Terrorism and Homeland Security: Thinking Strategically About Policy

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Paul Viotti, Michael Opheim, Nicholas Bowen
CRC Press, 17/06/2008 - 352 páginas
Despite the fact that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been active since November of 2002, the American homeland is still not secure from terrorist attack. What passes as DHS strategy is often just a list of objectives with vague references to the garnering of national resources, and the marshalling of support from other nations. Drawi
 

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Chapter 1 Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for Terrorism and Homeland Security
3
An Integrated Grand Strategy
19
Homeland Security and the Cold War Legacy of Defenselessness
33
Chapter 4 Terrorism and Deterrence by Denial
53
Chapter 5 The Importance of Multinational and Transnational Cooperation Strategies for Homeland Security
69
Terrorism Homeland Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction WMD
99
New Threads Revised Responses
101
Prevention and Response
119
Chapter 10 Democracy Civil Society and the DamageLimitation Component of Strategy
191
Chapter 11 Transportation as a Component of Homeland Security Strategy
207
Chapter 12 Redefining US Energy Security in the TwentyFirst Century
227
Terrorism and Securing the Homeland
253
The National Strategy for Homeland Security
263
Bibliography
275
Glossary
291
Index
309

Strategy and the Safeguarding of Society and Its Infrastructure From Terrorism and Other Threats
145
Biological Terrorism Pandemics and Other Forgotten Catastrophic Disaster Threats
147
A Local Government Perspective
171
Back cover
327
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