online archive
5:00PM
DEC 7 2007
The lessons of disasters
From Homeland Security Affairs, Naomi Zack (Columbia): Philosophy and Disaster; Timothy G. Baysinger (MSHP): Right-wing Group Characteristics and Ideology; Amy Donahue (Connecticut): Lessons We Don't Learn: A Study of the Lessons of Disasters, Why We Repeat Them, and How We Can Learn Them; Uri Fisher (Colorado): Deterrence, Terrorism, and American Values; a look at why strategy matters in the War on Terror; a review of The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters by Charles Perrow; a review of The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation by Stephen Flynn; and a review of ten essential homeland security books. A review of Presidential Secrecy and the Law by Robert M. Pallitto and William G. Weaver and Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced by Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg. A review of The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World and Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency by Archon Fung, Mary Graham and David Weil. From Surveillance & Society, Gavin J.D. Smith (Aberdeen): Exploring Relations between Watchers and Watched in Control(led) Systems: Strategies and Tactics; and a review of Paul Virilio's The Original Accident.
