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Homeland Security Cultures: Enhancing Values While Fostering Resilience by Alexander Siedschlag 9781786605917

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Homeland Security Cultures: Enhancing Values While Fostering Resilience explores the role that culture plays in the study and practice of homeland security in an all-hazards, whole-community, and all-of-government scope. It does so by analyzing and discussing strategic, organizational, operational, and social cultures in the U.S. Homeland Security Enterprise, as well as from an international perspective. The focus is on how knowledge and interpretation, normative values, common symbols, and/or action repertories inform the evolution of the homeland security mission space and the accomplishment of homeland security functions. Contributions also address institutional changes designed to foster a more coherent common homeland security culture. This textbook will make a contribution to the evolution of homeland security as a policy area and a field of study by offering actionable insight as well as critical thinking from scholars and practitioners on how cultural aspects matter in balancing security against liberty, in managing complex risks, in enhancing collaboration across sectors, and in explaining how a resilient nation can be fostered while enhancing liberal and democratic values.

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Alexander Siedschlag is Professor of Homeland Security at Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs, in a joint appointment as Professor of Public Health Sciences at the Hershey College of Medicine and serves as Chair of Penn State Homeland Security Programs. Andrea Jerkovic is Acting Director of the CEUSS | Center for European Security Studies, Austria.

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This edited volume provides an intriguing analysis of culture as a variable in understanding homeland security. Focal points include examination of "Domain Aspects" (e.g., culture and resilience), "Collaboration Aspects" (e.g., intelligence fusion centers), and "Societal Security Aspects" (e.g., resilience and a culture of preparedness). The introduction provides a solid overview of the book and the concluding section nicely summarizes key takeaways. A very satisfying work. -- Steven Ames Peterson, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg
Homeland Security Cultures exposes the reader to a unique, insightful inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary discussion on security culture, and thus depicts the contribution of different fields of knowledge to its constitutive terminology, theory, paradigm and methodology. The conceptual bandwidth of this term in the book goes beyond the discussion done so far, and possesses an added value of a toolbox for its differential diagnosis. -- Rachel Suissa, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa



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ISBN 9781786605917
Author Alexander Siedschlag
Format Hardback
Page Count 408
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield International
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield International
Weight(grams) 594g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 164mm * 34mm

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