In reorganizing homeland defense after 9/11, the government had three options: White House control, power sharing between agencies, or congressional control.
By Charles Perrow
The Disaster after 9/11: The Department of Homeland Security and the Intelligence Reorganization →
The technological ability to distinguish drug plants from other plant types has important implications for law enforcement (LE), wildfire recovery, reservoir protection, environmental impact, agricultural issues, and military concerns. This ability, termed “deconvolution,” can be a valuable technological tool to fight drug trafficking and thus the war on terror.
By James Tindall
Philosophers have traditionally written from the perspective of ordinary people and they are as vulnerable to fear as other members of the public. Academic philosophers can contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of homeland security and disaster studies through extensions of social contract theory from political philosophy, and applications of moral systems.
By Naomi Zack
Homeland security is in a pre-paradigm phase as a professional discipline. There are at least four dozen ways colleges, universities, agencies, and textbook publishers have conceptualized homeland security education. A review of the principal themes presented by those entities identified over fifty topics that come under the rubric of “Homeland Security.”
By Christopher Bellavita and Ellen Gordon
Changing Homeland Security: Teaching the Core →
