By Matthew Davison – Executive Summary – Electoral violence was a common occurrence during Reconstruction (1865-1877). The concentrated terror around voting rights and elections was not random. Nearly every local and national election during the decade after the Civil War …
Reconstruction Terror: Origins, Applications, and Implications →
By Eric M. Cooper – Executive Summary – Both the executive and legislative branches of government have mandated that evidence-based policymaking be implemented in federal governmental decisional processes.[1] Evidence-based policymaking is the theory that governments should develop “public policies, programs, …
Defeating and Deterring Domestic Terrorists Through Evidence-Based Policymaking →
By Jonathan Miller – Executive Summary – The objective of this thesis is to identify the extent to which defining cyberspace as a domain will affect the formulation of homeland security enterprise (HSE) policy related to cyberspace in the future. …
The Space Between: Policy Implications for the Conceptualization of Cyberspace as a Domain →
By Katie Riesner – Executive Summary – Mass migrations arriving at the southwest border of the United States are increasingly overwhelming the U.S. government’s ability to respond. When these events overwhelm U.S. immigration authorities, they can exacerbate security vulnerabilities. For …
A Surge on the Horizon: Improving U.S. Foresight Capacity to Anticipate Mass Migrations →
By Jonathan Graham – Executive Summary – Many Americans disapproved of the immigration enforcement policies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during the Trump administration. This thesis begins by asking what can be learned about DHS’s communications strategy during …
By Brian Hollan – Executive Summary – The dominant model of professional policing in the United States is the so-called “standard model,” which coalesced during the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Weisburd and Eck have identified key characteristics of the standard model …
Policing for the 22nd Century: A Complexity Theory-based Approach →
By Jaime Lier Chen – Executive Summary – The U.S. asylum program at the Southwest border is the locale of a dynamic, contentious crisis. The number of asylum seekers at the Mexico-U.S. border began to soar in 2014 as families …
Muted Voices: Toward an Understanding of the U.S. Asylum Program at the Southwest Border →
By Katelin Wright – Executive Summary – In the year 2020, climate change has proven itself a threat multiplier, amplifying risks to U.S. security today, and well into the future. Warming global temperatures affect not only the environment but also …
The Perfect Storm: Climate-Induced Migration to the United States →
By Christopher Adamczyk – Executive Summary – Identitarianism is a complex anti-liberal ideology based on the desire to preserve traditions, culture, and ethnicity against the perceived tide of ethnic replacement, globalism, and liberalism.[1] While certain identitarian leaders have moved away …
Gods versus Titans: Ideological Indicators of Identitarian Violence →
By Alana Tornello – Executive Summary – Recovery is the disaster after the disaster. The claim has been whispered around the proverbial campfires of emergency management (EM) for decades.[1] Scholars, practitioners, and survivors provide evidence to support this claim, particularly …
