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Terror, Security, and Money : Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security /
In seeking to evaluate the efficacy of post-9/11 homeland security expenses--which have risen by more than a trillion dollars, not including war costs--the common query has been, "Are we safer?" This, however, is the wrong question. Of course we are "safer"--The posting of a sing...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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Table des matières:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Assessing Risk; Chapter 2: Terrorism as a Hazard to Human Life; Chapter 3: The Full Costs of Terrorism; Chapter 4: Evaluating Increases in Homeland Security Spending; Chapter 5: Protecting the Homeland: Some Parameters; Chapter 6: Homeland Protection: Infrastructure; Chapter 7: Protecting the Airlines; Chapter 8: Assessing Policing, Mitigation, Resilience; Chapter 9: Conclusions and Political Realities; Appendix: The Risk Assessment Process; Notes; References; Index.