Coordinating for Contingencies: Taking Stock of Post-9/11 Homeland Security Reforms

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 77-89

  Brattberg, Erik ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Swedish Institute of International Affairs   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATIONAL SECURITY; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; REFORM PROCESS; TERRORISM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861462713     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2012.00662.x     Document Type: Article

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