REORGANIZING NATIONAL SECURITY INSTITUTIONS IN CONDITION OF GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY:LESSONS FROM U.S. EXPERIENCE AFTER 09.11.2001 Cover Image

ГЛОБАЛНАТА НЕОПРЕДЕЛЕНОСТ И ПРЕСТРУКТУРИРАНЕТО НА НАЦИОНАЛНИТЕ СИСТЕМИ ЗА СИГУРНОСТ: ОПИТЪТ НА САЩ СЛЕД 11.09.2001 Г.
REORGANIZING NATIONAL SECURITY INSTITUTIONS IN CONDITION OF GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY:LESSONS FROM U.S. EXPERIENCE AFTER 09.11.2001

Author(s): Evgeni Ivanov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Governance, Public Administration, Geopolitics
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: security; governance; USA;

Summary/Abstract: The article considers challenges to government in condition of global uncertainty presenting several key problems for leaders’s to design, choose, and justify successful policies. It can become difficult for organizations to provide decisionmakers the information they need. Indeed, in a world of novel and often interconnected problems, it becomes increasingly difficult for decisionmakers to specify a priori what information they would find most valuable. Recognition that there is much wrong with the current organization and management of the public service is widespread today. We focus on one example - the creation of the National Commission on the Public Service (The Volcker Commission) which report concludes that the U.S. Federal government in the beginning of 21st century is neither organized nor staffed nor adequately prepared to meet the demands. The federal government today is a layered jumble of organizations with muddled public missions. A government that has not evolved to meet the demands of the early 21st century risks being overwhelmed by the even greater demands that lie ahead. Capacity and performance in government do not now equal public demands and expectations. The most important lesson related to the goal of enhanced mission coherence and role clarification, is that agencies that share closely related missions should be administered by the same organizational entity. A few large departments in which those agencies are grouped together should enhance their employees’ sense of purpose and loyalty, provide opportunities for advancement and job mobility, and encourage interagency cooperation.

  • Issue Year: 3/2012
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 37-48
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian