In Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, the author introduces readers to System 1 and System 2 thinking. These cognitive processes compete when an individual is faced with a novel, often high stress situation.

By Bijan Karimi

Prior to Lewis’ work, infrastructure topics were siloed and missing any descriptive framework that could answer the question of “What is critical in critical infrastructure protection?” Lewis offered the first comprehensive overview of the systems problem associated with this question. 

By Tom Mackin

Hoffman’s publication was a wake-up call across the academic, policy, defense, and enforcement communities. The terror landscape was constantly changing, and Hoffman provided a preview of some of the significant implications from that change.

By David Brannan

Spying Blind will long be an important book to help us understand the seminal events that led to the creation of the American homeland security system and shaped the study of homeland security.

By Erik Dahl

Crow and Albright accomplish something that scholars have seldom achieved in the history of disaster studies: they have provided both valuable practical recommendations for local disaster leaders, and also fresh theoretical and empirical research on the subject of resilience.

By Caleb Cage

The Servant Leader’s Manifesto explains the why and how behind the servant leader approach to leadership, in just under 100 pages.

By Sara Kay

Considered one of most dense and least “liked” books in the CHDS Master’s program, it also – over half a century after publication – challenges and impacts students’ understanding of society and their own place in it.

By Anders Strindberg

This edition is heavily revised and incorporates the significant advances in our understanding of how to lead when lives are on the line, with plenty of lessons coming from America’s experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, and challenges at home.

By Paul Lester

Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation is a sine qua non for homeland security professionals’ examination of the security-democracy equation.

By Cristiana Matei