The homeland security dilemma
Subtitle: fear, failure and the future of American security
By: Frank P. Harvey.
Series: Contemporary security studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415775151; 9780203894248
Subjects: Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention; National security -- United States
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The origins of homeland security dilemma; title: Rising public expectations and higher standards for measuring performance; title: The power and triumph of failure; title: Public imagination and probability neglect; title: Political imagination and motivation; title: Declining support for sacrificing civil liberties; title: Multilateral failures and the HSD; title: Homeland security dilemma and political motivations; title: Revisiting the overblown thesis: logical, empirical and theoretical problems; title: Non-falsifiability of overblown theory; title: Weak theories lead to simple (mistaken) solutions; title: Conclusion: The homeland security dilemma and the future.