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Cover; America's Role in the World: What Does National Security Mean in the 21st Century?; Option One: National Security Means Safeguarding the United States; What We Could Do; Option Two: National Security Depends on Putting Our Economic House in Order; What We Could Do; Option Three: National Security Means Recognizing That Global Threats Are Our Greatest Challenge; What We Could Do; Summary: America's Role in the World: What Does National Security Mean in the 21st Century?

Industrialisation and modern technologies have contributed to economic and social progress, but the benefits are being eroded by the environmental and health risks associated with these technologies. Against this backdrop, risk has periodically moved to the fore of political debate, and publics have become more questioning of science and technology making it difficult for decision-making about technology to remain outside democracy. Research suggests that psychological and broader socio-cultural factors influence publics? risk perceptions more than calculable risk probabilities. The gap between technical risk assessments and ?lay? perceptions of risks means that risk communication is crucial to decisions about technologies perceived as hazardous. The receipt of risk information is shaped by factors such as trust and transparency. Thus the role of institutional politics and issues of procedural justice have become important facets of the development of controversial facilities. Consequently, analysts are calling for more research attention to why publics lack trust in risk assessment and risk regulatory systems. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

Pierre Bourdieu's work can help to clarify precisely how culture in general and literature in particular operate among and within societies as a form of symbolic violence and as a mechanism of distinction. All agents within any cultural field possess a specific set of cultural interests that are determined by their location within that cultural field as well as in the social field and the field of intersocial relations. The power to represent the world becomes a stake within the literary field, a form of cultural authority that writers and critics have an interest in preserving. Asserting the superiority of national culture and its products yields symbolic profits. These interests fulfill rather than contradict the norms of autonomy within the field. Theoretical attempts to attribute a critical potential to this autonomy may therefore reach their limit at the point where culture and imperialism meet.