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6622. Oversight for Cybersecurity Activities
- Author:
- Adriane Lapointe
- Publication Date:
- 12-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Abstract:
- The absence of consensus, and therefore of policy, on how to balance privacy with the need for government cybersecurity measures, has led many to contemplate intelligence oversight practices as a possible model for oversight in the cybersecurity realm. Reliance on intelligence privacy oversight practices for cybersecurity might allow us to duck the hard work of developing appropriate cybersecurity policy, but it would not in the end further cybersecurity for the nation. A better approach would be to adopt the purely structural aspects of Executive Order 12333, developing a parallel executive order tailored to the distinct goals and operational drivers of cybersecurity. Such a document would establish basic guidelines for policy governing cyber mission, frame cybersecurity oversight processes, and mandate the development and approval of procedures to implement them.
- Topic:
- Security, Government, and Science and Technology
6623. The U.S.-UAE Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: A Gold Standard or Fool's Gold?
- Author:
- Fred McGoldrick
- Publication Date:
- 11-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Abstract:
- It is hard to know what is more disturbing — Iran's continued defiance of UN Security Council Resolutions ordering Tehran to cease its uranium enrichment activities and to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), or the tour that North Korea recently gave to U.S. scientists of its new uranium enrichment plant. Policymakers fear that these programs will enable these states to produce more fissile materials for nuclear weapons.
- Topic:
- Conflict Prevention, Nuclear Weapons, and Treaties and Agreements
- Political Geography:
- United States, Iran, Middle East, and Arabia
6624. Georgia: Securing a Stable Future
- Publication Date:
- 12-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- International Crisis Group
- Abstract:
- Two and a half years after the war with Russia, Georgia's political life is increasingly turning towards preparations for the 2012-2013 elections and debates around divisions of power after a recent overhaul of the constitution. The substantial amendments, which come into force in 2013 at the same time as President Mikheil Saakashvili steps down due to a term limit, will give much greater power to the prime minister. The next two years will go a long way in determining whether the country progresses toward a truly stable, modern democracy, or deteriorates into a fragile, pseudo-pluralistic and stagnating system. The government and political opposition movement need to use that crucial period to create public trust in democratic institutions. The best way to achieve this is by engaging in meaningful dialogue to ensure a fair election cycle, strengthened rule of law, economic stability and the legitimacy of the future government.
- Topic:
- Democratization, Politics, and War
- Political Geography:
- Russia
6625. Chinese Domestic Debates on Soft Power and Public Diplomacy
- Author:
- Maria Wey-Shen Siow
- Publication Date:
- 12-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- East-West Center
- Abstract:
- Western debates and discussions surrounding China's soft power are more widely known than the discourse within China itself. While the broad parameters of Chinese discussions are fundamentally similar to those of their western counterparts, there are some variations as to how the Chinese perceive soft power. Soft power is after all a largely western concept that has only in recent years made inroads and found widespread acceptance within Chinese policy-making circles. However, broadly speaking, Chinese scholars and analysts agree with the definition of soft power as espoused by Joseph Nye, which is the use of attraction and persuasion in foreign policy, and the appeal of a country based on its culture, values, beliefs, policies, and way of life.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, International Affairs, and Power Politics
- Political Geography:
- China
6626. Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid
- Author:
- Nancy Birdsall, Ayah Mahgoub, and William D. Savedoff
- Publication Date:
- 11-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center for Global Development
- Abstract:
- Foreign aid often works, but it is often criticized for being ineffective or even for undermining progress in developing countries. This brief describes a new approach, Cash on Delivery Aid, which gives recipients full responsibility and authority over funds paid in proportion to verified measures of progress. Through the example of using COD Aid to support universal primary-school completion, the brief illustrates a practical approach to aid that holds the promise of making aid more effective and less burdensome by fundamentally restructuring the relationships of accountability among funders, recipients, and their respective constituencies.
- Topic:
- Development, Education, Third World, and Foreign Aid
6627. Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way
- Author:
- Steven Radelet
- Publication Date:
- 09-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center for Global Development
- Abstract:
- There's good news out of Africa. Seventeen emerging countries are putting behind them the conflict, stagnation, and dictatorships of the past. Since the mid-1990s, these countries have defied the old negative stereotypes of poverty and failure by achieving steady economic growth, deepening democracy, improving governance, and decreasing poverty.
- Topic:
- Debt, Democratization, Development, Economics, and Poverty
- Political Geography:
- Africa
6628. Think Long Term: How Global AIDS Donors Can Strengthen the Health Workforce in Africa
- Author:
- Nandini Oomman and Christina Droggitis
- Publication Date:
- 09-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center for Global Development
- Abstract:
- For the past decade, global AIDS donors—including the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEFPAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), and the World Bank's Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program for Africa (the MAP)—have responded to HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa as an emergency. Financial and programmatic efforts have been quick, vertical, and HIV-specific. To achieve ambitious HIV/AIDS targets, AIDS donors mobilized health workers from weak and understaffed national health workforces. The shortages were the result of weak data for effective planning, inadequate capacity to train and pay health workers, and fragmentation and poor coordination across the health workforce life-cycle. Ten years and billions of dollars later, the problem still persists. The time has passed for short-term fixes to health workforce shortages. As the largest source of global health resources, AIDS donors must begin to address the long-term problems underlying the shortages and the effects of their efforts on the health workforce more broadly.
- Topic:
- Development, Globalization, Health, Human Welfare, Humanitarian Aid, and Foreign Aid
- Political Geography:
- Africa
6629. Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health
- Author:
- Miriam Temin
- Publication Date:
- 08-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center for Global Development
- Abstract:
- Improving adolescent girls' health and wellbeing is critical to achieving virtually all international development goals, from reducing infant and child deaths to stimulating economic growth and encouraging environmental sustainability. Governments and donors seem to recognize this, but they have yet to take the specific actions needed to genuinely invest in adolescent girls' health and, thereby, the health and wellbeing of generations to come.
- Topic:
- Development, Gender Issues, Health, Human Rights, and Border Control
- Political Geography:
- Africa and China
6630. The Transformational Impact of EMU and the Global Financial Crisis
- Author:
- Francesco Paolo Mongelli
- Publication Date:
- 12-2010
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
- Abstract:
- The headwinds facing the euro area are many and substantial: there is no pretence of denial. While most attention is correctly devoted to the size of rescue packages for some countries and the terms of crisis management and resolution mechanisms, we argue that these challenges must also be met from within the euro area. We are aided by a simple framework illustrating how the benefits the euro can generate depend on the degree of openness, flexibility and income correlation among euro area countries. Sharing the euro has steadily transformed euro area economies that are now deeply interconnected. This is generating largely benign effects that represent the intrinsic value of the euro area: it is a shared asset. Yet, such integration has provided the ground for the transmission of the sovereign crisis: through financial exposure, trade linkages and cross-country asset ownership.
- Topic:
- Economics, Global Recession, Monetary Policy, and Financial Crisis
- Political Geography:
- Europe