Part III: Challenges and Choices
Economic Prosperity versus National Security
To what extent are we willing to limit some individual economic opportunity in exchange for collective security? This discussion topic highlights the potential tension between policy choices that promote free markets and foster economic development versus those that are designed to enhance our national security.
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Border Control, Immigration and National Security
The threat of terrorism has underscored the relationship between national security and immigration policy. While immigration serves important national, political, and moral objectives, uncontrolled borders can make us vulnerable to non-state actors from abroad who wish to commit acts of aggression within the United States. This discussion topic highlights the relationship between and relative values we ascribe to immigration and national security objectives.
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Privacy and National Security
Video monitoring, data mining, and electronic surveillance have raised new questions on the appropriate balance between privacy and national security. This discussion topic considers the legal framework that defines our right to privacy and examines how individual privacy has been affected by initiatives—including those utilizing new technologies—that have been undertaken to enhance our collective security.
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National Missile Defense
The potential acquisition of nuclear weapons by “rogue states,” coupled with North Korea’s efforts to develop a long-range missile system, highlights the fact that not all threats to national security come from Islamic terrorists. How serious are such threats to the United States and what is the appropriate response? Can—and should—the United States devote substantial economic resources to development of a national missile defense system? This discussion topic frames and presents these questions.
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