In a globalised world, the international economic crisis that started in 2008 has led to structural changes in the international system and in the ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) became the nation's 15th Cabinet department in January 2003. Twenty-two agencies with different miss...

In an age where electronic communications are changing in front of our eyes, the potential to do harm using mobile phones, satellite telephones and...

The United States maintains about 285 diplomatic facilities worldwide. Attacks on such facilities, and on U.S. diplomatic personnel, are not infreq...

Security is one of the key pillars on which a stable society is built, and which guarantees the rights of its members. One of the modern strategies...

Chapter One reviews basis elementary of residence security, classical residence security and health care surveillance system versus computer vision...

This book explores the trafficking of persons for the purpose of exploitation and illicit drug trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean. Traf...

A democratic society is grounded on the informed participation of the citizenry, which in turn requires access to Government information. If offici...

The Department of State and the Department of Defense (DOD) have long shared responsibility for U.S. assistance to train, equip, and otherwise enga...

Following terrorist attacks against the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983, the U.S. Department of State began an embassy construction progra...

Edwin Cole Bearss, born in 1923, is an American World War II wounded warrior of the Greatest Generation. As a U.S. Marine, he was shot four times b...