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This book addresses how to conduct policy analysis in the field of national security, including foreign policy and defense strategy. It is a philosophical and conceptual book for helphing people think deeply, clearly, and insightfully about complex policy issues. This books reflects the viewpoint that the best policies normally come from efforts to synthesize competing camps by drawing upon the best of each of them and by combining them to forge a sensible whole. While this book is written to be reader-friendly, it aspires to in-depth scholarship.
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security frames the context, institutions, and processes the U.S. government uses to advance national interests through foreign policy, government institutions, and grand strategy. Contributors examine contemporary national security challenges and the processes and tools used to improve national security.
This issue is the inaugural issue of The Forum on National Security Law. It was one of the goals of the past executive board to expand into the realm of electronic publications, and we are very excited to finally bring it to fruition! That said, within these pages, you will find a range of topics on national security law, including a bibliographic overview of the Fourth Amendment as it relates to national security, the issue of arming recreational drones, digital encryption, and the tension between border security and international relations.Eight years ago, our founding counterparts set their intentions and academic convictions to paper in the enclosed blog post. In establishing this Brief, those who came before us threw down a gauntlet, calling upon law students to come together to enhance and underline essential debates in the National Security realm, anchoring them in legal analysis. This is a gauntlet we, the editorial board for Volume IX of the National Security Law Brief, gladly pick up. In the years since the Brief published its first issue, the world has changed immeasurably. Over the existence of the Brief, our staffers have seen the rise of ISIL; the fall of long-standing regimes in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia; and the re-solidification of old Cold War battle lines. What the next nine, nineteen or ninety years hold for the national security field is uncertain. What is certain, however, is that learned debate and discussion on critical topics requires an outlet, and that is what this publication strives to provide.
Examines the planning and budgeting processes of the United States. This title describes the planning and resource integration activities of the White House, reviews the adequacy of the structures and process and makes proposals for ways both might be reformed to fit the demands of the 21st century security environment.
In Zion's Dilemmas, a former deputy national security adviser to the State of Israel details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies in the making of Israeli national security policy. Chuck Freilich identifies profound, ongoing problems that he ascribes to a series of factors: a hostile and highly volatile regional environment, Israel's proportional representation electoral system, and structural peculiarities of the Israeli government and bureaucracy.Freilich uses his insider understanding and substantial archival and interview research to describe how Israel has made strategic decisions and to present a first of its kind model of national security decision-making in Israel. He analyzes the major events of the last thirty years, from Camp David I to the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, through Camp David II, the Gaza Disengagement Plan of 2005, and the second Lebanon war of 2006.In these and other cases he identifies opportunities forgone, failures that resulted from a flawed decision-making process, and the entanglement of Israeli leaders in an inconsistent, highly politicized, and sometimes improvisational planning process. The cabinet is dysfunctional and Israel does not have an effective statutory forum for its decision-making—most of which is thus conducted in informal settings. In many cases policy objectives and options are poorly formulated. For all these problems, however, the Israeli decision-making process does have some strengths, among them the ability to make rapid and flexible responses, generally pragmatic decision-making, effective planning within the defense establishment, and the skills and motivation of those involved. Freilich concludes with cogent and timely recommendations for reform.