Power, National Security, and Transformational Global Events: Challenges Confronting America, China, and Iran

As the United States struggled to survive the recent recession, China quietly acquired a vast amount of U.S. Treasury bills and bonds. With China now holding so much of America‘s debt, currency valuation issues have already caused tensions between the two superpowers. Couple this with Iran‘s efforts to develop into a nuclear power in an area that l

Table of Contents:
Power Shifts and Transformational Global Events. The 2008 Great Recession‘s Impact on Globalization. Key Resource Drivers in Transformational Global Events. The Arab Revolutions of 2011: Promise, Risk, and Uncertainty. Rapprochement with Iran. China: Economic Intimidation and Runaway Corruption. The Information Revolution: The Emergence of Cyber Power. Challenges Confronting the Global Transition of Power. Index.

About the Author :
Dr. Thomas A. Johnson currently serves as a faculty member of the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He also is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Sciences Institute in Livermore, CA. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the SANS Technology Institute. He received his bachelor‘s and master‘s degrees from Michigan State University and his doctorate in Criminology from the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Johnson has developed programs in Cybercrime and Forensic Computer Investigation and also founded the Graduate National Security program offered at two of our National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratories in California and New Mexico. Dr. Johnson also currently serves as a member of the FBI Infraguard program and also is a member of the Electronic Crime Task Force, New York Field Office, and San Francisco Field Office, U.S. Secret Service. The U.S. Attorney General appointed Dr. Johnson a member of the Information Technology Working Group, and he served as Chair, Task Force Group on ombating High Technology Crime for the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Johnson was also appointed an advisor to the Judicial Council of California on the Court Technology Task Force by the California Supreme Court. Dr. Johnson has published 6 books and 13 referred articles and holds copyright on 4 software programs, and his chapter 'Infrastructure Warriors: A Threat to the U.S. Homeland by Organized Crime' was published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College ('. . . to insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense . . .,' Papers From the Conference on Homeland Protection, 2000). In addition to lecturing at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, he has also lectured at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and numerous universities. Dr. Joh