-making process itself? Indeed they are, in that certain decision-making techniques and practices limit the ability of policymakers to a
This publication describes the application of the RAND Corporation's Portfolio Analysis and Management Method (PortMan) to the evaluation of the National Security Agency's (NSA) information disseminat
Widely considered to be a definitive work on how U.S. foreign policy is made, THE POLITICS OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY uses three levels of analysis that demonstrate how government, society, and t
The authors present the results of research on the U.S. civilian personnel and staffing programs for stability and reconstruction operations undertaken in other countries under U.S. leadership or with
The events of September 11, 2001 sharply revived governmental and societal anxieties in many democratic countries concerning the threats posed by terrorism, organized crime, the proliferation and use
Current and former operatives and researchers in the US intelligence community consider resolutions of problems they find to have been exposed by 9/11, and identify challenges other than terrorism tha
Given recent experiences with terrorism, clearly even the most democratic societies have a legitimate need for secrecy. This secrecy has often been abused, however, and strong oversight systems are ne
In Information War, former United States Information Agency employee Nancy Snow describes how U.S. propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in
Hersman sheds new light on the institutional dynamics that affect the way Congress and the Executive branch interact in the formation of U.S. foreign policy.
