Indigenous Experience Today or National Security Issues in Science Law and Technology

Indigenous Experience Today

Author: Orin Starn

A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The study challenges the accepted notions of indigeneity and the often contentious issue of indigenous rights. Indigenous Experience Today demonstrates the transnational dynamics of contemporary indigenous culture and politics around the world.

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National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology: Confronting Weapons of Terrorism

Author: Thomas A Johnson

The tragedy of 9/11 placed homeland security and the prevention of further attacks into the central focus of our national consciousness. With so many avenues of terror open to our enemies in terms of mode, medium, and location, effective management and mitigation of threat must be grounded in objective risk assessment. The structure of national security decisions should be premised on decision theory and science with minimal political posturing or emotional reactivisim.

National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology demonstrates a mature look at a frightening subject and presents sound, unbiased tools with which to approach any situation that may threaten human lives. By applying the best of scientific decision-making practices this book introduces the concept of risk management and its application in the structure of national security decisions. It examines the acquisition and utilization of all-source intelligence, including the ability to analyze data and forecast patterns, to enable policymakers to make better informed decisions. The text addresses reaction and prevention strategies applicable to chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons; agricultural terrorism; cyberterrorism; and other potential threats to our critical infrastructure. It discusses legal issues that inevitably arise when integrating new legislation with the threads of our Constitution and illustrates the dispassionate analysis of our intelligence, law enforcement, and military operations and actions. Finally, the book considers the redirection of our national research and laboratory system to investigate the very problems terrorists can induce through the use of weapons we have as yet toconfront.

Taking the guesswork out of hard choices, National Security Issues in Science, Law, and Technology provides anyone burdened with the mantle of responsibility for the protection of the American people with the tools to make sound, well-informed decisions.

Table of Contents:

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Editor     xii
Authors     xv
Terrorism: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Weapons
An Introduction to the Intelligence Process for Addressing National Security Threats and Vulnerabilities   Thomas A. Johnson     3
Medical Response to Chemical and Biological Terrorism   Michael P. Allswede     23
Agroterrorism   Simon J. Kenyon     51
Illicit Trafficking in Nuclear and Radiological Materials   David York     75
Nuclear Capabilities of North Korea: Issues in Intelligence Collection, Analysis, and National Security Policy   Thomas A. Johnson     97
Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Security
A Framework for Deception   Fred Cohen     123
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Issues and Answers   Fred Cohen     221
Information Warfare, Netwar, and Cyber Intelligence   Fred Cohen     243
National Security Strategy: Implications for Science, Law, and Technology
Geographic Information Systems as a Strategic Tool for Better Planning, Response, and Recovery   Lucy Savitz   Roberta P. Lavin   Elisabeth Root     277
An Introduction to the Concept and Management of Risk   James O. Matschulat     291
TheStructure of National Security Decisions   James O. Matschulat     359
National Security Executive Orders and Legal Issues   Roy Shannon     399
Courts-Martial, Military Tribunals, and Federal Courts   Roy Shannon     431
National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratories: Emerging Role in Homeland Security   Richard A. Neiser     459
An All-Hazards National Response Plan: Concluding Remarks   Thomas A. Johnson     473
Appendices     483
National Security Strategy Summary     487
Homeland Security Presidential Directives 1 to 14     541
Index     635