{"id":2104,"date":"2010-01-09T19:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T00:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harvardnsj.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2014-11-14T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:32:40","slug":"volume-1-editors-preface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/2010\/01\/volume-1-editors-preface\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 1 Editors’ Preface"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Williams and Anne Siders<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to read the full Editors’ Preface<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNational security\u201d has become a powerful watchword for politicians, lawyers, policy makers, and academics alike.\u00a0 Invocation of the \u201cnational security\u201d label typically aims to signal that the issue under discussion is of the highest priority for public policy.\u00a0 And yet, when we, as students of national security law, proposed the creation of a journal dedicated to national security, one of the first questions posed to us was: How do you define national security?\u00a0 What is it, exactly?<\/p>\n

In the middle of the twentieth century, the National Security Council stated that its mission was to \u201cpreserve the United States as a free nation with our fundamental institutions and values intact.\u201d\u00a0 In 2010, President Barack Obama said that national security describes the United States\u2019 ability to leverage national attributes through military might, economic competitiveness, moral leadership, and global engagement.\u00a0 This is an expanded, and expansive, characterization; its reach extends to a broad range of social and political institutions.\u00a0 The threats to our national interests are numerous and complex, and use of the term \u201cnational security\u201d often clouds the degree to which various fields of expertise may be implicated in the effort to defend the nation against the threats we face.\u00a0 The term applies to military strategy and intelligence collection as well as to climate change and global financial regulation.\u00a0 It covers issues as old-fashioned as piracy and territorial sovereignty and as high-tech as cybersecurity and robotic warfare.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, for purposes of this journal, we decided not to decide what the term national security means to us.\u00a0 After all, one of the driving motivations behind establishing the Harvard National Security Journal has been to provide a forum for discussion on the full array of issues \u2014 to facilitate the weaving together of the many threads that make up national security so as to advance discussion and help influence practice.\u00a0 Moreover, as it responds to current events and anticipates rapidly evolving threats, the subject matter of this journal demands a measure of agility.\u00a0 NSJ must be equal to the challenge: it must be flexible and accessible, not tethered to any fixed preconceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Williams and Anne Siders Click here to read the full Editors’ Preface \u201cNational security\u201d has become a powerful watchword for politicians, lawyers, policy makers, and academics alike.\u00a0 Invocation of the \u201cnational security\u201d label typically aims to signal that the issue under discussion is of the highest priority for public policy.\u00a0 And yet, when we, as students of national security law, proposed the creation of a journal dedicated to national security, one of the first questions posed to us was: How do you define national security?\u00a0 What is it, exactly? 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