More or Less Afraid of Nearly Everything: Homeland Security, Borders, and Disasters in the Twenty-First Century

By Ben Rohrbaugh

Migration, borders, cybersecurity, natural disasters, and terrorism: Homeland security is constantly in the news. Despite ongoing attention, the problems seem to be getting bigger and the political discussion is overheated and misleading. Ben Rohrbaugh, a former border security director at the White House's National Security Council, cuts through the noise to provide an accessible and novel framework to understand homeland security and think about the best ways to keep civilians safe.

Throughout the twentieth century, the United States did not experience national security domestically; it defended the country by conducting military, foreign policy, and intelligence operations internationally, and separated these activities from domestic law enforcement with bright legal lines. In the twenty-first century, national security no longer occurs in other countries. The U.S. government is only beginning to organize itself to respond to this change, and the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security is merely the first step in an organizational and strategic realignment that will be a long, difficult, and mistake-filled process. More or Less Afraid of Nearly Everything is an accessible and engaging guide to homeland security, particularly migration and border security, that makes innovative arguments about the American government and keeping citizens safe in the twenty-first century and provides practical solutions to real-world problems.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472074628
• ISBN13: 9780472074624
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"