Risk, Uncertainty, and the Perceived Threat of Terrorist Attacks: Evidence of Flight-to-Quality

2013 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 1350007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Pagano ◽  
T. Shawn Strother
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Federal Funds Rate ◽  
Treasury Bills ◽  
Treasury Securities ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
Flight To Quality ◽  
Risk Increase ◽  
The Government

Information provided by the US Department of Homeland Security regarding potential terrorist attacks significantly affects US Treasury securities markets. When the government announces heightened terror alert levels, investors' perceptions of risk increase and investors purchase 1-month and 1-year Treasury bills and 3-year, 5-year, 7-year, and 10-year US Treasuries in a "flight-to-quality" episode. Partial anticipation of increased threat level announcements is stronger than the anticipation of announcements regarding the federal funds rate during the 10 days prior to an announcement.

Refuge in the National Security State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Cristina García
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
The World ◽  
National Security State

In response to the terrorist attacks of 1993 and 2001, the Clinton and Bush administrations restructured the immigration bureaucracy, placed it within the new Department of Homeland Security, and tried to convey to Americans a greater sense of safety. Refugees, especially those from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, suffered the consequences of the new national security state policies, and found it increasingly difficult to find refuge in the United States. In the post-9/11 era, refugee advocates became even more important to the admission of refugees, reminding Americans of their humanitarian obligations, especially to those refugees who came from areas of the world where US foreign policy had played a role in displacing populations.

Arresting Immigrants: Unemployment and Immigration Enforcement

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Joyner
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Arrest Rates ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
September 11 Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Time Series Analyses ◽  
Immigration And Customs Enforcement ◽  
Yearly Data

This study provides an examination of immigrant arrests involving two different agencies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): The Border Patrol (BP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Descriptive time series analyses track yearly changes in immigrant arrests in the decade following the September 11 terrorist attacks (2002-2013). For many DHS jurisdictions, changes in the rates of immigrant arrest closely mirrored changes in the rates of unemployment. First-difference regression models pooling yearly data for the ICE jurisdictions demonstrate that the associations between changes in unemployment rates and changes in immigrant arrest rates were positive and significant.

Administrative ironies and DHS performance reporting

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Richard J. Herzog ◽  
Katie S. Counts
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Performance Reporting ◽  
The Government ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
The U.S

Objectivism is the critical lens used to view organizational communication of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Government Performance Results Modernization Act of 2010 changed requirements for such communication by mandating that agencies like DHS emphasize performance goals and targets to be achieved in the upcoming years in their performance reporting. Interpretivism is the sense-making lens used to view changes in performance reporting. This study focuses on performance target reductions, new performance measures, and retired performance measures documented in a DHS annual report. Nineteen performance measures were selected and discussed from empirical interpretivist and institutional interpretivist lenses. When intepretivism cannot match what is reported with what would appear to be logical, administrative ironies are established.

The Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshop Series (JCTAWS): Integrating disciplines for enhanced capabilities during a complex coordinated attack

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey L. Shapiro, BSHS, EMT-P ◽  
John H. Armstrong, MD ◽  
Kathryn Roberts, BA ◽  
James Gordon, SGT (Ret.) ◽  
E. Reed Smith, MD, FACEP ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
High Threat

Evolving threats, such as Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks (CCTAs) and other High-Threat Active Violence Incidents, require a comprehensive “Whole of Community” approach to enhance readiness within the emergency management mission. Engaging all community stakeholders, inclusive of the private sector, public safety organizations, and the health and healthcare communities, is essential for risk reduction by preventing and limiting consequences from such critical incidents. The Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshop Series (JCTAWS) is a unique interdisciplinary table-top exercise sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and National Counterterrorism Center, and is designed to test plans and capabilities surrounding a CCTA. JCTAWS focuses on response integration between and across disciplines and jurisdictions. The workshop stimulates participant identification of best practices and gaps so that plans can be refined and resources realigned to improve response coordination for CCTAs.

Homeland Security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Cadwalader
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Unity Of Effort ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Exclusive Focus

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 caused a seismic shift in how the United States organizes and executes the mission of securing the homeland. The creation and growth of the Department of Homeland Security is the most visible manifestation of this change. However, the homeland security discipline contemplates shared responsibilities and a unity of effort among all levels of government, the private sector, and the general public. The wide array of stakeholders, alongside an expanding definition of what constitutes homeland security, presents complex challenges for policymakers. With the perspective of the more than fifteen years that have elapsed since 9/11, this chapter examines the evolution of homeland security from a near-exclusive focus on terrorism to a broader “all hazards” approach, the relationship between homeland security and national security, the roles of leading actors, and contemporary issues.

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