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National Interests And Security Policies In The Arctic Region Among Arctic States, Hilde-Gunn Bye

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The United States, Canada, Russia, and Norway are all Arctic states; however, they prioritize the region to different degrees in terms of investments of security assets and military presence. What explains why some Arctic countries prioritize the Arctic more than others? This thesis explores this question through using an issue-based approach, which looks at the salience of issues as having implications for foreign policy tools and measures. This thesis finds that having interests and stakes in the region of high overall salience contribute to an explanation of why some countries prioritize the region more, while low overall salience is linked …

Transformasi Paradigmatik Ketahanan Nasional Sebagai Kajian Stratejik, Abdul Rivai Ras

Jurnal Kajian Stratejik Ketahanan Nasional

This article tries to elaborate national security in terms of science and an overview of the historically paradigmatic transformation. The study of national resilience in Indonesia has developed dynamically as a response to the development of strategic environment. Various approaches ranging from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary are described as part of discovering the scholarly format of this study. This study is in its development into a universal approach and refers to the sciences related to the good governance, assessment of national strength and national security leadership. Also the study of national resilience is able to predict the potential of a nation's …

Perpres No. 20/2018 Dan Nasionalisme Di Era Post-Truth, Puspitasari Puspitasari

Jurnal Kajian Stratejik Ketahanan Nasional

This paper describes post-truth phenomena characterized by hoaxes that present in the community through social media and online media. This change of tendency is a logical consequence of the situation faced in the mass media industry and is reinforced by the tendency to strengthen politics of identity. This paper highlights how the Presidential Decree (Perpres) no. 20/2018 raises contestation that threatens national resilience through a segregation situation.

Ketahanan Nasional Dalam Perspektif Keilmuan Dan Kesejarahan, Amirsyah Sahil

Jurnal Kajian Stratejik Ketahanan Nasional

National resilience studies can be discussed from different perspectives. Since the nature of study is multi-perspective and hence in gaining knowledge requires a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. In its development, the national resilience studies requires a variety of measurement method frameworks, including quantitative data analysis using SPSS, Hierarchical Analysis, Delphi Methods etc. The choice of method depends heavily on the research needs.

Representasi Kapal Selam Indonesia Dalam Perspektif Pertahanan Regional, Marsetio Marsetio, Rajab Ritonga

Jurnal Kajian Stratejik Ketahanan Nasional

Indonesia as one of the centers of gravity in Asia Pacific region requires defence equipment, including submarines as a deterrence effect to play a leadership role within the regional area with all its dynamics in South China Sea. In relation to that role, the Navy is now transformed to meet World Class Navy standards with four elements: (1) excellence in human resources, (2) excellence in technology, (3) organizational excellence, and (4) excellence in operational capabilities. This study tries to find out how submarine representation in the perspective of regional defence is faced with China's overlapping claims in South China Sea, …

Membangun Supremasi Dan Kesadaran Hukum Dalam Rangka Ketahanan Nasional, Tb. Ronny Rachman Nitibaskara

Jurnal Kajian Stratejik Ketahanan Nasional

Legal instruments are in the form of laws and regulations with the aim of regulating the life of a good and dignified society, nation and state by upholding justice through the rule of law. Law is the highest source (supremacy of law) in regulating and determining the mechanism of legal relations between the State and society as well as between members or groups of people with one another. the legal culture of each profession above has relevance to certain cultural dimensions. As quoted by Tamtelahitu and Tafakurrozak (2012). Edward T. Hall (1990) divides the cultural dimension. The research method used …

Antisipasi Perang Siber: Postur Ketahanan Nasional Indonesia Merespon Ancaman Perang Siber, Muhammad Syaroni Rofii

Jurnal Kajian Stratejik Ketahanan Nasional

These days cyber war is considered to be one of the important issues that have become the focus of defense officials of major countries. Cyber war has the same damage effect as traditional war even more massive. A country's nuclear installations can be destroyed with the help of cyber soldiers. The energy source of a country can also be disabled with the help of cyber troops. Or creating chaos in a country's election such as US election in 2016 also involving cyber troops. The same situation also happened in Indonesia whereby official website of general election commission, public companies and …

Sistem Ekonomi Pancasila Sebagai Landasan Ketahanan Ekonomi Indonesia Dalam Perspektif Filsafat Ilmu, Palupi Lindiasari

Jurnal Kajian Stratejik Ketahanan Nasional

This article aims to analyze the fundamental of the Pancasila economic system as a foundation for the resilience of the Indonesian economy in the perspective of National Resilience. The study method uses a philosophy of science approach through the ontological dimension. There are three elements to determine the essence of the Pancasila economy, namely: macroeconomics, microeconomics and literal meaning. In macro terms, Pancasila economic system is explained in the UUD 1945 chapter 33 verses 1 to 5, whose essence consists of two elements (dualism) in defining welfare, namely material (outwardly) and inner (spiritual) which must be achieved equally through Gotong …

Assessment Of Information Security Culture In Higher Education, Henry Glaspie

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Information security programs are instituted by organizations to provide guidance to their users who handle their data and systems. The main goal of these programs is to protect the organization's information assets through the creation and cultivation of a positive information security culture within the organization. As the collection and use of data expands in all economic sectors, the threat of data breach due to human error increases. Employee's behavior towards information security is influenced by the organizations information security programs and the overall information security culture. This study examines the human factors of an information security program and their …

Explaining Civilian Attacks: Terrorist Networks, Principal-Agent Problems And Target Selection, Max Abrahms, Matthew Ward, Ryan Kennedy

Department of Political Science

Terrorist groups exhibit variation in their targeting choices. Why do some groups direct their violence against civilians while others limit this occurrence? This study analyzes the network relationships between terrorist groups to elucidate their targeting behavior. Drawing upon insights from the organizational ecology and conflict literatures, we predict that terrorist group affiliates will be significantly more likely than their parent group to attack civilian targets. Our original principal-agent theory consistently outperforms extant explanations in a multi-method analysis of 238 terrorist groups from 1998 to 2005. These results shed new light on why certain terrorist groups are more likely than others …

Terrorist Celebrity: Online Personal Branding And Jihadist Recruitment And Planning, Ari Weil

Pomona Senior Theses

Shifts in culture and technology have changed the manifestation of celebrity in modern society, culminating in the practice of internet microcelebrity, where one views followers as fans, produces content consistent with a personal brand, and engages in strategic interaction with devotees. This thesis examines how those effects have also changed how terrorists present themselves and operationalize celebrity status. An original typology of terrorist celebrity is presented: traditional, martyr, and internet micro-celebrity. Two in-depth case studies of terrorist micro-celebrities are analyzed: Anwar al-Awlaki of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Junaid Hussain of the Islamic State. The case studies are …

A Content Analysis Of Jihadist Magazines: Theoretical Perspectives, Catalina M. Udani

Honors Undergraduate Theses

During its violent spread across the Middle East, the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) amassed both a local and international following in large part due to its usage of emergent media distribution. Beginning in 2014, ISIS’s Ministry of Media published an English-language magazine, Dabiq, disseminating its issues through online platforms. Dabiq and its successor Rumiyah both serve as propagandistic recruitment material for ISIS’s international community as well as broadcasting the message of the jihadist movement to ISIS’s enemies. This study analyzed ISIS’s publications using a qualitative content analysis in order to identify jihadist recruitment strategies through the perspectives …

A Systems Theory Based Examination Of Failure In Acquisition System Reform, Charles B. Keating, Joseph M. Bradley, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Craig Arndt

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

The defense acquisition system has been the source of intense scrutiny and calls for reform for over four decades. This research is to examine the contributions of Systems Theory to enhance prospects related to acquisition reform. Systems Theory offers a set of principles, laws, and concepts that explain the behavior of complex systems. Although the acquisition system and constituent programs have been critiqued and examined from multiple perspectives, they have never been the subject of exploration from Systems Theory. Recent advances in Systems Theory have identified 83 different potential system pathologies that can result in degraded system performance or outright …

Analysis Of Remote Tripping Command Injection Attacks In Industrial Control Systems Through Statistical And Machine Learning Methods, Charles Timm

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the past decade, cyber operations have been increasingly utilized to further policy goals of state-sponsored actors to shift the balance of politics and power on a global scale. One of the ways this has been evidenced is through the exploitation of electric grids via cyber means. A remote tripping command injection attack is one of the types of attacks that could have devastating effects on the North American power grid. To better understand these attacks and create detection axioms to both quickly identify and mitigate the effects of a remote tripping command injection attack, a dataset comprised of 128 …

Chapter 7: Human View, Holly A.H. Handley

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

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Developing A Cyberterrorism Policy: Incorporating Individual Values, Osama Bassam J. Rabie

Theses and Dissertations

Preventing cyberterrorism is becoming a necessity for individuals, organizations, and governments. However, current policies focus on technical and managerial aspects without asking for experts and non-experts values and preferences for preventing cyberterrorism. This study employs value focused thinking and public value forum to bare strategic measures and alternatives for complex policy decisions for preventing cyberterrorism. The strategic measures and alternatives are per socio-technical process.

Preparing For The Future: 2017–2018 Annual Report

University of Nebraska's National Strategic Research Institute: Publications

3 Letter from the Executive Director Robert Hinson

4 About NSRI-- Combatting WMD. Focusing on Deterrence.

6 Key Accomplishments/ Highlights of Business Operations Research Focus Areas

8 Nuclear Detection and Forensics

10 Active and Passive Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction

12 Detection of Chemical and Biological Weapons

14 Consequence Management

16 Mission-Related Research

18 Education & Training

20 Student & Faculty Engagement

22 NSRI/NU Key Journal Articles, 2017–2018

23 NSRI Board of Directors

Creation Of Micro/Nano Surface Structures On Silver Using Collinear Double Femtosecond Laser Pulses With Different Pulse Separation, Nicholas Roth, Craig Zuhlke, Edwin Peng, Scott Hansen, Jeffrey E. Shield, Dennis Alexander

University of Nebraska's National Strategic Research Institute: Publications

Self-organized mound-like micro/nanoscale structures are reported for the first time on silver using a dual-pulse femtosecond laser surface processing technique. The dual-pulse laser processing technique reported in this paper uses femtosecond laser pulse pairs with a controlled temporal delay between the leading and trailing pulses. Using dual pulses at higher fluence values, mound-like micro/nanostructures have been created on silver samples for the first time. Formation of the self-organized microstructures is shown to be dependent on the time delay between the leading and trailing pulses. Mound-like microstructures do not develop on silver for overlapped pulses or using single-pulse femtosecond laser surface …

A Case Study Of Veteran And Civilian Student Academic Performance At The University Of Central Florida, Floyd C. Diehl Jr

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This study seeks to provide a brief overview of academic standards and performance of veterans of the United States military and civilians who attend the University of Central Florida. Whether a student is a veteran or a civilian, he or she must learn how to adapt to the requirements of an academic community in order to be successful in that environment. It may be difficult for some. In able for society to discern the importance of the academic performance of both veterans and civilians alike, research is vital. There are various assumptions about veterans. For example, it can be assumed …

The Conditionality Of Vulnerability: Three Analyses Of Risk And Opportunity In Civil Military Relations, Rebecca Schiel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Prior research has not established a clear relationship between democracy and insulation from coups d'etat. I contend that the lack of attention paid to the conditional influences of democracy have resulted in these mixed findings. I posit that insulation from coups occurs at higher levels of economic development and judicial institutional strength in democracies. Further, the vulnerability at low levels of both economic development and judicial institutional strength is significantly greater in democracies than in autocracies. Empirical assessments of 165 states for the years 1950-2012 offer strong support for both arguments. Results from these studies first help to reconcile earlier …