U.S. Security Policy in a Changing World

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Page 4 - Office publishes five electronic journals that examine major issues facing the United States and the international community. The journals — Economic Perspectives, Global Issues...
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Page 33 - Presidential Decision Directive 63 is the culmination of an intense, interagency effort to evaluate those recommendations and produce a workable and innovative framework for critical infrastructure protection. The President's policy: • Sets a goal of a reliable, interconnected, and secure information system infrastructure by the year 2003, and significantly increased security for government systems by the year 2000, by: a Immediately establishing a national center to warn of and respond to attacks.
Page 33 - NIPC will provide a national focal point for gathering information on threats to the infrastructures. Additionally, the NIPC will provide the principal means of facilitating and coordinating the Federal Government's response to an incident, mitigating attacks, investigating threats and monitoring reconstitution efforts.
Page 35 - Panel will report to the President through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs any instance in which it believes that an agency head is not cooperating fully with the Panel.
Page 35 - America's economy. The Directive will help achieve the President's goal of ensuring that we meet the threat of terrorism in the 21st century with the same rigor that we have met military threats in this century . The National Coordinator To achieve this new level of integration in the fight against terror, PDD-62 establishes the Office of the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-Terrorism. The National Coordinator will oversee the broad variety of relevant polices...
Page 35 - ... to dismantle and disrupt the systems used by international criminal organizations. ANTI-TERRORISM Equally challenging is our responsibility to protect the American public from the threat of international terrorism. Easier access to sophisticated technologies, including weapons of mass destruction, means that the destructive power available to terrorists is greater than ever. Customs is the first line of defense at our Nation's borders to prevent the introduction of weapons of mass destruction...
Page 35 - President is convinced that we must also have the ability to limit the damage and manage the consequences should such an attack occur. To meet these challenges, President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive 62. This Directive creates a new and more systematic approach to fighting the terrorist threat of the next century. It reinforces the mission of the many US agencies charged with roles in defeating terrorism; it also codifies and clarifies their activities in the wide range of US counter-terrorism...
Page 33 - Commission issued its report, calling for a national effort to assure the security of the United States' increasingly vulnerable and interconnected infrastructures, such as telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, transportation, and essential government services.
Page 20 - ability to achieve desired outcomes in international affairs through attraction rather than coercion. It works by convincing others to follow, or getting them to agree to, norms and institutions that produce the desired behaviour. Soft power can rest upon the appeal of one's ideas or the ability to set the agenda in ways that shape the preferences of others' (quoted in Thussu, l998: 66-7).

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