The December 2024 Issue of Homeland Security Affairs examines significant developments in the technological and human dimensions of security challenges facing our nation. The five articles in this issue highlight the interplay between emerging analytical capabilities and evolving security threats and offer insights into defensive and offensive adaptations in contemporary security operations. Read more.
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
David Brannan reviews Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism (three editions, 1998, 2006, and 2017) →
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
Erik Dahl reviews Amy Zegart, Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and The Origins of 9/11 →
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
Sara Kay reviews Omar L. Harris, The Servant Leader’s Manifesto →
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
Anders Strindberg reviews Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality →
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
This article utilizes modern privacy theory to examine the differing approaches of Canadian and U.S. law enforcement to the use of camera technology and advancing video analytics. The article documents the deployment of camera technology in two comparably-sized urban centers in Canada and the U.S.
By Shawna Coxon and Don Zoufal
The use of scanning systems (e.g., radiation portal monitors and X-ray imagers) at border checkpoints is said to act as a deterrent to the smuggling of radiological/nuclear materials, drugs, and other illicit items. Can such deterrent effects be measured?
By George Thompson
Validating Deterrence Models for Scanning Technologies →
This article will discuss the evolution of deterrence theory, provide a brief overview of specific counterproliferation efforts, and apply principles of deterrence theory to these counterproliferation efforts.
By Eric Taquechel
Classical Deterrence Theory: Applicable to Maritime Counterproliferation Initiatives? →
Antagonistically induced mass casualty incidents (MCI) introduce unique conditions that are rarely addressed in current MCI policies. Many of today’s MCIs are intentional acts of violence, such as mass shootings, improvised explosions, mass stabbings, vehicle rammings, and other similar assault tactics.
By Luke Hodgson
