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The Vietnam war was the first major American conflict to be presented to the public through the medium of television. Inasmuch as a case may be made that television has a potential for influencing American national security policy through public opinion, considerable controversy has centered on the coverage of that war by the major networks. Roger Mudd, reflecting upon the impact of television on the conduct of military operations in Vietnam, once wondered ''whether in the future a democracy which has uncensored television in every home will ever be able to fight a war however moral or just. "1

With the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union has brought major changes in India's security policy. The demise of Soviet Union has resulted in the emergence of time new independent state, known as Central Asian States. The countries are poor but rich in mineral resources. The world is attracted towards this region how to exploit the region for their own benefits. The author has examined this issue in the light of Indian compulsions and challenges that it could have to have from the major powers and the growing the instability in the region.

The dissertation analyzes the role of the U.S. Navy in U.S. foreign and security policy, spanning the timeframe of 1981-2011. It looks at naval capstone documents in the framework of seapower conceptual thinking. Using historical sources including interviews, the work links the thinking of American naval planners and officers with academic analyses of U.S. Navy strategy. ; Die Dissertation analysiert die Rolle der US-Seestreitkräfte in der amerikanischen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik im Zeitraum von 1981 bis 2011. Dazu zieht sie die strategischen Grundlagendokumente heran und bettet es in konzeptionelle Seemachtüberlegungen ein. Die Arbeit zieht geschichtliche Quelle und Interviews heran und verknüpft so das Denken amerikanischer Marineoffiziere und Planungsstäbe mit der wissenschaftlichen Analyse von US-Marinestrategie.

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Despite enthusiasm in Brussels, the complexities of national sovereignty continue to complicate European Union efforts to speak with one voice and act with a common purpose. After a flurry of U.S.-EU meetings, and one year after the Lisbon Treaty took effect, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and Ambassador Joao Vale de Almeida, head of the European Delegation in Washington, discuss their views on the EUs future, the nascent European External Action Service, and the Union's relationship with the United States. Adapted from the source document.

This paper argues that steps towards a Political Union dictated by major ambitions in terms of the Common Foreign and Security Policy continue to be, for various reasons, a mirage. and as Germany, at the pre-Lisbon Treaty discussions, as never shown willingness to change the balances from Maastricht regarding the economic and Monetary Union, it was also not in that area that one would be expecting significant institutional progress. However, suddenly, coming from nowhere, the so-called sovereign debt crisis, in this last domain, will determine an inevitable revision of the European treaties. Adapted from the source document.

Under the leadership of Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the process of establishing the European External Action Service (EEAS) has begun. In order for this initiative to be successful, a training framework founded on fundamental European values must be created for qualified individuals entering the service. Important to this pursuit is the creation of a European School of Diplomacy. The EEAS is a positive step towards a common European voice and acknowledging the need to utilise multilateral bodies to find solutions for the increasingly complex and interconnected global stage.

The creation of the European External Action Service is central to the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs & the EU Security Policy will have to find her place within the complex institutional landscape -- between the President of the Council, the Council itself, & the Commission. Catherine Ashton seems, for now, to be closer to the Commission: roles must be properly & separately redistributed in order to give the new configuration prescribed by the Lisbon Treaty all its weight. Adapted from the source document.

The quick setup and establishment of the operating capability of the Center for Transformation is a major prerequisite for a rapid innovation. The methods for realizing the transformation goals are quite obvious: concentrating available forces; establishing local points; putting up with risks. A transformation of this caliber serves the protection of Germany and its citizens, provides the German foreign and security policy with an increased capacity to act and, last but not least, gives the soldiers and the civilian employees of the Bundeswehr the necessary orientation and efficiency. (Europäische Sicherheit / SWP)

This paper discusses EU policies against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The author states that at the beginning of the century, the EU began taking steps against the spread of nuclear weapons within its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). In June 2003, the European Council adopted its first draft strategy against the proliferation of WMDs. In order to assess the significance of the strategy, the paper presents and evaluates the Union's record in the field, reviews the strategy and makes suggestions as to how it can be improved.

This dissertation is intended to interpret, analyze, and explain the interplay between organizational structure and organizational information systems security by mapping structural contingency theory into three qualitative studies. The research motivation can be attributed in two ways. First, Johnson and Goetz's (2007) conception of embedding information in organizations as part of their field research interviewing security executives serves as a methodological inspiration for the series of three studies reported here. The point that security should be infused into organization activities instead of serving as a "bolted-on" function is a central tenet guiding the development of this dissertation. Second, a macro approach is employed in the studies reported here, aimed at a theoretical expansion from existing behavioral security studies which typically take a micro perspective, while mitigating potential theoretical reductionism due to a predominant research concentration on individual components of organizational information security instead of the holistic function of the firm. Hence, this dissertation contributes to the behavioral organizational security research by positing a theoretical construct of information-securing, an organizational security process which is essentially characterized by dualism, dynamism, and democratism. With a macro organizational perspective on the elements of information securing, organizations can effectively discover and leverage organization-wide resources, efforts, and knowledge to cope with security contingencies. The first study of this dissertation is designed to investigate the nature of employees' extra-role behaviors. This study investigated how employees might sometimes take steps beyond the requirements of the organizational-level security policy in order to facilitate effective workgroup operation and to assist less-skilled colleagues. The second study of this dissertation conducts an interpretive study of the role of information systems auditing in improving information security policy compliance in the workplace, with a specific focus on the role of non-malicious insiders who unknowingly or innocuously thwart corporate information security directives by engaging in unsafe computing practices. The last study of the dissertation explores the interplay between organizational structures and security activities. The organizational perspective of security bureaucracies is developed with three specific bureaucratic archetypes to define the evolutionary stages of the firm's progress through evolving from coercive rule-based enforcement regimes to fully enabled and employee-centric security cultures in the workplace. Borrowing from Weberian metaphors, the characterization of security bureaucracies evolving from an "iron cage" to an "iron shield" is developed. These three studies revolving around the general notion of information-securing are deemed to be a promising start of a new stream of organizational IS security research. In order to enrich and extend our IS security literature, the perspective advocated in this dissertation suggests a shift in the epistemological paradigm of security behaviors in organizations from the prevailing micro views to macro perspectives which will result in very useful new perspectives on security management, security behaviors and security outcomes in organizations. GS Form 14 (8/10) APPROVAL FOR SCHOLARL

The current retrenchment of the welfare states is buffering the growing demographic and economic pressures in European countries at the expense of the young and the elderly. However, both investment in the young, which determines a society's future, and providing public support for the elderly, the most deserving needy group, are seen as musts. This book encompasses a selection of empirical studies reflecting on when and why the young and the elderly are at risk in several (mostly Western) European countries. Contributions in the book examine the educational achievement and the labor market entry of youths, particularly those who have a migration background, the poverty risk experienced by the elderly, especially if they are also immigrants and/or women, the pension outcomes of former cross-border workers, the simulated consequeces of a recent pension benefit reform as well as those of a potential reform including financial assets and housing wealth in old-age income protection, and finally the extent, and possible erosion, of the support for government providing child-care and protecting the elderly. Preface – Wim van Oorschot Introduction – Ioana Salagean, Catalina Lomos & Anne Hartung 1. Does ethnic capital contribute to the educational outcomes of individuals with Turkish background in Europe? – Sait Bayrakdar 2. Young adults at risk in Germany: The impact of vocational training on the ethnic gap at labour market entry – Anne Hartung 3. Poverty among elderly immigrants in Belgium – Line De Witte, Sofie Vanassche & Hans Peeters 4. Integrating life course and pension policy perspectives: The case of poverty among elderly women – Hans Peeters & Wouter de Tavernier 5. Including assets in comparative old age poverty research: How does it change the picture? – Rika Verpoorten 6. The social and budgetary impacts of the recent social security reform in Belgium – Gijs Dekkers, Saskia Weemaes, Nicole Fasquelle & Raphael Desmet 7. Cross-border social security coordination, mobility of labour and pension outcomes – Irina Burlacu & Cathal O'Donoghue 8. Do self-interest, ideology and national context influence opinions on government support for childcare? A multilevel analysis – Wouter de Tavernier 9. Individual attitudes towards welfare states responsibility for the elderly – Nathalie Schuerman Rejoinder: Is intergenerational solidarity under pressure? Comparative analyses of age cleavages in opinions about government support for the young and the old – Tim Reeskens & Wim van Oorschot

"This book focuses on the ECOWAS Commission, both as an autonomous actor, as well as a policy-making nexus for its member states in Africa, and external actors. Drawing from a variety of never-before analyzed sources, unpublished internal documents and over 120 interviews with staff from the ECOWAS Commission, its member states, and external actors supporting the organization, this book presents a comprehensive portrait of ECOWAS's institutional capabilities, challenges, and reforms. It utilizes a policy studies approach focusing on the areas of political affairs, peace, and regional security, as well as trade and customs to illustrate concrete cases of policy making by the Commission, its member states, and external actors. In doing so, the book provides practice-oriented insights into the policy-making agency within the organization, arguing for the significance of the ECOWAS Commission as an actor. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of West Africa and its international relations, comparative regionalism, international organization studies, development studies, policy-making, peace and conflict studies, governance and more broadly to African politics and international relations"--