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by William Ellis ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- BA/H.as. 4592 z-1

by William Ellis ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- BA/H.as. 4592 z-2

Title from cover. ; "A political miscellany in opposition to insurgency." ; Mode of access: Internet.

The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics. For Aristotle did not separate, as we are inclined to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character necessary for the good life, but that life is for him essentially to be lived in society, and when in the last chapters of the Ethics he comes to the practical

US intelligence activities have changed in recent years because of changing global political conditions. Using sophisticated technologies, intelligence agencies now conduct surveillance of a wide variety of organizations and an enormous number of people, including many US citizens. This has generated a vast amount of data that these agencies have not been able to use productively, in spite of the expenditure of many billions of dollars, mostly with private firms. Some 70 percent of the approximately $75 billion spent on intelligence annually is spent on these firms. The author discusses a number of serious problems with these developments.

Unlike most APSA CFP participants, I am not a mid-career academic,
journalist, federal employee, or health care professional. I am a
Ph.D. candidate in political science, smack in the midst of my
dissertation research, which generated job-search needs that are
quite a bit different than my colleagues. Most are here on a sort of
sabbatical from their current career or even seeking to explore a
possible career change. They are looking for positions that will
immerse them in the life of a congressional staffer, some even
desiring the 70-hour-a-week "Hill lifestyle."

William W. Ellis is special assistant to the vice president for academic affairs at the University of the District of Columbia. He served for many years as senior analyst at the Congressional Research Service, specializing in federal policy to combat terrorism.