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Letters & CommentsChristopher Bellavita
Christopher Bellavita teaches at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he serves as the director of academic programs for the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Dr. Bellavita is the executive editor of Homeland Security Affairs, and a contributing editor to the Homeland Security Watch blog. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bellavita may be reached at christopherbellavita@gmail.com.
Changing Homeland Security: Twelve Questions From 2009
ABSTRACT:
For our third annual Year in Review essay, Christopher Bellavita reviews and categorizes several hundred 2009 homeland security news stories. The stories suggest at least twelve questions that frame some important homeland security puzzles, with “puzzle" used in the same way Thomas Kuhn used the word to describe what spurs progress in science. These puzzles cover risk, preparedness, immigration, FEMA, intelligence, technology, aviation and cyber security, privacy, torture, Islam, and public health. The topics discussed in the essay are not the only issues from 2009 that create puzzles for homeland security. Others could be added. Identifying core puzzles may assist the continued evolution of homeland security as a professional discipline.
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Bellavita, Christopher. “Changing Homeland Security: Twelve Questions From 2009.” Homeland Security Affairs VI, no. 1 (January 2010)http://www.hsaj.org/?article=6.1.1