Network Governance in Response to Acts of Terrorism

"""A much-needed, timely, descriptively rich, theory-driven, and evaluative disaster management exploration of government response to infamous terror attacks, the book is introduced and ended with illuminating comparative and theory chapters that compliment the case studies. This highly informative book is, in my view, one of the first widely international country-study comparative works on terrorism disaster management. The study will find a prominent place in terrorism and homeland security studies within and beyond the six nations examined."" —Richard Sylves, The George Washington University Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management ""Too often the failure of responses to natural and unnatural disasters can be traced to an inability or unwillingness of agencies to share information and to integrate resources. Failure happens despite the common wisdom that collaboration is critical when authority is shared, responsibility is divided among large networks of actors, and resources are dispersed. Common goals and cultural interoperability, as well as technological interoperability, are essential prerequisites for collaboration. Professor Kapucu provides context to the theory, comparing recent responses to terrorism in six nations, and identifies ways that the obstacles to collaborative action can be removed and counter-terrorist programs can be improved. The analysis is a major contribution to the theory and the practice of intergovernmental and multi-organizational collaboration in dealing with terrorism and other hazards."" —William L. Waugh, Jr., Georgia State University ""Kapucu provides public administrators in crisis situations—profoundly different from everyday bureaucratic agency routines, of course—with a veritable manual on how to build administrative capacity rapidly in the face of extraordinary danger, coordinate across multiple emergency responders, restore disrupted communications technologies, and employ fl exible, collaborative decision making throughout. Along with the author’s previous works, this book stands as an important line of research, on which future scholars will build in order to better comprehend this complex, understudied topic of our times."" - Yusuf Ustun, Ministry of the Interior, Turkey"