Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 258
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-5381-0528-3 • Hardback • August 2017 • $82.00 • (£63.00)
978-1-5381-0529-0 • eBook • August 2017 • $77.50 • (£60.00)
Jesse Paul Lehrke is a Research Fellow at the German Research Institute for Public Administration in Speyer, Germany.
Chapter 1 – The Foundations of Open Participatory Security (OPS)
Chapter 2 – The Historical Evolution of Security, Technology, and Participation
Chapter 3 – The Gap between the Contemporary Strategic Context and Security System
Chapter 4 – Openness and Open Government: Limits, Possibilities, and Approaches
Chapter 5 – Filling the Security Gap: OPS for Objective Security
Chapter 6 – Closing the Insecurity Gap: OPS for Subjective Security
Chapter 7 – Toward a Perpetual-Beta Open Participatory Security
Open Participatory Security is a necessary book. It is part of a new body of literature that fixes a key problem in cybersecurity thinking by reintroducing society and human conflict to a topic often reduced to the artifacts of the threat and the fear they produce, forgetting the sociotechnical nature of the internet and the way internet technologies make the world a better place. Anybody who cares about our internet culture, including but not limited to cybersecurity, will benefit from understanding what an open participatory security model will do for our internet enabled civilization.
— Rodrigo Nieto Gómez, professor of internet, society, and cyberconflict, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School
Jesse Lehrke offers a whole new way of thinking about technology and security in the 21st century. Today, governments hold their technological secrets close, and most ordinary citizens see little reason -- and have little ability -- to engage seriously in discussions about security policy. The result? We have bureaucratized state-centric technologies that are often ill-suited to today's security challenges, and a populace that views the challenges of ensuring security as someone else's problem. But with the right architectures -- and a "perpetual beta" approach to design -- new and emerging technologies can enable a more open, participatory, crowd-sourced approach to security, one capable of marshaling a far wider range of human talent and bridging the vexing gaps between citizens and the state. If you care about security, or technology, or the future of open, democratic societies, you need to read this book.
— Rosa Brooks, professor of law, Georgetown University