By James Ramsay Over the past 20 years, “homeland security” (HLS) has evolved in countless ways; as a term of art, as a profession, as policy, as law, and as an academic discipline. Since 2005, higher education has added over 300 undergraduate programs as well as dozens of graduate and doctoral degrees, several annual conferences,…
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Rodrigo Nieto-Gòmez reflects on the impact of Marissa Madragal’s CHDS thesis, “Obsessive – Compulsive Homeland Security: Insights from the Neurobiological Security Motivation System.”
By Rodrigo Nieto-Gòmez During an interview with al-Jazeera in 2004, Osama bin Laden repeated something that he had spoken about before, with regards to his theory of the case behind the actions and operations of al-Qaeda: “We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too…
Putting the Lid on the Devil’s Toy Box: How the Homeland Security Enterprise Can Decide Which Emerging Threats to Address
Andrew Fox EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The pace of technological development and change is accelerating. Current and near-term developments in nanotechnology, materials science, and machine learning and artificial intelligence promise to pave the way for exponential growth in humanity’s abilities to create—and destroy. Emerging Promethean technologies promise to deliver to average persons of average financial means and…
Improving Resource Allocation Decisions to Reduce the Risk of Terrorist Attacks on Passenger Rail Systems
Lawrence King EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States transportation network is a vast enterprise consisting of highway, air, maritime, and rail sectors. The rail sector divides into freight and passenger systems. Each one has operational characteristics, structural features, and security vulnerabilities that differentiate it from the others. Passenger rail is experiencing a revival. In 2013, there…
Risk Unbound: Threat, Catastrophe, and the End of Homeland Security
Jacob Anderson EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Each of us is all the sums he has not counted…the seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock —Thomas Wolfe[1] The staircases in medieval castles often spiraled upward clockwise around a central newel. The reasoning for this…