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Audit Tata Kelola Teknologi Informasi Pada Universitas Hang Tuah Pada Domain Deliver and Support COBIT 4.1
Authors: Siddik Muhammad Khoirun , Novriyanto Novriyanto , Vitriani Yelfi , Darmizal Teddie
Published: September 2024

Universitas Hang Tuah Pekanbaru (UHTP) merupakan suatu lembaga pendidikan yang berada dibawah naungan yayasan Hang Tuah Pekanbaru. Univ Hang Tuah telah menerapkan teknologi informasi (TI) dalam mendukung kegiatan akademik dan administrasi. Penerapan TI tersebut tentu dapat menimbulkan berbagai permasalahan seperti yang terjadi pada UHTP di antaranya adalah telah terjadi peretasan pada website akademik yang mengakibatkan terhambatnya penyampaian informasi kepada seluruh pengguna sistem. Berdasarkan permasalahan yang terjadi di Univ Hang Tuah maka dilakukan audit untuk mengukur tingkat kematangan dan memberikan rekomendasi tata kelola perbaikan setelah mengetahui kesenjangan antara tatakelola saat ini dengan tatakelola yang diharapkan sesuai dengan framework COBIT 4.1 yang fokus pada domain Deliver and Support (DS). Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara dan kuesioner kepada narasumber yang telah dipilih berdasarkan RACI Chart. Metode analisis data dilakukan dengan penghitungan nilai skor tiap subdomain, penghitungan nilai rata rata subdomain, penghitungan nilai kematangan, pemetaan tingkat kematangan dan pemberian rekomendasi sesuai dengan tingkat kematangan dan mengacu pada maturity model COBIT 4.1. Hasil penelitian diperoleh nilai maturity level pada domain Deliver and Support (DS) adalah 3,121 Defined. Hal ini berarti bahwa Universitas Hang Tuah Pekanbaru telah memiliki standarisasi prosedur yang telah dipraktekan dan telah didokumentasikan serta dikomunikasikan melalui pelatihan.
Perbandingan Performa Algoritma RNN dan LSTM dalam Prediksi Jumlah Jamaah Umrah pada PT. Hajar Aswad
Authors: Al Kiramy Razanul , Permana Inggih , Marsal Arif , Munzir Medyantiwi Rahmawita , Megawati Megawati
Published: September 2024

Secara bahasa umrah bermakna ziarah atau berkunjung, sedangkan secara istilah umrah adalah perjalanan ke Baitullah di luar waktu haji dengan tujuan melaksanakan ibadah tertentu dan memenuhi syarat-syarat khusus. PT Hajar Aswad merupakan sebuah perusahaan travel umrah yang beroperasi di Indonesia. PT Hajar Aswad bertanggung jawab untuk mengatur perjalanan, akomodasi, transportasi, dan berbagai keperluan lainnya bagi para jemaah umrah, untuk itu perlu memiliki pemahaman yang baik mengenai pola dan tren jumlah jemaah umrah agar dapat mengoptimalkan operasional dan memberikan pelayanan yang memuaskan kepada jamaah. Oleh karena itu penelitian ini dilakukan untuk memprediksi jumlah jamaah umrah pada PT Hajar Aswad menggunakan algoritma RNN dan LSTM agar PT Hajar Aswad. . Hasil perbandingan kedua algoritma menunjukkan bahwa LSTM mampu memberikan hasil prediksi yang sedikit lebih baik dibandingkan RNN dengan parameter window size 7, optimizer Adam, batch size 8, dan learning rate 0,01. Model ini memiliki nilai RMSE sebesar 0,1758, MAPE sebesar 0,4846, dan R2 sebesar 0,5198.
Analisis Komparasi Performa Metode Deteksi Tepi Sebagai Predektor Diabetes Berbasis Citra Lidah
Authors: Olam Enos Nikodemus , Himamunanto Agustinus Rudatyo , Budiati Haeni
Published: September 2024

Jenis Penyakit kencing manis atau juga biasa disebut Diabetes merupakan gangguan metabolik yang disebabkan oleh tingginya kadar gula dalam darah. Hormon insulin memindahkan gula darah ke seluruh sel tubuh, untuk disimpan atau digunakan sebagai energi. Ketika Anda menderita diabetes, tubuh sulit untuk memproduksi insulin untuk memenuhi kebutuhan tubuh dan tubuh kurang efisien dalam mengelola insulin dengan baik sesuai dengan kebutuhannya. Dalam hal ini, diabetes melitus tercatat sebagai penyebab kematian terbesar di dunia. Tanda-tanda dan efek samping penyakit diabetes melitus seharusnya terlihat secara lahiriah melalui bagian-bagian tubuh manusia, misalnya saja lidah yang menunjukkan adanya pertumbuhan atau Candida Albicans, dimana lidah adalah partikel tubuh manusia yang cukup peka terhadap rangsangan .Teknik Informatika berperan dalam penelitian ini, dengan menggunakan You Only Live Once (YOLO) sebagai media penandaan bagian tertentu dari suatu objek yang nantinya akan digunakan untuk mendeteksi tepi objek yang ditandai dan diproses dalam hal ini citra lidah untuk prosedur deteksi tepi. Untuk analisis perbandingan deteksi tepi citra lidah dalam deteksi penyakit diabetes melitus, sistem dapat menghasilkan hasil keluaran yang cukup memuaskan.
Klasifikasi Penyakit Cacar Monyet Menggunakan Support Vector Machine (SVM)
Authors: Wijaya Rohmatullah Sony , Qur’ania Arie , Anggraeni Irma
Published: September 2024

Penyakit cacar monyet menjadi sebuah wabah di beberapa negara non endemik pada bulan Juli tahun 2022. Oleh karena itu, tindakan pencegahan atau pengobatan yang tepat perlu dilakukan secara dini dengan cara melakukan identifikasi penyakit menggunakan suatu metode klasifikasi. Klasifikasi dilakukan menggunakan metode knowledge discovery in database (KDD) dengan algoritma support vector machine (SVM) yang menggunakan 4 kernel yaitu linear, RBF, sigmoid, dan polynomial dengan pengaturan parameternya pada masing masing kernel. Algoritma SVM dipilih karena penggunaan berbagai kernelnya memungkinkan eksplorasi bentuk-bentuk keputusan yang berbeda dalam ruang fitur yang lebih tinggi untuk mengangkap pola pola yang tidak linear. Hasil terbaik didapatkan oleh kernel polynomial dengan tingkat akurasi sebesar 75%, sementara kernel linear sebesar 70,5%, RBF sebesar 66%, dan sigmoid sebesar 45%. Kemudian nilai grafik kurva receiver operating characteristic area under control (ROC AUC) untuk kernel polynomial sebesar 0.81. Hal tersebut menunjukkan bahwa model klasifikasi yang dibuat sudah baik dan dapat dikembangkan ke penelitian tahap selanjutnya.
Simulasi Pemilu untuk Pemilih Pemula Berbasis Mixed Reality
Authors: Dwihandoyo Falah , Eugenie Valezka , Prawita Fat'hah Noor
Published: September 2024

Pemilihan umum (pemilu) merupakan salah satu pilar utama dalam sistem demokrasi di Indonesia yang memiliki fungsi sebagai alat untuk melakukan pemilihan yang akan menjadi pemimpin. Partisipasi pemilu pada pemilih pemula menunjukkan angka penurunan, dikarenakan pemilih pemula merasa kesulitan dalam teknis untuk mengikuti pemilihan umum. Maka dari itu,  membuat suatu simulasi pemilu yang menggunakan teknologiMixed Reality (MR) yaitu memadukan antara Virtual Reality (AR) dan Augmented Reality (AR). Tujuan dari menggunakan teknologi mixed reality, dapat memberi pengalaman langsung bagi pemilih pemula dalam melaksanakan teknis pemilu. Selain itu meningkatkan antusias pemilih pemula dalam pemilu melalui teknologi. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan menggunakan metode kualitatif, dengan wawancara mendalam dan observasi sebagai teknik pengumpulan data. Partisipan dalam penelitian ini merupakan siswa menengah atas kelas 11 dan 12.Simulasi yang akan  kembangkan nantinya dapat dijalankan dengan perangkat keras Virtual Reality, kemudian dengan perangkat keras tersebut sensor akan mendeteksi tangan dan area yang akan kita gunakan untuk menampilkan objek 3D, sehingga kita bisamelakukan simulasi pemilu dengan pengalaman lebih interaktif dan menarik bagi pemilih pemula. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa para pemilih pemula lebih terbantu untuk memahami teknis pemilu dengan perpaduan teknologi. Agar nantinya angka partisipasi pemilih pemula mengalami kenaikan dan para pemula memiliki pemahaman teknis yang cukup terhadap pemilu.
Analysis of Measuring Information Security Awareness for Employees at Institution XYZ
Authors: Permadi Rachmat Bayu , Ramli Kalamullah
Published: September 2024

As a government institution in the field of civil servant management, XYZ Institution has data on 4.4 million Employees spread throughout Indonesia which needs to be maintained.  Based on the BSSN report, there has been a significant increase in potential threats in recent years and is expected to continue in 2024, one of which is the threat of Phishing. This research was conducted to measure the level of information security awareness (ISA) for employees at xyz institution. Phishing simulations and questionnaires are used to measure the level of ISA and how to provide ISA education so that it can increase the level of  ISA employees. Simulation results will be compared before and after the provision of ISA education. The results of providing education have a positive impact for employees. Simulation before providing education there were 65% of employees clicking on phishing urls and after education there was a decrease to 17%. While employees who were exposed to phishing before education were 33% and after education there was a decrease to 16%. In addition, the questionnaire filled out by 150 employees showed results with a value of 86.54%  for the level of ISA employee, which is in the good category
Analisis Kepuasan SI-BTM Menggunakan Metode Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
Authors: Medina Aulia , Tatuhey Emy L. , Kiswanto Rahmat H.
Published: September 2024

Dalam upaya meningkatkan efisiensi dan transparansi proses pembayaran tunjangan dan remunerasi bagi Aparatur Sipil Negara (ASN) dan Pegawai Pemerintah dengan Perjanjian Kerja (PPPK), Badan Kepegawaian Pendidikan dan Pelatihan (BKPP) Kota Jayapura telah menerapkan Sistem Informasi Pembayaran Tunjangan dan Remunerasi Berbasis Kinerja (SI-BTM). SI-BTM merupakan aplikasi yang ditujukan bagi berbagai kelompok fungsional di BKPP dan didasarkan pada kinerja pegawai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kepuasan pengguna terhadap SI-BTM dengan menggunakan model Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Model TAM mencakup empat dimensi utama, yaitu persepsi kemudahan penggunaan, persepsi manfaat, niat penggunaan, dan penggunaan aktual. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh ASN dan PPPK di BKPP Kota Jayapura yang berjumlah 1.118 orang. Sampel penelitian diambil secara acak sederhana sebanyak 152 orang melalui kuesioner online. Validitas dan reliabilitas instrumen diuji dengan menggunakan metode Cronbach's Alpha dengan bantuan perangkat lunak SPSS dan Microsoft Excel. Hasil wawancara menunjukkan adanya kendala dalam integrasi fungsi aktivitas antara guru dan tenaga fungsional umum, sehingga menyulitkan proses verifikasi oleh BKPP. Survei menunjukkan bahwa persepsi kemudahan penggunaan dan manfaat SI-BTM memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap kepuasan pengguna. Temuan ini menunjukkan bahwa penerapan SI-BTM telah memenuhi sebagian besar harapan pengguna, meskipun masih terdapat tantangan dalam integrasi fungsi aktivitas antar kelompok pengguna.
DOES ESG INVESTMENT IMPACT THE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF NIGERIAN ENERGY COMPANIES: A PANEL REGRESSION APPROACH?
Authors: Abdulsalam Tajudeen Alaburo , Gbadebo Adedeji Daniel
Published: September 2024

The destruction of around 5% to 10% of Nigerian mangrove ecosystems and the disappearance of approximately 7,400 square kilometres of rainforest have shifted managerial priorities in Nigeria's energy sector from purely financial gain to increased social responsibility. The rising concerns regarding climate change, environmental risks, social well-being, and sustainability have propelled ESG investment to the forefront of corporate sustainability considerations. The study delves into the influence of ESG investment on the financial sustainability of listed industry players in Nigeria's oil and gas industry. By utilizing quantitative data from sustainability and corporate annual reports of listed firms on the Nigeria Exchange Group from 2013 to 2023, a fixed pooled panel regression model was conducted to statistically test the three hypotheses anchored on the ESG nexus on financial sustainability. The findings indicate that the relationship between environmental investments, measured by environmental emissions, and return on assets (ROA) for the examined listed entities is insignificant. However, the research establishes a notable correlation between social investing practices, quantified by workforce size, and ROA, displaying a positive coefficient. Moreover, the study does not confirm a substantial impact of governance investing practices, measured by board size, on the ROA of the scrutinized corporations. The research acknowledged the impact of ESG on the financial sustainability of Nigeria’s energy sector. The research recommendations include integrating ESG factors into investment strategies, enhancing disclosure and transparency, improving risk management and resilience measures, and collaborating with policymakers.
The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television
Authors: Moody David L.
Published: September 2024

The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television examines the intricacies of race, representation, Black masculinity, sexuality, class, and color in American cinema and television. Black images on the silver screen date back to the silent film era, yet these films and television programs presented disturbing images of African American culture, and regrettably, many early films and small screen programs portrayed Black characters in demeaning and stereotypical roles. In order to fully analyze the roles of Black actors and actresses in film and television, Moody addresses the following issues: the historical significance of the term “race films”; female Black identities and constructs; queerness and Black masculinity; Black male identities; and Black buffoonery in film and television.
Popular Myths about Memory
Authors: Bornstein Brian  H.
Published: September 2024

Misconceptions about memory phenomena often go hand-in-hand with popular misrepresentations of its function in media. In Popular Myths about Memory, Brian H. Bornstein examines how the representation of memory in novels, movies, and television shows often clashes with scientific research. Bornstein discusses the consequences of these myths on the popular understanding of memory and its functions. Depictions of amnesia, eyewitness accounts, and superior memory are just a few of the processes explored and debunked. This book is recommended for scholars interested in psychology, media and film studies, literary studies, and communication studies.
Negotiating Work, Family, and Identity among Long-Haul Christian Truck Drivers
Authors: Upton Rebecca L.
Published: September 2024

This book draws upon ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States to demonstrate the means through which long-haul truck drivers navigate work and family tensions in ways that resonate across categories of race, class, gender and religion. It examines how Christianity and constructions of masculinity are significant in the lives of long-haul drivers and how truckers work to construct narratives of their lives as ‘good, moral’ individuals in contrast to competing cultural narratives which suggest images of romantic, rule-free, renegade lives on the open road. Based upon ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, observations of long-haul truckers, and participation in a CDL school, this rich ethnography highlights how Christian trucking opportunities provide avenues through which balance is struck between work and family, masculinity and other identities. Embedded in larger social discourse about the meaning of masculinity and similar to evangelical perspectives such as those of the Promise Keepers, Christian truckers often draw upon older ideas about responsible, breadwinning fatherhood in their discourse about being good “fathers” while on the road. This discourse is in some conflict with the lived experiences of Christian truckers who simultaneously find themselves confronted by more contemporary cultural narratives of “the work-family balance” and expectations of what it means to be a good “worker” or a good “trucker.” The book offers new insight in the field of work and family studies and an extremely relevant voice in the broader contemporary discourse in the United States on the meaning of fatherhood and religion in the 21st century.
Latin American History Through Its Art and Literature
Authors: Child Jack
Published: September 2024

Latin American History through its Art and Literature uses 2,000 years of Latin American history as the organizing theme, and then explores that history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer. Child includes the Latin (Spanish/Portuguese), the African, and the indigenous cultural heritages, and shows how these strands have combined to produce a unique Latin American culture with numerous national and regional variants. The book stresses an interdisciplinary approach to Latin America and also focuses on the way the region has related to the United States. Numerous visuals are included to illustrate these concepts.
The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System
Authors: Mocombe Paul C. , Tomlin Carol , Callender Christine
Published: September 2024

This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two social class language games of the black American community: the black underclass (Hip-Hop culture), speaking for and representing black youth practical consciousness; and black American charismatic liberal/conservative bourgeois Protestant preachers like TD Jakes, Creflo Dollar, etc., speaking for and representing the black bourgeois (educated) professional and working classes. Although on the surface the practical consciousness and language of the two social class language games appear to diametrically oppose one another, the authors argue, given the two groups’ material wealth within the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism of corporate (neoliberal) America, they do not. Both groups have the same underlying practical consciousness, subjects/agents of the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism. The divergences, where they exist, are due to their interpellation, embourgeoisement, and differentiation via different ideological apparatuses of the society: church and education, i.e., schools, for the latter; and prisons, the streets, and athletic and entertainment industries for the former. Contemporarily, in the age of globalization and neoliberalism, both groups have become the bearers of ideological and linguistic domination in black neoliberal America, and are antagonistically, converging the practical consciousness of the black or African diaspora towards their respective social class language games. We are suggesting that the socialization of other black people in the diaspora ought to be examined against and within the dialectical backdrop of this class power dynamic and the cultural and religious heritages of the black American people responsible for this phenomenon or process of convergence we are referring to as the “African-Americanization” of the black diaspora.
On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality
Authors: Nesher Dan
Published: September 2024

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Following and reconstructing Peircean realist epistemology, Aesthetics is one of the three normative sciences, along with Logic (Theoretic) and Ethics, which are the three different modes of representing reality. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and the created artworks are judged beautiful when proven as an aesthetic true representation of reality. Artists aim to represent reality truly, and hence, beautifully, in order to enhance our knowledge of it and to afford us insights on how to better conduct our life in society.
How to Play Philosophy
Authors: Picard Michael
Published: September 2024

Philosophy can transform your life. But the only philosophy that can save you is your own. Yet how do you find your own in an age of misinformation and unbridled spin, when truth is unfashionable and hype hyper-attractive. Where is the air needed to breathe the honest spirit of inquiry?

How to Play Philosophy is a breezy array of lyrical, creative essays that explore timeless and timely ideas about who we are, how we live and what we think. MIT-trained philosopher Michael Picard gives airing to numerous philosophers from conflicting traditions and builds an intellectual background to enable readers to draw their own conclusions.

Written in a spirit of free and playful inquiry, the essays were composed originally to support public participatory philosophy, or Café Philosophy, which the author has facilitated for decades. Subjects include Play it With Feeling (Desire, Stress, Anger); Games We Play (Intimacy, Loyalty, Betrayal) and Playing Fair (Values, Good, Integrity), alongside epistemological topics including Truth (Knowledge, Certainty, Objectivity) and the perennial metaphysical quandaries (Human Nature, The Sacred, God).

Written for everyone interested in exploring age-old subjects in an age of disposable content, How to Play Philosophy offers playful provocations with the aim of enabling independent thinking and deeper public conversations.
Budget Superpower
Authors: Ruehl John
Published: September 2024

The Kremlin’s ability to shape global affairs appeared decimated following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Coupled with the internal instability that gripped Russia in the 1990s, Moscow struggled to develop a coherent and effective foreign policy for almost a decade. But under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has steadily reemerged as one of the most significant countries in the world—and one that is increasingly willing to challenge the United States.

In Budget Superpower, geopolitics journalist John P. Ruehl explores how Russia has achieved this feat, despite its relatively limited economic strength. The book is divided into eight chapters, each exploring a tool or approach of the Kremlin’s and how and where it has used this method to maximize Russia’s influence. Each chapter also analyzes the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of Russia’s strategies, as well as cautious predictions for how they may evolve in the future.

Russia’s determination to confront the United States has become increasingly apparent over the last decade, culminating in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In addition to demonstrating how Russia has effectively undermined the American-led global order, Budget Superpower will help readers understand why Russia has committed to this policy in the face of increasing push back and globally destabilizing consequences.
The United Nations As Leviathan
Authors: Rich Roland
Published: September 2024

The world needs a UN 3.0. The extent and severity of global crises are such that business as usual provides no solution. Roland Rich’s Leviathan describes the necessary next version of the United Nations. It is a confident, competent, and independent organization that incorporates the world of business and global civil society as well as governments. It will certainly not have a monopoly on the use of force, but it will lead the international community through a mix of the principle of subsidiarity placing it at the apex, the application of the process of certification whereby thousands of entities are engaged in problem-solving, and the benefit of legitimacy earned through performance. The result will allow the UN to tackle the climate crisis, broaden the protection of democracy and human rights, govern globalization, and be better prepared for the next pandemic. Leviathan contains a vision but not a blueprint. Yet it does spell out how to achieve the first essential step – to clip the wings of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
The Mind of the Leader
Authors: Karasu T. Byram
Published: September 2024

The Mind of the Leader is a unique book on leadership, written through the prism of a seasoned professor of psychiatry and himself a leader in his field. For decades, T. Byram Karasu has treated, advised, and coached highly successful executives and captains of various industries. Some books on leadership focus on strategies, management styles, information systems, and other technical skills. This book starts where these how-to manuals end and offers a different paradigm for leadership. With case vignettes, formal and informal encounters, and old-world uncommon wisdom, Dr. Karasu demonstrates sources of formidable successes and causes of potential catastrophic failures in leaders.
The Irony of Vietnam
Authors: Gelb Leslie H. , Betts Richard K.
Published: September 2024

"If a historian were allowed but one book on the American involvement in Vietnam, this would be it."  Foreign Affairs When first published in 1979, four years after the end of one of the most divisive conflicts in the United States, The Irony of Vietnam raised eyebrows. Most students of the war argued that the United States had "stumbled into a quagmire in Vietnam through hubris and miscalculation," as the New York Times's Fox Butterfield put it. But the perspective of time and the opening of documentary sources, including the Pentagon Papers, had allowed Gelb and Betts to probe deep into the decisionmaking leading to escalation of military action in Vietnam. The failure of Vietnam could be laid at the door of American foreign policy, they said, but the decisions that led to the failure were made by presidents aware of the risks, clear about their aims, knowledgeable about the weaknesses of their allies, and under no illusion about the outcome.

The book offers a picture of a steely resolve in government circles that, while useful in creating consensus, did not allow for alternative perspectives. In the years since its publication, The Irony of Vietnam has come to be considered the seminal work on the Vietnam War.
Calling the Shots
Authors: Gitterman Daniel P.
Published: September 2024

Modern presidents are CEOs with broad powers over the federal government.

The United States Constitution lays out three hypothetically equal branches of governmentthe executive, the legislative, and the judicialbut over the years, the president, as head of the executive branch, has emerged as the usually dominant political and administrative force at the federal level. In fact, Daniel Gitterman tells us, the president is, effectively, the CEO of an enormous federal bureaucracy.

Using the unique legal authority delegated by thousands of laws, the ability to issue executive orders, and the capacity to shape how federal agencies write and enforce rules, the president calls the shots as to how the government is run on a daily basis. Modern presidents have, for example, used the power of the purchaser to require federal contractors to pay a minimum wage and to prohibit contracting with companies and contractors that knowingly employ unauthorized alien workers.

Presidents and their staffs use specific tools, including executive orders and memoranda to agency heads, as instruments of control and influence over the government and the private sector. For more than a century, they have used these tools without violating the separation of powers. Calling the Shots demonstrates how each of these executive powers is a powerful weapon of coercion and redistribution in the president's political and policymaking arsenal.
Choices
Authors: Menon Shivshankar
Published: September 2024

A look behind the scenes of some of India’s most critical foreign policy decisions by the country’s former foreign secretary and national security adviser.

Every country must make choices about foreign policy and national security. Sometimes those choices turn out to have been correct, other times not. In this insider's account, Shivshankar Menon describes some of the most crucial decisions India has faced during his long career in governmentand how key personalities often had to make choices based on incomplete information under the pressure of fast-moving events.

Menon either participated directly in or was associated with all the major Indian foreign policy decisions he describes in Choices. These include the 200508 U.S.India nuclear agreement; the first-ever boundary-related agreement between India and China; India's decision not to use overt force against Pakistan in response to the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai; the 2009 defeat of the Tamil rebellion in Sri Lanka; and India's disavowal of the first-use of nuclear weapons. Menon examines what these choices reveal about India's strategic culture and decisionmaking, its policies toward the use of force, its long-term goals and priorities, and its future behavior.

Choices will be of interest to anyone searching for answers to questions about how one of the world's great, rising powers makes its decisions on the world stage, and the difficult choices that sometimes had to be made.
Regulating Digital Industries
Authors: MacCarthy Mark
Published: September 2024

Regulating Digital Industries is the first book to address the tech backlash within a coherent policy framework. It treats competition, privacy and free speech as objectives that must be pursued in a coordinated fashion by a dedicated industry regulator. It contains detailed discussions of current policy controversies involving social media companies, search engines, electronic commerce platforms and mobile apps. It argues for new laws and regulations to promote competition, privacy and free speech in tech and outlines the structure and powers of a regulatory agency able to develop, implement and enforce digital rules for the twenty-first century.

Deeply informed by the history of regulation and antitrust in the United States, it brings to bear insights from the breakup of AT&T and the Microsoft case and from broadcasting and financial services regulation to enrich the discussion of remedies to the failure of tech competition, the massive invasion of privacy by digital firms and the information disorder perpetuated by social media platforms. It offers a comprehensive summary of regulatory reform efforts in the United States and abroad and shows how accomplishing the goals of these reform efforts requires the establishment of a single digital agency with jurisdiction to reconcile and balance the complementary and conflicting goals of promoting competition, protecting privacy, and preserving free speech in digital industries.

It discusses in detail how a digital regulatory agency would be structured and the powers it would need to have. It confronts head on some of the challenges in establishing a strong digital regulator including the First Amendment roadblock that limits government authority over digital speech and the judicial opposition to the expansion of the administrative state. It is essential reading for policymakers, public interest advocates, industry representatives, academic researchers and the general public interested in a coherent policy approach to today’s tech industry discontents.
Techlash
Authors: Wheeler Tom
Published: September 2024

Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a potent primer on the need to rein in big tech" and Kirkus Reviews as "a rock-solid plan for controlling the tech giants," readers will be energized by Tom Wheeler's vision of digital governance.

Featured on Barack Obama's 11/3/23 list of "What I’m Reading on the Rise of Artificial Intelligence"

An accessible and visionary book that connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age.

Hailed by Ken Burns as one of the foremost “explainers” of technology and its effect throughout history, Tom Wheeler now turns his gaze to the public impact of entrepreneurial innovation. In Techlash, he connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age. In both cases, technology innovation and the great wealth that it created ran up against the public interest and the rights of others. As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised.

Warning that today is not the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” some envision, Wheeler calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling portrait of the need to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good.
America and the Yemens
Authors: Riedel Bruce
Published: September 2024

In this book, Bruce Riedel, one of America’s leading experts on the Middle East, provides a history of US relations with the various entities of north and south Yemen, and the first in-depth review of America’s role in the deadly Saudi directed war in the Yemens. Three Presidents—Obama, Trump, and Biden-- have been deeply involved in this conflict. Riedel places this current war in the context of America’s history of engaging with the Yemens. From President Kennedy’s handling of a Soviet and Egyptian coup in Yemen in the fall of 1962 to multiple Presidents interaction with the dictator Ali Abdallah Salih who united the Yemens this is a fascinating story with a colorful cast of characters, America and the Yemens will be of interest to readers seeking to have a better understanding of America’s role in the Middle East and the tragic encounter that has created the worst humanitarian catastrophe in our lives.
Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom
Authors: Young Linda
Published: September 2024

Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. Everyone understands the special nature of an art museum, a national museum, or a science museum, but “house museum” nearly always requires clarification. In the United States the term is almost synonymous with historic preservation; in the United Kingdom, it is simply unfamiliar, the very idea being conflated with stately homes and the National Trust.

By analyzing the motivation of the founders, and subsequent keepers, of house museums, Linda Young identifies a typology that casts light on what house museums were intended to represent and their significance (or lack thereof) today. This book examines:

• heroes’ houses: once inhabited by great persons (e.g., Shakespeare’s birthplace, Washington’s Mount Vernon);

• artwork houses: national identity as specially visible in house design, style, and technique (e.g., Frank Lloyd Wright houses, Modernist houses);

• collectors’ houses: a microcosm of collecting in situ domesticu, subsequently presented to the nation as the exemplars of taste (e.g., Sir John Soane’s Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum);

• English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained thanks to primogeniture but threatened with redundancy and rescued as museums to be touted as the peak of English national culture; English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained for centuries thanks to primogeniture but threatened by redundancy and strangely rescued as museums, now touted as the peak of English national culture;

• Everyman/woman’s social history houses: the modern, demotic response to elite houses, presented as social history but tinged with generic ancestor veneration (e.g., tenement house museums in Glasgow and New York).
The Millennial Mindset
Authors: Luttrell Regina , McGrath Karen
Published: September 2024

We’ve all heard that Millennials are smarter than everyone else, unique in every way possible, that they have probably been millionaires since age seven, and that they are poised to take over the world. We’ve also heard that they are lazy, unmotivated, entitled, and condescending know-it-alls. How can this generation have such opposing characteristics? What is the truth about this generation?

The Millennial Mindset offers parents, educators, managers, and co-workers insights and suggestions on how to engage, prepare, and foster the Millennial generation in all aspects of life. Through interviews with millennials and those who work with or otherwise engage them, Regina Luttrell and Karen McGrath offer ways for Millennials to better understand older generations and their peers so they can coexist without animosity in today’s fast-paced globalized world. They also offer insight into Millennial characteristics, passions, and goals for those who work with, live with, or otherwise co-exist with Millennials. Readers will gain a better sense of what this generation has in store for the world, and how the world can best respond.
Prison Food in America
Authors: Camplin Erika
Published: September 2024

America seems presently fascinated by prison culture and the inner workings of what happens behind clinked doors. With TV shows creating binge-watchers of us all, and celebrities piquing public interest as they end up behind bars, Americans seem to enjoy a good gawk at prison life. Each year, more than 1.3 million visitors still trek out to Alcatraz Island, one of the most famous prisons in the world. And why shouldn’t they be curious about prison? We as a nation currently incarcerate more people per capita than any other country, and our prisons are notoriously rough, violent, and overcrowded.

At the same time, we love our food, take pictures of it, post it socially, and discuss our foodie favorites. Rarely do we consider the food experiences of those for whom sustenance is more difficult to obtain, particularly those incarcerated, where choice and access is severely limited. Prison food is often everything to prisoners. It is the only marker of time throughout the day. Food becomes commerce in the microeconomies behind prison walls. It is often the only source of pleasure in a monotonous routine. It creates sites of community when prisoners ban together to create recipes, but also becomes a site of discord when issues surrounding fairness and equity arise in the chow hall. Prison Food in America offers a high-level snapshot of the fare offered behind bars, its general guidelines and regulations, fascinating stories about prisoners and food, and the remarkable and varied ways food plays a role in the fabric of prison culture.
North Korea's Cyber Operations
Authors: Jun Jenny , LaFoy Scott , Sohn Ethan
Published: September 2024

This report presents an open source analysis of North Korea’s cyber operations capabilities and its strategic implications for the United States and South Korea. The purpose is to mitigate the current knowledge gap among various academic and policy communities on the topic by synthesizing authoritative and comprehensive open source reference material. The report is divided into three chapters, the first chapter examining North Korea’s cyber strategy. The authors then provide an assessment of North Korea’s cyber operations capabilities by examining the organizational structure, history, and functions of North Korea’s cyber units, their supporting educational training and technology base, and past cyber attacks widely attributed to North Korea. This assessment is followed by a discussion on policy implications for U.S. and ROK policymakers and the larger security community.
Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025
Authors: Green Michael , Hicks Kathleen , Cancian Mark F.
Published: September 2024

In 2015, Congress tasked the Department of Defense to commission an independent assessment of U.S. military strategy and force posture in the Asia-Pacific, as well as that of U.S. allies and partners, over the next decade. This CSIS study fulfills that congressional requirement. The authors assess U.S. progress to date and recommend initiatives necessary to protect U.S. interests in the Pacific Command area of responsibility through 2025. Four lines of effort are highlighted: (1) Washington needs to continue aligning Asia strategy within the U.S. government and with allies and partners; (2) U.S. leaders should accelerate efforts to strengthen ally and partner capability, capacity, resilience, and interoperability; (3) the United States should sustain and expand U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific region; and (4) the United States should accelerate development of innovative capabilities and concepts for U.S. forces.
A Rebalanced Transatlantic Policy Toward the Asia-Pacific Region
Authors: Conley Heather A. , Mina James , Nguyen Phuong
Published: September 2024

In 2014, the CSIS Europe and Southeast Asia Programs embarked on a two-year initiative to create a new and enduring EU-U.S. collaborative mechanism to enhance transatlantic Asia-Pacific policy coordination and understanding. This report is the culmination of this two-year study and presents the findings of the research while also offering actionable recommendations for U.S. and EU policymakers.
Balancing Life and Education While Being a Part of a Military Family
Authors: Ventrone Jillian , Karczewski Paul , Blue Robert W.
Published: September 2024

Military spouse education is an often overlooked topic. With the proliferation of service member programs and benefits, and the spotlight on them, it is not uncommon for spouses to neglect looking into their own educational opportunities and benefits. The hectic life of a military family also often complicates the process of attending an institution of higher education, for spouses. There are numerous programs and benefits that a spouse may have access to, but they are difficult to find and navigate properly.

Balancing Life and Education While Being a Part of a Military Family: A Guide to Navigating Higher Education for the MilitarySpouse attempts to highlight these possibilities and inform and assure this population that attaining an education is possible regardless of location or current circumstances. Numerous programs and benefits are described, as well as the best way to go about using them. Detailed instructions are illustrated to make the process of obtaining an education easier and to give spouses more confidence in pursing their own education. In addition, the specific considerations of military family life are addressed along with these instructions.

Education is really important, and a lot of times military spouses aren’t aware of the opportunities and resources available to them to pursue it. The authors of From theNavy to College: Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education and From the Army to College: Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education have put together a clear guidebook will make the process easy, accessible, and understandable. They offer clear advice and information about resources available to spouses of service members, creating a go-to guide for pursuing higher education.
Ancient America
Authors: Feder Kenneth L.
Published: September 2024

Presenting “the real deal” of American antiquity—as opposed to the hyped fare of many cable TV shows—Kenneth Feder invites readers to explore the stunning technological, architectural, engineering, and artistic achievements of America’s first peoples.

Part travel guide, part friendly reference, Ancient America showcases fifty iconic and publicly-accessible sites located across the contiguous United States—including monumental pyramids of earth, “castles” ensconced in cliff niches, and vast rock art galleries. Among the places profiled are four World Heritage Sites (Chaco Canyon, NM; Mesa Verde, CO; Cahokia, IL; Poverty Point, LA); numerous Historic Landmarks and National Monuments (including Crystal River, FL; Town Creek Mound, NC; Casa Grande, AZ; and Hovenweep, UT); and stunningly diverse sites ranging from Serpent Mound (OH) and Horsethief Lake (WA) to Canyon de Chelly (AZ) and Nine Mile Canyon (UT).

In addition to practical visitor information, Feder tells the fascinating stories of each site as revealed by archaeological research. Introductory chapters delve into the deep past of Native America; historical and cultural details as well as original photography round out the site entries. Readers will be inspired to visit these remarkable places where the past continues to resonate in the present.
Teaching to Inspire Vocation
Authors: Hohn Timothy C.
Published: September 2024

A unique handbook for collegiate faculty, instructors, administrators, and graduate students in education to help professional and technical students discover meaning, purpose, and vocation through their scholarship. College students are looking for more than instrumental career knowledge and skills, they are looking for something to care about and build their lives around: a vocation. The book provides recommendations to enhance and amplify collegiate professional and technical instruction and curricula to support student discernment of vocation. Teaching to Inspire Vocation begins by making a case for teaching for vocation and provides a historical perspective on vocation in Western education. However, the core of the book focuses on the specific elements for an instructional framework on teaching for vocation.
Unsupervised Leadership
Authors: Orzel Courtney , Koch Katelyn
Published: September 2024

Leadership is not easily defined because it is rooted in human qualities and characteristics. Education is a people-driven profession, yet there is a beauty of balancing technical leadership with adaptive leadership, which is no easy task. There is no “rule book” to leadership; however, this book is to learn about being “unsupervised” and how new age leadership can create stability and enhance professionalism throughout an ever changing educational environment. Unsupervised Leadership is a practical, tangible, entertaining and REAL way of assessing yourself as a leader, while building your confidence, facing your fears, and elevating others around you.
Teaching Teens About Relationships
Authors: Rhoades Chuck
Published: September 2024

Teaching Teens About Relationships describes how to teach a relationships course for adolescents. This book includes many learning activities and instructional strategies, along with student reactions. The course integrated mindfulness work into each session and examines such topics as flirting, jealousy, infidelity, gossip, starting and ending relationships and other ubiquitous aspects of adolescent relationships rarely found in school curricula. This course gives teens access to a safe environment to discuss issues that were in the forefront of their lives.
Radicalization, Terrorism, and Countering Extremism
Authors: Christie Kenneth , Ahmad Haval
Published: September 2024

This book examines the twin phenomena of radicalization and de-radicalization in a global context of political extremism and violent conflict, focusing on the approaches of governments in how they use counterterrorism to respond to radicalization and extremism. By using case studies and comparative analysis, the authors’ analysis of both Western and non-Western examples focuses on both theoretical components and practical aspects of the deradicalization process. Subjects covered include the historical context, the contemporary situation, and case studies that illustrate these aspects in different countries and across borders. The conclusions drawn also provide readers with examples of the potential solutions that states have adopted to mitigate the threats and reintegrate extreme militants into society and create a more stable world in which violent conflict is lessened.