PPolNotes21NatSecGlobal

December 6

Public Policy

National Security...in a very different world.

Administrative Items for Class

Penultimate Oral Presentation
Announcements?
Exam Wednesday 14 December @ 9am in This Room
FINAL EXAM TEMPLATE on Thursday
Course Evaluations are also on Thursday
What is "New & Groovy in Public Policy?"

THE PUBLIC POLICY TOOLKIT

Definitions - What is public policy?
Contexts - What information is needed when making policy?
Models - What are specific ways to analyze policy making?
Federalism - Recognizing Levels of Gov't & Tools Used
Variables - Cause (IND) and Effect (DEP)
Process - Stages of Public Policy
Data Conclusions "Filling In Gaps" and Policy Consistency
Policymaker Types
Lowi Policy Categories
Evaluation, Externalities and Uncertainties...
INTEGRATING POLICIES and USING MULTIPLE ITEMS IN THE TOOLBOX

NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY

AND

GLOBALIZATION

Mixing Foreign Policy and Defense Policy

HISTORY
ACTORS
ISSUES
STRATEGIES

WHAT ARE AMERICA'S TOP TWO NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS?

WHEN IS FORCE APPROPRIATE?

The Process of Securing the Nation...

THREAT ASSESSMENT
STRATEGIES
FORCE LEVELS
BUDGET REQUESTS

FOREIGN POLICY TOOLS

DIPLOMATIC - State
ECONOMIC- Commerce
CULTURAL - FIPSE
MILITARY- Defense

HISTORY

Isolationist or Interventionist

1945-1990 - US v. SU

End of the Cold War - 1990 - What's Next, Who is Left?

Terrorism

Gander, Newfoundland
Pan Am 103
Waco/Ruby Ridge
Oklahoma City
September 11, 2001

Gap, Core and Seam States...

DISCONNECTEDNESS DEFINES DANGER Problem areas requiring American attention (outlined) are, in the author's analysis, called the Gap. Shrinking the Gap is possible only by stopping the ability of terrorist networks to access the Core via the "seam states" that lie along the Gap's bloody boundaries. In this war on terrorism, the U.S. will place a special emphasis on cooperation with these states. What are the classic seam states? Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Phillipines, Indonesia.

Map by William McNulty

http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/ThePentagonsNewMap.htm

GLOBALIZATION

Linking it ALL together?

Super Powers

Super Markets

Super-empowered Individuals

The Lexus and the Olive Tree

and

Thomas Friedman

and

Social Entrepreneurs

For example: "In the Cold War, the most frequently asked question was: 'How big is your missile?' In globalization, the most frequently asked question is: 'How fast is your modem?'")

http://www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/inetf03/3715q1Topics.htm

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgpress/ksg_news/publications/megaleader.html

http://www.uua.org/news/91101/chuston916.html

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/rm/14570.htm

http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/lexusolivetree.htm