International Security in an Era of Globalization

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Introduction
9/11 attack was one of the horrifying incidents that have happened in America in which
thousands of American citizen has lost their lives. As a result of this the frightened and horrified
public of America wanted something to be done on the security check of the nation in terms of
these kinds of future attacks (Coleman, 2009). After feeling emotional sentimental of the
American citizen, the Bush government ordered a throw-out investigation in order to understand
the loophole present in their security at that time and so that corrective action can be taken.
Government at that time believed that they are really in need of something on the base of which
they can answer to their citizens as a part of the responsibility to handle these terrorist threats.
Hence, the American launched a program named under home security.
President of America on 8 October 2001, ordered their White House employees to form an office
which will take care of national securities threats (Mabee, 2008). This office was handed over to
the first director Governor Tom Ridge and was also backed by full public support to take any
kind of action if needed.
Enhance Homeland security with various strategies
After analyzing the environmental risk, the president of America and the whole congress of
America proposed a plan to form a national home security department that will handle the issues
related to the national threats. There were around 170,000 employees in that department and the
budget was maintained around $ 40 billion. This was the world largest US federation in the
world which permitted the department to play their games (Fair, 2011).
The government has divided the security in to three segments, one is prevent, react and protect
because the government of America believed that the possibility of terrorism attach is not
eliminated completely after a lot of efforts and in somehow these radical groups are still
successful in motivating people to be part of such activities (Homolar, 2011). The government
has formed this department on the base of narratives that if their prevention somehow failed
while handling such incidents, they must be ready to reply in a much effective way on this attack
so that if they may be any change of hazard, it should be minimized. It can be said that the main
objective of this agency is to lower down the living hood of these terror group which are the real

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enemies of the humanity on the global level and many countries are suffering from their bad
effect both developed as well as developing countries.
The standard operating procedure of these policies is to first identify the possible threats and the
people who are involved in such activities and then take proper action according to their
respected situation.
Enhance anti-terrorism intelligence
It is believed that it is the responsibility of the intelligence to prevent the occurrence of any kind
of attack. So, these agencies are working pro-actively in order to crack down the hidden agenda
of these group because these group usually keep their intentions hidden because of which
America had to face huge loss in 9/11 attack.
These agencies started collecting large amount of raw data related after 9/11 attack and try to
connect them in sequence to interpret the future possibilities in which the intelligence note down
the important communication which has been done or is going on national level in order to form
a necessary platform on which it can operate their strategy (Ismail, Singh, Dar and Mackill,
2013). In this operation, the agency or department also takes the help of other security agencies
like CIA and FBI and share all the related information with them in case of complex problems.
In many cases, it was found that there was ongoing competition between these agencies and
hence, the flow of information among them was not proper which has caused lot of damage in
such anti-terror missions. Hence the government has created a lot of pressure on these agencies
in order to work in coordination for the sake of country love and has motivated to focus more on
analytical parts by using high-level software which is operated by most brilliant minds of the
world (McDaniel and McLaughlin, 2009). They have motivated to map out high-level sensibility
along with huge responsibility to these agencies with the involvement of even defense
department if needed.
Deep surveillance of doubted groups or individuals
It has been found out that the person who was the mastermind of this attack was himself studied,
lived and traveled in all the part of the country and some were recognized as the suspected
figures within the country. This information has truly shaken the whole congress of the America