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Global Security and Intelligence Studies • Volume 3, Number 2 • Fall / Winter 2018
Editorial Welcome
Global Security and Intelligence Studies (GSIS) aims to publish high-quality
and original research on contemporary security and intelligence issues.
The journal is committed to methodological pluralism, and seeks to bridge
the gap between scholars and practitioners engaged in global security and intelligence
issues by publishing rigorous research, book reviews, and reflections on
the field that are relevant to both communities. We will, on occasion, also seek to
publish special issues on timely intelligence and global security topics, and welcome
proposals that fit with the scope and aims of the journal. The journal actively
encourages both former and current intelligence and global security practitioners
to participate in important scholarly and policy debates, and invites them to contribute
their research to the journal. As a result, we hope that the journal is a vibrant
platform for informed, reasoned, and relevant debates on the most important
global security and intelligence issues of our time.
Welcome to the Fall/Winter 2018 issue of GSIS. This final issue of 2018
features original research articles, unique perspectives from global field settings,
commentary on policy-relevant issues, and book reviews. The research articles in
this issue examine matters of security from differing perspectives. First, Kate Brannum,
Michelle Watts, and Joseph Campos II adopt a human security perspective
in Choices of Lesser Importance? Conflicting Values Shaping Perceptions of Community
Security and Women’s Health Security. The authors offer a comparative study
based in two settings – the Maya community in Guatemala, and the Quiverfull
community in the United States. Through an unlikely comparison of these two very
different cases, the authors provide an enlightening analysis of the interrelations
between women’s security and community security. Next, drawing connections
between security, law, and public policy, Marvin L. Astrada and Scott B. Astrada
critically analyze the effects of securitizing immigration law and policy in Enemy
at the Gates: The Consequential Effects of Securitizing Immigration. The authors not
only examine the public policy implications of casting immigration as a threat to
national security, but also evaluate what this signifies for American identity into the
future. Finally, Dmitriy Nurullayev and Leonard Ray focus on state security in Assessing
the Effectiveness of Diplomatic Strategies: A Quantitative Analysis of U.S.-Soviet
Interactions. The authors evaluate the effectiveness of containment as a strategy
compared to high-level negotiations during the Cold War. In analyzing 93 separate
crises between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of World
War II through 1978, the authors contribute a quantitative analysis on the extent to
which containment in fact produced better outcomes for the United States.
The Voices from the Field section features a report by Elise Carlson-Rainer
on the global human rights dialogue that took place at the 38 th session of the
United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Reporting from the session in
Geneva, Switzerland, Carlson-Rainer offers telling insights into how the Human
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doi: 10.18278/gsis.3.2.1