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This text is the culmination of a nearly 6-year project to examine the systematic government access of private information from companies and other private-sector organisations. It provides 12 updated country reports to present both descriptive and normative frameworks for analysing national surveillance laws, and to focus on international law, human rights law and oversight mechanisms.
Changes in the global environment, the complexity of decision-making, and the new role of social media have challenged the operating models and practices of traditional crisis preparedness and security of supply. In a knowledge society context, securing the continuous flow of information and communication on different platforms is a huge challenge, and the role of information resilience is more crucial than ever. Bringing together leading specialists from many fields on information resilience, this book examines how to ensure the undisturbed flow of information, the functionality of information and communications networks, and reliable and secure information content in all circumstances, bot...
"The internet was supposed to end sovereignty. "Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, you have no sovereignty where we gather," John Perry Barlow famously declared. Sovereignty would prove impossible over a world of bits, with the internet simply routing around futile controls. But reports of the death of sovereignty over the internet proved premature. Consider recent events"--
This is a detailed examination, from creation to cancellation of 58 science fiction television series produced between 1990 and 2004, from The X-Files to Star Trek. A chapter on each series includes production information; a history of the series; critical commentary; and interviews with key people.
This Report provides important insights into an important topic, and I wish to start by congratulating the authoring team on their excellent work. The Report addresses the topic of sovereignty, and in doing so, it takes particular account of sovereignty in the cyber and outer space domains - two domains of great significance for Australia's national interests. It is written with commendable clarity and should serve the needs of strategic planners in Defence as well as strategic policy planners in government more broadly.The Report is extremely timely since the concept of 'sovereignty' has recently gained new life in Australia and around the world not least in the cyber context. Increased ten...
A comprehensive collection that includes over seventy Welsh-language and English-language writers, "Twentieth-Century Women s Writing in Wales" traces the history of Welsh women s writing over the past century. Covering forms as diverse as the novel, drama, travel writing, creative journalism, and contemporary poetry, this volume provides an important complement and corrective to current works of Welsh literary history that focus primarily on male authors, examining how Wales is conceived in literary works as a place in which both Welshness and womanhood can be lived and performed."