Each chapter comprises a discussion of strategic policies followed by a set of countries in the context of the subset of Homeland Security addressed in that particular chapter. The book also delves into cybersecurity policy issues, an area that has been growing exponentially but was not touched on in the first edition.

. Introduces the reader to a variety of overseas homeland security strategies, policies, and practices in order to present approaches to addressing homeland security challenges and inform students and practitioners This book educates those studying or involved in American Homeland Security on the policies and procedures set by other countries so that they can learn from foreign experiences and determine which overseas approaches may be applicable to improving US Homeland Security policy.

The book is broken down into topical categories reflecting some of the major areas within the field of Homeland Security. The new edition of comparative homeland Security: Global Lessons updates foreign laws, strategies, and policies while expanding the depth and range of the discussion to include additional overseas policies.

Based on eleven countries procedures and nine homeland security dimensions, cyber networks, laws and institutions; law enforcement Institutions and Strategies; Immigration and Counter-Radicalization; The Role of the Military in Security and Support for Civil Authorities; Border Security, and Transportation; Emergency Preparedness, Naturalization, and Asylum Policies; Security Facilities, it covers: Counterterrorism Strategies, Emergency Response and Management and Crisis Communications; and Public Health Strategies and Institutions.

New edition updates foreign strategies and policies and extends the scope of discussion of these topics expanded approach for a wider range of students and practitioners exploring the homeland security policies of other countries Covers strategies and tactics to combat terrorism from a number of the world's democracies including: Great Britain, and practitioners interested or involved in homeland security, and Australia Chapters are organized topically rather than by country, thus allowing students and practitioners to easily compare policies and integrate the concepts presented into practice Comparative Homeland Security: Global Lessons, counter-terrorism, Israel, transportation security, Second Edition is an excellent book for all scholars, public health, border security, law enforcement, criminal justice, students, Germany, emergency management, Canada, France, and cybersecurity.

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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars

Most americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD and its prevalence among troops. It is a call to acknowledge our newest generation of veterans by listening intently to them and absorbing their stories; and, as new wars approach, to ponder the inevitable human costs of putting American "boots on the ground.

". Featuring portraits of combat veterans and leading mental health researchers, What Have We Done offers an unflinching look at war and those who volunteer for it: the thrill and pride of service and, too often, along with Wood's personal observations of war and the young Americans deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the scars of moral injury.

Impeccably researched and deeply personal, What Have We Done is a compassionate, finely drawn study of modern war and those caught up in it. Winner of the 2017 dayton literary peace prize*from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars.

In this groundbreaking new book, david wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict.

The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Give me liberty: a handbook for American Revolutionaries is the sequel to The End of America. It illustrates the breathtaking changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, and ultimately, to change your life, your community, the nation.

The end of america is now a feature-length documentary film by the award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern.

Propaganda

Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. Edward bernays, edward bernays 1891–1995, propagandaa seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed “engineering of consent.

During world war I, he was an integral part of the U. S. Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies. Noam chomsky“the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

His 1928 bombshell propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, politics, including government, art, science and education. Committee on public information cpi, a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would “Make the World Safe for Democracy.

The cpi would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon. Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population.

To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

With the deep knowledge and bright clarity that have long characterized his work, Sanger recounts the cunning and dangerous development of cyberspace into the global battlefield of the 21st century. Washington Post. Cheap to acquire, dictators, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, cyber is now the weapon of choice for democracies, easy to deny, and terrorists.

Moving from the white house situation room to the dens of chinese government hackers to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger reveals a world coming face-to-face with the perils of technological revolution, where everyone is a target. Timely and bracing.

Two presidents—bush and obama—drew first blood with operation olympic games, and yet America proved remarkably unprepared when its own weapons were stolen from its arsenal and, during President Trump’s first year, which used malicious code to blow up Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, turned back on the United States and its allies.

. An important—and deeply sobering—new book about cyberwarfare” Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, now updated with a new chapter. The perfect weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. And if obama would begin his presidency by helping to launch the new era of cyberwar, he would end it struggling unsuccessfully to defend against Russia’s broad attack on the 2016 US election.

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Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change

It has been specifically designed to be accessible to a wide audience so that it can be handed out in organizations where AI is either being contemplated or being implemented. Written by two of the key figures in the development of Appreciative Inquiry, this is the most authoritative guide available to a change method that systematically taps the potential of human beings to make themselves, their organizations, and their communities more adaptive and more effective.

Written by the two most recognized appreciative inquiry thought leadersa quick, accessible introduction to one of the most popular change methods today--proven effective in organizations ranging from Roadway Express and British Airways to the United Nations and the United States NavyAppreciative Inquiry AI is a model of change management uniquely suited to the values, beliefs, and challenges of organizations today.

It provides a basic overview of the process and principles of AI along with exciting stories illustrating how organizations have applied AI and the benefits they have gained as a result. As the stories in this book illustrate, it results in dramatic improvements in the triple bottom line: people, profits, and planet.

Ai has been used to significantly enhance customer satisfaction, profits, and morale, and employee engagement, revenues, cost competitiveness, retention, as well as organizations' abilities to meet the needs of society. This book is a concise introduction to Appreciative Inquiry. Ai is a process that emphasizes identifying and building on strengths, rather than focusing exclusively on fixing weaknesses as most other change processes do.

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War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror

His analysis led to many of the bush administration’s most controversial policies, coercive interrogation, preemptive attacks, including detention at Guantanamo Bay, and military trials for terrorists, and the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program. In fascinating detail, yoo takes us inside the corridors of power and examines specific cases, from John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla to an American al-Qaeda leader assassinated by a CIA pilotless drone in the deserts of Yemen.

The key legal architect of the Bush administration’s response to 9/11 delivers a fascinating insider account of the war on terror. At its core, war by other means offers spirited, detailed and often enlightening accounts of the decision-making process behind the key 2001-03 legal decisions. The washington post “unambiguous and combative, Yoo’s philosophy is sure to spark further debate.

Publishers Weekly. In a series of memos, yoo offered his legal opinions on the president’s authority to respond, and in the process had an almost unmatched impact on America’s fight against terrorism. While america reeled from the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, John Yoo and a skeletal staff of the Office of Legal Counsel found themselves on the phone with the White House.

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The Psychology of Democracy

Recommendations are given for promoting the psychological processes that foster democracy. Moghaddam explores how psychological factors influence the presence, potential development, or absence of democracy.

Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe: Southern Europe, South America and Post-communist Europe

In problems of democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They argue that, although "nation-state" and "democracy" often have conflicting logics, multiple and complementary political identities are feasible under a common roof of state-guaranteed rights. They reconceptualize the major types of modern nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type the available paths to democratic transition and the tasks of democratic consolidation.

Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Further, they provide criteria and evidence for politicians and scholars alike to distinguish between democratic consolidation and pseudo-democratization, and they present conceptually driven survey data for the fourteen countries studied.

Problems of democratic transition and consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe within the literature of comparative politics and democratic theory.

Linz and alfred stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. They also illustrate how, without an effective state, there can be neither effective citizenship nor successful privatization.

One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams

From the co-author of the new york Times bestseller Team of Teams, a practical guide for leaders looking to make their organizations flatter and more interconnected. Now, fussell channels all his experiences, in One Mission, both military and corporate, into powerful strategies for unifying isolated and distrustful teams.

This practical guide will help leaders in any field implement the Team of Teams approach to tear down their silos, improve collaboration, and avoid turf wars. In team of teams, retired four-star general stanley mcchrystal and former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell made the case for a new organizational model combining the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization.

One mission will help you follow their example to a more agile and resilient future. By committing to one higher mission, organizations develop an overall capability that far exceeds the sum of their parts. Too often, companies end up with teams stuck in their own silos, pursuing goals and metrics in isolation.

Their traditional autocratic structures create stability, scalability, and predictability -- but in a world that demands constant adaptation, this traditional model fails. From silicon valley software giant intuit to a government agency on the plains of Oklahoma, organizations have used Fussell’s methods to unite their people around a single compelling vision, resulting in superior performance.

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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Bruce schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written. Clay shirky“bruce schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written. Clay shirkyyour cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. He brings his bestseller up-to-date with a new preface covering the latest developments, shake up surveillance-based business models, and then shows us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, and protect our individual privacy.

Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches.

Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. You'll never look at your phone, your credit cards, your computer, or even your car in the same way again. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered.

Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, chill free speech, censor, and put people in danger worldwide.