Stockton Outlines "Unity of Effort"

Center for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESDr. Paul Stockton unveiled a new vision in which the Department of Defense is reaching out to state governors so that both can more effectively work together in responding to..

Walsh honored for cyber security education effort

The Naval Postgraduate School & The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Center for Homeland Defense and Security.Wendy Walsh began work at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security as a liaison whose role was to link Center students to the wealth of research and expertise with the broader Naval Postgraduate School community. Nine years later, Walsh has taken on a bevy of roles centering on security and defense education. Her latest accomplishment continues that trend in a wholly different medium: Walsh was awarded the 2014 Security Leadership in Education Award from the California Information Security Office (ISO) at the 2014 Cyber security Symposium in Sacramento in September

CHDS Holds Third Annual Homeland Security Education Summit

Center for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESOn March 12-13, CHDS, along with the Homeland Security and Defense Education Consortium Association (HSDECA), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy..

Significant Activities Report / Vol. 11 / September/October 2003

Significant Activities Report (S.A.R.) is a monthly newsletter published by the Naval Postgraduate School's School of International Graduate Studies in Monterey, California.NAApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Emergency response for cyber infrastructure management

The objective of this research is to investigate architectural mechanisms to provide an emergency response capability for Cyber Infrastructure management through the use of distributed, highly secure, protected domains. Instead of creating a costly physically separate cyber domain, logical separation is used. This work developed an architecture and prototype demonstration in the context of an open source operating system.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Interest Groups and the Media in Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy

How successful are interest groups in shaping American foreign policy? How successful are the media in affecting foreign affairs? During the cold war, the usual answer to both questions was not much. With the exception of some ethnic and economic groups under speciiic circumstances, most analysts would conclude that interest groups did not fare very well, and the media largely played a supportive role to official policy, at least until the Vietnam War.1 With the end of the cold war, however, are the answers to these questions likely to be the same? In this chapter, I discuss the access, involvement, and influence of these two nongovernmental actors in the foreign policy process after the cold war. In particular, I focus upon how and why the role of interest groups and the media in foreign policy have changed in recent years. In doing so, I shall explore several domestic and international factors that have increased interest group and media access to the foreign policy decision-making machinery, discuss how new and differing interest groups and media flourish in this changed environment, and analyze how more and more foreign policy decisions have moved away from the crisis to the structural and strategic varieties, a change that enhances the impact of interest groups and the media on the foreign policy process? Finally, and as others have done before, I take up the more difficult issue of relative influence of these actors in this new environment

Summary of Research 1998, Department of National Security Affairs

The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.This report contains summaries of research projects in the Department of National Security Affairs. A list of recent publications is also included which consists of conference presentations and publications, books, contributions to books, published journal papers, technical reports, and thesis abstracts

Executive/Congressional Liason in a Post Cold War Era

While it is true that presidents can and will attempt to practice domination of the Congress when making public policy, the nature of the new environment makes it less likely that they will regularly succeed. Because of the complexity of issues, there is a need to revisit the mechanics of executive/legislative liaisons in this new era. This essay represents such an attempt. First, we examine the changes that impact presidential policy-making in the post-Cold War era. Second, we review the ongoing debate in presidential literature concerning executive dominance over the Congress. Third, we briefly examine the modern history of presidential/congressional foreign policy interactions and note changes in these interactions. Fourth, we present a brief history of the White House Congressional Liaison Office in both the Cold War and the post-Cold War eras. We specifically examine and analyze the Carter and Clinton administrations. Finally, we present a new working model of a post-Cold War White House Congressional Liaison Office. This model views such an office as playing an important role in executive/legislative strategy and not merely functioning as a tactical offshoot for White House advisors