Books in the Homeland Security series

Detailing the historical roots of US homeland security policy and its evolution in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, this book provides an overview of the emerging and existing agencies and bureaus, at the national, state and local levels, which are tasked with homeland security.

The Inspector General (IG)'s mission is to expose fraud, waste and abuse as well as promoting efficiency in federal agencies. This book looks at the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which has proven to be of significant benefit to the US government.

Investigates the various issues surrounding the container security issue. This title analyzes cooperation between agents in the United States and abroad, explores the domestic and international politics of port security, and provides an assessment of fifteen of the world's sea ports.

Offers a comprehensive exploration of the effects on national/state security policy and discourse of the production, storage, transportation, safeguarding, export and use of enriched uranium and by extension, plutonium.

Investigates the contextualizing of national security discourse and its management of terrorism. This work incorporates historical depth and critical theory in a comparative framework and provides an insight into how national security is developed and how it works with the concept of terrorism to secure the state.

Examines one of the increasingly pressing problems for US homeland security: the storage and management of radioactive waste. This book explores nuclear waste problems through the broader lens of federal, state and local government and the resultant constraints on policy that emerge within the American system.

Explores how various countries have dealt with or are dealing with homeland security in the aftermath of terrorist attacks such as 9/11, the train bombing in Spain and the hostage situation in Russia, and compares global approaches and lessons to the US.

Using the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a case study, this book focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and develops the concept of resilience and how it applies to Homeland Security in the aftermath of the worst natural disaster to hit the United States.