Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era, First Edition: Canada and the United States Homeland (Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Studies, 8) (Volume 10) - Softcover

Sloan, Elinor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773536949 ISBN 13: 9780773536944

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010

Synopsis

National security is one of the most contentious topics in public policy and politics and one of the most important for the twenty-first century. Since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, security and defence have undergone such unprecedented overhauls that even recently implemented policies require reexamination. In this second edition of Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era, Elinor Sloan provides a significantly revised and updated analysis of developments in Canadian and American security and defence policy and notes where there are weaknesses that call for improvement.

The author argues that since the Second World War Canada has assumed that potential threats will come from overseas rather than from within its borders. Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era shows that Canada's safety depends upon paying equal attention to threats at home and insists that we must consider the effect of climate change on the Arctic as seriously as terrorist threats and ballistic missile defence. Covering a range of pertinent subjects with detail and expertise, this new edition provides timely information and prescriptions for keeping North America safe.

About this title

About the Author

Elinor C. Sloan is associate professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.

From the Back Cover

ISSN: 1490-0106

Series editors: Charles-Philippe David and Alex Macleod

This series seeks to promote analysis of the transformation and adaptation of foreign and security policies in the post-Cold War era, and is co-published with the University of Quebec at Montreal's Centre for Security and Foreign Policy Studies and the Téléglobe+Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies.

The series welcomes manuscripts offering innovative interpretations or new theoretical approaches to these questions, whether dealing with specific strategic or foreign policy issues or with the evolving concept of security itself. Manuscripts should be submitted to the Editorial Office at McGill-Queen's University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773536949
• ISBN 13: 9780773536944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216