Should Homeland Security Studies Survive?

IF 0.7 4区 管理学 Q4 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Erik J. Dahl, J. Ramsay
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Abstract A few years after the end of the Cold War, Richard Betts argued that a specter was haunting the field of strategic studies, “the specter of peace,” and asked whether that field should survive the new era. Today, more than two decades after the 9/11 attacks that stimulated the field of homeland security (HS) studies, we could ask a similar question about that field. Should it survive as an academic field of study, and if so, how should it adapt and change in an era in which concerns about terrorism have in large part been overtaken by great power competition, climate change, AI, pandemics and a host of other asymmetric threats? Is it/can it be an academic discipline? A profession? What questions does it ask and what contributions does it make to practitioners, policy makers, or society? This article reviews the state of HS studies today and what sub-fields and disciplines it touches. It examines HS publication and education in the United States and evaluates the contributions that HS studies have made to date. This review suggests homeland security studies should indeed survive, as a meta discipline that serves a valuable purpose by addressing the question of how governments and societies should best prepare for and respond to threats to their security that can range from local to global in scope, from small to large in scale, and from tame to wicked in character.
国土安全研究应该继续吗?
冷战结束几年后,理查德·贝茨(Richard Betts)认为,战略研究领域出现了一个幽灵——“和平幽灵”,并质疑该领域是否应该在新时代生存下去。在9/11恐怖袭击刺激了国土安全领域的研究20多年后的今天,我们可以对这个领域提出类似的问题。它是否应该作为一个学术研究领域生存下去?如果是的话,在一个对恐怖主义的担忧在很大程度上已被大国竞争、气候变化、人工智能、流行病和其他一系列不对称威胁所取代的时代,它应该如何适应和改变?它能成为一门学科吗?一种职业吗?它提出了什么问题?它对从业者、政策制定者或社会做出了什么贡献?本文综述了目前HS研究的现状及其涉及的子领域和学科。它审查了HS在美国的出版和教育,并评估了HS研究迄今为止所做的贡献。这篇综述表明,国土安全研究确实应该生存下来,作为一门元学科,通过解决政府和社会如何最好地准备和应对其安全威胁的问题,这是一个有价值的目的,这些威胁的范围从地方到全球,从规模小到规模大,从温顺到邪恶。
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12.50%
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management publishes original, innovative, and timely articles describing research or practice in the fields of homeland security and emergency management. JHSEM publishes not only peer-reviewed articles, but also news and communiqués from researchers and practitioners, and book/media reviews. Content comes from a broad array of authors representing many professions, including emergency management, engineering, political science and policy, decision science, and health and medicine, as well as from emergency management and homeland security practitioners.
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