Homeland Security

With the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 now behind us, one critical question persists. Have policies enacted to protect us from terrorist attacks made us safer, or have they merely mollified the concerned public with a false sense of security? This volume combines professional experiences, personal reflections, and academic scholarship to provide a realistic assessment of current policy effectiveness. It suggests ways to prioritize limited resources and offers insight into what should be the predominant considerations. It also examines terror financing, provides a cost-benefit analysis of homeland security, and discusses international cooperation/intelligence sharing, business continuity, and immigration/narco terrorism.

Auteur

Amos Guiora is a professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah and the recipient of the 2011 Faculty Scholarship Award. Incorporating innovative scenario-based instruction to address national and international security issues and challenges, he teaches criminal procedure, international law, global perspectives on counterterrorism, and religion and terrorism. Professor Guiora has published extensively in both the U.S. and Europe on issues related to national security, limits of interrogation, religion and terrorism, the limits of power and multiculturalism, and human rights. He served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces as lieutenant colonel (retired), and held a number of senior command positions, including commander of the IDF School of Military Law and legal advisor to the Gaza Strip.