
A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security
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Globalization, population growth, migration, technology, aging infrastructure, and the simple trend to higher expectations are making homeland security more challenging. Yes, homeland security really is a global problem. The hyperconnectivity of today's world has reduced the capacity of the United States to act unilaterally or to solve homeland risks from within the borders alone.
Newsome and Jarmon explain the relevant concepts, the structural authorities and responsibilities that policymakers struggle with and within which practitioners must work, the processes that practitioners and professionals choose between or are obliged to use, the actual activities, and the end-states and outputs of these activities.
Moreover, this book presents the concept of homeland security as an evolving experience rather than an artifact of life since 2001. It is a profession that requires some forming from the ground up as well as the top down.
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Jack Jarmon, Ph.D., lectures at universities and public audiences. He was the Associate Director of the Command Control and Interoperability Center for Advance Data Analysis at Rutgers University (a DHS Center for Excellence) and adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University. From 2008-2009 he was a lecturer at University of Pennsylvania. While with Arthur Andersen in Moscow in the mid-nineties he was a USAID technical advisor to the South Russian Privatization Center. He also was Director of Strategic Alliances at Nortel Networks, Brampton, Canada. Jarmon received his BA from Rutgers University, an MA from Fordham University in Russian/Soviet Area Studies, and a PhD from Rutgers University in Global Affairs.
Content
Chapter 2: Structuring Homeland Security
Chapter 3: Laws of Homeland Security
Chapter 4: Transnational Crime
Chapter 5: Terrorism
Chapter 6: Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Radioactive, Explosive, and Energy (CBNREE) Hazards
Chapter 7: Natural Risks
Chapter 8: Intelligence
Chapter 9: Emergency Management
Chapter 10: Physical Site and Infrastructure Security
Chapter 11: Information, Communications, and Cyber Security
Chapter 12: Immigration and Border Security
Chapter 13: Transport Security
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