Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, looks at termination rates at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) amid plans to increase the number of agents by 5,000. He notes that little direct evidence exists to evaluate alleged misconduct at CBP, but border agents are more likely to […]
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Ten Perspectives Explore WMD Terrorism
The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies’ International Center for Terrorism Studies presents 10 independent perspectives on chemical and biological terrorism. The scope of the report ranges from the United States to Iran, Syria, and Russia, among other locations, and includes perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including academia, government, and public policy. Read the report […]
DHS Decision Making Takes Center Stage in New Book
When Congress established the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2002, it ignited a steady blowtorch of issues and outcomes for which DHS leadership, employees, and independent contractors were responsible. As such, it created a need to analyze and manage the torrent of decisions surrounding those issues and outcomes. Not long after DHS came into […]
Thieves Assault Western Value System
In his report How Non-State Actors Export Kleptocratic Norms to the West, Ilia Zaslavskiy of Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative explores how the democratic picture envisioned at the fall of the Iron Curtain hasn’t turned out as many expected. “When the floodgates opened after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the post-Soviet swamp was not swept […]