Synopses & Reviews
You can get thereWhether you’re already working in the emergency management or homeland security fields and looking to expand your skills, or setting out on a new career path, Threats to Homeland Securityomeland Home will help you get there. Easy-to-read, practical, and up-to-date, this text not only helps you learn about terrorism and natural disaster threats and responses; it helps you master the core competencies and skills you need to succeed.
With this book, you will be able to:
- Trace the history and many dimensions of national security before and after 9/11
- Provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the concept of threats and risk assessment from an “all-hazard” perspective
- Explore the nature of various threats including natural disasters, accidents, and manmade incidents
- Perform threat assessment using the included practical risk assessment tool for emergency managers
- Understand foreign and domestic threats and possible responses to them
- Assess and defend against cyber-terrorism and cyber-warfare
- Recognize the power of information and how the “war of ideas” is waged in this era of the Internet and global communications
Wiley Pathways helps you achieve your goals
The books in this series offer a coordinated curriculum for learning emergency management and homeland security. Learn more at www.wiley.com/go/pathways.
Synopsis
This text provides a comprehensive, in-depth examination of threats to U.S. homeland security, from an all-hazards perspective. It provides a comprehensive overview of U.S. policy, strategy and technologies for preventing and countering terrorism and the proliferation of various weapons of mass destruction and effects, as well as for dealing with natural and accidental disasters.
Synopsis
The threats to homeland security are exposed in this comprehensive resource. It takes readers through the natural and accidental disasters, as well as premeditated acts of domestic and international terrorism that threaten this country. They'll also find a detailed examination of terrorism, its processes and consequences. And they'll gain a better understanding of the various domestic and international terrorist groups that are trying to do us harm.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Changing National Security Environment.
Chapter 2: U.S. Homeland Security Interests.
Chapter 3: The "All-Hazards" Perspective.
Chapter 4: A Conceptual Framework – Assessing Threats and Interests.
Chapter 5: State Actors and Terrorism.
Chapter 6: Non-State Actors and Terrorism.
Chapter 7: Cyber-Terrorism and Cyber-Warfare.
Chapter 8: Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Chapter 9: Domestic Terrorism.
Chapter 10: Enablers of Mass Effects.