scholarly journals The Pursuit of Full Spectrum Dominance: The Archives of the NSA

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256
Author(s):  
Johan Lau Munkholm
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
National Security Agency ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
The Us ◽  
Central Actor ◽  
Us Hegemony ◽  
Collection Practices ◽  
Archival Practices

This article explores the archives of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the inherent logic vested in the agency’s management of them. By drawing on Derrida’s conception of the archive and the compulsion to administer and complete it, this article suggests that the data collection practices, as well as the rhetoric, of the NSA indicate a specific logic of gathering and organizing data that presents a fantasy of perfect surveillance and pre-emptive intervention that stretches into the future to cancel emergent threats. To contextualize an understanding of the archival practices of the NSA within a wider conquest for complete security and US hegemony, this article outlines the US Department of Defense’s vision for full spectrum dominance, stressing that a show of force is exercised according to a logic of appropriate response that ranges from soft to hard power. As an organization that produces knowledge and risk factors based on data collection, the NSA is considered a central actor for understanding the US security regime’s increasing propensity for data-based surveillance that is fundamentally structured around the data center: a specific kind of archive.

scholarly journals La dominación de espectro completo sobre América

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Ana Esther Ceceña
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Hegemony ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Supporting Base

Resumen El presente articulo es resultado de una revisión amplia y exhaustiva de los asuntos militares en los últimos 50 años, incluyendo el documento conceptual del Comando Conjunto de Estados Unidos (Joint, 1998 y 2000). La política de dominación de espectro completo –que resume experiencias, objetivos, riesgos, capacidades y saberes, todos encaminados al rediseño de las rutas, mecanismos y variantes de la consolidación de Estados Unidos como el líder indispensable, como la potencia hegemónica indiscutible- considera el momento actual como de oportunidad histórica -en buena medida por el colapso del campo socialista-, en el que Estados Unidos tiene la posibilidad y las condiciones para constituirse cabalmente en líder planetario y anuncia su correspondiente plan estratégico. El lector encontrará elementos para una mirada de los nuevos posicionamientos geopolíticos de la hegemonía estadunidense en el continente americano, base de soporte del control y dominación de los espacios en escala global.Palabras claveDominación de espectro completo, geopolítica latino-americana, hegemonía estadunidense.   ---O presente artigo é resultado de uma ampla e exaustiva revisão dos assuntos militares nos últimos 50 anos, incluindo o documento conceitual do Comando Conjunto dos Estados Unidos (Joint, 1998 e 2000). A política de dominação de espectro completo -que resume experiencias, objetivos, riscos, capacidades e saberes, todos encaminhados para o redesenho das rotas, mecanismos e variantes da consolidação dos Estados Unidos como líder indispensável, como a potência hegemônica indiscutível- considera o momento atual como de oportunidade histórica -em boa medida pelo colapso do campo socialista-, no qual os Estados Unidos têm a possibilidade e as condições para constituir-se cabalmente em líder planetário e anuncia seu plano estratégico correspondente. O leitor encontrará elementos para um olhar sobre os novos posicionamentos geopolíticos da hegemonia estadunidense no continente americano, base de suporte do controle e dominação dos espaços em escala global. Palavras chaveDominação de espectro completo, geopolítica latino-americana, hegemonia estadunidense. ---AbstractThis article is the result of an extensive and thorough review of military affairs in the last 50 years, including the concept paper of the Unified Combatant Command of the United States (Joint, 1998 and 2000). The complete policy of domination - which summarizes experiences, objectives, risks, abilities and knowledge, all referring to the redesign of routes, mechanisms and variants of the US' consolidation as an indispensable leader, as the indisputable hegemonic power - sees the present moment as a historical opportunity - largely due to the collapse of the socialist bloc - in which the United States has the possibility and the conditions to be fully set up as the world's leader and announces its corresponding strategic plan. The reader will find a tentative perspective of the new geopolitical positions of US hegemony in the Americas, a supporting base of the control and domination of the spaces on a global scale.Keywords Full spectrum domination, Latin American geopolitics, US hegemony

scholarly journals Cloud Computing and the NSA: The Carbon Footprint of the Secret Servers

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine N. Story
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
National Security ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
National Security Agency ◽  
The World ◽  
Collection Practices

Edward Snowden took the world by storm when he exposed the data collection practices of the National Security Agency, known to many as the NSA. Much ink has been spilled on the constitutionality of such practices and the scope of its surveillance yet the cloud computing that facilitates such surveillance often goes unmentioned, if not unnoticed. 

The Rise and Return of the Indo-Pacific

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Doyle ◽  
Dennis Rumley
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
First Century ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Hegemony ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Political Realities

In the twenty-first century, the Indo-Pacific region has become the new centre of the world. The concept of the ‘Indo-Pacific’’, though still under construction, is a potentially pivotal site, where various institutions and intellectuals of statecraft are seeking common ground on which to anchor new regional coalitions, alliances, and allies to better serve their respective national agendas. This book explores the Indo-Pacific as an ambiguous and hotly contested regional security construction. It critically examines the major drivers behind the revival of classical geopolitical concepts and their deployment through different national lenses. The book also analyses the presence of India and the US in the Indo-Pacific, and the manner in which China has reacted to their positions in the Indo-Pacific to date. It suggests that national constructions of the Indo-Pacific region are more informed by domestic political realities, anti-Chinese bigotries, distinctive properties of twenty-first century US hegemony, and narrow nation-statist sentiments rather than genuine pan-regional aspirations. The book argues that the spouting of contested depictions of the Indo-Pacific region depend on the fixed geostrategic lenses of nation-states, but what is also important is the re-emergence of older ideas—a classical conceptual revival—based on early to mid-twentieth century geopolitical ideas in many of these countries. The book deliberately raises the issue of the sea and constructions of ‘nature’, as these symbols are indispensable parts of many of these Indo-Pacific regional narratives.

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2021–2022: Adapting Data Collection in a COVID-19 Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (12) ◽  
pp. 2149-2156
Author(s):  
Ryne Paulose-Ram ◽  
Jessica E. Graber ◽  
David Woodwell ◽  
Namanjeet Ahluwalia
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
National Health ◽  
Nutrition Examination Survey ◽  
National Data ◽  
Participant Recruitment ◽  
Biospecimen Collection ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
The Us ◽  
Unique Source

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a unique source of national data on the health and nutritional status of the US population, collecting data through interviews, standard exams, and biospecimen collection. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, NHANES data collection was suspended, with more than a year gap in data collection. NHANES resumed operations in 2021 with the NHANES 2021–2022 survey, which will monitor the health and nutritional status of the nation while adding to the knowledge of COVID-19 in the US population. This article describes the reshaping of the NHANES program and, specifically, the planning of NHANES 2021–2022 for data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Details are provided on how NHANES transformed its participant recruitment and data collection plans at home and at the mobile examination center to safely collect data in a COVID-19 environment. The potential implications for data users are also discussed. (Am J Public Health. 2021;111(12):2149–2156. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306517 )

Wrist Fracture Cooperative Biomechanics Research Project

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Englund ◽  
Timothy E. Cooney ◽  
Frank L. Buczek
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Axial Loading ◽  
Wrist Fracture ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Pendulum System ◽  
Penn State ◽  
Collection Practices ◽  
Financial Arrangements

Abstract While injuries are common from skating sports, few biomechanics studies have compared fracture rates with and without protective wrist guards. All published testing results have been obtained from cadaveric specimens, generally with substantially axial loading. Loads to failure have been reported for slow loading by universal testing machines, and fracture patterns have been reported from more rapid loading with a pendulum system. An orthopaedic resident at Hamot Medical Center had an interest in in-line skating injuries and proposed to investigate whether wrist guards provided a reduction in the incidence of fractures from skating falls. The project started with the goal of demonstrating the value, or lack thereof, of wrist guards, and ended with simply trying to determine methodology which closely simulates wrist injury arising from a skating fall. The hospital does not have engineering staff in the research department, nor extensive fabrication capabilities, and approached the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology of Penn State at Erie for assistance in design, construction, and data collection for a research project to investigate the efficacy of wrist guards. Assistance in kinematic aspects of falls was sought from the Motion Analysis Laboratory of Shriners Hospitals for Children - Erie. The logistics of a cooperative project between three institutions is the subject of this paper. Initial planning for the project, revisions to the scope of the project, the financial arrangements, equipment design and construction, and data collection practices are described in this paper. Concluding remarks about the resources necessary for cooperative projects between medical schools and Engineering Technology departments are presented.

US Hegemony in Korean Studies and the Soviet Role in Early Postwar Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 375-395
Author(s):  
Kathryn Weathersby
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Korean History ◽  
American Occupation ◽  
Korean Studies ◽  
The North ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Hegemony

This paper examines some of the ways the US-centric framework of Anglophone Korean studies has distorted scholarship on post-colonial Korean history. First, an over-emphasis on the American role in the division of Korea has exaggerated the possibility that the US and USSR could have compromised to create a unified government for the peninsula. The Soviet documentary record reveals that Moscow was determined to obstruct such an outcome if it endangered Soviet security. Second, by focusing on the serious damage the American occupation inflicted on the South, scholars have understated the control Soviet occupation authorities exercised in the North.

scholarly journals The Sentiments Analysis of Donald Trump and Jokowi’s Twitters on Covid-19 Policy Dissemination

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 389-405
Author(s):  
Rahmad Agus Dwianto ◽  
Achmad Nurmandi ◽  
Salahudin Salahudin
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
The Us ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Policy Dissemination ◽  
Collection Period ◽  
Source Materials

As Covid-19 spreads to other nations and governments attempt to minimize its effect by introducing countermeasures, individuals have often used social media outlets to share their opinions on the measures themselves, the leaders implementing them, and the ways in which their lives are shifting. Sentiment analysis refers to the application in source materials of natural language processing, computational linguistics, and text analytics to identify and classify subjective opinions. The reason why this research uses a sentiment case study towards Trump and Jokowi's policies is because Jokowi and Trump have similarities in handling Covid-19. Indonesia and the US are still low in the discipline in implementing health protocols. The data collection period was chosen on September 21 - October 21 2020 because during that period, the top 5 trending on Twitter included # covid19, #jokowi, #miglobal, #trump, and #donaldtrump. So, this period is most appropriate for taking data and discussing the handling of Covid-19 by Jokowi and Trump. The result shows both Jokowi and Trump have higher negative sentiments than positive sentiments during the period. Trump had issued a controversial statement regarding the handling of Covid-19. This research is limited to the sentiment generated by the policies conveyed by the US and Indonesian Governments via @jokowi and @realDonaldTrump Twitter Account. The dataset presented in this research is being collected and analyzed using the Brand24, a software-automated sentiment analysis. Further research can increase the scope of the data and increase the timeframe for data collection and develop tools for analyzing sentiment.

scholarly journals FUTURE OF US HEGEMONY

2019 ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
A Subotin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Social Power ◽  
International System ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Us Hegemony

Abstract. The demise of the bipolar system of international politics has revived interest in such closely related and contested terms as "superpower", "hegemon", "empire" and "imperialism". This article represents an attempt to define the most probable trend in the future evolution of the international system with regard to the role of the United States of America as the most prominent state power of today's world. This article seeks to analyse the US power posture in today's world politics by comparing its core capabilities to those of the classical empire of the previous century - the British Empire - with analytical emphasis on both the "hard power" and the "soft power" dimensions. The author maintains that the notion of US hegemony or even American Empire is still relevant despite a clear historic tendency of hegemonic decline seen throughout the second part of the 20th century. The United States still ranks high on the scale of most traditional power factors and, what is by far more important, they continue to be able to shape and control the scale and the volume of international exposure of all other major players within the framework of contemporary global international system. The relative decline of US influence upon world politics at the beginning of the new millennia has been effectively off-set by the profound change in the nature of American power which is now assuming the form of a structural dominance. The author's personal view is that US hegemony is not doomed to wane, given the enormous impact the United States have already made economically, politically and intellectually upon the post World War II international relations. The continuance of the US playing the pivotal role in the international politics of the 21st century will be dependent on the ability of the US political class to adapt to and to harness the social power of numerous non-state international actors that are due take over the leading role in the future world's politics.

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