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Australian intelligence's foremost challenge is to further evolve from being a 'national intelligence community' to generating 'national intelligence power'. It will do that by more effectively integrating intelligence into the government's broad policymaking, strategising and ...

The growing debt will "slow economic growth, drive up interest payments," and "heighten the risk of a fiscal crisis," the CBO warns.

Die Bundesregierung hat am 12. Juni 2023 nach langen Diskussionen ihre Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie verabschiedet. Neben vielen anderen Themen wird darin auch der Weltraum als Gegenstand deutscher Sicherheitspolitik diskutiert. "Die freie und ungehinderte Nutzung des Weltraums ist für unsere Sicherheit unverzichtbar" (S. 16), heißt es dort. Was folgt daraus für die deutsche Sicherheitspolitik?
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Daniel Lambach



Dr. Daniel Lambach hat eine DFG-geförderte Heisenberg-Stelle am Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen der Goethe-Universität und ist Assoziierter Forscher im Programmbereich "Internationale Sicherheit". In seiner Forschung befasst er sich mit politischen Räumlichkeiten und Technologie, u.a. in Bezug auf den Weltraum, den Cyberspace und die Weltmeere. // Dr Daniel Lambach is a Heisenberg Fellow at the Research Centre Normative Orders at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and an Associate Fellow in the research department "International Security". His research is on political spatialities and technology, e.g. in relation to outer space, cyberspace, and the oceans.

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Der Beitrag Weltraum in der Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie erschien zuerst auf PRIF BLOG.

Die Klima-Entscheidungen der Großen Kammer des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte (EGMR) sind wegweisend. Auf den ersten Blick ist jedoch nicht vollkommen klar, wie sie sich auf das nationale Klimarecht der Vertragsstaaten der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK) auswirken werden. Haben die strategischen Klimaklagen den von ihnen erwünschten Durchbruch erzielt, der das nationale Klimarecht revolutionieren wird?

Welcome to National Productivity Week — an initiative to raise awareness of the importance of productivity and its impact on the economy, society & the environment — hosted by The Productivity Institute and supported by the Bennett Institute and other UK institutions, business organisations and think tanks.
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Former Cabinet Office civil servant Philip Rycroft and former Communities Secretary John Denham set out the guidance that Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer might give to the Cabinet Secretary ahead of the next general elections to ensure that the stated ambitions of both of the main parties are realised in relation to English devolution and the effective delivery of English public policy.
The post Reforming England's national governance appeared first on Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

With interest in and access to education choice growing so much, it's no surprise that this year is shaping up to be the biggest National School Choice Week celebration yet.

Brandon M. Weiss (American University - Washington College of Law) has posted Corporate Consolidation of Rental Housing & the Case for National Rent Stabilization (Washington University Law Review, Vol. 101, 2023) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Rental housing in...

The most demanding speech any Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must deliver is the annual address to the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention. The echoes of Chairman Newton Minow's 1961 "vast wasteland" speech to that organization have haunted every word in every Chair's script for over six decades. Those of us who…

William Hague seems to think we should reinstate National Service: The UK needs to move to the same reassertion of citizenship. The best model to draw on is also Scandinavian. Norway has a modern and highly successful form of National Service, keeping up with changes in society as well as the demands of national security. Every Norwegian 18-year-old, irrespective of gender, fills in a questionnaire on their health and motivation. About a quarter of them are chosen for interview, accompanied by physical and intelligence tests. In the latest year just under 10,000 were selected for military service, 17 per cent of the age cohort. They serve for 12 to 16 months.There are huge advantages to this system. Although some people end up having to serve against their wishes, the majority are highly willing and proud of being selected. Many choose to serve for a longer period. They learn skills that are often of great value in later employment, while mixing with people from other regions and backgrounds all over their country. All of them become trained personnel who form a strong national reserve.We're with Milton Friedman on this: General William Westmoreland, testifying before President Nixon's Commission on an All-Volunteer [Military] Force, denounced the idea, saying that he did not want to command an army of mercenaries.Milton Friedman interrupted him: "General, would you rather command an army of slaves?" Westmoreland got angry: "I don't like to hear our patriotic draftees referred to as slaves."And Friedman got rolling: "I don't like to hear our patriotic volunteers referred to as mercenaries. If they are mercenaries, then I, sir, am a mercenary professor, and you, sir, are a mercenary general." And he did not stop: "We are served by mercenary physicians, we use a mercenary lawyer, and we get our meat from a mercenary butcher".In more detail: TO MAN THE ARMY with volunteers would require making conditions of service more attractive—not only higher pay but also better housing facilities and improved amenities in other respects. It will be replied that money is not the only factor young men consider in choosing their careers. This is certainly true—and equally certainly irrelevant. Adequate pay alone may not attract, but inadequate pay can certainly deter. Military service has many non-monetary attractions to young men—the chance to serve one's country, adventure, travel, opportunities for training, and so on. Not the least of the advantages of a volunteer army is that the military would have to improve their personnel policies and pay more attention to meeting the needs of the enlisted men. They now need pay little attention to them, since they can fill their ranks with conscripts serving under compulsion.Conscription - even into this national service idea, only some of which is military - means that those doing the paying, in the wider sense of all the conditions not just money, don't have to care very much about what is being paid. For what is offered to slaves can be very much less than what is necessary to attract mercenaries.This idea of having a less than full time - or lifelong - but trained up reserve has its merits, of course. Which is why we already have one, The Army Reserve, what used to be called the Territorials. If Baron Hague - or anyone else - wishes to increase the number in that then they can fund it properly. Something British Governments have not been doing for decades. It's entirely true that there's a cost to having a decent military. But the costs of enslaving people into it are higher than tempting them. So, tempt, don't force.

Even if the U.S. national security apparatus can operate entirely outside of politics, it remains exposed to the effects of Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life. Little work is being done to understand how severe the impact of Truth Decay is on national security and, more importantly, how to mitigate it.

Mitigating the effects of climate change will require a whole-of-government approach and a redefinition of national security to embrace a more panoramic set of risks. Government officials are saying lots of the right things. But is it being done, and done quickly enough?

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Um weiter Einfluss auf europäische Entscheidungen nehmen zu können, müssen Parteien sich integrieren und ihre internen Strukturen an das politische System der EU anpassen.
Dieser Tage beginnen die Parteien mit der Aufstellung ihrer Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten für das Europäische Parlament. Denn bereits zum zehnten Mal werden im kommenden Frühjahr die Bürgerinnen und

Cybertoonz gives the Commission a right of reply

If we can predict an adversary's next move, we already have an advantage. Over millennia, those analysing warfare have identified rules, moves and countermoves, but also strengths and weaknesses on both sides. While sovereign capability ...