Believing that US strategy for homeland security is at best piece-meal, leading to misdirection and waste of national resources, the editors (all of the Institute on Globalization &
Security at the U. of Denver) have put this collection of 12 papers together in order to identify the domestic and external elements that need to be addressed in developing a strategy for
dealing with terrorist threats. Opening papers address the basic elements of grand strategy, the Cold War neglect of homeland security, terrorism and deterrence by denial, and the importance of
multinational and transnational cooperation strategies for homeland security. Two chapters then address the prevention of and response to threats of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of
terrorists. The remaining chapters discuss comparative risk analysis of biological terrorism, pandemics, and other disaster threats; local government perspectives on homeland security strategy
and policy choices; democracy, civil society, and the damage-limitation component of strategy; transportation as a component of homeland security strategy; and US energy security. Annotation
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