Brookings Review

In protecting the homeland, public and private responsibilities converge. Questions about who is responsible for what security measures need not always be complicated. When it comes to defending the nation's borders, for example, the federal government...

How well America protects its homeland against terrorist attack will depend in large measure on how its government is organized to meet the threat. The challenge is profound. Few government activities are at once so crucial and so difficult to manage....

Before the terrorist assaults of September 11 and the anthrax letter attacks that followed, U.S. officials often drew a distinction between the threat posed by national chemical and biological weapons programs and the threat posed by terrorists...

The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were a grim reminder to the American people that in the struggle against terrorism, we can use all the help we can get. As Colin Powell acknowledged succinctly, "There are no unilateralists...

Less than 24 hours after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, America's allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization came together to invoke the alliance's Article 5 defense guarantee--this "attack on one" was to be considered...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin picked up the phone to express his sympathy to President Bush in the aftermath of September 11 and then followed up by providing concrete assistance to the campaign in Afghanistan and quickly acquiescing to...

The horror of last September has awakened Americans to a starling revelation: many people in the Arab and Muslim world are resentful of the United States and suspicious of its intentions, and most harbor negative images of American culture and policies....