Chris C Demchak
Biographic Data
| ID | 281107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris C Demchak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris C |
| FAMILY NAME | Demchak |
| SIGNATURE | DEMCHAK C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Resilience and Cyberspace
Cyberspace as a system has expanded exponentially across the globe as a massively complex universal substrate. It now demonstrates the surprises of large-scale socio-technical systems from electrical grids to just-in-time manufacturing supply chains, all of which increasingly support or are supported by cyberspace. These deeply linked, large-scale socio-technical systems (STSs) are creating nationally and globally interdependent "socio-cyber" sys…
Designing Resilience
Designing resilience
In the wake of severe climatic events and terrorist acts, and the emergence of dangerous technologies, communities, nations, and global organizations have diligently sought to create strategies to prepare for such events. Designing Resilience presents case studies of extreme events and analyzes the ability of affected individuals, institutions, governments, and technological systems to cope with disaster. This volume defines resilience as it rela…
Institutionalizing Behavior‐Based Privacy
After 9/11, a bitter national debate emerged pitting privacy against security. No theory of privacy or domestic security and no compromise blend of institutional insights and technological advances have been proposed to meet this dilemma. This work fills that gap by offering a middle ground proposing a knowledge‐based systems focus that parses privacy into two separable concepts: behavior and identity in the behavior–identity–knowledge (BIK) mode…
A Theory of Action in Iraq
For the quagmire of Iraq, the three-state solution is a good one right now, and always has been the best choice. To recognize this inevitability, however, requires that the Bush Administration and its critics alike have an enduring and cohesive explanation for the emergence of the violent instability we see in Iraq. This essay suggests, first, a way to combine the basic elements of the three main streams of international relations in order to und…
Balancing Security and Privacy in the Information and Terrorism Age
National security policies adopted after 9/11 have generated an intense and polarized national debate on privacy versus security. Privacy advocates fight to reveal nothing about individuals while security advocates would have authorities know everything. There is, however a middle ground if one decomposes privacy into a basic set of two elements
Wars of Disruption
The US military's vigorous development of force multiplying information technologies during the late Cold War period set the stage for the emergence of a new form of warfare, one seen as legitimate even though it lacks the formal declaration of war – ‘wars of disruption’. ‘Wars of disruption’ are not inevitably lethal. Over the 1990s, however, military leaders channeled a traditional emphasis on lethality into many novel operations. New technolog…
The Sources of Military Change
In varying circumstances, military organizations around the world are undergoing major restructuring. This book explores why, and how, militaries change. The authors focus on a complex of three influencing factors—cultural norms, politics, and new technology—offering a historical perspective of more than a century. Their analyses range from developing states to Russia, Britain, the U.S., and NATO. Throughout, they reveal the manifold interactions…
Un-Muddling Homeland Security
Professor Demchak criticizes the current Homeland Security Agency proposal as a convenient piling together of overstretched small agencies. After identifying principles appropriate for designing complex systems, she then applies these principles for strategies to strengthen U.S. domestic security. She recommends developing an Atrium of information, or a semi-living database that captures, creates and shares knowledge across agencies rapidly. Such…
Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web
The foundations for governance in an information age are developing through the World Wide Web as it becomes the principal electronic public gateway into government organizations. Governmental openness is now important to a variety of strategies for governmental reform. The Web (a) makes government more efficient; (b) facilitates the functioning of new network-like arrangements between public organizations, the private sector, and citizens; and (…
Technology's knowledge burden, the RMA and the IDF
Technology's Knowledge Burden, the RMA and the IDF
In modernizing the IDF by adopting many budget-reducing elements of the US-defined RMA model of a modern military, Israeli defense leaders are choosing a path highly problematical for the knowledge-conditions of the nation. Even in selected pieces, the RMA model remains a socio-technical arrangement most appropriate for an expeditionary army of a geographically isolated, wealthy society. This work reviews the RMA model's organizational knowledge …
Watersheds in perception and knowledge
(1999). Watersheds in perception and knowledge. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 20, Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 166-197
Fundable knowledge
Numbers or Networks
Western nations including Israel are modernizing their militaries. They are turning to advanced technologies and information warfare as altematives to nuclear weapons and as solutions to manpower and budget constraints. For the same reasons, technological modernization of the Israeli Defense Force's ground organization has become a political and strategic necessity. The modernization process, however, is precipitating a wrenching and non-obvious …
Coping, Copying, and Concentrating
This article provides a more nuanced understanding of the interaction of complex machines and military organizations. Western nations are currently turning to conventional advanced technologies as alternatives to nuclear weapons as well as solutions to manpower and budget constraints. Yet the long term structural effects are not well understood. Using empirical evidence of organizational learning and changes in the ground forces of Israel, Britai…
Modernizing Military Organizations and Political Control in Central Europe
The public policy issues of modernizing public agencies in Central Europe are nowhere more pressing than in the process of modernizing militaries. The leaders of central Europe – Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – plan to deploy smaller, more professional forces equipped with advanced weapons and support systems, changing their organizations accordingly. This paper argues that the political and organizational circumstances roughly…
Complex Adaptive Systems, Chaos, and Contemporary Policymaking
Military Organizations, Complex Machines
Complexity, Rogue Outcomes and Weapon Systems
What are the organizational implications of adopting complex technologies? In this study of the U.S. Army's Ml 'Abrams tank, Chris C. Demchak details the organizational consequences of contending with the complications created by this new weapon system. She focuses attention on how the Army handled set outcomes-that is, those problems that are unknowable when the new technology is adopted. More complex organizational arrangements resulted from ef…
The Gulf war
(1991). The Gulf war: technological and organizational implications. Survival: Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 260-273
Applied Virtual Environments
Virtual environments (VEs) such as Second Life or World of Warcraft can be more than entertainment; they also offer new ways to test concepts and prototypes, train employees, and anticipate actions of an opponent. The U.S. military and other government organizations are applying VEs to support achieving training, operational, and rehearsal objectives. Business enterprises are starting to use virtual realities to lower costs and increase capabilit…
Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web
The foundations for governance in an information age are developing through the World Wide Web as it becomes the principal electronic public gateway into government organizations. Governmental openness is now important to a variety of strategies for governmental reform. The Web (a) makes government more efficient; (b) facilitates the functioning of new network-like arrangements between public organizations, the private sector, and citizens; and (…
Resilience and Cyberspace
Cyberspace as a system has expanded exponentially across the globe as a massively complex universal substrate. It now demonstrates the surprises of large-scale socio-technical systems from electrical grids to just-in-time manufacturing supply chains, all of which increasingly support or are supported by cyberspace. These deeply linked, large-scale socio-technical systems (STSs) are creating nationally and globally interdependent "socio-cyber" sys…
Technology's knowledge burden, the RMA and the IDF
Numbers or Networks
Western nations including Israel are modernizing their militaries. They are turning to advanced technologies and information warfare as altematives to nuclear weapons and as solutions to manpower and budget constraints. For the same reasons, technological modernization of the Israeli Defense Force's ground organization has become a political and strategic necessity. The modernization process, however, is precipitating a wrenching and non-obvious …
The Gulf war
(1991). The Gulf war: technological and organizational implications. Survival: Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 260-273
Watersheds in perception and knowledge
(1999). Watersheds in perception and knowledge. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 20, Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 166-197
Coping, Copying, and Concentrating
This article provides a more nuanced understanding of the interaction of complex machines and military organizations. Western nations are currently turning to conventional advanced technologies as alternatives to nuclear weapons as well as solutions to manpower and budget constraints. Yet the long term structural effects are not well understood. Using empirical evidence of organizational learning and changes in the ground forces of Israel, Britai…
Applied Virtual Environments
Virtual environments (VEs) such as Second Life or World of Warcraft can be more than entertainment; they also offer new ways to test concepts and prototypes, train employees, and anticipate actions of an opponent. The U.S. military and other government organizations are applying VEs to support achieving training, operational, and rehearsal objectives. Business enterprises are starting to use virtual realities to lower costs and increase capabilit…
The Gulf war
(1991). The Gulf war: technological and organizational implications. Survival: Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 260-273
Complexity, Rogue Outcomes and Weapon Systems
What are the organizational implications of adopting complex technologies? In this study of the U.S. Army's Ml 'Abrams tank, Chris C. Demchak details the organizational consequences of contending with the complications created by this new weapon system. She focuses attention on how the Army handled set outcomes-that is, those problems that are unknowable when the new technology is adopted. More complex organizational arrangements resulted from ef…
Military Organizations, Complex Machines
Coping, Copying, and Concentrating
This article provides a more nuanced understanding of the interaction of complex machines and military organizations. Western nations are currently turning to conventional advanced technologies as alternatives to nuclear weapons as well as solutions to manpower and budget constraints. Yet the long term structural effects are not well understood. Using empirical evidence of organizational learning and changes in the ground forces of Israel, Britai…
Modernizing Military Organizations and Political Control in Central Europe
The public policy issues of modernizing public agencies in Central Europe are nowhere more pressing than in the process of modernizing militaries. The leaders of central Europe – Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – plan to deploy smaller, more professional forces equipped with advanced weapons and support systems, changing their organizations accordingly. This paper argues that the political and organizational circumstances roughly…
Complex Adaptive Systems, Chaos, and Contemporary Policymaking
Numbers or Networks
Western nations including Israel are modernizing their militaries. They are turning to advanced technologies and information warfare as altematives to nuclear weapons and as solutions to manpower and budget constraints. For the same reasons, technological modernization of the Israeli Defense Force's ground organization has become a political and strategic necessity. The modernization process, however, is precipitating a wrenching and non-obvious …
Fundable knowledge
Watersheds in perception and knowledge
(1999). Watersheds in perception and knowledge. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 20, Critical Reflections on Security and Change, pp. 166-197
Technology's knowledge burden, the RMA and the IDF
Technology's Knowledge Burden, the RMA and the IDF
In modernizing the IDF by adopting many budget-reducing elements of the US-defined RMA model of a modern military, Israeli defense leaders are choosing a path highly problematical for the knowledge-conditions of the nation. Even in selected pieces, the RMA model remains a socio-technical arrangement most appropriate for an expeditionary army of a geographically isolated, wealthy society. This work reviews the RMA model's organizational knowledge …
The Sources of Military Change
In varying circumstances, military organizations around the world are undergoing major restructuring. This book explores why, and how, militaries change. The authors focus on a complex of three influencing factors—cultural norms, politics, and new technology—offering a historical perspective of more than a century. Their analyses range from developing states to Russia, Britain, the U.S., and NATO. Throughout, they reveal the manifold interactions…
Un-Muddling Homeland Security
Professor Demchak criticizes the current Homeland Security Agency proposal as a convenient piling together of overstretched small agencies. After identifying principles appropriate for designing complex systems, she then applies these principles for strategies to strengthen U.S. domestic security. She recommends developing an Atrium of information, or a semi-living database that captures, creates and shares knowledge across agencies rapidly. Such…
Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web
The foundations for governance in an information age are developing through the World Wide Web as it becomes the principal electronic public gateway into government organizations. Governmental openness is now important to a variety of strategies for governmental reform. The Web (a) makes government more efficient; (b) facilitates the functioning of new network-like arrangements between public organizations, the private sector, and citizens; and (…
Wars of Disruption
The US military's vigorous development of force multiplying information technologies during the late Cold War period set the stage for the emergence of a new form of warfare, one seen as legitimate even though it lacks the formal declaration of war – ‘wars of disruption’. ‘Wars of disruption’ are not inevitably lethal. Over the 1990s, however, military leaders channeled a traditional emphasis on lethality into many novel operations. New technolog…
Balancing Security and Privacy in the Information and Terrorism Age
National security policies adopted after 9/11 have generated an intense and polarized national debate on privacy versus security. Privacy advocates fight to reveal nothing about individuals while security advocates would have authorities know everything. There is, however a middle ground if one decomposes privacy into a basic set of two elements
A Theory of Action in Iraq
For the quagmire of Iraq, the three-state solution is a good one right now, and always has been the best choice. To recognize this inevitability, however, requires that the Bush Administration and its critics alike have an enduring and cohesive explanation for the emergence of the violent instability we see in Iraq. This essay suggests, first, a way to combine the basic elements of the three main streams of international relations in order to und…
Institutionalizing Behavior‐Based Privacy
After 9/11, a bitter national debate emerged pitting privacy against security. No theory of privacy or domestic security and no compromise blend of institutional insights and technological advances have been proposed to meet this dilemma. This work fills that gap by offering a middle ground proposing a knowledge‐based systems focus that parses privacy into two separable concepts: behavior and identity in the behavior–identity–knowledge (BIK) mode…
Designing Resilience
Designing resilience
In the wake of severe climatic events and terrorist acts, and the emergence of dangerous technologies, communities, nations, and global organizations have diligently sought to create strategies to prepare for such events. Designing Resilience presents case studies of extreme events and analyzes the ability of affected individuals, institutions, governments, and technological systems to cope with disaster. This volume defines resilience as it rela…
Resilience and Cyberspace
Cyberspace as a system has expanded exponentially across the globe as a massively complex universal substrate. It now demonstrates the surprises of large-scale socio-technical systems from electrical grids to just-in-time manufacturing supply chains, all of which increasingly support or are supported by cyberspace. These deeply linked, large-scale socio-technical systems (STSs) are creating nationally and globally interdependent "socio-cyber" sys…
Political science (20 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Computer security (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Engineering (6 works)