The homeland security dilemma : fear, failure and the future of American insecurity / / Frank P. Harvey.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary security studies
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 284 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The origins of the homeland security dilemma
- Rising public expectations and higher standards for measuring performance
- The power and triumph of failure
- Public imagination and probability neglect
- Political imagination and motivation
- Declining support for sacrificing civil liberties
- Multilateral failures and the HSD
- Homeland security dilemma and political motivations
- Revisiting the Overblown thesis: logical, empirical and theoretical problems
- Non-falsifiability of Overblown theory
- Weak theories lead to simple (mistaken) solutions
- Conclusion: The homeland security dilemma and the future.