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Books on Homeland Security in APUS Library
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Books on Terrorism in APUS Library
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Books on Homeland Security in APUS Library

Government Counterterrorism: A Guide to Who Does What by Michael Kraft; Edward Marks
ISBN: 978-1-4398-5147-0
Publication Date: 2012
This is an unclassified guide to the many U.S. government agencies, bureau offices, and programs involved in all aspects of countering terrorism domestically and overseas. The book discusses the challenges involved in coordinating the counterterrorism efforts at federal, state, and local levels and explains how key terror events influenced the development of programs, agencies, and counterterrorism legislation. The authors provide unique insights into the broader context of counterterrorism efforts and developments in the last 10-plus years since 9/11 and they raise future considerations given recent landscape-altering global events.
Introduction to Homeland Security: Principles of All-Hazards Risk Management by Jane Bullock; George Haddow; Damon P. Coppola
ISBN: 9780080949529
Publication Date: 2011
The intent of this book is to provide a primer on homeland security for emergency managers and related disciplines. This is a source of practical information, programs, references, and best practices so that any emergency manager, public safety officer, community leader, or individual could engage in actions to help make their communities safer and more secure.
Understanding Homeland Security: Policy, Perspectives, and Paradoxes by John B. Noftsinger; Kenneth F. Newbold; Jack K. Wheeler
ISBN: 9781403972422
Publication Date: 2008
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the historical, social, psychological, technological, and political aspects that form the broad arena of homeland defence and security. The text provides a view of past events and their evolution, allowing the audience to gain a detailed knowledge of government response and policy implications.

Reviews & Guidance on Homeland Security - Free Access

National Planning Frameworks - Homeland Security: FEMA

The Frameworks describe how the whole community works together to achieve the National Preparedness Goal. There is one Framework for each of the five mission areas - Prevention, Protection. Mitigation, Response and Recovery.

National Prevention Framework, 2nd edition, 2016
Describes what the whole community (from community members to senior leaders in government) should do upon the discovery of an imminent threat to the homeland.
National Protection Framework, 2nd edition, 2016
Describes the way that the whole community safeguards against acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and other threats or hazards.
National Mitigation Framework, 2nd edition, 2016
This framework sets the strategy and doctrine for how the whole community builds, sustains, and delivers the Mitigation core capabilities identified in the National Preparedness Goal in an integrated manner with the other mission areas.
National Disaster Recovery Framework, 2nd edition, 2016
This framework establishes a common platform and forum for how the whole community builds, sustains, and coordinates delivery of recovery capabilities.
National Response Framework, 3rd edition, 2016
The National Response Framework presents the guiding principles that enable all response partners to prepare for and provide a unified response to disasters and emergencies. The Framework establishes a comprehensive, national, all-hazards approach to domestic incident response.

Human Cost of Natural Disasters: A Global Perspective (2015)
This report presents data about natural disasters impacts (human and economic) at world scale for the last 20 years. The analyses focus on trends and patterns of impacts and how these vary regarding the income level or the geographical location. Based on the analyses, conclusions and action points were drawn to raise the awareness and frame the debate for the next steps that need to be done in Disaster Risk Reduction.
International Health Regulations (2005)
The purpose and scope are “to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade”.
National Security Strategy
by the Homeland Security Council, 2015
The purpose of the Strategy is to guide, organize, and unify our Nation's homeland security efforts. It provides a common framework by which our entire Nation should focus its efforts.
Public Area Security National Framework (2016)
A network of transportation and security officials devised a framework that could deter nefarious actors and, failing to deter, create a system that quickly and effectively responds to attacks in the public area to minimize loss of life and disruption of transportation.
Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)
U.S. Department of Defense, 2014
The QDR is a legislatively-mandated review of Department of Defense strategy and priorities. The QDR will set a long-term course for DOD as it assesses the threats and challenges that the nation faces and re-balances DOD's strategies, capabilities, and forces to address today's conflicts and tomorrow's threats.
Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2014
This report recognizes the responsibility the Department shares with hundreds of thousands of people across the federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments, the private sector and other nongovernmental organizations, and provides a path forward for engaging in public-private partnerships.The risk-informed priorities set forth in this Review will drive operational planning, as well as analysis of resource and capability options and tradeoffs over the next four years.
UNISDR strategic framework 2016-2021
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
This framework guides the organization to achieve its vision to reduce disaster risk and losses for a sustainable future and its mandate to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risk and strengthen resilience through successful multi-hazard disaster risk management.

Books on Terrorism in APUS Library

APUS Counter Terrorism Studies | Program Guide: Books

Determining Core Capabilities in Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology by National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309265355
Publication Date: 2012
The National Research Council (NRC) conducted a study to identify the core capabilities in science and technology that must be supported by the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) Chemical and Biological Defense Program. It is intended to assist in determining the best strategy for acquiring, developing, and/or maintaining the needed capabilities.
The Long Shadow of 9/11: America's Response to Terrorism by Brian Michael Jenkins (Editor); John Paul Godges (Editor)
ISBN: 9780833058331
Publication Date: 2011
This book provides an array of answers to the question, In the ten years since the 9/11 attacks, how has America responded? In a series of essays, RAND authors lend a farsighted perspective to the national dialogue on 9/11's legacy; assess the military, political, fiscal, social, cultural, psychological, and moral implications of U.S. policymaking since 9/11; and suggest options for effectively dealing with the terrorist threat in the future.
Radicalization, Terrorism, and Conflict by Tali K. Walters
ISBN: 9781443850902
Publication Date: 2013
Radicalization, Terrorism, and Conflict is a collection of scholarly works, authored by international researchers and leading thinkers, addressing contemporary, history-making issues in international security and terrorism from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book opens with an analysis of the ongoing phenomenon of the Arab Spring. In Section 1, contributors look at how players in the theatres of local and international terror become radicalized. Section 2 analyzes how terrorism becomes manifest in the global theatre and how governments and their actors attempt to prevent it. Section 3 presents research to bring understanding to the actors' behavior and provide settings for future collaboration in understanding these phenomena.
Stray Dogs and Virtual Armies: Radicalization and Recruitment to Jihadist Terrorism in the United States Since 9/11 by Brian Michael Jenkins
ISBN: 9780833058805
Publication Date: 2011
Since 9/11, "homegrown terrorists" have planned or implemented terrorist activities, supported others' terrorist activities, or become radicalized in the United States and traveled abroad to conduct activities against other countries or the United States. This paper examines the cases of homegrown terrorism, highlights lessons learned from those cases that suggest future actions, and includes a chronology of terrorist events in the United States.
Terrorism and the Growing Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Maria Kelley
ISBN: 9783954891597
Publication Date: 2014
This qualitative case study explores the likelihood of al-Shabaab obtaining or creating weapons of mass destruction and theorizes on which type of WMD it would likely consider deploying.
U.S. Government Counterterrorism: A Guide to Who Does What by Michael Kraft; Edward Marks
ISBN: 9781439851432
Publication Date: 2011
A guide to U.S. government agencies, bureau offices, and programs involved in all aspects of countering terrorism domestically and overseas. The book also discusses the challenges involved in coordinating the counterterrorism efforts at federal, state, and local levels and explains how key terror events influenced the development of programs, agencies, and counterterrorism legislation.
Would-Be Warriors: Incidents of Jihadist Terrorist Radicalization in the United States since September 11, 2001 by Brian Michael Jenkins
ISBN: 9780833049810
Publication Date: 2010
Between 9/11 and the end of 2009, 46 publicly reported cases of domestic radicalization and recruitment to jihadist terrorism occurred in the United States, 13 of them in 2009. Most of the would be jihadists recruited themselves into the terrorist role, assisting foreign terrorist organizations, joining jihad fronts abroad, and plotting attacks. The terrorist threat has pushed law enforcement toward prevention rather than post-event apprehension.