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Networks and National Security

Dynamics, Effectiveness and Organisation

By: Dr Chad Whelan

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Networks and National Security

Dynamics, Effectiveness and Organisation

By: Dr Chad Whelan

Networks as sets of autonomous organisations working together to achieve individual and shared goals are becoming increasingly important across many areas of public administration. The importance of networks is well known but most analysts would agree that we do not know enough about the dynamics and effectiveness of networks in relation to their internal operations. This is a significant problem as security, intelligence, law enforcement and many other agencies are increasingly required to organise in and through networks to provide national security. In this comprehensive analysis, Chad Whelan presents a highly innovative, qualitative study of networks in the field of national security. Developing our understanding of 'organisational networks' in organisational theory, management and public administration, and 'security networks' in criminology and international relations, he presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of network forms of organisation. Whelan puts forward a methodological framework involving five levels of analysis - structural, cultural, policy, technological and relational - with which we can better analyse and understand the dynamics and effectiveness of networks. This framework is applied to public sector networks operating in the field of counter-terrorism in Australia in a way that is highly relevant to researchers and practitioners in many contexts where government departments and agencies, and the private sector, need to work together. Networks and National Security: Dynamics, Effectiveness and Organisation not only advances our knowledge of networks and national security but also assists with the essential tasks of evaluating and managing networks. Written in a clear and accessible style and featuring a wealth of first-hand accounts concerning the inside operations of networks, this book deals with the crucial subject of inter-agency coordination in the important field of national security.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409476685

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9781409476689

Terrorism, the Worker and the City

Simulations and Security in a Time of Terror

By: Dr Luke Howie

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Terrorism, the Worker and the City

Simulations and Security in a Time of Terror

By: Dr Luke Howie

Soon after watching the twin towers falling in New York, some of those with business responsibilities were already asking themselves whether people would be willing to work in tall buildings ever again. Is work too risky? How can people be expected to attend work in what might now be seen as precarious and vulnerable workplaces and cities? Although, thankfully, large scale terrorist attacks are infrequent, the world's cities, and the businesses to which they are home, have been put on notice that it can come to any place at any time. In Terrorism, the Worker and the City, Luke Howie considers what steps managers and employees can and should take to protect their businesses from such an amorphous and indefinable threat. Deftly combining theoretical insight with empirical research, he reveals how, despite an appearance of 'business as usual', fear; anxiety; and suspicion permeate workplaces, even in cities that may not be at the top of any terrorist group's target list. Using the Australian city of Melbourne, a cosmopolitan city and major business centre with nearly four million people, as a metaphor for other such cities around the world, Dr Howie's research has uncovered that even where they don't perceive a high level threat, business managers who might face having to account for themselves to some post event Inquiry have taken action in consequence of the situation. Often, that action amounts to the introduction of what can be described as 'Simulated Security'. This cannot ever provide certain protection from terrorist attack, but it may be the best we can reasonably do. There is also evidence that it can be effective in terms of providing the reassurance to counter the terrorist objective of disrupting normal life through fear. With its rigorous research compared with other more speculative works on this subject, Terrorism, the Worker and the City will appeal to city and business leaders and managers, and security professionals, as well as those in governmental and academic research communities, for all of whom terrorism is now an ever present concern.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1409459802

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9781409459804

Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?

By: Dr T E Muir

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Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?

By: Dr T E Muir

Roman Catholic church music in England served the needs of a vigorous, vibrant and multi-faceted community that grew from about 70,000 to 1.7 million people during the long nineteenth century. Contemporary literature of all kinds abounds, along with numerous collections of sheet music, some running to hundreds, occasionally even thousands, of separate pieces, many of which have since been forgotten. Apart from compositions in the latest Classical Viennese styles and their successors, much of the music performed constituted a revival or imitation of older musical genres, especially plainchant and Renaissance Polyphony. Furthermore, many pieces that had originally been intended to be performed by professional musicians for the benefit of privileged royal, aristocratic or high ecclesiastical elites were repackaged for rendition by amateurs before largely working or lower middle class congregations, many of them Irish. However, outside Catholic circles, little attention has been paid to this subject. Consequently, the achievements and widespread popularity of many composers (such as Joseph Egbert Turner, Henry George Nixon or John Richardson) within the English Catholic community have passed largely unnoticed. Worse still, much of the evidence is rapidly disappearing, partly because it no longer seems relevant to the needs of the modern Catholic Church in England. This book provides a framework of the main aspects of Catholic church music in this period, showing how and why it developed in the way it did. Dr Muir sets the music in its historical, liturgical and legal context, pointing to the ways in which the music itself can be used as evidence to throw light on the changing character of English Catholicism. As a result the book will appeal not only to scholars and students working in the field, but also to church musicians, liturgists, historians, ecclesiastics and other interested Catholic and non-Catholic parties.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409493830

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9781409493839

Mystery Babylon The Greater London?

Harlots Cup

By: Barry Gumm,Rev'd Dr. Graham J Whelan OAM

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Mystery Babylon The Greater London?

Harlots Cup

By: Barry Gumm,Rev'd Dr. Graham J Whelan OAM

Is Great-er London Mystery Babylon The Great? God does not leave things to chance. The book of Revelation is so much more literal than most think. For example I remember when I was 9 years old seeing the Royal Cup,. It was enormous to me back then. On this golden cup is everything that is described in the Book of Revelation for the Harlot. The Royal Cup is in the London Museum. Why would God bother whether a Golden cup dressed with Pearls, Scarlet and Purple be made anyway? In the end it all made perfect sense in realising who or what the Great City is being Mystery Babylon the Great.

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Createspace

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1518603025

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Book's by Dr Chad Whelan

Networks and National Security

Networks and National Security

Terrorism, the Worker and the City

Terrorism, the Worker and the City

Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?

Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791–1914: A Handmaid of the Liturgy?

Mystery Babylon The Greater London?

Mystery Babylon The Greater London?

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