Threats to Homeland Security - Reassessing the All-Hazards Perspective

Addresses threats to homeland security from terrorism and emergency management from natural disasters
 
Threats to Homeland Security, Second Edition examines the foundations of today's security environment, from broader national security perspectives to specific homeland security interests and concerns. It covers what we protect, how we protect it, and what we protect it from. In addition, the book examines threats from both an international perspective (state vs non-state actors as well as kinds of threat capabilities--from cyber-terrorism to weapons of mass destruction) and from a national perspective (sources of domestic terrorism and future technological challenges, due to globalization and an increasingly interconnected world).
 
This new edition of Threats to Homeland Security updates previous chapters and provides new chapters focusing on new threats to homeland security today, such as the growing nexus between crime and terrorism, domestic and international intelligence collection, critical infrastructure and technology, and homeland security planning and resources--as well as the need to reassess the all-hazards dimension of homeland security from a resource and management perspective.
* Features new chapters on homeland security intelligence, crime and domestic terrorism, critical infrastructure protection, and resource management
* Provides a broader context for assessing threats to homeland security from the all-hazards perspective, to include terrorism and natural disasters
* Examines potential targets at home and abroad
* Includes a comprehensive overview of U.S. policy, strategy, and technologies for preventing and countering terrorism
* Includes self-assessment areas, key terms, summary questions, and application exercises. On-line content includes PPT lessons for each chapter and a solutions key for academic adopters
 
Threats to Homeland Security, Second Edition is an excellent introductory text on homeland security for educators, as well as a good source of training for professionals in a number of homeland security-related disciplines.

List of contents

Notes on Contributors xiii
 
Preface xvi
 
Acknowledgments xxiii
 
1. The Changing Nature of National Security 1
 
Introduction 2
 
1.1 Foundations of American Security Policy 2
 
1.1.1 Geopolitics at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 3
 
1.1.2 National Security and World War II 6
 
Self-Check 8
 
1.2 Security in the Cold War Era 8
 
1.2.1 Bipolarity versus Multipolarity 10
 
1.2.2 Containing Communism 12
 
1.2.3 Non-Communist Threats 16
 
Self-Check 17
 
1.3 Security in the Post-Cold War Era: Pre-9/11 17
 
1.3.1 Changing Threats 18
 
1.3.2 New Conflicts, New Responses 18
 
1.3.3 Reorganization of National Security Policy 20
 
Self-Check 21
 
1.4 National Security and Terrorism: Post-9/11 21
 
1.4.1 Globalization and Geopolitics 22
 
1.4.2 The Bush Administration's Global War on Terrorism 24
 
1.4.3 The Obama Administration's New National
 
Security Strategy 26
 
1.4.4 Homeland Security and National Security 27
 
Self-Check 28
 
Summary 29
 
Key Terms 30
 
Assess Your Understanding 35
 
Summary Questions 35
 
Applying This Chapter 36
 
You Try It 37
 
2. Reassessing the All-Hazards Perspective 38
 
Introduction 39
 
2.1 Natural Disasters: Things We Can Expect to Happen 39
 
2.1.1 The History of Natural Disasters in the United States 40
 
2.1.2 Natural Disaster Response 41
 
2.1.3 Natural Disasters in a Post-9/11 World 44
 
Self-Check 46
 
2.2 Accidental Hazards: Things We Can Try to Prevent 46
 
2.2.1 History of Accidental Hazards in the United States 46
 
2.2.2 Accidental Hazard Prevention and Response 48
 
2.2.3 Accidental Hazards in a Post-9/11 World 50
 
Self-Check 51
 
2.3 Man-Made Hazards: Things We Hope Don't Happen 51
 
2.3.1 History of Man-Made Disasters Caused by
 
Human Error in the United States 52
 
2.3.2 Man-Made Disaster Mitigation and Response 53
 
2.3.3 Man-Made Disasters in a Post-9/11 World 55
 
Self-Check 56
 
2.4 Reassessing the All-Hazards Perspective and Disasters 56
 
Self-Check 59
 
Summary 59
 
Key Terms 60
 
Assess Your Understanding 62
 
Summary Questions 62
 
Applying This Chapter 63
 
You Try It 64
 
3. Us Homeland Security Interests 65
 
Introduction 66
 
3.1 What Is Homeland Security? 66
 
3.1.1 The Merging of Traditions 67
 
3.1.2 Prevailing Homeland Security Theories 71
 
Self-Check 76
 
3.2 Additional Context for Homeland Security 77
 
3.2.1 Urban Versus Rural 77
 
3.2.2 Technologies 78
 
3.2.3 Political and Economic Factors 79
 
3.2.4 Security Versus Civil Liberties 81
 
Self-Check 84
 
3.3 Homeland Security Enterprise 84
 
3.3.1 Federal Partners 85
 
3.3.2 State and Local Partners 90
 
3.3.3 Whole Community Partners 91
 
Self-Check 97
 
3.4 Revisiting the All-Hazards Approach 98
 
Self-Check 100
 
Summary 101
 
Key Terms 101
 
Assess Your Understanding 105
 
Summary Questions 105
 
Applying This Chapter 106
 
You Try It 108
 
4. Understanding Threat Assessments 109
 
Introduction 110
 
4.1 Background on Threat Assessments and Risk Management 111
 
4.1.1 Risk Management and Threat Assessment from the
 
All-Hazards Perspective 111
 
4.1.2

About the author

Richard J. Kilroy, Jr., is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC where he teaches courses in Intelligence Operations, Intelligence Analysis, Terrorism and Political Violence, Security Management and Risk Assessment, Homeland Security, and U.S.-Latin American Relations in support of Information Systems Technology, Political Science, and Intelligence and National Security Studies degree programs. He spent 23 years in active duty as an Army Intelligence and Latin America Foreign Area Officer.

Summary

Addresses threats to homeland security from terrorism and emergency management from natural disasters

Threats to Homeland Security, Second Edition examines the foundations of today's security environment, from broader national security perspectives to specific homeland security interests and concerns. It covers what we protect, how we protect it, and what we protect it from. In addition, the book examines threats from both an international perspective (state vs non-state actors as well as kinds of threat capabilities--from cyber-terrorism to weapons of mass destruction) and from a national perspective (sources of domestic terrorism and future technological challenges, due to globalization and an increasingly interconnected world).

This new edition of Threats to Homeland Security updates previous chapters and provides new chapters focusing on new threats to homeland security today, such as the growing nexus between crime and terrorism, domestic and international intelligence collection, critical infrastructure and technology, and homeland security planning and resources--as well as the need to reassess the all-hazards dimension of homeland security from a resource and management perspective.
* Features new chapters on homeland security intelligence, crime and domestic terrorism, critical infrastructure protection, and resource management
* Provides a broader context for assessing threats to homeland security from the all-hazards perspective, to include terrorism and natural disasters
* Examines potential targets at home and abroad
* Includes a comprehensive overview of U.S. policy, strategy, and technologies for preventing and countering terrorism
* Includes self-assessment areas, key terms, summary questions, and application exercises. On-line content includes PPT lessons for each chapter and a solutions key for academic adopters

Threats to Homeland Security, Second Edition is an excellent introductory text on homeland security for educators, as well as a good source of training for professionals in a number of homeland security-related disciplines.

Product details

• Authors: Richard J Kilroy, Richard J. Kilroy, Rj Kilroy
• Assisted by: Richar J Kilroy (Editor), Richard J Kilroy (Editor), Richard J. Kilroy (Editor), Kilroy Richard J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781119251811
• ISBN: 978-1-119-25181-1
• No. of pages: 576
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Chemie, Innere Sicherheit, Sicherheitsmanagement, chemistry, Homeland Security, security management, Health & Social Care, Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen, Chemical and Environmental Health and Safety, Arbeitssicherheit u. Umweltschutz i. d. Chemie, Arbeitsschutz u. Arbeitssicherheit, Occupational Health & Safety