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This volume offers an interdisciplinary and global perspective on aspects of security and defence, with a special focus on the protection of social infrastructures in the face of various forms of violence. It examines some multi-faceted solutions and stresses the need to approach the problem from many disciplines. The optimistic conclusion from this work is that there are concrete and specific ways to address conflict and violence, and the importance of being alert in order to prevent their eventual negative consequences.This work integrates and synthesises theory, research, and public policy analysis in an effort to solve the complex questions and problems presented by this topic, and focuses on a range of topics, including militia and police, law, diplomacy, aggression and conflict studies, and psychology. This encourages a broader perspective and thought-process global collaboration and cooperation, and an integrated synthesis of knowledge. It broadens the conceptualisation of the phenomena under discussion and links them with tangible examples.This book represents an important resource for researchers and students of security and defence, violence, and peace, as well as anyone with an interest in studying methods of protecting critical infrastructures and more specifically of probable the most important social infrastructure, the people, reducing the threats of terrorism from a psychological approach

Chapter 01-Assembling Calculative InfrastructuresIntroduction1; Economizing Failure; Creating New Entities; Calculating Failure; Making Failure Operational; Rethinking Failure; Conclusion; References; Chapter 02-A Calculative Infrastructure in the Making: The Emergence of a Multi-Layered Complex for Governing Healthcare; Introduction; Governing by Quantification, Calculation and Infrastructures; When is an Infrastructure? Moments of Convergence and Processes of Layering; Making a Calculative Infrastructure for Governing Quality

A quick look at roads of the past and bridges of the present : 99% invisible -- Infrastructure and its supporting institutions must both be redesigned / Thaddeus R. Miller -- Infrastructure suffers because not everyone pays a fair share of taxes / Chuck Collins -- US infrastructure must be improved and maintained / The White House -- Will contamination of water by lead pipes be stopped? / Julia Franz -- How many deaths from collapsed bridges will occur before the infrastructure is repaired? / Dave Schaper -- Overall, infrastructure is not crumbling / Jeffrey Harding -- Latin America must modernize its infrastructure / Marisol Argueta de Barillas -- Bipartisan bickering stalls infrastructure improvements / Heidi Crebo-Rediker -- Multiple factors influence infrastructure improvement / Douglas C. Smith & Kevin L. Kliesen -- Efficiency and private-sector innovation will improve infrastructure / James Pethokoukis -- Urban planning, digital technology, and smart cities' the future is near / Michel Sudarskis -- Local control of infrastructure can make a big difference / Charles Marohn -- Compared to other developed countries, us infrastructure is outdated / Hiba Baroud -- Similar economic benefits in the historical railroad development of US and India / Dave Donaldson -- What are the costs of underinvestment in infrastructure? / Samuel Sherraden and Shayne Henry -- Organizations to contact -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE BANK CONCEPT AND PROPOSALS -- NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE BANK CONCEPT AND PROPOSALS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE BANK: OVERVIEW AND CURRENT LEGISLATION -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS AN INFRASTRUCTURE BANK? -- NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE BANK BILLS -- S. 652 "Building and Upgrading Infrastructure for Long-Term Development" -- Structure -- Eligible Projects -- Project Selection Criteria -- Financing Packages -- Funding of AIFA -- S. 936 "American Infrastructure Investment Fund Act of 2011" -- Structure -- Eligible Projects and Types of Financing -- AIIF Project Selection Criteria -- Financing Packages -- Funding of AIIF -- H.R. 402 "National Infrastructure Development Bank Act of 2011" -- Structure -- Eligible Projects -- Project Selection Criteria -- Financing Packages -- Funding of NIDB -- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- Will a Bank Increase Infrastructure Investment? -- Will an Infrastructure Bank Duplicate Existing Programs? -- Will a National Infrastructure Bank Accelerate Investment? -- What Are the Federal Budgetary Implications? -- Can a National Infrastructure Bank Be Financially Self-Sustaining? -- How Will Projects Be Selected? -- How Might an Infrastructure Bank Be Structured? -- How Might an Infrastructure Bank Be Governed? -- APPENDIX A. BACKGROUND ON INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING -- The Federal Role -- Federal Credit Assistance Programs -- Tax-Favored Infrastructure Bonds -- Public-Private Partnerships -- APPENDIX B. PROJECTS ELIGIBLE FOR FINANCING UNDER LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING: STAKEHOLDER VIEWS ON A NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE BANK AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- Federal Laws Applying to Wastewater Treatment

Intro -- CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE -- CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES: BACKGROUND, POLICY, AND IMPLEMENTATION -- SUMMARY -- LATEST UPDATE INFORMATION -- INTRODUCTION -- FEDERAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION POLICY: IN BRIEF -- THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION -- PRESIDENTIAL DECISION DIRECTIVE NO. 63 -- RESTRUCTURING BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION -- Pre-September 11 -- Post-September 11 -- THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION -- DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY -- Initial Establishment -- Second Stage Review Reorganization -- Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 -- POLICY IMPLEMENTATION -- Government-Sector Coordination -- Appointment of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council -- Internal Agency Plans -- National Critical Infrastructure Plan -- Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) -- Identifying Critical Assets, Assessing Vulnerability and Risk, and Prioritizing Protective Measures -- ISSUES AND DISCUSSION -- Identifying Critical Assets, Functions, and Systems -- Assessing Vulnerabilities and Risk -- Allocating Resources -- Information Sharing -- Regulation -- APPENDIX -- Federal Funding for Critical Infrastructure Protection -- FY2011 DHS Budget Request and Prior Year Appropriations for Infrastructure Protection and Information Security Program and Other Relevant DHS Budget Activities -- IPIS -- Other Infrastructure Related Programs -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 DHS EFFORTS TO ASSESS AND PROMOTE RESILIENCY ARE EVOLVING BUT PROGRAM MANAGEMENT COULD BE STRENGTHENED -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- BACKGROUND -- Critical Infrastructure and the Concept of Resiliency

Opponents of states and capital must be prepared to defend ourselves. To understand the nature of the state is to know that it will attack to kill when and where it feels a threat to its authority and power. But the struggles against exploitation, oppression, and repression must also move to the offensive. With the emboldening of reactionary forces on the far Right, there has been a renewed focus on issues of community self-defense, not only against the violence of the state but against organized fascists and Right-wing vigilantes alike. There has also been a developing seriousness, particularly among anarchist and antifascist, or antifa, activists. The goal of all anarchism is not to eliminate violence in social struggle (a futile and impossible pursuit given the nature of the state), but to limit the amount, degree, and extent of violence and harm inflicted by state agents, and their vigilante supporters, on the poor, oppressed, and exploited. And this is part of the emphasis on insurrectionary infrastructures. Non-material (emotional) and material resources and spaces are necessary to defend communities and workplaces under attack, but also to organize possible, and necessary, offensives. Insurrectionary Infrastructures reflects on strategies and tactics of rebellion and resistance and offers suggestions for fighting to win

Opponents of states and capital must be prepared to defend ourselves. To understand the nature of the state is to know that it will attack to kill when and where it feels a threat to its authority and power. But the struggles against exploitation, oppression, and repression must also move to the offensive. With the emboldening of reactionary forces on the far Right, there has been a renewed focus on issues of community self-defense, not only against the violence of the state but against organized fascists and Right-wing vigilantes alike. There has also been a developing seriousness, particularly among anarchist and antifascist, or antifa, activists. The goal of all anarchism is not to eliminate violence in social struggle (a futile and impossible pursuit given the nature of the state), but to limit the amount, degree, and extent of violence and harm inflicted by state agents, and their vigilante supporters, on the poor, oppressed, and exploited. And this is part of the emphasis on insurrectionary infrastructures. Non-material (emotional) and material resources and spaces are necessary to defend communities and workplaces under attack, but also to organize possible, and necessary, offensives. Insurrectionary Infrastructures reflects on strategies and tactics of rebellion and resistance and offers suggestions for fighting to win

This book provides a general overview of the concerns and efforts of the federal government in assuring the reliable function of the nation's critical infrastructures. It also discusses administrative issues, issues associated with sharing information between government agencies and between the federal government and the private sector

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