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Cyberthreats And The Limits Of Bureaucratic Control, Susan Brenner
Cyberthreats And The Limits Of Bureaucratic Control, Susan Brenner
Susan Brenner
Cyber-Threats and the Limits of Bureaucratic Control By Susan W. Brenner This article argues that the approach the United States, like other countries, uses to control threats in real-space is ill-suited for controlling cyberthreats, i.e., cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwar. It explains that because this approach evolved to deal with threat activity in a physical environment, it is predicated on a bureaucratically organized response structure. It explains why this is not an effective way of approaching cyber-threat control and examines the two federal initiatives that are intended to improve the U.S. cybersecurity: legislative proposals put forward by four U.S. Senators and …
Bureaucracy And The U.S. Response To Mass Atrocity, Gregory Brazeal
Bureaucracy And The U.S. Response To Mass Atrocity, Gregory Brazeal
Gregory Brazeal
The U.S. response to mass atrocity has followed a predictable pattern of disbelief, rationalization, evasion, and retrospective expressions of regret. The pattern is consistent enough that we should be skeptical of chalking up the United States’ failures solely to a shifting array of isolated historical contingencies, from post-Vietnam fatigue in the case of the Khmer Rouge to the Clinton administration’s recoil against humanitarian interventions after Somalia. It is implausible to suggest that the United States would have acted to mitigate or end mass atrocities but for the specific historical contingencies that happen to accompany each outbreak of violence. This essay …