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Disaster, Security, and Governance

Disaster, Security, and Governance. MAGG Spring 2014 Bin Xu Assistant Professor Florida International University. Historical Trends in American Disaster Management. Entangled with civil defense Ambiguity of the institutional term “emergency” . The Cold War and the Rise of Civil Defense.

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Disaster, Security, and Governance

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  1. Disaster, Security, and Governance MAGG Spring 2014 Bin Xu Assistant Professor Florida International University

  2. Historical Trends in American Disaster Management • Entangled with civil defense • Ambiguity of the institutional term “emergency”

  3. The Cold War and the Rise of Civil Defense • Disaster management was incorporated into civil defense system • The Federal Disaster Relief Act of 1950 • Dual-use approach

  4. The Birth of FEMA • Jimmy Carter’s “Reorganization Plan No.3” • April 1, 1979 FEMA was born • Civil defense was still one of FEMA’s duties

  5. FEMA in the 1980s and 1990s • The Reagan years: the Stafford Act; civil defense took precedence • The Clinton years: FEMA’s “golden years”

  6. 9/11 Remade Disaster Management • The Department of Homeland Security • A weakened FEMA with limited resources and power • “National preparedness”: a program responding to terrorist attacks • Back to the Cold War period

  7. Federal Emergency Management Organizations (p.53)

  8. Organizational Failure and Militarism • Civil defense and American disaster management system • 9/11 effects: DHS and FEMA • Militarism

  9. Organizational Failure and Militarism

  10. Major characters in this drama • "Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here! They're not here! It's too doggone late. Now get off your asses and let's do something, and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country!"

  11. Major characters in this drama • “Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.”

  12. Major characters in this drama

  13. The Survivors

  14. Video Illustration and Discussion • When the Levees Broke (ACT II, 14:22-43:22) • What disaster governance issues do you see in the documentary ?

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