Editors' introduction: special issue on homeland security

2007

This is a book review article for the Advances in Homeland Security Series by Purdue University. The series consist of two volumes. Volume one is entitled The Science of Homeland

Safeguarding Homeland Security, 2009

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This text is dedicated to the professional in emergency management and homeland security who is willing to go into harm's way to ensure our nation and world remain as safe as possible so that we can live, work, and raise our families. We also would like to dedicate this work to our families and friends who have encouraged us throughout this project.

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 2006

David G. Kamien has assembled a collection of articles on a range of homeland security and emergency management topics for The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook. An eclectic collection, reviewer William Cumming finds it to be a useful contribution to the literature and helpful to both practitioners and analysts.

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The concept homeland security is not new in the United States yet the institutionalization of a Department of Homeland Security is a recent development. The paper seeks an attempt to examine and analyse the origin of the dedicated Department and complexities involve in dealing with the challenges to homeland security in the US. It also investigates if homeland security policies have a direct link to the failures of US foreign and national security policies abroad.

Homeland Security Affairs, 2008

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.?Marcus Aurelius (121-180)What events and trends shaped the homeland security terrain last year?In December we asked members of the Naval Postgraduate School's extended homeland security network 1 to respond to two questions:* From your perspective ? and using whatever criteria you'd like ? what would you say was a top homeland security-related issue or story in 2008? And why?* Please identify something you consider to be an emerging homeland security issue. (For the purposes of this question, emerging issues are embryonic concerns that may develop into significant problems or opportunities in the future.)Their responses highlighted the 2008 presidential election, the terrorist attack in Mumbai, the economic meltdown, the chaos on the southern border, the continued quest to define homeland security, and an expanding threat spectrum, including the cyber threat ? possibly the year&#...

Homeland Security Affairs, 2007

This article presents what I consider to be ten essential homeland security books. The list is personal and provisional. The discipline is too new to have a canon. We need to continuously examine what is signal and what is background noise in homeland security's academic environment. Much has been written about homeland security. A lot more is in the publishing pipeline. My list includes books I find myself returning to as I seek to understand contemporary homeland security events. Beyond personal interest, I believe they form a foundation for a growing understanding of the parameters of what it means to study homeland security as a professional discipline. Other books-and important articles-could be added, but ten is sufficient to start.

Journal of Government Information, 2002

The United States has faced with several threats and challenges against its national interest and homeland, particularly in the past two decades. In the aftermath of 09/11 terrorist attacks, perception and management of security in the US has changed dramatically. Furthermore, The Katrina Storm has unveiled the necessity of military forces to overcome the natural disasters. It is anticipated that 21st century security challenges will be more complicated, diverse and multi-dimensional than even before existed, that independent nations may not able to defeat the terrorist attacks or survive against natural disasters without close collaboration with nation-states and international organizations. By and with the reasons of those challenges and threats, dividing security a distinct rules and responsibilities amongst national agencies seems questionable and partly unfeasible. Within this context, it is quite predictable that the US and other states to be faced with challenges including natural disasters and terrorist attacks; moreover, those challenges will definitely have a deep impact on their homeland and natural security considerations. End state to abstract: This research paper does not aim to provide solutions or recommendations to National Security (NS) and Homeland Security (HS), but to list the main challenges, give academic feedbacks and provide a conceptual correlation between National Security (NS) and Homeland Security (HS). Key words: Security challenges, National Security and Homeland Security, terrorist, attacks, natural disasters.