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The Homeland Security Dilemma: Fear, Failure and the Future of American Insecurity book cover

1st Edition

The Homeland Security Dilemma Fear, Failure and the Future of American Insecurity

By Frank P. Harvey Copyright 2008
298 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the paradox of the ‘security dilemma’ in International Relations, as applied to the post-9/11 context of homeland security. The book's central argument can be summed up by the following counterintuitive thesis: the more security you have, the more security you will need. It argues that enhancing security does not make terrorism more likely, but rather it raises public... Read more

Introduction: The Origins of Homeland Security Dilemma  1. Rising Public Expectations and Higher Standards for Measuring Performance  2. The Power and Triumph of Failure  3. Public Imagination and Probability Neglect  4. Political Imagination and Motivation  5. Declining Support for Sacrificing Civil Liberties  6. Multilateral Failures and the HSD  7. Homeland Security Dilemma and Political Motivations  8. Revisiting the Overblown Thesis: Logical, Empirical and Theoretical Problems  9. Non-Falsifiability of Overblown Theory  10. Weak Theories Lead to Simple (mistaken) Solutions  11. Conclusion: The Homeland Security Dilemma and the Future

Biography

Frank P. Harvey is a Fulbright Scholar and held the 2007 J. William Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair in Canadian Studies (State University of New York, Plattsburgh). He is Professor of International Relations and former Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University.

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