HOMELAD SECURITY

Homeland Security



Homeland Security

Administrative Agency Which Controls the Regulation

Homeland security is regulated by the Department of Homeland Security, which refers to the notion of relative stability, calm and predictability that is beneficial for the development of a country, as well as resources and strategies to achieve it (mainly through the National Defense). While the best goals of national security was to prevent or reject military threats from states (war classic), now the national security threats are more diffuse and include terrorism, the environmental risks and social phenomena of scale global as the migration massive. According to the strategic plan's counterterrorism US, its aim is that people can carry out their daily life with freedom and confidence. A newly emerging concept (1994) delves into this direction is that of human security, while the concept limited to constitutional order within generally defined as public safety (Hulnick, 2004).

National security in the context of the new world order is one of the more modern (2003) and is formulated from the explanation of a structural organizational framework known as a discipline of the new liberal order.

Why this Agency Interest Me?

The agency had attracted my attention because of two different reasons, one is the political perspective of the agency, whereas, second is the ideology on which this agency was formed.

The United States before September 11

While McVeigh's actions demonstrated that government actions against perceptions of domestic groups could give rise to further violence in response, the Oklahoma City bombing was one of a handful of terrorist events that disrupted American life in the 1990s. Between 1990-95, the United States witnessed 32 separate terrorist incidents; about one-third was bombings committed by animal rights groups. Almost all of the events were staged by domestic terrorists; just two—the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and a takeover of the Iranian Mission at the United Nations in New York in 1992; were conducted by foreign groups. Prior to the Oklahoma City bombing, most Americans were probably more familiar with the terrorist-centered plots of movies such as Die Hard and Speed than they were with any real-life terrorist actions in the United States. Even the deadly bombing during the 1996 Summer Olympics at Atlanta's Centennial Park quickly devolved into controversies over the naming of Richard Jewell as a suspect by various media outlets. Jewell was eventually cleared of suspicion, but the investigation over the motives of indicted bomber Eric Robert Rudolph remained murky several years after the attack (Hulnick, 2004).

The dissolution of the Soviet Union after 1991 and the easing of Cold War tensions promised to deliver a "peace dividend" to Americans in the form of reduced spending on defense and security. With the United States standing as the world's lone superpower, it also seemed that the nation would take its place as a peace broker in places such as Bosnia and Somalia instead of the direct adversary of its former Cold War foes. Ironically, both these trends proved illusory. Within a decade, the United States' status as the wealthiest and ...