Wk 7 – Homeland Security Policy

41914One of the most debated products of the War on Terror is the USA PATRIOT Act at: https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/usa-patriot-act

Assess this Act on the trade-off between security and civil rights.

Has this Act been effective, equal, and ethical?

Does the Freedom Act of 2015 correct any of these issues?

Wk 7 Reading Material:

Scientific basis for environmental regulation: Public disclosure and federal rulemaking and advisory activities. (2015) pp.6-32. Congressional Digest

Vasseur, M. (2016). Incentives or mandates? determinants of the renewable energy policies of U.S. states, 1970-2012. Social Problems, 63(2), 284-301. doi:10.1093/socpro/spw007

Tomain, J. P. (2016). A perspective on clean power and the future of US energy politics and policy. Utilities Policy, 39, 5-12. doi:10.1016/j.jup.2016.01.007

Peters, J. C. (2017). Natural gas and spillover from the US clean power plan into the paris agreement. Energy Policy, 106, 41 – 47.

Popescu, I. C. (2017). Grand strategy vs. emergent strategy in the conduct of foreign policy. Journal of Strategic Studies, 1-23. doi:10.1080/01402390.2017.1288109

O’Sullivan, T. M. (2015). Environmental security is homeland security: Climate disruption as the ultimate disaster risk multiplier: Environmental security is homeland security. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 6(2), 183-222. doi:10.1002/rhc3.12084

Coulthart, S. (2017). What’s the problem? frameworks and methods from policy analysis for analyzing complex problems. Intelligence and National Security, 32(5), 636 – 648. doi:10.1080/02684527.2017.1310983