Rob Dover & Robert Steele: Intelligence and National Strategy? Rethinking Intelligence – Seven Barriers to Reform

PDF (15 Pages): Dover Steele PSA April 2014 Dover, R & Steele, RD (2014) Intelligence and National Strategy? Rethinking Intelligence: Seven Barriers to Reform, Paper presented the UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester (14 Arpil 2014). ROBERT STEELE: An Open Source Agency would be helpful but I was naive to expect the US IC …

Mini-Me: Carnegie Calls for Military to Hunt Corruption – Are They Proposing a Coup d’Etat in the USA?

Huh? The Military Must Hunt Corruption, Not Just Terrorists Sarah Chayes Senior Associate  Democracy and Rule of Law Program South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Defense One, 6 April 2014 As popular uprisings keep toppling governments like bowling pins, the latest round has morphed into a great power face-off — with Russia and …

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Review Breaks the Back of Citation Cabals and Incestuous Science

Open Review Brings Peer Review to the Scientific Masses This seems like a step in the right direction for the world of academic publishing. ResearchGate News announces, “Peer Review Isn’t Working—Introducing Open Review.” We know that increasingly, papers based on shoddy research have been making it into journals supposedly policed by rigorous peer-review policies. Now, …