TY - BOOK AU - Harvey,Frank P. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The homeland security dilemma: fear, failure and the future of American insecurity AV - HV6432 .H38 2008 U1 - 363.3250973 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Terrorism KW - United States KW - Prevention KW - National security KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-277) and index; Introduction: The origins of the homeland security dilemma -- Rising public expectations and higher standards for measuring performance -- The power and triumph of failure -- Public imagination and probability neglect -- Political imagination and motivation -- Declining support for sacrificing civil liberties -- Multilateral failures and the HSD -- Homeland security dilemma and political motivations -- Revisiting the Overblown thesis: logical, empirical and theoretical problems -- Non-falsifiability of Overblown theory -- Weak theories lead to simple (mistaken) solutions -- Conclusion: The homeland security dilemma and the future; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=348467 ER -