Elaine Kamarck

November 10, 2005

Clinton Legacy is at Home on LI

Op-Ed, Newsday

By Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy

October 2005

Transforming the Intelligence Community: Improving the Collection and Management of Information

Report

By Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy

In the years since the end of the Cold War, the intelligence community (IC) has engaged in much soul searching but with little action. That is beginning to change in the wake of intelligence failures surrounding September 11, 2001, and in Iraq. But the solutions enacted so far, especially the creation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, do not get to some of the real problems in the community. The community was built to follow the Soviet monolith, and it needs fundamental reforms in the ways ordinary intelligence officers work to meet the new threats of the 21st century.

July 22, 2005

"Best Defense against Terror is the Cop on the Beat"

Op-Ed, Newsday

By Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy

"Terrorism is not a law-enforcement problem. It is much more serious than a numbers racket in the South Bronx. But so far the record is clear. Smart cops stop terrorists, smart weapons don't. Maybe the front lines of the war on terror should be the precinct houses of every big city in the Western world.

We should spend more money and more time making the average experienced cop on the beat part of our war on terror...."

January 21, 2005

"What's The Lesson Here for the Dems?"

Op-Ed, Newsday

By Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy

"....The Democratic opportunity lies in the fact that the Bush vision is very likely to fall apart. It calls for a level of involvement in the world that is akin to that at the height of the Cold War, where we inserted ourselves in countries around the world to keep them out of the Soviet sphere. This level of involvement requires a level of mobilization that the Bush team is reluctant to commit to. It means lots of spies, lots of troops, lots of taxpayer dollars. It's inconsistent with permanent tax cuts and taking money out of Social Security for private accounts...."

June, 2002

Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age

Book

By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy

Assessing Howard Dean's Fifty State Strategy and the Midterm Elections

Journal Article, The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, issue 3, volume 4

By Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy