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Efforts by the Carter and Reagan administrations to improve information processing; effect on presidential decision making.

As corporate‐led globalization leads to unparalleled profits for some, poverty and inequality are growing at unparalleled rates throughout the world. The ineluctable rise in free market reforms contributes to rising costs for food and basic necessities for many in the third world. In this environment, nation‐states are unable to determine their economic destinies, and national labor unions are defenseless in protecting the wages and conditions of workers. The failure of neoliberal global policy to address the conditions of the poor is contributing to unprecedented international labor migration and greater economic insecurity among U.S. workers.

"This book is an authoritative resource for the latest research on the dimensions of national security, including political, physical, economic, ecological, and computer security. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as data breaches, surveillance, and threat detection"--

The concept of security today frequently includes a whole set of different aspects of human existence and activity in society and nature. Conscious efforts to establish security is a civilisational and cultural category which encompasses all aspects of contemporary security such as economic, social, cultural, political, legal, ecological and defensive, i.e all those manifestations of social life which come under the heading of social values. The efficiency of national security system today not only testifies to the capacity of the state to protect its fundamental social values from external and internal perils i.e. to preserve peace and liberty, prevent danger and fear, but also to its ability to ensure economic, political, scientific, technological and generally social development as well as people's social, cultural, ecological prosperity. Analyzing the national security of the Republic of Croatia in that context, it seems that not only has the process of democratic transition not been completed, but it has not properly commenced. In many areas the institutions and relations that might guarantee the type of development in keeping with Croatia's diverse potentials have not been created. Croatia, as one of the last transitional countries is only at the beginning of the second alteration of government, the precondition for the consolidation of a democratic regime. (SOI : PM: S. 41)

Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America's visible, "Madisonian institutions": the President, Congress, and the courts. Their roles, he argues, have become largely illusory. Presidential control is now nominal, congressional oversight is dysfunctional, and judicial review is negligible. He details the dramatic shift in power that has occurred from the Madisonian institutions to a concealed "Trumanite network"--The several hundred managers of the military, intelligence, diplomatic, and law enforcement agencies who are responsible for protecting the nation and who have come to operate largely immune from constitutional and electoral restraints

Whenever the word "security" is mentioned, the words of a well-known hymn run through my mind. It is one some of us sing on New Year's Day and on historic occasions. It begins, "O God our help in ages past," and the second verse runs:Under the shadow of thy throne,thy saints have dwelt secure.Sufficient is thine arm alone,and our defense is sure.The author of this hymn was Isaac Watts, a divine So prolific in his day that his hymns, especially his Psalm,paraphrases of which this is one, dominated many hynanals of the eighteenth century, both in England and in America.