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Understanding the Department of Homeland Security
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ISBN: 9781598887419 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham London [etc.] Bernan Press

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Fundamentals of homeland security : an operations perspective
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ISBN: 9780398087852 9780398087869 0398087865 Year: 2014 Publisher: Springfield, Illinois : Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd,

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The mission, authority, organization, role, function, and the fundamental terminology that affects homeland security in the United States is examined in this book. Homeland security demands quick, effective organization to operate in emergencies, but simultaneously defies it by the limited time frame and sheer scope of the problem. The author focuses on the five core missions of homeland security: preventing terrorism, securing borders, enforcing immigration law, safeguarding cyber systems, and ensuring resilience to disasters. These core missions require five common skill areas for homeland s


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Governing security : the hidden origins of American security agencies
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ISBN: 0804784345 9780804784344 9780804770699 0804770697 9780804770705 0804770700 Year: 2013 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books,

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Statutes and regulations are frequently designed to affect the public in specific ways. But exactly how these laws ultimately impact the public often depends on how politicians go about securing control of the complex public agencies that implement policies, and how these organizations in turn are used to define the often-contested concept of "national security." Governing Security explores this dynamic by investigating the surprising history of two major federal agencies that touch the lives of Americans every day: the Roosevelt-era Federal Security Agency––which eventually became today's Department of Health and Human Services––and the more recently created Department of Homeland Security. By describing the legal, political, and institutional history of both organizations, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar offers a compelling account of crucial developments affecting the basic architecture of our nation. He shows how Americans end up choosing security goals not through an elaborate technical process, but in lively and overlapping settings involving conflict over statutory programs, agency autonomy, presidential power, and priorities for domestic and international risk regulation. Ultimately, as Cuéllar shows, ongoing fights about the scope of national security reshape the very structure of government and the intricate process through which statutes and regulations are implemented, particularly during––or in anticipation of––a national crisis.


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Privacy and border controls in the fight against terrorism : a fundamental rights analysis of passenger data sharing
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ISBN: 9789004439498 9789004439481 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff,

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"This book offers a legal analysis of sharing of passenger data from the EU to the US in light of the EU legal framework protecting individuals' privacy and personal data. It aims to situate this analysis with respect to the ever-growing policies of Global North countries to introduce pre-screening procedures in border control proceedings for the purpose of the fight against terrorism. By tracing the literature on the (in)securitisation and as such depoliticization of border controls through technology-led interventions, it explores the multiplicity of purposes that passenger data sharing entail and considers the question on the limitability of fundamental rights depending on its purpose"--


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Bridging the gap : prototype tools to support local disaster preparedness planning and collaboration
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ISBN: 0833079883 0833076833 9780833079886 9780833076830 Year: 2012 Publisher: Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation,

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U.S. policymakers have stepped up systematic disaster preparedness efforts sharply since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a plethora of federal initiatives. Against a backdrop of natural disasters that occur each year in the United States and heightened concern about pandemic influenza, there is an emerging national consensus that the best path is an all-hazards approach to disaster preparedness planning and that effective local planning is critical. Military installations and their civilian counterparts-local government and local health-care providers, especially the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs-can strengthen local-level disaster preparedness planning. This report describes the prototype capabilities-based planning tool that RAND developed and the two prototype networking tools that RAND adapted to help local military and civilian planners collaborate in disaster preparedness.

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Emergency management --- North America --- Government Programs --- Disasters --- Environment --- Social Sciences --- Americas --- Geographic Locations --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Geographicals --- United States --- Disaster Planning --- Civil Defense --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Emergency Preparedness --- Civil Defenses --- Defense, Civil --- Defenses, Civil --- Preparedness, Emergency --- Disaster Relief Planning --- Disaster Relief Plannings --- Planning, Disaster --- Planning, Disaster Relief --- Plannings, Disaster Relief --- Relief Planning, Disaster --- Relief Plannings, Disaster --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Environmental Impact --- Environmental Impacts --- Impact, Environmental --- Impacts, Environmental --- Environments --- Natural Disaster --- Natural Disasters --- Disaster --- Disaster, Natural --- Disasters, Natural --- Government Sponsored Programs --- Government-Sponsored Programs --- Government Program --- Government Sponsored Program --- Government-Sponsored Program --- Program, Government --- Program, Government Sponsored --- Program, Government-Sponsored --- Programs, Government --- Programs, Government Sponsored --- Programs, Government-Sponsored --- United States Department of Homeland Security --- Environmental Health --- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident --- National Health Programs


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Journal of disaster research
ISSN: 18838030 Year: 2006 Publisher: [Tokyo, Japan] Fuji Technology Press

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Disasters --- Emergency management --- Disaster relief --- Crisis management --- Civil defense --- Civil defense. --- Crisis management. --- Disaster relief. --- Disasters. --- Emergency management. --- Emergencies --- Disaster Planning --- Civil Defense --- Relief Work --- Emergencies. --- Disaster Planning. --- Civil Defense. --- Relief Work. --- Consequence management (Emergency management) --- Disaster planning --- Disaster preparedness --- Disaster prevention --- Emergency planning --- Emergency preparedness --- Management --- Public safety --- First responders --- Calamities --- Catastrophes --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Human services --- Crises --- Management of crises --- Problem solving --- Conflict management --- Air defenses, Civil --- Civilian defense --- Defense, Civil --- Protection of civilians --- Defensive (Military science) --- Humanitarian Assistance --- Assistance, Humanitarian --- Assistances, Humanitarian --- Humanitarian Assistances --- Relief Works --- Work, Relief --- Works, Relief --- Social Work --- Rescue Work --- Emergency Preparedness --- Civil Defenses --- Defenses, Civil --- Preparedness, Emergency --- United States Department of Homeland Security --- Disaster Relief Planning --- Disaster Relief Plannings --- Planning, Disaster --- Planning, Disaster Relief --- Plannings, Disaster Relief --- Relief Planning, Disaster --- Relief Plannings, Disaster --- Emergency --- Emergency Treatment --- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident --- Planning --- Preparedness --- Prevention --- Catástrofes --- Gestión de emergencias --- Asistencia en catástrofes --- Gestión de crisis --- Protección civil --- Crísis management


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The government of emergency : Vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security
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ISBN: 0691228884 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"In the middle decades of the twentieth century, in the wake of economic depression, war, and in the midst of the Cold War, an array of technical experts and government officials developed a substantial body of expertise to contain and manage the disruptions to American society caused by unprecedented threats. Today the tools invented by these mid-twentieth century administrative reformers are largely taken for granted, assimilated into the everyday workings of government. As Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff argue in this book, the American government's current practices of disaster management can be traced back to this era. Collier and Lakoff argue that an understanding of the history of this initial formation of the "emergency state" is essential to an appreciation of the distinctive ways that the U.S. government deals with crises and emergencies-or fails to deal with them-today. This book focuses on historical episodes in emergency or disaster planning and management. Some of these episodes are well-known and have often been studied, while others are little-remembered today. The significance of these planners and managers is not that they were responsible for momentous technical innovations or that all their schemes were realized successfully. Their true significance lies in the fact that they formulated a way of understanding and governing emergencies that has come to be taken for granted"--

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Disaster relief --- Emergency management --- History --- History --- Act of God. --- Aftermath of the September 11 attacks. --- Authoritarianism. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Catastrophe modeling. --- Catastrophism. --- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. --- Civil defense. --- Climate change. --- Climate risk. --- Collective security. --- Conscription. --- Constitution. --- Constitutional dictatorship. --- Contemporary society. --- Contexts. --- Continuity of government. --- Critical infrastructure protection. --- Critical infrastructure. --- Decree. --- Defense Production Act. --- Demography. --- Dictatorship. --- Disaster. --- Economics. --- Emergency Preparedness. --- Emergency communication system. --- Emergency management. --- Enemy Objectives Unit. --- Energy crisis. --- Executive order. --- Federal Civil Defense Administration. --- Federal Emergency Management Agency. --- Federal government of the United States. --- Financial crisis. --- Foreign policy. --- General Services Administration. --- Governing (magazine). --- Government Office. --- Government agency. --- Homeland security. --- Humanitarian aid. --- Impose. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Internal security. --- Legislation. --- Lend-Lease. --- Liberal democracy. --- Martial law. --- Medical emergency. --- Mercantilism. --- Militarization. --- Military history. --- Military strategy. --- Mobilization. --- Modernity. --- National Security Strategy (United States). --- National security. --- Natural disaster. --- Nuclear warfare. --- Office for Emergency Management. --- Office of Defense Mobilization. --- Office of Emergency Management. --- Office of Emergency Planning (Ireland). --- Paul Rabinow. --- Planning. --- Politics. --- Preparedness. --- Problematization. --- Progressivism. --- Provision (contracting). --- Public administration. --- Reflexive modernization. --- Reinsurance. --- Risk management. --- Scenario planning. --- Securitization. --- Security agency. --- Separation of powers. --- Sovereignty. --- State of emergency. --- Strategic National Stockpile. --- Strategic intelligence. --- Supply (economics). --- Technology. --- Terrorism. --- Total war. --- Ulrich Beck. --- United States Department of Homeland Security. --- Vulnerability (computing). --- Vulnerability assessment. --- Vulnerability. --- War Powers Resolution. --- War Production Board. --- War economy. --- Weimar Republic. --- Westphalian sovereignty. --- World War I. --- World War II.


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Subtle tools : the dismantling of American democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump
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ISBN: 9780691216560 0691216568 0691215839 0691216568 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"Despite assertions about the unprecedented nature of his presidency, few of Trump's policies have been novel; many had been proposed in varied form throughout the latter years of the 20th century. Yet it was not until 9/11 that many of these policies started to take hold. In this intellectual and political history, Greenberg traces the evolving language, law, governance and policy that began to redefine the nation in the wake of 9/11 and shows how these took a transformative step forward under Donald Trump. Rampant executive power, exceptionalism in foreign affairs, racism and xenophobia, disinformation, and a disdain for the law-all found secure footing initially after the attacks of 9/11 and with new energy and rootedness in the era of Trump. Ultimately, Greenberg shows how Trump repurposed the war on terror playbook and turned it on democracy itself. The book outlines the "subtle tools" that were put into place in the wake of 9/11 and that paved the way for Trump's politics today: imprecision and vagueness in language, secrecy and the hiding of facts, bureaucratic porousness, and the abandonment of norms. Greenberg shows, for instance, how the all-encompassing language used in the Authorizations for Use of Military Force (which ultimately authorized the Iraq War) became characteristic of other policies, providing legal grounding for previously illegal practices like the indefinite detention of "detainees" at Guantanamo Bay and of children and adults at the southern border. These tools--subtle enough to evade public scrutiny--hold the key, Greenberg argues, to understanding the trajectory of our democracy over the last two decades. In mapping out democratic vulnerabilities, the book also points to the reforms that would be needed to strengthen and ground American governance. Overall, the result is a book deeply grounded in interview, legal documents, and archival work that finds a new origin point for the story of the Trump-era and reveals the deep connection between the war and terror and our current political life"-- "How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itself. In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen and undetected by the public, however, another set of tools were brought to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of today's leading experts on the US security state shows how these "subtle tools" imperiled the very foundations of democracy, from the separation of powers and transparency in government to adherence to the Constitution.Taking readers from Ground Zero to the Capitol insurrection, Karen Greenberg describes the subtle tools that were forged under George W. Bush in the name of security: imprecise language, bureaucratic confusion, secrecy, and the bypassing of procedural and legal norms. While the power and legacy of these tools lasted into the Obama years, reliance on them increased exponentially in the Trump era, both in the fight against terrorism abroad and in battles closer to home. Greenberg discusses how the Trump administration weaponized these tools to separate families at the border, suppress Black Lives Matter protests, and attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.Revealing the deeper consequences of the war on terror, Subtle Tools paints a troubling portrait of an increasingly undemocratic America where disinformation, xenophobia, and disdain for the law became the new norm, and where the subtle tools of national security threatened democracy itself"--

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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism, 2001-2009 --- Global War on Terror, 2001-2009 --- GWOT, 2001-2009 (War on Terrorism) --- Terror War, 2001-2009 --- Terrorism War, 2001-2009 --- War against Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- War on Terror, 2001-2009 --- Military history, Modern --- Terrorism --- World politics --- Afghan War, 2001-2021 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001 --- -Politcal aspects. --- Prevention --- Trump, Donald, --- Trump, Donald J., --- Tramp, Donalʹd, --- Трамп, Дональд, --- 川普唐納德, --- The Donald, --- Donald, --- Trump, Donald John, --- United States --- Politics and government --- Politcal aspects. --- Abuse of power. --- Accountability. --- Activism. --- Aftermath of the September 11 attacks. --- Aircraft. --- Al-Qaeda. --- Assassination. --- At Best. --- Attempt. --- Ballot. --- By-law. --- Civil service. --- Cold War (1985–91). --- Complaint. --- Counter-terrorism. --- Credential. --- Crime. --- Declaration of war. --- Deference. --- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. --- Deportation. --- Detainer. --- Directive (European Union). --- Director of National Intelligence. --- Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. --- Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. --- Donald Trump. --- Economy of Iran. --- Electoral fraud. --- Enemy combatant. --- Enhanced interrogation techniques. --- Establishment Clause. --- Executive order. --- Federal government of the United States. --- Fraud. --- Gennifer Flowers. --- George W. Bush. --- Governor of Oregon. --- Hillary Clinton. --- Homeland Security Act. --- Homeland security. --- Illegal immigration. --- Immigration policy. --- Immigration. --- Inauguration. --- Injunction. --- Inspector general. --- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. --- Islamic terrorism. --- James Comey. --- John Ashcroft. --- Joint session. --- Law enforcement. --- Lawsuit. --- Legislator. --- Louis Freeh. --- Michael Chertoff. --- Military deployment. --- Mission creep. --- Muslims (nationality). --- National Security Entry-Exit Registration System. --- National security. --- Nomination. --- Patriot Act. --- Plaintiff. --- Politics and the English Language. --- Posse Comitatus Act. --- Prisoner of war. --- Proclamation. --- Prosecutor. --- Protest. --- Qasem Soleimani. --- Recommendation (European Union). --- Refugee. --- Reince Priebus. --- Robert Bork. --- Robert F. Kennedy. --- Rubber bullet. --- Ryan Crocker. --- Secrecy. --- Solicitor General. --- Statute. --- Taliban. --- Targeted killing. --- Tear gas. --- Terrorism. --- Torture. --- Un-American. --- United States Department of Homeland Security. --- United States Department of State. --- Unrest. --- Vetting. --- Voting Rights Act of 1965. --- Voting. --- Waiver. --- War Powers Resolution. --- War. --- Warfare. --- Watergate scandal. --- White supremacy.


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The presidency of Donald J. Trump : a first historical assessment
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ISBN: 0691228957 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"Donald Trump took office in 2017 amid an increasingly polarized political field. He quickly carved out a loyal base among the radical wing of the Republican party, dominated the news cycle with an endless stream of controversies, and, with the support of his voting base and party, presided over one of the most publicized, dramatic, and contentious one-term presidencies in American history. In The Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Julian Zelizer gathers leading American historians to put President Trump and his administration into political and historical context. These scholars offer strikingly original assessments of the central issues that shaped the Trump years, including the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements, Trump's crusade against media he dubbed "fake news ," the border wall and immigration more broadly, the rapid rise of open white supremacy, the national COVID-19 response, the calls to "defund the police," the efforts to contest the outcome of the election, and the January 6th insurrection, among others. Together, these essays argue that the Trump presidency was not unprecedented, but it represented and emerged from the long-term development of the Republican Party and American polarization more broadly"--

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Political culture. --- Political culture --- History --- Trump, Donald, --- United States --- Politics and government --- 2016 Republican National Convention. --- Activism. --- Adviser. --- Al Gore. --- American Capitalism. --- Americans for Prosperity. --- Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories. --- Barack Obama. --- Bernie Sanders. --- Big government. --- Bill Clinton. --- Bill Cosby. --- Billionaire. --- Boris Johnson. --- Brand New Congress. --- Chris Christie. --- Clinton Cash. --- Clinton Foundation. --- David Axelrod. --- Dean Rusk. --- Director of National Intelligence. --- Donald Trump Jr. --- Donald Trump. --- Electoral College (United States). --- Erik Prince. --- Executive privilege. --- Federation for American Immigration Reform. --- Financial crisis of 2007–08. --- Foreign policy. --- Franklin Pierce. --- Fred Trump. --- George W. Bush. --- Gerald Ford. --- Harry S. Truman. --- Hillary Clinton. --- Hubert Humphrey. --- Immigration law. --- Immigration policy. --- Immigration. --- Impeachment. --- Infrastructure. --- Ivanka Trump. --- James Comey. --- Joe Biden. --- John McCain. --- Ku Klux Klan. --- Landslide victory. --- Liberal elite. --- Lyndon B. Johnson. --- Mitt Romney. --- National security. --- Nativism (politics). --- New Federalism. --- Newt Gingrich. --- Nobel Prize. --- Norman Ornstein. --- Occupy Wall Street. --- On China. --- Pat Buchanan. --- Political positions of Donald Trump. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Postmodernism (international relations). --- Presidency of Barack Obama. --- Presidency of Bill Clinton. --- Presidency of Donald Trump. --- Presidency of George W. Bush. --- Presidency of Ronald Reagan. --- President Elect (video game). --- President of the United States. --- Presidential nominee. --- Protest. --- Racism. --- Reagan Era. --- Republican National Committee. --- Republican National Convention. --- Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016. --- Richard Nixon. --- Ronald Reagan. --- Saddam Hussein. --- Sean Hannity. --- Stop Trump movement. --- Tax cut. --- The New York Times. --- The Trump Organization. --- Trump Steaks. --- Trump effect. --- U.S. presidential impeachment. --- United States Department of Homeland Security. --- United States Department of State. --- United States presidential election, 2016. --- United States presidential election, 2020. --- United States presidential inauguration. --- Vice President of the United States. --- Vladimir Putin. --- Voting. --- White nationalism. --- White supremacy. --- William F. Buckley Jr. --- Woodrow Wilson.

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