The Business of Counterterrorism ― Public-Private Partnerships in Homeland Security

This book was created by professionals in the homeland security business; it is the result of the 2012 Center for American Studies at Cristopher Newport University's Symposium on Homeland Security: Enhancing Public-Private Partnerships and Coordination. Therefore any critique in this book of the existence of for-profit national security, or suggestion that the federally-sponsored security industry can or should be reduced (due to lack of outside danger, etc.), would constitute a conflict of interest. One goal of the book is to negotiate expanded corporate involvement in government. (One conclusion is that government has given away the basic infrastructure to perform its security duties to corporations and so must now permanently rely on them; another is that government officials and business executives handling government deals are now often the same people). Another goal is to discuss how to make the system of corporate national security more effective and profitable. Some voices acknowledge that in emergency situations, such as Hurricane Katrina, this system has not worked well. The consensus is that failures are opportunities for further future involvement. Contributors discuss how to maintain, increase, and improve for-profit involvement in emergency management and government security. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Nathan E. Busch (PhD, University of Toronto) is Associate Professor of Government at Christopher Newport University (CNU) and Co-Director of the CNU Center for American Studies, where he is lead coordinator of CNU’s annual Symposium on Homeland Security. He is author of No End In Sight: The Continuing Menace of Nuclear Proliferation (2004) and co-editor of Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Future of International Nonproliferation Policy (2009).

Austen D. Givens is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.