Meeting the Challenge of 9/11: Blueprints for More Effective Government

Meeting the Challenge of 9/11: Blueprints for More Effective Government
Author: Thomas H. Stanton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317464907

9/11 revealed serious public sector shortcomings in such areas as border security and immigration control, cybersecurity, and first responses to hostile acts. This book focuses on how to make government more effective, especially in our post-9/11 era of heightened concern for national and homeland security. "Meeting the Challenge of 9/11" is a top-to-bottom guidebook for improving government organization and performance. While it specifically addresses the key issues of homeland security (biodefense, border security, immigration control, and infrastructure protection), it has a broader agenda - the renewal of an effective, well-managed government. The chapter authors have extensive senior-level experience in managing government organizations or in analyzing government organization and management. Most are Fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration and active participants in NAPA's Standing Panel on Executive Organization and Management.

Meeting the Challenge

Meeting the Challenge
Author: Philip Pressel
Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Artificial satellites, American
ISBN: 9781624102035

Presents the recently declassified story of the design, development, production, and operation of the Hexagon KH-9 reconnaissance satellite, that provided photographic intelligence to the United States government, and it stands as one of the most complicated systems ever put into space.

September 11 in Popular Culture

September 11 in Popular Culture
Author: Sara E. Quay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313355061

This book offers an exploration of the comprehensive impact of the events of September 11, 2001, on every aspect of American culture and society. On Thanksgiving day after September 11, 2001, comic strip creators directed readers to donate money in their artwork, generating $50,000 in relief funds. The world's largest radio network, Clear Channel, sent a memo to all of its affiliated stations recommending 150 songs that should be eliminated from airplay because of assumptions that their lyrics would be perceived as offensive in light of the events of 9/11. On the first anniversary of September 11th, choirs around the world performed Mozart's Requiem at 8:46 am in each time zone, the time of the first attack on the World Trade Center. These examples are just three of the ways the world—but especially the United States—responded to the events of September 11, 2001. Each chapter in this book contains a chronological overview of the sea of changes in everyday life, literature, entertainment, news and media, and visual culture after September 11. Shorter essays focus on specific books, TV shows, songs, and films.

Pentagon 9/11

Pentagon 9/11
Author: Alfred Goldberg
Publisher: Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2007-09-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.

Meeting the Challenge of 9/11

Meeting the Challenge of 9/11
Author: Thomas H. Stanton
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780765621795

Focuses on how to make government more effective, especially in our post-9/11 era of heightened concern for national and homeland security. This is guidebook for improving government organization and performance. It addresses the key issues of homeland security (biodefense, border security, immigration control, and infrastructure protection).

American Democracy in Peril

American Democracy in Peril
Author: William E. Hudson
Publisher: CQ Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2016-01-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1483368599

In this Eighth Edition of American Democracy in Peril, author William E. Hudson provides a perceptive analysis of the challenges our democracy faces in the current era: economic crisis, partisan gridlock, rising economic inequality, and continued military conflict in the Middle East and elsewhere. By introducing the history of democratic theory in terms of four “models” of democracy, he provides readers with a set of criteria against which to evaluate the challenges discussed later. This provocative book offers a structured, yet critical examination of the American political system, designed to stimulate students to consider how the facts they learn about American politics relate to democratic ideals.

Meeting the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Europe

Meeting the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Europe
Author: Robin Wilson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1786438178

Europe has talked itself into a refugee and security crisis. There is, however, a misrecognition of the real challenge facing Europe: the challenge of managing the relationship between Europeans and the currently stigmatized ‘others’ which it has attracted. Making the case against a ‘Europe of walls’, Robin Wilson instead proposes a refounding of Europe built on the power of diversity and an ethos of hospitality rather than an institutional thicket serving the market.