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By Dean C. Alexander
Published 9/3/2010
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This article addresses the complex and evolving nature of offline and online extremist and terrorist radicalization and recruitment. Crafting solutions that will reduce the prevalence of extremists’ and terrorists’ activities globally requires better appreciation of how such individuals are brought into the folds of radical individuals and groups. With that understanding, methods to lessen the occurrence and potency of extremists’ and terrorists’ radicalization and recruitment can be crafted and adopted.
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By Rose McDermott
Published 7/20/2010
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The novel challenges posed by the requirements of homeland security in the new age of terror present unique problems for academic scholarship as well as for infrastructure development and policy planning. In order to respond to this unique set of threats, academic scholarship should develop an integrative, interdisciplinary, problem-focused research program. This kind of approach seems positioned best to react in a timely and appropriate fashion to the particularly political and psychological problems posed by terrorist activity.
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By Daniel P. Aldrich
Published 7/2/2010
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Disasters remain among the most critical events that impact residents and their neighborhoods; they have killed far more individuals than terrorism. Unfortunately, disaster recovery programs run by the United States and foreign governments have not been updated to reflect a new understanding of the essential nature of social capital and networks. I call for a reorientation of disaster preparedness and recovery programs at all levels away from the standard fixes focused on physical infrastructure toward ones targeting social infrastructure. The reservoirs of social capital and the trust (or lack thereof) between citizens in disaster-affected communities can help us understand why some neighborhoods in cities such as Kobe, Japan; Tamil Nadu, India; and New Orleans displayed resilience while others stagnated. Social capital—the engine for recovery—can be deepened both through local initiatives and interventions from foreign agencies.
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By Brent L. Sterling
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Sterling examines case studies of instances in which a nation, facing a menu of prospective choices for securing a frontier, chose to build a strategic barrier. He then examines the subsequent implementation of this decision and its impact, says reviewer Scott Savitz, Ph.D., senior analyst, HOMELAND SECURITY STUDIES AND ANALYSIS INSTITUTE.
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By Allan McDougall and Robert Radvanovsky
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In Transportation Systems Security, the authors attempt to present the “strategic, operational, and practical considerations involved in the implementation of physical, procedural, and managerial safeguards required to keep all modes of transportation up and running during an actual or potential disaster.” Analytic Services senior editor Steve Dunham reviews the book.
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By James E. McGinley
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In Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Building Arab Democracy, Tamara Cofman Wittes challenges the failure of the Bush administration to advance its democracy agenda and the inability of incumbent Arab states to accommodate the rising needs and aspirations of their citizens. At stake is world stability in the face of an unsustainable status quo and seismic forces of social change. James E. McGinley reviews the book.
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Articles last updated 9/3/2010
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Book Reviews last updated 8/20/2010
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By Robert A. Young
Published 8/4/2010
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Evidence-based management—the application of tested, measurable guidelines to execute plans key to achieving program management goals—reduces variations in execution, instead standardizing the practices (as documented by evidence) and, when transformed into guidelines, in turn improves the quality of program management effort.
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By Amitai Etzioni
Published 2/9/2010
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Our coastlines are wide open.
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By Barry Kellman
Published 1/26/2010
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“How should we cope with a massive anthrax attack, and how can we prepare now so that our coping is optimal?” asks Barry Kellman. The policy progress manifest in President Obama’s Dec. 31 executive order “Medical Countermeasures Following a Biological Attack” and the Homeland Security Department’s Proposed Guidance for Protecting Responders’ Health During the First Week Following a Wide-Area Anthrax Attack” indicates a serious and commendable commitment to address anthrax threats. The question remains, however, whether all of these programs and policies add up to produce security from biothreats and whether more might usefully be done.
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7/17/2008
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The journal interviews Elaine C. Duke, Homeland Security Deputy Under Secretary for Management, about the Homeland Security Department’s plans for the transition to a new presidential administration.
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10/16/2006
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The journal interviews Admiral Thad Allen, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, who discusses the challenges facing the Coast Guard today.
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5/24/2006
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Quartel discusses the Dubai Ports World sale, cargo security, and international trade.
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Commentaries last updated 8/4/2010
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Interviews last updated 7/17/2008
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