Sublime

The Truman Doctrine articulated a willingness to provide economic and military aid to Western European countries under pressure; Greece and Turkey were early recipients. The Marshall Plan, named for President Truman’s secretary of state George Marshall and announced at Harvard in June 1947, in what is arguably the most significant commencement

Terrorism is best defined as the intentional use of violence by non-state actors against civilians in pursuit of political objectives.

At the CIA, Aldrich Ames had provided classified information to the KGB identifying hundreds of Western (mostly American) agents, more than twenty of whom were executed or imprisoned.[15] Horrifying as that was, Ames had stiff competition from FBI special agent Robert Hanssen, who, according to a 2002 Justice Department report, was responsible for

Today’s world order has struggled to cope with power shifts: China’s rise, the appearance of several medium powers (Iran and North Korea, in particular) that reject important aspects of the order, and the emergence of non-state actors (from drug cartels to terrorist networks) that can pose a serious threat to order within and between states. In

In his 1922 opus, Public Opinion, Lippmann poses a straightforward question: Can citizens achieve a basic knowledge of public affairs and then make reasonable choices about what to do? If the answer is no, then the entire democratic project is at best a folly.

Note that this model does not address the fundamental motivations behind crime; rather, it tries to make crimes inconvenient. The idea is that there are easier targets elsewhere. Some have criticized CPTED because it does not address underlying root causes that make someone likely to commit a crime in the first place. This misses the point. CPTED

We believe that we can trade freedom for security. This is a fatal mistake.