We develop self-study courses for the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security
The Center for Homeland Defense and Security is the leading center providing graduate-level education programs for homeland security executives. The center serves a broad cross-section of current and emerging leaders in law enforcement, public safety, military, and emergency management roles.
New Macro Risks is proud to partner with the center to develop innovative executive training courses. Our team has developed four full remote self-study courses, three of which are available now.
Border Security and Management
This course provides an overview of the strategic context for border management and the evolving threats and challenges caused by rapidly accelerating trans-national flows of people, goods, money, and information. It then gives a thorough grounding in the core concepts of securing trade, travel, migration, and data that are essential to effectively operating in this dynamic environment. This course provides officials across the homeland security enterprise and private industry with a strategic framework that connects the work of individuals and organizations to the modern globalized context.
The 9/11 Attacks: A Retrospective and the Federal Response
This course provides a strategic overview of the historical events that led up to the 9/11 attacks, principally focused on the emergence of al Qaeda and the jihadist terror threat in the 1980s and 1990s. It then reviews the critical events on the day of the attacks, before surveying the government’s response to the terrorism threat, how the threat evolved during the ensuing years, and how 9/11 led to the creation of the modern homeland security enterprise in the United States.
The History of Homeland Security
This course considers the emergence, development, and implications of the modern homeland security enterprise. Users will be asked to consider what “homeland security” is, as well as challenged to critically assess many popular notions about the homeland security enterprise. The course primarily focuses on the U.S. experience with homeland security, but it situates the discipline within broader international forces—in particular globalization—that are shaping the operating environment and threats with which homeland security practitioners must contend.